Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1920 — 3,500,000 CHILDREN FACING STARVATION [ARTICLE]

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.