Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1920 — Playing Mother and Father to Hit Baby Brother [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Playing Mother and Father to Hit Baby Brother

This la a common tight In Poland today, eight and ten-year-old childrm mothering and fathering their baby brother! and sisters. This photograph secured by ao America* Jewish Relief worksr at Brest-Litovsk, shows, a* eight-year-old boy feeding hla little brother from a bowl of hot soup JuM secured at a feeding station supported through American funds. The re lot workers found 10,000 children, mostly war orphans, living in deserted dug-oaSP at Brest-Litovsk. „ „ It Is to aid such waifs as these that the European Relief Council haa been formed by merging the relief activities of the American Relief Admi>Istration, the American Red Cross, the American Friends’ Service Cornmittaa (Quakers), the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, tha Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Knights of Columbus, the Y. IL O. A. and the Y. W. C. A.