Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1920 — Page 3

America Means Salvation to these Little Ones

The European Relief Council, which seeks to raise $88,000,000 at 10* Christmas season, has been formed for the purpose of throwing the obMM Charitable energy of the United States Into the vital task of providing food sad medical assistance to 3.500,000 children in eastern and central Europe tMa winter. Representatives of eight great relief organizations, working lad* pendently, gathered overwhelming evidence that the plight of these unfeslm* nates should take precedence in world charity until they are saved. Tho co-operating agencies which form the Council are the American Relief Admin* Istration, the American Red Cross, the American Friendß’ Service Ceaualttat * (Quakers), the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America, the Knights of Columbus, the I. M. Cl and the Y. W. C. A:

Children at the Bread Kitchens

Three and a half million children in eastern and central Europe wait, gaunt and pinched like these, at the American kitchens for the hot soup and bread that mean life to them. In the winters since the Armistice, America has been the one friend that had food te give them. It Is a common sight la Bnrepa today to see a child five or six years old whose head las not healed. With g healthy well fed baby the skull should close before two years. America must see these children through the rigors of another winter, aad to that end eight great relief organizations have combined Into the European Relief Council. They seek to raise $33,000,000 to gave this generation of Europe from death hff starvation and the diseases that come with under-feeding.

WAQON LOADS OF NEED LIKE THIS IN POLANQ are a cemmenplMß debt en hundreds of roads ia Europe. Here than 1.308,000 Polish chtttrw received free American meals every day during the height of last winter. This winter the situation will undoubtedly be worse, as it will be in Austria and other portions left economically dazed by war. To prevent the greatest tragedy to children that the world has ever known eight great American organisation* under the name of the European Relief Cefmcll, are seeking $33,000,000 fag feed and medical assistance.

50,000 YOUNGSTERS VICTIMS OF RICKETS

Of all diseases that are taking a liffy tell among the children es Vienna as the result of under-feeding rickets is pro ring the most rerious and widespread menace. Not less than 90,100 children are suffering from this painful a—ction, according to official seMmatn To rescue these through providing prapar food, clothing and medical 'attention that otherwise they cannot obtain the European Relief Council, composed of eight lending American relied agencies, is making a >iat appeal for $83,000,000 for the relief es 008 destitute and suffering European children.

1,500,000 POLISH CHILDREN SICK.

One million five hundred thousand ehfldron In Poland teday need medical Their condition has been caused by hunger jfhd want Te save the European Relief Council ts appealing to the people of the United States for $33,000,000 to carry on relied work in stricken Europe

PLIGHT OF REFUGEE CHILDREN TERRIBLE

One hundred thousand Russian r«f> geos In Poland r- absolutely destitute according to official estimates. *llll majority of thorn are women and chirm. The cendltlon of the yms tlcularly la pitiful and they wfll among the beneficiaries from —£ $38,C00,000 fund being raised by tha European Relief Council, -impiisd off; olght leading American aganrl—for a Joint appeal In behalf es —a millions es little Europeans who cm leek only te America for the clothing anji medical care that nflr make It possible for them ts sat—sa the winter.

CONTRIBUTION' S EXEMPT FROM TAXATION.

Contributions to tho collection ql| tho European Relief Council tmr w£ Eorepeaa children’s,relief fund are mb «®Pt from taxation and may ha do»' ducted front' income ta: retina, cordin* to a rating that haa heaa< made by the office of Internal BeremHh la Waafclngtoa. J

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3,500,000 CHILDREN FACING STARVATION

Vast Rafief Effort Launohed by EJfht Loading American Organizabant to Avert Tragedy. no most spontaneous, as well as the largest consolidation of effort la the history of American relief and charttaMe ergaalsatlona has grown out of the disaster which threatens 8,500,000 Buropoaa children this winter. To the fcoadqnartms of every agency that dlaToases American mercy overseas has CMu eaa steady cry for moaths past; the ihEdrna. most helpless and blamejfese snfftaats in the track of war, will perish by the thousands before next harvest unless America saves them l When Br. Livingston Farrand, chair. jMta of the Central Committee of tho lAmorltss Red Cross, returned from a recent trip abroad, his report throbbed with the need of the children. From the feeding-stations of the American Relief I dmlnlrrtrnfnn throughout eastora and central Europe came letters, pleas of every sort. The Protastsat churches sent Investigators lata after-war conditions and every report breathed the impending tragedy hf starving and diseased children. Protestant, Catholic and Jewish, the mas Ufa of Europe Is threatened with hsartreadlag misery. Tha European Relief Council, with Herbert Hoover as chairman and the krihele power of American charitable thought and effort behind It, l)as been (Prated. It consists of Edgar Rlckgrd, rcgrMcntlng the American Relief Adminßtiutlon; Dr. Livingston Farjtaad, nmrssentlng the American Red Ckess; JnNtx Warburg, representing tha Jewish Joint Distribution Commlttsa; WWhUr K. Thomas, representing Ike Imirlmn Friends’ Service Committee; femes A. Flaherty, representing Khlgbtg of Columbus; Dr. C. ST. HMtort, representing the Teung Men’s Christian Assoclatlea; Miss iHrah R. Lyon, representing the Teang Women's Christian Association; Dr. Arthur Brown, representing the Federal Council of Churches. R Is the purpose of the Council to Lame $38,000,000, In aa appeal centering al the Christmas holidays, to Ue in Hat the situation regarding child bfe T°y he met. In every town and hewumathß of the nation, It Is hoped, local odbihgteeA representing ad the tn agencies wHI he formed le iiiuiar vitally necessary funds. IK the amount sought, $88,000,00® will ha -seed fur basic food. For every one gs Hose American dollars the local and communities aided hmaMh two dollars, la the form U| mmnspetufren. labor, guards, deritii Bam adsh ceotflbutletis sad such tend JttMilh as are locally obtainable. AM «*3&h receive the free food exsABT moAicad teats shewing them Aslh gHtdhflly under-nourished. The iamUMk EkooO.OOO of the faad Is leK hh*Ht>r needed far medical SrLTte«r^Udrea. iSTßasspeda Relief COuaett win do ‘mvSt mere than effect ecewesrtes B Rue raising of the chlldsavlag Bad. bk idg with the Inspecting fereos of tß*t great geictw, keep a constant 10%' en the administration of America’s Mhei.'cifut glit, B order that there shall ha ae wastage Bad no tendency toward faßperfeaticn.

