The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-22
SAYS RICH AND POOR
STARVE IN BELGIUM
Chairman Hoover Cables From
London, Pressing Need Of
Food Ships.
RELIEF FUNDS STILL GROW

TNe Cow NJ contributions to the funds
TO- the relief Of sufferers in the war
continued yesterday. The Belgian Relief
Fund amounted a, the end OF the day TO
$500 3S9.S9. as G2s432 was added to IT,
The ComDitee of Mercy Fund grew to
ii.2ia. contributions being received from
different parts OF the country.
The War Childreus Christmas Fund
Of Th.cl Theodore Roosevelt Is honorary
chg!ru. n. rec, we'd S394.l0. The total
contributions amount to sS,43l In cash
amt Slj0U6 in ncN clothing Clothing
Is being shipped every week The com
nittce wishes it announced that money
for tIc Christmas fund Will be received
up to December - 1t will be cabled for
distribution on Christmas Day. Both
Bishop Greer and Cardinal Farley have
expressed their warmest approval of the
work of the committee.
Linden w Ra'es. vice-charman and
representative of the American Commits
sion in Belgium. received cable message
yesterday from Chairman II. g. Hoover
In London saying:
The need OF these people In Belgium
l. beyond description. A manufacturing
country, depending upon Its Imports for
purchase of food, comprising "A population
OF 1000. 600 seh-respectlng. labor loving
people. Is now. because OF the wall OF steel
built around IL. rendered incapable OF self
help
Rich ana Poor Suffering.
"A country where poverty was prac-
tically non-existent has now been reduced
to absolute extremity by starvation, both
among the rich and poor. Through the
leading men OF Their country they have
offered every security which they can
find to provide the money for free trans
portal on OF food. They can do no more
and aye dependent upon the generosity
OF American people to fill the ships which
We are now sending TO the American
seaboard
THE Belgian people themselves agree
that If they can have a ration of ten
ounces OF -four a day per capita, they
can. with such root vegetables as remain
IN the country keep body and soul to-
gether. This means that one barrel of
nJur mi.nttlns one human being practi-
cally twelve months, and We cannot do
more than .epeat appeals forwarded US
by King Albert, Mr.. Whitlock our MIN
lister in Brussels, and by officials OF vari-
Gus cities throughout Belgium"
Ex-Gov. Stubbs OF Kansas, II was an
nounced yesterday, has accepted from Gov.
Hodges Of Kansas the appo ntment to do
special work In raising 1000 barrels ~
wheat and -four for the Beigians.
An appeal from Vienna recently printed
IN TIE SuN, asking Red Gross agencies
in the United States for absorbent cotton
Austrian wounded and intimating that
many soldiers were dying daily from lack
OF such uecessafios. brough, the following
rep,y Yesterday from Crauston Brentor,
wa lief director Of the American Red
Cr,s-;
"Rtadcrs OF the appeal from Vienna for
cotton ..li III. accessories used In med
f..' .n.k uubl.sa,d in THE SUN will.
am ..... r' m crested 20 know that the
.tn.,rr.r Erd Cross. through It's New
I.r, .'l.,. Skipped on November "a, on
n H' ty' states transport Jason. 5000
- P. .r -.uae. 1850 pounds of bandares.
I.run pounds If ab.orben: cotton and ten
c. B. o.. hospital garments consigned TO
H., lu-'ru- hungarian Red Cross, Vienna"
Tn. Upw,ns section of the American
Commission for Relief in Belgium gave
c.t IA, following telegram yesterday from
'.c 81 ,null Homens Christian Tenn
i-lau,- Ia"u.
"Tn..- au.drrd thousand White Rib
bauefs Niil stand with the womens sec
tou %, the commission Their president.
ANA \. Gordon, accepts a place on the
executive ,uoptTat.ug committee"
The follow .uI int irrational and ma
uona! Organizations. Il was said. have
been enrolled on this committee:
National Council of Women. Interna-
tional Woman suffrage Alliance, Needle
work Guild OF America Congr- IS OF
Mother, Daughters OF the American
Revolution, Girls Friendly Society in
Am tica. International Kindergarte
Union. Association OF Collegiate Alurnne.
National Fed ration of Women Voters.
National CIVIC Federation, Woman's De-
partncnt. Woman's National Rivers and
Harbo.S Congress. National Federation
OF Coli sc Women.