Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1920 — LAUNCH VAST EFFORT FOR EUROPE’S YOUNG [ARTICLE]

LAUNCH VAST EFFORT FOR EUROPE’S YOUNG

Eight American Relief Agencies Combine to Save 3,500,000 Children Death Menaces. Eight great relief organizations, working among and for every race and creed, have united under the name of the European Relief Council to coordinate child relief tn Europe thia winter. The Council will seek to provide funds for 8,800,000 starving and diseased children tn Eastern and Central Europe and to administer this relief economically. It consists of Herbert Hoover, chairman, and Franklin K. Lane, treasurer; Edgar Rickard, representing the American Relief Administration; Dr. Livingston Farrand. representing the American Red Crone; Felix Warburg, representing the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; Wilbur K. Thomas, representing the American Friends' Service Committee (Quakers) ; JanlCT A. Flaherty, representing the Knights of Columbus; Dr. C. V. Hibbard, representing the Young Men's Christian Association; Miss Sarah 8. Lyon, representing the Young Women’s Christian Association; Dr. Arthur Brown, representing the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. It Is the purpose of the Council to raise 888,000,000, in an appeal centering at the Chrlatmaa holidays, to the end thst the desperate situation regarding child life may be met. In every town and community of the nation, it Is plsnned, local committees, representing all the co-operating agencies will be formed to secure the vitally necessary funda. Of the amount sought, 823,000.000 will be used for basic food and 110,000.000 for medical service. • For every one of these American dolhtrs the local governments and communities aided will furnish two dollars, “in the form of transportation, labor, guards, clerical help, cash contributions and such food supplies as are locally obtainable. No children receive the free food except after medical tests showing them to be seriously undernourished. The remslnlag $10,000,000 of the fund is just ss urgently needed for medical service to the children. The European Relief Council will do much more than effect economies In the raising of the child saving fund. It will, with the inspecting forces of eight great agencies, keep a constant eye on the admlniatration of America’s merciful gift, in order that there shall be no wastage and no tendency toward pauperization. "This is the largest co-operative benevolent organization ever attempted in the United States,” Mr. Hoover says. “The organizations represented have come to the unanimous, though Independently formed conclusion, that nothing but prompt and united action by the whole American people can avert incredible tragedy for the helpless children involved. The organizations forming the Council will organize their representatives in every town and community of the nation for the raising of the necessary funds.”