RICKETS DID THIS.

■ EsfOlo this Eve-year-old Vienna girt was operate 1 1 open la tha Americas jfeenvalescent Home bar las was •*— —sen lmrrlhl. f defarasad from rickets dmd —a was Jn constant instead es Intermittent pa teNew at least bar leg IS straight ag Ua. and by degrees —a la to | -watk. Rickets la the SStarmnth of undas-nutritiqK and U la cut damn —a harrowing pnvalaasa auch dteea as as this aarong dm chE—an of Runei fo«hat olght Anmrtean va|g tteas are making a Joist mgwl undrr tho same the European Billed Oaunc 8 far tends ta m*ccsr the En —at tecs a winter of horror. ra tbt American Bollsf Adndnis- —• . insert can Rad Chaos, the —Mi -foods’ Service Committee V+mjT —(T tile Jewish Joint BistribuCn cm-nittote. the Federal Council of Sur—■ of .Christ In America, tho ,«f Cblumbus, the Ihfti V n t~

FLIGHT OF EUROPE'S CHILDREN STAGGERS

3£00,000 Fating Starvation Can Only Bo Saved by America's Response to Joint Appeal It Is utterly impossible for one who has not actually aesa the misery of the early Autumn In Europe to visualise what the children of tho Eastern sad Central portions of the ceatiaeat face this winter. Te say that 8,500,000 children have ae alternative to starvation or death from disease except Americas aid, la startling, but Independent ebservan by the score sad careful scientific surveys of the eceaemls and crop conditions overseas brand the figure as conservative. In Poland, for Instance, where lJNfir •00 youngsters last year subsisted Almost entirely en the one free American meal a day that they received, conditions as winter closes down, are worse than ever before. Tlie Bolshevik Invasion stripped large pirtlens of the country es all grain. Professor E. D. Durand. Food Advisor ts the Polish government, after an exhaustive survey, has reported that only forty por cent Is avallabl# of tho food necessary to carry tho population through tho winter. In thh city es Vienna teats conducted in the American Relief Administration feed kitchens showed that 88 per cant of the children between the ages es 8 and 14 were ’’seriously under-nourish-ed.” Thirty-three per cent were markedly undernourished, 11 per cent were slightly subnormal and only 4 per coat approached the state of s normal American child. The Amerl -an Relief Administration Is feeding 800,000 Austrian children every day. now, aad there is no chance es dlmualtlon es need before box harvest! The spectacle of the medical needs es Europe’s children is equally appalling. Estimates reaching the American Red Cross *s te needs for medical service In the destitute areas this winter include: Old Austria-Hungary, 780,000; new Poland, 1,600,t%/0; OsecheSlovakia, 200,000; Serbia, 150,000, and ReumanLa, 100,000. In the Is cal year es 1918-20 the Red Cress has reached with the veritable gift es IBs 1,500,000 children la the affected areas. Tuberculesls Is prevalent to a terrlfik degree. Five children eat es seven in the city of Warsaw, far instance, have been feund te he tubercular. Typhus Is widespread; rickets, the right-hand of under-nourishment Is almos+ universal, aad cholera lifts Its grim head constantly la one place and another. The European Relief Council, cempsistag tho American Relief Administration, the American Red Cress, the Amerlsaa Friends’ Service Committee (Quakers), the Jewish Joint Distributtea 0< mmittee, the Federal Council of the Churches es Christ In America, He Ralghts of Columhas, the V. M. G A aad He T. W. G A., seeks $83,OOt.Mt with which te meet the situstlen. It has estimated Hat at least stt,ttt,9oo must be had for food and UMoqooo for medical service to Avert •femNUto disaster amor % the threa ened dbßdtea. Checks may he sent to yeur local committee or to Franklin K. Lane, treasurer European Relief Council, 42 Broadway, New York, or te the Child Feeding Fund, Lite-ary Digest, New York GUT.

