Bisbee daily review., 1914-12-13
NEEDS OF STARVING BELGIUM DESCRIBED
 BYSIR GILBERT PARKER AFTER VISIT THERE
Famous Author Who Made Pesona Investigation Reports That the Stricken PopuIace Is in Desperate Want and That the United States Is the Only Country Which Can Possibly Take Advantage of the SeyereSt Humane Test

refugees saw stark hunger, the weakness come of long weeks of fam inc. One man one fortunate man from Verviers, told me he could pur- chase as much as two shillings and eightpence worth of food for himself his wife, and child for week
 Think of it. American ,citizonsl Sixty-six cents worth of food for a man. his wife and child for a whole week, if he were permitted to pur- chase that much! Sixty-six cents, That is wha an average American
 citizen pays for his dinner in his own home He cannot get breakfast.
 he can only get half a breakfast, , for that at the Waldorf or the Plaza in New York
 This man was only allowed to prchase that much food if he could, | because if he purchased more it would be taking from some one else, and they were living on rations for | the week which would represent the
 food of an ordinary man for a day. A
 rich man can have no more than a
 poor man. It is democracy of fam
 inc.
 There is enough food wasted in
 the average American household in one day to keep a Belgian for fort
 night in health and strength They
 want in Belgium 100000 tons of food 1 a month That is their normal re- Huirement The American Relief Committee is asking for 5000 tons month, one-quarter of the normal re-
 huirements, one-half of soldiers ra-
 tions for each Belgian The Ameri-
 Fan Committee needs S5,OOO,OOO g. month until next harvest. It is a huge
 sum- but it must be forthcoming. Il Only We Can Save Them
 "Of all the great powers of the e Iworld the United States is the only l oue not at war or in peril of war r or all the foremost nations of the Y llworld the United States is the only
 lone that can save Belgium from star a lNation if she will She was the only nation that Germany would allow a f foothold for humanity and for Christ's # sake in Belgium. Such an opportuni- !. ty such responsibility, no nation f ever had before in the history of the f world. Spain and Italy join with her, v but the initiative and resources aRd if organization are hers.
 if Around Belgium is a ring of steel 4 Within that ring of steel are a disap- IF bearing and for ever disappearing
 population Towns like Dendermonde .s that were Of 10000 people have now , 4,OOO. and in Dendermonde 1.2OC
 houses have fallen under the iron
 and fire of war Into that vast grave h yard and camp of the desolate only e the United States enters with an ad IS equate and responsible organization % l upon the mission of humanity. |, Our Great OPop rtunity ., No such opportunity was ever giv
 en to people no such test evel ,f came to a Christian people in all thC g records of time Will the American a, nation rise to the chance given to il .e to prove that it's civilization is ,f real thing and that its acts measur, , up with its inherent and professe, ., Christianity?
 .r "I am a profound believer in thD
 great-heartedness of the U-tteO n States, and there is not an Ameri ,, ,an of German origin who ought no IT. gladly and freely to give to the rC ,d lief of the people, who, unless th' h world feeds them, must be the rem q ant of nation and the world in thi
 case is the United States. She cal ?, give most"