Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-03-15
NOT A LIVING CHILD
UNDER 5 IN POLAND
ALL NAVE succuMsED TO STAN.
WALTON, WHICH WI COULD
HAVE ALLEvlATEp.
CRYING FOR BREAD We WASTE
GdItsr Clarence Poe Sets Forth Need
Of Informing Our Rural Popula-
tlen Of True Conditions.

Clarence Poe In Progressive Farmer)
She was . good woman and she
talked much about how good the Lord
had been to her and to her children.
But at the same time she said: mo
nestlsss and wheatless days for me!
I've GOT wheat enough and I've got
meat enough laid up In my pantry.
and my children like II. and they are
going to have II ~ often a. they want
n, and ~ much Of II ~ they want"
After hearing this well.meaning
woman talk he writer picked up that
night European paper that comes to
the home and read this paragraph;
II 10 sald that there 10 not q living
child In Poland under eight years Of
sSs.
mot . living child In Poland under
eight years Of age!" with little bod.
les unable to endure the hardships
and starvation OF a warruined land,
they have died by thousands and tens
Of thousands. Thousands and tens Of
thousands Of mothers as good as the
woman who made this thoughtless 70.
mark. mothers who loved their chill.
dren ~ much as this mother loved
hershey with heart.breaking help
lessness have seen their children
slowly starve before their eyes, while
American mothers say. "No. will
not even vary my diet In a harmless
way. will not even make sub.titu-
lions to save meat and wheat, in order
that part OF Il may save the lives OF
starving babies and little ones in Eu.
rope!"
No, We don't mean that any Ameri.
can mother is saying this In words
Certainly the good woman Of whom
We write would not have said II or
thought it--and yet by her acts, that
was what she was saying. II someone
could have shown her a photograph
Of one starving Polish child. with wan,
pinehed face and hollow eyes crying
to its mother for bread she did not
have-oh, how quickly this American
mother would have said: Eyes. I
have plenty Of wheat and have
plenty Of meat, and I'll gladly
divide my last crust to save the lives
Of little ones like that" With such
. picture before her eyes. how quick.
ly would this American mother have
called 10 mind the Last Judgments
awful curse on oil the uncaring and
hard Of heart. II was endangered and
- gave me no meat"
Bat she didn't know. And thus
again the Lord she tries to worship
might lament - Of old over His peo-
pie. Israel doth not know! my PEG.
pie doth not consider!" To this good
woman the Hoover rules for meatless
days and whsatless days were simply
Government resulations-simply OIL.
eial red tape She didn't know they
were meant 10 save the lives of little
ones once ~ fair. Is merry, as bright.
eyed. rs loveinspiring as her own
dear boys and grin!
And today there are thousands Of
others like this mother who do not
kAow! wsli.intsntionsd people. good.
hearted people God.fesring people!
But they simply do not know"
Friends and readers. II Is our duty
to help these people know! Let us
give Of our money, but let us also give
Of our time and effort for . campaign
Of education In these matters--to
show the need RI food regulation, War
Savings Stamps. Liberty Bonds. Red
Cross work. Y. NJ. @. A. and Y. W. c.
4. campaigns! We must save food
for the starving; We must give money
10 protect the wounded and to provide
wholesome moral recreation for our
soldiers instead OF unwholesome and
immoral dissipation. And II our
farmers--as 10 30 often charsed-have
not supported these movements az
they should. II b not because they are
more selfish. more hard.hsarted, less
patriotic, than city people. It is only
because they have not been informed.
And ill OF ~ who DO really under.
stand must here and now resolve to
help inform then. In every school, in
every Sunday school. In every farm
srs' slub. IN every farm womans club
and even q . part. Of almost every
church service, our men and women
Of hight and leading must DO their
part TO arouse rural America. In the
Revolutionary war II was the "embat'
tied farmers" at Lexington who Aired
the shot heard around the world" In
the Civil War II was the stubborn
courage Of our farm men and the
stsadfastness Of our country women
that won the worlds applause for
Confederate heroism!
Because this war Ia q little farther
from our doors 10 no reason why we
should play . less noble part. And
there 10 little time to lose. Many peo'
pie think that twelve months hence
pscas viii be In sight. Let " resolve
therefore that during the coming year
our rural people in every county will
make = record Of patriotism that our
sons and grandsons will mention with
pride even ~ We take pride In the e.
pleits q our ancestors Of the eos
What We Do in the next twelve
nsaths win Ak our place In history,