The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-14
The Vanishing Children
of Poland

of Poland
"a young man and woman leave their cottage at the approach of the
enemy; the mother carries her child closely bound against her bosom by
a shawl. Some days later their corpses are found by the roadside; the
child shrs; a merciful hand unwinds the shawl and lifts it; the mothers
breast is laid bare; the child in the awful pangs Of its hunger had gnawed
nearly unto the bone"
Another scene: can old woman crawls along the road; fourteen
miles she crawls; she has heard that there is a handful of potatoes to be
had in the distant village; she wants them for her grandchildren; will she
ever get home again? The traveller who met her saw no children in the
villages he passed through; all the little ones under six years of age had
succumbed already"
Again: Passing through a village found the people at mass sin a
rooAess church. 1t was a funeral mass. was surprised to Sc a row Of lit
tie collins. Twas told it was usual to bury ten or twelve children every
in the same bed where a little one had lust died Of scarlet fever. Milk WAS
practically unobtainable in that whole district and almost every child I'M
der eight had died of starvation or disease
Think of it! The children of a whole land pershng-th hundreds
of thousands of innocent victims of the war-victims whose fathers and
brothers, forced to fight against each other in conending armies, already
have been obliged to kill more than a million of themselves, for a cause
which, if known, does not interest them"
"othsr children are being born at this moment. God knows how, on
gees into exile -boIn only to die. Their little bodies are left on the road,
dead babies in the dtches'*
Poland stands out IS the most fnghtful The very life and hope of the
less America provides adequate funds at once.
Frankly, we as volunteer workers in this cause of worldwide brother
e esSs a Si: spRsss Cd t ts she ~ %sgsssd ka of our vs fssx: but N na% t st" S v da
stood in golden abundance INC wv w cannot reach; The hsryests have been de-,
SuOytu VI COHANNdVcu anu tc peasants WdHNeI HOHclcS anu ldIlSItu
amid the fiOStcOvered ruins.
Buff kind Americans will supply the funds we can save thousands
of refugee Zee children ndnars1H whom 0mot recent event have W driven ri EN- ID. delug F of human MAJ
nucleus of a happier Tomorrow.
Generous people have placed in or hands to date about S15S,OOO,
On behalf of the VANISHING CHILDREN we ask, with confidence,
much more. We appeal to YOU to cooperate to the extent of your ability.
BE it little O much, it will save lives and lessen suffering. This is YOUR
PART in this awful war, and a glorious part it is to help the helpless,
Poland seems far away; all that she stands for in culture and nobility
is little realized. But, starving children are-starvng children. YOU hear
their cries. You see their little hands outstretched. And-you will help.
Surely you will.
HOW CASH GIFTS HELP --T TODAY spells LIFE
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Cash contributions week ending Nov 10 Aeoian BUILDING New York
SGl0l Il date NGu
N@hd-aM MILLION dMs at c HON WILLIAM II TAFT. President
Because shipping uncertainties and to rhANh :. NDEFL treasurer
General ommMte. Lausanne Switzerland end%e -, ,r, nr food for fohndS
Pres" Henry Stnkewhz.a author OF QUO starving. Please send an onrA receipt
Expert field representatives purchase and NAME
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