Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1918-03-21
NOT A LIVING CHILD.
UNDER 8 IN POLAND.
ALL HAVE sUccUMsEp TO STAR.
vATIoN, WHICH WE COULD
HAVE ALLEvlATED.


HAVE ALLEvIATEp.
CRYING FOR BREAD We WASTE
Editor Clarence Poe Sets Forth Need
OF Informing Our Rural PopuIa.
tion Of True Conditions.
clarence Poe in Progressive Farmer)
She was q good woman and she
aiked much about how good the Lord
mad been to her and to her children.
But at the same time she said: mo
meatless 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 1t. and they are
going to have 1t as often as they want
H. and as much Of It as they want"
After hearing this well.mesnins
woman talk, the writer picked up that
night European paper that comes to
the home aid read this paragraph:
II 10 said that there 10 not a IIvIno
child In Poland under eight years Of
age.
Not q living child in Poland under
eight years Of age!" With little Bod.
les unable to endure the hardships
and starvation Of a war-ruined 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 as much as this mother loved
ners-they with heart.breaking help.
iessness have seen their children
slowly starve before their eyes, while
american mothers say, mo, I will
not even vary my diet IN q harmless
way l will not even make substitu.
lions to save meat and wheat, in order
that part Of 1t may save tho 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 It or
thought it-and yet by her acts, that
was what she was saying. II someone
could have shown her q PHOTOGRAPH
OF one starving Polish child, with wan
pinched face and hollow eyes, crying
to Its mother for bread she did not
nave-oh, how quickly this American
mother would have said: "Yes, I
have plenty Of wheat and I have
plenty Of meat, and III gladly
divide my last crust to save the lives
OF little ones like that" With such
q picture before her eyes, how quick.
ly would this American mother have
called to mind the Last Judgment's
awful curse on all " uncsrIng and
hard Of heart, I was an.hungered and
ye gave me no meat"
But she didn't know. And thus
again the Lord she tries to worship
might lament as Of old over His peo-
pie, Israel doth not know! my peo.
pie doth not consider!" To this GOOD
woman the Hoover rules for meatless
lays and wheatless days were simply
Government resulati6ns-simply Off.
cial red tape. She didn't know they
we're meant to save the lives Of little
ones once as fair, as merry, as bright.
eyed, as love.inspiring as her own
dear boys and girls!
And today there are thousands Of
others like this mother who do not
know! Well.intentioned people, good.
hearted people, God.fearlng people!
But they simply do not know"
Friends and readers. It is our duty
o help these people know! Let us
give OF our money, but let US also give
of our time and effort for q campaign
'f education In these matters-to
show the need Of food regulation, War
Savings Stamps. Liberty Bonds, Red
Cross work, Y. M. G. A. and Y. w. c. |
campaigns! We must save food |
Tor the starving; We must give money |
% protect the wounded and to provide
wholesome moral recreation for our
soldiers instead Of unwholesome and |
dissipation. And II our
'armers-as Is so often charsed-have
not supported these movements as |
hey should. 1t 70 not because they are |
more selfish, more hard-hearted, less
patriotic, than city people. It 10 only
because they have not been informed. |
And all Of US who do really under.
stand must here and now resolve to
help inform them. In every school, in
,very Sunday school, In every farm.
srs' club, In every farm woman's club,
Ind even as q part Of almost every
church service, our men and women
II light and leading must DO their
part to arouse rural America. In the
Revolutionary war Il was the "embat.
led farmers" at Lexington who fired
he shot heard around the worfd!" In
he Civil War It was the stubborn
courage Of our farm men and the
Of our country women
hat won the worldb applause for
Confederate Aeroism!
Because this war 10 q little farther