Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1916-10-20
NATION DYING OF HUNGER.
Americans Have Poured Help into Bel
sium While Another Country Has Re
cedved Scant Consideration.

While the people of the United
States have been sending thirty million
dollar 3 worth of relief to Europe and
Turkey, two hundred thousand women
and children in Albania have died of
starvation.
While each woman and child in Bel
GUM has had-plenty to eat, women and
children in Albania have gnaved at the
carcasses of dead horses in the streets.
William Willard Howard of New
York, who has returned from his third
trip to this hunger zone of Europe, pre-
diets that the entire population of AL
bania will die Of famine and pestilence
unless helped. He says that in Albania
corn is fifty dollars a bushel, -four
eighty dollars a sack, and macaroni five
dollars q pound.
1.-THE tragedy of Albania, " says Mr..
Howard, "is that q nation is dying of
hunger, while the people of the United
States, laden with gifts for the rest of
Europe and for Turkey, pass by on the
other side.
''Thirty millions of dollars have been
given by the people of the United
States for relief work of various kinds
in Belgium, Poland, Armenia, Syria and
the warning countries of Europe, while
two hundred thousand women and chill
dren in Southeastern Europe have
starved to death unheeded and uncared
for. Not one woman or child has died
of hunger in Belgium; two hundred
thousand in Albania.
90 Is it fairs it human-that the in
nocent women and children Of Albania
who never did anyone any harm
should be trampled under foot and left
to perish, at time when all others are
fed?
els this American fair play?
81 have appealed for help in high
places. l have begged & crust OF
bread of those who have given million:
to Belgium, Poland, Armenia and Syria
! have begged in vain.
1.-THE Albanians are as much entitled
to sympathy and help as others. They
have not taken part in the war. They
| fed and sheltered the refugees from
corn that the famine -smitten village,
possessed. They have not done any
wrong; yet armies have swept ovel
their country, taking what could be
found to take, leaving to the starving
women and children only the carcasse
of dead horses in the streets.
81 ask only American fair play fol-
the famished children of Albania.
ask of all fair-minded men and womer
in the United States: Why should tn,
Albanians-three hundred thousand O.
| whom are Christians-be left to starve
while we press forward, in generous
rivalry, to feed the others9 The AL
banians are more numerous than tn,
Armenians; yet we feed the Armenian
and let the Albanians starve.
" Having appealed to deaf ears il
high places 1 now appeal to the plail
people-to fair-minded men and womel
who would not let even a dog starve T.
death, no matterh what his breed
want to go back to xania with
shipload of food. I have arranged 70
n ship-a new American ship, jus
launched and fitted for sea. The shil
is ready and waiting.
GA number of distinguished gentle
men in New York-mostly clergymeI
and editors of newspapers-will coop
crate in an appeal for a relief cargo
for the ship. The treasurer selected t.
receive contributions is the Rev. Fred
crick Lynch, d. d., editor of the Chris
tian Work and secretary of the Car
negie Church Peace Union. Contribu
tions in any amount from the price
Of loaf of bred upward-may be sem
to the Balkan Relief Fund, 70 Fiftl
| avenue, New York city.''