The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-04-25
NOT A LIVING CHILD.
UNDER 8 IN POLAND !
ALL HAVE SUccUMBED TO STAR
WALTON, WHICH WE COULD
HAVE ALLEVIATED.
CRYING FOR BREAD WE WASTE
Editor Clarence Poe Sets Forth Need
Of Informing Our Rural PopuIa-
ton of True Conditions.

ton of True Conditions.
! clarence Poe in Progressive Farmer):
She was a 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: No
meatless and wheatless days for mel
I've got wheat enough and I've got
meat enough laid up in my pantry,
and my children like it, and they are
going to have it as often as they want
1t, and as much of it as 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:
1t is said that there is not living
chi Id In Poland under eight years OF
age.
mot 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 thoughtIess re.
mark, mothers who loved their chill
dren as much as this mother loved
hers-they with heart-breaking help.
lessness have seen their children
slowly starve before their eyes, while
American mothers say, mo, 1 will
not even vary my diet in a harmless
way, I will not even make substitu.
lions to save meat and wheat, in order
that part of it 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 it OF
thought it-and yet by her acts, that 4
was what she was saying. If someone
could have shown her a photograph
OF one starving Polish child, with wan
pinched face and hollow eyes, crying
to it's mother for bread she did not
have-oh, how quickly this American 4
mother would have said: eyes, l@
have plenty of wheat and have
plenty of meat, and TIL gladly I
divide my last crust to save the Iivef 4
of little ones like that" With such
O picture before her eyes, how quick
ly would this American mother have
called to mind the Last Judgments
awful curse on all the uncaring and
hard Of heart, "I was an-hungered ant
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 PEG
pie, Israel doth not know! my PEG
pie doth not consider!" TO this good
woman the Hoover rules for meatless
days and wheatless days were simply
Government reguIations-simply off
ctal red tape. She didn't know they
were meant to save the lives of little
ones once as fair, as merry, as bright Y
eyed, as love-inspiring as her owl
dear boys and girls! af
And today there are thousands o:
others like this mother who do moi
know! Well-intentioned people, good I
hearted people, God-fearing peoplei I
But they simply do not know" Ell
Friends and readers, it is our duty
to help these people know! Let utf
give OF our money, but let US also give
of our time and effort for a campaign
of education in these matters-tc |
show the need Of food regulation, Wal
Savings Stamps, Liberty Bonds, Rec
Cross work, Y. M. C. A. and Y w. G
A. campaigns! We must save food
for the starving; we must give none!
to protect the wounded and to provide
wholesome moral recreation for oul
soldiers instead of unwholesome and
immoral dissipation. And if ou
farmers-as is SO often charged-havf I
not supported these movements al I
they should, it is not because they arr I
more selfish, more hard-hearted, lest /
patriotic, than city people. 1t 1s onl! 7
because they have not been informed I
And all OF us who do really under I
stand must here and now resolve II \
help inform them. In every school, Il Il
every Sunday school, in every farm !
ers' club, in every farm woman's club 4
and even ms a part of almost ever. 4
church service, our men and womeI
Of light and leading must do theh
part to arouse rural America. In thu
Revolutionary war it was the "embat
tied farmers" at Lexington who "nret
the shot heard around the world" HE
the Civil War 1t was the stubborn
courage Of our farm men and this
steadfastness Of our country wome1
that won the worlds applause fol
Confederate heroism!
Because this war is a little farth0 4
from our doors is NO reason why WI H
should play a less noble part. And n
there IL little time to lose. Many peo Il
Pile think that twelve months henct
pecae will be in sight. Let us resolvt
therefore that during the coming year
our rural people in every county vii
make q record Of patriotism that on
sons and grandsons will mention witt
pride even as we take pride in the en-
plOits e our ancestors Of the 60's3