Milford chronicle., 1917-03-23
HELP FOR STARVING
BELGIAN CHILDREN
Local Enthusiasts Plan Bazaar To
Obtain Funds For This Worthy
Cause.

A recent report of the Belgium Re
lief Committee shows a most pitiable
condition still existing among the
war victims of Belgium Despite the
most heroic efforts of the able com
mission, there still exists an appaH-
ing state of hunger and destitution
among that once happy and prosper
Gus people. We learn with dismay
that thousands Of children must 20.
day after day, gaunt with hunger.
They are required to line up before
the relief stations TO be examined: if
any show signs of strength and are
well nourished, they are thrust to one
side that those weak and impoverish
ed may be fed with the Inadequate
supply of food available.
Another relief Organization con
hrms this report that the children of
Belgium are slowly starving upon the
insufficient help given by France,
England and the United States. We
Americans are so prone to emphasize |
the importance of the activities in 1
which we engage that some of us, |
reading the glowing accounts of the .
large sums sent to Belgium, have inn
imagined that those people were be-
ing properly cared for. but now that
comparative figures are published we
learn with surprise and humiliation
that while France and England have
been contributing seven millions a
month for more than two years. the
United States has given a total less
han nine millions in the whole per-
cd OF two and a half yearsl
1t is authOritatively stated that
more than a million Belgian children
ire slowly starving viii not the
community of Milford-the churches. ,
he clubs. the Grange. the fraternaI
'rders, the different societies. and
hose who choose to work individual
y-join in a community effort to feed
hese children? There is no one in y
lilfOrd who would not work and give
ven to the sacrifice of his comfort Z
nd convenience to relieve such dis {
ress if it were in Milford Let us s
ealize that it is as real and terrible n
ven though in a distant land, and
ur call to help in the name of the
rotherhood of humanity is as strong z
S though it were at our doors. a
welye dollars will keep one child a
live for one year viii Milford make +
he effort to keep the number of her
lildren-a child-life for each child p
fe here-alive for this coming year? h
Oar giving may have been staid h,
'mewhat in the past by the fear that q,
e relief might not reach Belgium.
seems fairly certain now that all
fits Will be able to reach and relieve q
e starving children of Belgium. 81
MflfOrds contribution will be add oil
to the Belgian Children's Fund. IN
re of the Literary Digest 354 Fourth in
renue, New York City. Every pen W
will tell, there being no expense, nj
oh as salaries, etc, attached to
e distribution.
Fifteen million dollars needed dur
g the year 1917 A large sum. but
e united effort of our rich and pow -,
tul country can easily raise it! ~, ~,
.e Rocky Mountain Club. of which II
lionel Theodore Roosevelt is hon
ary president, has given the mil SD
n dollars it had raised for a club an
use. Others have given in the mea-
re and spirit of the old man in the
who, when he was asked lyl
help in building a highway across no
mountains, said: "Ill give We Ioi
nethin' for the road. l allus have
a leetle chinkapin money in my me
eket, and l amt no hog with hit en
-her. I'll give ye a nickel for the Ro
ID" Why lack faith in great caus-
because one mans means are
all? After all the road can easily MI
built land the Belgian children nos
}, if only people are not hogs" a
h their chinkapin money r
he committee in charge of this an,
annuity effort announces that a mo
aar and supper will De held in the +
.nge Hall. March 9th and 2Sth.
hall will be open at 5 p. m. This
be followed by an entertainment
Armory Hall on the evening of
-ch goth, after prayer meeting. 4
tern slides of unusual interest OF
be shown there will be a series Mr..
Living" Pictures and a musicale. lot
which our home musicians will be stei
ed by two members of the Haver- was
Mandolin Club. Come and pict
re your "cinkapin" money with the The
sian children. mol