Worth Saving.

features of this girl portray the inrat type of Polish childhood that now lias eugulfed In hunger and disease and all their attendant miseries. Tt+iurf already admlalstered by America has preserved her beauty and fioshanea albeit her eyes betray the fwWwteg she baa seen, but literally in own and adjacent countries still have as ana te took to bpt America as another winter of horror doses in span them. To tho end that thatr prayer may net go unanswered eight leading American relief organizations have banded together in a Joint appeal in behalf es Rurope’s suffering eßQdren. Tftey are the American Belief Administration, tha American Rad Oboes, the American Friends’ Relief Committee (Quakers), the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. the Federal Ob*»TChoa of Christ In America, the Wwigfcf of Cotumhus. the V M C. A. and the I. W. C A J

Heart-Breaking Smiles

There are thonsapds of binds of smiles, but It would bo oltHl picture even In the mind’s eye smiles more poignantly tragic tb»» thsss M* seen. Two years of life have held little save misery for these sters, yet, even though the result is painful, they smile. They Ml rIIOIBS rickets, the offspring of near-starvation, and that countless others In Europe may not have to share their fats sight American relief st|Mh*ihSh under the name of the European Relief Council, are making a Joint appeal ill the conscience of America to complete relief work which this winter these Ms crisis. These agencies are the American Belief Administration, the Aaaarftsan Red Cross, the American Friends’ Service Committee (Quakers), tk Jlflß Joint Distribution Committee, the Federal Council of Churches s t (Mi In America, the Knights of Columbus, the T. 1L CL A. and thS Y. W. CL A.

It’s an Uphill Pull for Polish Boys

Bare feet aad uttered* clothes, little te eat and leee to wear, nd m toe fate of of children in central and eaotera Europe. Them boys U Poland are only a sample of the B£oo.ooo destltnte youngsters that the Hampeaa Relief Council plans to help through the cold days of the eesalag winder. Te that end eight groat organizations in America have merged to form the rif T Tw»n, the chairman of which la Herbert Hoover. Under his luaiertotp the American Relief Administration, the American Red Cross, the American Friends’ Service Committee (Quakers), the Federal Council of the Chamber of Christ in America, the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Haights st Columbus, the T. M. 0. A. and the Y. W. GA have derided to os sgarato Jointly to raise SBB,OOO,Mt to help the European children over the hilL

An Appeal to the American People

*|*HREB and one-half million children In Eastern and Omtsal Barege *■ have ae alternative to disaster between new and neat harvest emcept Americas aid. For months these most helpless suCerers Is ft* track of war have been admitted te American feeding-etntl eas only ft tragically andernenrished, and have received American madlcnl alt salg If desperately threatened by death from disease. One 0 cent hot American meal today ban saved a theasnnt Uvea. Winter Is dating down. The money of many nations Is vatastsas endside their own besadartos. Economic and crop conditioas maho toartaß with Its terrible train of diseases, a certain visitor until next harraat lesvttnbly the helpless children will eager most. No child can grow to health and sanity on the pitiful makeshifts for food with which m Alima Sf Bsspsan adults must csuteat themselves this winter. It is ehrlsas that ths remedy can come only from outside. - America saved 8,808,888 Burepeaa children winter before lash Mmmal recuperation cat the need aeariy la half last year, hut unusual oOadtttoas have lusaltod la scant Shrinkage of child destitution Ashy ths twelvemonth Just past The suspense of . America must now dsrids whether of those charges, la asato distress, shall bogie to be tamed sway in January from more than IT,OOO asylums, hospitals, clitics and Beading stations dependent oa - f.morllaa support -There would bo no tmgody la history so swooping or so IsdNtUu of those who can dooorvn no ovflL The nnderaignod organlaattona, working among every mao and cased, many engaged, also In other fiNrms of relief, agree sssiilniosHy that tha plight of those helpless chlMhm should have comploto priority Is overseas charity until the situation Is mat This Is an Issue ulthswt poitttos and wltheat religious llnea There can bo no danger of pnsgoriootlm. for the $88,800,808 for chUd food, and the $18,000,008 for medieal service that we seek, will relieve only the critical case*. The mbdieal supplies, es course, must be an unqualified gift, but fur every American deHar used in child-feeding, the governments and communities aided femfah twa dollars in the form es transportation, rent, labor, clerical help, cash contributions and sack food supplies as are locally obtainable. America has not failed In toe past In great heartsdasss. She has never had a more poignant call than tola Contributions should ha lamed over to the local committees which am now being fermad far this stiff tael collection, or amt to Franklin K. Lass, Treasurer, Guaranty grant Oa, Now York City. EUROPEAN RELIEF COUNOIL Herbert Heevar, nbalrmas Frankfla K. lisa Ttoaourar Comyrialnsi

Belief Administration. by Uvtagstaa Service Committee (Quakers), by Rufus If. Janes. JewishJeiat Distribution Committee, by Feltp If. Warburg Chairman

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