The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-10-18
Children's Patriotic League
of America Appeals to
Kenosha for Aid in
Work of Kindness.
MOVEMENT is MERcIFUL

In one district alone eight thok
sand children under seven years of age
were in such stage of starvation that
they gnawed their own little fists until
they bled.''
SIN England shells dropped from a
German airplane struck school, kill
ing a number of children outright and
horribly mangling others so that they
will be crippled for life. This danger
from the sky is so continuous that Eng
lish school-children are drilled by their
teachers in safety from air bombs.
They are ordered instantly to lie down
on their faces so that they may be in
visible to the German airmen. The
command is Hug the ground"
These quotations from the frst-hand
reports of American war correspondents
in Europe reveal the unspeakable
wretchedness of child life in the war
zone, wretchedness which the Chill
dren 8 Patriotic League of America is
attempting to alleviate OF, better still,
eliminate, if elimination is at all posi-
BILE. Appealing especially to the chill
dren of the United States it urges them
to cooperate with "those who are old,
er and wiser than they are" in an at
tempt to save the little people of the
Allied nations from a death of horror
or life of suffering. Within the last
week the association has sent ccmmuni-
cations to Kenosha asking for aid and
soliciting contributions which will
make possible an extension of their
work of patriotism and mercy.
Something of the spirit of the new
organization may be CLEANED from the
following extracts from letter recent
ly written to Kenosha by Lillian Bell,
national president of the league:
endorsed by the highest govern.
ment officials and leading citizens, the
Children IS Patriotic League of Ameri.
ca takes an all important place in the
new world of economics and humanitar-
ian demands created by the war. 1t is
as big as the human mind, as broad as
religion, as necessary and obligatory as
any responsibility of this age, an APP
peal to our children to give aid and
comfort and relief TO the children of
the Allies and our own unprotected
children. We propose to work not only
during the war but also during the peri
cd of reconstruction that must follow.
Madame Sarah Bernhardt is the
Etoi1s oJY IF Abo
launched this great undertaking at a
public meeting arranged by her and the
organizers of this body at the Auditor
ium Theatre, Chicago, Monday after
noon, October 9Th. /"
If the Children IS Patriotic League Of
America needs further credentials to
commend it, it may be said that it has
the approval of President Wilson, Mrs.
Wilson, Franklin K. Lane, Newton D.
Baker, Herbert Hoover, and Bishop
Fallows. Mrs. Marshall Field LII offer
ed of her own accord to help, and just
to prove how much she meant it, sent
her check for organization expenses.
Mrs. George M. Pullman and Mrs. Ham
ilton Mccormick wrote letters to Miss
Bell endorsing the work and agreeing
to her request that they should be per-
manent officers of the league and help
the babies of other lands as well as de-
pendent children Of our own brave sol
diers and sailors
Kenosha people who are interested in
the movement may secure further in.
formation upon application at the off.
ces of the Evening News or by writing
to the National Headquarters of the
Children g Patriotic League of America
at 116 South Michigan avenue, Chicago.
Illinois. From these sources further
literature may be secured as well as
more detailed information regarding 10.
cal organization and subsequent service.
It is thought that the movement will
receive whole-hearted support from all
the local people who realize the spiritu-
al truth of the seriptural passage which
says: "Inasmuch as ye have done il
unto one of the least of these, my breth-
rem, ye have done it unto Me-