Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1920 — What Will You Do Xmas For Starving Children of Europe [ARTICLE]

What Will You Do Xmas For Starving Children of Europe

To Herbert Hoover the deaths from starvation of babes and little children has been the outstanding horror of the war —and he has seen all its phases. The carnage of artillery, the hand-to-hand grappling in No Man’s Land as dusk yielded to dawn, the frightful suffering in improvised field hospitals and the pitiful maiming and blinding of men destroyed in useful faculties but permitted to live —all these are forgotten when puny arms of hungry little ones are stretched for food that is not. The 133,000,000 which the European Relief Council seeks with which to save 3,500,000 children in Central Europe does not mean three meals a day even to those who are already deformed and stunted by insufficient feeding. Of the amount, $10,000,000 must be usel for medicines and hospital supplies. The $23,000,000 available for food will buy ONE MEAL A DAY ONLY but upon this the trail bodies can be built up to sufficient resistance to disease to Jive until the next harvest when it is hoped each country can care for its own. It is Mr. Hoover’s own plan that a large part of the money be raised at Christmas time. It is his beautiful idea that at happy American Christmas dinners there will be invisible guests, who are the starving babes of Europe. If YOU are willing to entertain one of these invisible guests — made in the image of the Christ Child who came poor and hungry—fill out the accompanying coupon and send five, ten, one hundred dollars more if possible, to your unseen guests.

Ten dollars will keep a child for tea months or until the next harvest. Already Roumania and Servia have recovered and are feeding and clothing their orphans and needy children. But in the areas where Mr- Hoover’s representatives say that help is most urgently needed there is ao hope save from Ameri-e. The $23,000,000 aeeded will not pay for one modern dreadnought battleship. But it will hold life in 3,500,000 children who will be factors in public opinion in later years, and America’s gratitude to and love for France because of aid In the Revolution will be duplicated In the friends America will make by this big-hearted generous gift. Eight organizations that have been working In the affected countries have combined in this appeal that there may be no duplication. They are American Relief Administration, American Red Cross, American Friends Service Committee (Quakers), Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America, Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Knights of Columbus, Young Men’s Christian Association, Young Women’s Christian Association. For every dollar of American money spent for food the countries whose children will be helped will spend two dollars for expenses of transportation and distribution Mors than 100,000 business and professional men In Central Europe are serving without pay. No freight will be charged against the $33,000,000 for ocean or rail shipments. No part of the expenses of the campaign to raise the money is charged against it. Every dollar goes for food or medicines or supplies.