Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-02-02
For the Sake Of the Little Children

1 A graphic description of the condi 1 tion of Jewish war sufferers in Po land is given under the above head ing by M. Katz, in the New York Day,
 daily newspaper published in Yid l dish. The translation was made by
 Rabbi Joseph Jasin. Mr. Katz, article follows:
 1 Writes correspondent from Rus | sia:
 "When you look at the long lines of escaped and banished Jews who | drag themselves over the muddy 1 roads of Russia, you notice with sur
 prise one fact that forces itself upon | the attention of all. There are no little children under five years of age among the exiles. Where are the Jewish infants? Most of them have small part remain in the hospitals on | the way separated from their par ents, who can not take them along.
 And even that small part quickly die out away from the care of their | mothers"
 The well known Jewish communal worker. MT. Farbstein, in a speech delivered at Warsaw said:
 "The distress in Poland and Lithu- ania i,; so great that parents must 1 rejoice whom their tets die of disease, I because in comparison with the hun 1 ger-death which awaits them this is | a merciful death"
 l Dr. Wermcl tells of a visit to a l Russian insane asylum and dWells on the story of mother whose chil- l dren had starved to death and who constantly spoke of bread, meat, milk I and the various foods that she was about to prepare for her darllngs And so every time when you hear or read an account that comes from 1 devastated Galicia, ruined Poland, or the desolated Jewish settlement iH Russia, the first and foremost thing that you come across is hunger. hun
 ger-pangs, hunger-death. little chill dren wasting away from hunger.
 mothers losing their minds because they can not endure the hunger-death
 of their little ones.
 Do you understand-hung Actu- al, literal starvation-to have nothing to eat for days and weeks at time, and not even any one to appeal to- or any one to place your hope into
 waste away from hunger slowly from Gay to day. to see your children starve to death before your eyes, to hear their hunger -moans and not he able
 to help them--can you imagine it?
 Imagine this picture, one of the . numberless pictures. the typical one
 that comes to us from all the pitiful groups:
 ,l A throng of banished Jews, hun
 dred, or a thousand, aged men, wo- | men and children, those that were II wealthy, artisans, paupers, all alike ] all exhausted, in tatters, despondont
 and starving; for several days they
 have been on a snow covered or a
 rain-soaked field without moving from the spot. because they do not know whither to go. They wait until some
 enc will arrive. passers-hy. Cossacks
 or neighboring peasants as hungry as themselves, and will drive them
 from the place. Then they will start
 to go. not knowing whither, just to be stirring. because it is all the same : to them where they go. And mean while soul and body must be kept : together So both men and women dig in the ground with sticks, scrape away the snow and the mud. ano search in the hope of finding roots or herbs which can be taken into the mouth and chewed Thousands o1 exiles have preceded them over the field, have searched in the same man , ner, and have left nothing behlne them but little heaps of refuse. But the hungry ones continue to searci without real hope in their hearts and think of their joy--they have
 made find. In little pit they
 have found several heaps of thor
 oushly soaked. half decayed potatoes
 They throw themselves upon these
 with rapture, they pass them around
 like some rare dainties. they dreat
 to lose a crumb. and for long time
 they chew the raw. rotten bits O | potato in order to deceive their hun
 Egerfands to hold of waile longer. tht < hunger death
 .s The mothers have received thel 2 portions also. But mother forget' her own hunger when she has he : children by her. s.side. So with trem bling hands the mother thrusts th'
 bit of potato into the child's mouth ! Eat my darling, refresh you