Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1920 — An Appeal to the American People [ARTICLE]

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

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