Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1946 — Page 2
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Great Outpouring of Help ‘To War-Wrecked Regions ~ Balked Civilization Collapse
By WALLACE R. DEUEL
Times Special Writer
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Nov. 28.—This is the story of how the United States saved the world during the last 12
The American people kept whole nations alive. They| §¥ prevented civilization from collapsing into chaos and barbarism throughout most of the earth. It was the greatest outpouring of help by one people to others that history has
tions had little or no fuel to keep them warm. Starvation faced 800 million human beings when the war ended— two-fifths of the human race. Without help, 300 million of these people would have received 900 calories a day, This is roughly what the Nasis fed the prisoners in the Buthenwald concentration camp. The other 500 million would have had approximately 1500 calories a day. - ed This is roughly oné-half as much as the average American eats, It won't even keep people alive and well for long. Large numbers of people in Holland were so far gone that they had to be given drugs so they could as-
| similate food.
In an inland village in Greece where relief deliveries fell 15 days behind schedule, one-fifth of the people’ were found to be living entirely on roots and weeds. Very Near End of Modern World More than one-fourth of -all new-
_|born babies were dying in Poland.
More than one-half were dying in some othér parts of Europe. Twenty million children in Burope had tuberculosis, rickets and anemia because they had been hungry for
long. Epidemics of typhus, typhoid, cholera, smallpox, bubonic plague, dysentery had broken out. Tuberculosis, malaria and veneral disease were out of hand. Over this desolation of what had been the proudest, the most powerful, the richest and the most civilized of peoples, there hung the stench of the unburied dead. Over them hung moral collapse snd despair. It was very near being the end
: of the modern world.
Only one country could give the hitherto undreamed-of help necessery to save the world—the United States. And America Gave It did give it. America has . contributed more than $3,842,000,000 te foreign relief. But money alone was useless. The world couldn't eat or wear dollar bills. Civilisation was dying for the lack of goods and-services.
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“Tens of thousands of children bad been so completely lost they did not even knew who their parents were” , . . Here are two war waifs of Naples.
-A great flood-tide of supplies poured into Europe and Asia from the United States—supplies oy the millions of tons. America is sending more than 18% million tons of food abroad this year. The total American contribution has been titanig. ’ There have been times this year when the United States shipped more wheat overseas in a month than it did in a whole year before the war. Every available port has been used. Torrents of clothing have poured out of America, too. UNRRA alone has shipped more than 279,000 tons of clothing, textiles and footwear from the United States. . The American Red Oross has dis-|
tributed more than 41 million gar- |;
ments abroad. - | The United States exported al-| most no coal to Europe before the | war. This year, shipments have! run between 1400000 and two million tons menthly. :
Transport Facilities Swamped American medical and sanitation | supplies have flooded into Europe | and Asia, too. | The Red Oross has sent whole hospital units, bacteriologicals and drugs, X-ray supplies, bedding and | rubber sheets, equipment for pro-| ducing penicillin, blood plasma, decontamination units. This torrent of goods has some- | times transport facilities. | After the war, when ships be-| came available, the flood-tide of goods they poured into Burope and | Asia overwhelmed the transport fa-| cilities. there. = | America had to deliver the goods, | as well as produce them. | So trucks and tires and parts and | ofl - and gasoline are being sent overseas too.
With them aré going whole mo-
“Starvation faced 500 million human beings” . . . Here powdered milk from America formed the basis of drinks doled out te eohildren in a French nursery.
tor vehicle repair shops, road-build-ing machinery and locomotives and freight cars and track, spikes and ties and tugs and LST's and LSM’s and LOM’s, UNRRA sent 18 fixed steel bridges to China this year. Gives More Than All the Rest America has given more to foreign relief than the rest of the world put together, The United States has contributed 78 per cent of UNRRA funds. It has provided T1.6 per cent of the total tonnage of UNRRA supplies. America has produced 73.1 per cent of all UNRRA food shipments; 66 per cent of all clothing, textiles and footwear; 60.7 per cent of all
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Almost $70 Billion But all of these items represent in the last analysis American goods and services which nobody else could make available to the world, which America did make available and without which the world would have perished.
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PLAN OPEN HOUSE FOR MAGICIANS
An open house will be held for all members of the International Brotherhood of Magicians at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the D, A. R. chapter house, 824 N. Pennsylvania st. Olyde Crouse will speak of his pg while entertaining G. . oa, Italy, Germany and
Refreshments will be served.
PRIEST DIES WHILE HOLDING FUNERAL
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Nov. 28 (U. P).—The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Maurice Walsh, pastor of st. Philip's Catholic church, warned in 8 funeral sermon yesterday that no man can know when death may oome.” Then he collapsed in the pulpit. Doetors pronounced him dead of a
heart attack.
IC HEARS DISPUTE ON RAILWAY TRUCKS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 38 (U. Pr), ~~Vice President Charles D. Young
of the Pennsylvania raliread yes. |
effort is being made to deceive the public” as to the need for replace ing the nation's fleet of railroad TL . Young said “people are bei misled into believing that it —y cost the public nothing to replace existing equipment entirely, and
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pen.” Renewal of the running gear
of passenger cars and sleepers be
fore it is necessary would be an “economic waste” he added. He read his statement at inter. state commerce commission hear ings on the joint application of 40 railroads to buy the Pullman sleep. ing ear business.
The testimony by Mr, Young of -
the Pennsylvania was in answer to statements at last week's session by Robert R. Young, chairman of the board of the Chesapeake & Ohio and related lines. The 0. & O. official argued that passenger equipment should be replaced every seven years. .
FORTUNE TELLERS OFFERING ‘PROOF’
SMANGHAI, Nov. 28 (U. P).w Shanghai's 2500 blind fortune tellers and 700 others—their means of livelihood menaced by a city ban on “superstitious enterprises” — offered yesterday to take an examination to prove their prophecies are aocurate, The stunned bureau of social afe fairs presumably was wondering what subjects it should ask the seers to foretell in the event #
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