Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-12-20
No Strong Men in Fugitive Army Babe Born in Tent-America Attempts to Supply Quarter Ration.

who are beginning to die by hunger a iE stricken Belgiuul. And finally, they do not list these babes of Belgium, dropping off before thelr lives have BABES MUST HAVE MILK.
 Let us view the situation in cold
 world-ringed with steel. Her own
 food supply was used up long ago. either by the people CT by their con- querors. The cattle were first ot all to go; even in August I saw the Ger mans killing milch cows for rat!ons. A cow O. small dairy herd Is left
 here or there; but they arc the ex-
 captions.
 The supply of condensed nifk ran short lon. ago. Now milk z, ss r1e- cesSity to most civilized children be- tween the ages of one and two years, Some children, it Is true. pull through.
 under exceptional, circumstances c:
 privation without 1t; but these are the unusually sturdy: they stand apart from tho rule. The average
 young chAld must have milk or he
 will die. And there is no milk.
 Again, the sucking baby must nave
 mothers milk or substitute. There
 is. of course, nc substitute to be had in Belgium and equally there is little
 mothers milk,
 Every woman knows that civfI-
 ized nursing mother must keep up
 her strength" She must have nour~
 ishing food = in many cases special
 food. Every woman knows that
 ?~'rtaiD proportion Of civilized
 mothers cannot feed their own babies
 ev sn at that.
 1oarishinL food specia. fooodi
 T"e news which filters out of that
 locked, stricken country tc the
 American Commission for Relief in
 Belgium makes sarcasm and
 moo xery Of those phrases
 BUN AND CABBAGE soUpl In many. If not in most Eeigi4r
 cities. the popuIace is down to one
 large bakers bun day. issued by
 tie municipa, authoritlea In some places the authorities have been able to supplement that ration by One bowl of cabbage soup day. Ore bun and one bowl or cabbage soup day-for nursing mother1
 Yet that IS all they naye and all they will have this Winter at She best America can do. The American Com- mission hopes at best to transmit ten ounces of food Gay to each inhabi- tant of Setgium--and to dc that the people of the United States mas. strain every resource of charity How little that is for a civilized human be- ing. and especially for a nursing l mother. becomes plain when one learns that the average inhabitant of Greater New York consumes forty two ounces Of food day The best the mothers of Belgium can hope for 1 Is quarter ration this Winter.
 eo,ooo iNNoCENTe.
 Even allowing for the reduction O. ! the birth rate due to the war, there
 must have been forty thousand births
 in Belgium since the Germans can.e. There will De forty thousand more In this Winter of hardship and priva-
 ton. How many ot the newly arrived 1crty thousand have already died un- necessarily-undecor unsung vic- tlms or this war-no enc will ever 1 know.
 HOW many of :he coming <or,v thousand wil! die th1s Winter danArIs upon us ,n America-upon how m,,cn icod we send to the nursing mothers. now much milk to the babies, AMERiCA'S OPPORTUNITY No Christmas ia our 1im. ,..
 brought such call fer the Christmas spirit as this. Belgium i. starv,,.
 America is trying ts feed tho Rel. gians. Ths best ws can dc is .e etve
 them quarter sations this Winter
 just enough to keep soul and body to- gether. We cannot do even that un. l less every American helrs. A barre! of four wisl pulI r~.vr.y- gian adults through tAis Winter. A case or condensed milk will save tha hves of 'hree Belgian childrac. X 1 few tins et meat will give a nursing l mother the strength tc kea. her child alive. Think of that vixen YOU sit down to your Christmas d;nner. Many organizations are so,icit,ns food and funds If there Is one ,, your community. help l. If there ,s none, start one. The Commission for Relief !n Belgium. No, n Broadwav New York. win tell you how to 20 to work.