The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-27
No Strong Men 10 Fugitive Army.
Babe Born in Ten knerica.
Attempts 10 Supply Quarter
Ration.

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who are beginning to die by hunger
IL stricken Belgium. And finally. the,
do mot list these babes OF Belgium,
Dropping OF before their lives have
fairly begun. because there 1. no milk
isA7Es MUST HAVE MILK. Il
Lot us view the situation In cold
blood. Belgium IL shut or from the
worid-ringed with steel Her ewa
food supply was used up long. ago.
either By the people or by their con-
ouerors. The cattle were .nfst Of ali
TO go; even in August / saw the Ger
mans killing mich COWS for ration
a COW or a small dairy hsrd is LEFT
here or there: but they are the ex-
ceptions 4, " 5 X
The supply of condensed milk raj.
short long ago Now milk is ne
cessity to most Civilized children be-
tween the ages of one and two years.
Some children. It isitrus. pull through.
under exceptional circumstances Of
priyation without II; but these are
the unusually sturdy; they stand
apart from the rule. The avsraxs
Young child must have milk or no
VIII die. And theye 10 no milk.
Again. the sucking baby must have
mothers milk or a substitute. There
] 10. OF course, no substitute to be had
4 In Belgium and equally there Is little
mothers milk. T. !, a. 5sf
Every woman knows that civil
ized nursing mother must keep up
her strength" She must have nou1-.
ishlng food - In many cases special
food. Every woman knows that q
certain proportion OF civilized
4 mothers cannot feed their ewn babies
even at that. Z.
Gosrishing food - special food,
The news which filters out Of that
locked. stricken country to the
American Commission for Relief In
| Belgium makes sarcasm and a
mockery Of those phrases.
BUN AND CABBAGE SOUP.
In many, IL not in most Belgian
cities. the populace is down to on.
large bakers bun day. issued by
the municipal authorities In some
places tho authorities have been able
to supplement that ration by one bowl
Of cabbage soup a day. One bun and
one BOWL of cabbage soup day-for
a nursing mother!
Yet that is all they have and All,
they Will havs this Winter at the. best
America can do. The American Conn
mission hopes at best to transmit ten
oances of food . day to each inhahi-
tant OF Belgtum-and to do that the
people of the United States must
strain every resource Of charity. How
little that Is for civilized human be.
ing. and especially. for nursing
mother. becomes plain when one
learns that the average tinhabftait. Of
Greater New York consumes forty.
two ounces OF food day. The hes.
the mothers OF Belgium can hone fol-
is quarter ration this Winter.
$1,000 iNNocEhTs.
Even allowing for the reduc.lan a,
the birth rate due to the war. there
must have been forty thousand birtha
in Belgium since the Germans cav.
There viii be forty thousand more IN
this Winter of hardship and prIv,.
ton. How many Of the newly arr.x.d
fcrty thousand have already d,ed mn.
neceesarily-undecorated. unxunr ~.
Tins Of this war-no one viii -.
know. s'''
how many of the coming f.r.v
thousand Will die THIS Winter d.nsrSs
upon US in America-upon nov r,ns,s
1000 We send to the nursing n,thss.
Isow much milk to the babiea
I Copyright by Commission for +
| lief in Belgium, No. n Broat1wa
New York;. !