The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-11-01
American Fair Play.
By Willard Howard.

While the people of the United States
have been sending thirty million dollars
worth of relief to Europe two hundred
have died of starvation.
While each woman and child in Belgium
has had plenty to eat, women and children
in Albania have gnawed 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, predicts that the
entire population of Albania will die of
famine and pestilence unless helped. He
says that in Albania corn is $50 a bushel,
flour $50 a sack and macaroni So a pound
'The tragedy of Albania" says Mr.. How
ard, sis that a nation is dying of hunger,
while the people of the United States, laden
with gifts for the rest of Europe and for
Turkey pass by on the otherside.
Thirty millions of dollars have been
given by the people of the United States for
relief work of various kinds in Belgium
Poland, Armenia, Syria and the warning
countries of Europe, while two hundred
thousand women and children in Southeast
ern Europe are starved to death, unheeded
and uncared for. Not one woman or child
has died of hunger in Belgium; two hundred
thousand in Albania.
"Is it fairs it human-that the inno-
cent women and children of Albania, who
never did anyone any HARM should be
trampIed under foot and left to perish, at
time when all others are fed?
''Is this American fair play?
81 have appealed for help in high places.
have begged crust of bread of those who
have given millions to Belgium, Poland, Ar
menia and Syria, | have begged in vain
1.-THE Albanians are as much entitled to
sympathy and help as others. They have
not taken part in the war. They fed and
sheltered the refugees from Servia, even
with the last measure of corn that the fam
ine-smitten villages possessed. They have
not done any wrong, yet armies have swept
over their country, taking what could be
found to take, leaving to the starving
women and children only the carcassesi of
dead horses in the streets
81 ask only American fair play for the
! famished children of Albania. | ask of all
fair-minded men and women in the United
States why should$he Albanians, three hun
dred thousand of whom are Christians-be
left to starve, while we press forward, in
generous rivalry to feed the others? The
| Albanians are more numerous than the Ar
menians; yet we feed the Armenians and let
| the Albanians starve.
Having appealed to deaf ears in high
places | now appeal to the plain people-to
fair-minded men and women who would not
let even a dog starve to death, no matter
what his breed. | want to go back to AL
! bania with shipload of food L have ar
ranged for ship-a new American ship,
just launsched and fitted for sea. The ship
is ready and waiting.
"a number of distinguished gentlemen in
New York. mostly clergymen and editors of
newspapers, will cooperate in an appeal for
relief cargo for the ship. The treasurer
I /
Frederick Lynch, D. D., editor of the Chris
tan Work and secretary of the Carnegie
Church Peace Union Contributions in any
amount, from the price of loaf Of bread
upward, may be sent to the Balkan Relief
Fund, 70 Fifth avenue, New York City"