Evening star., 1919-07-13
America
Special Correspondence of The Star.

ever-plotttng German military party
are. perhaps not altogether informed
of the mighty but subtle props which
sustain the league of nations
At the Hotel Crillon I have Just
come across one of these props, equiv
alent to a weightless steel pillar one
mile in diameter, each square inch of
which throughout is capable of sus-
tanning tension Of thirty tons-or
words to that effect. America Is on
the Job. Let us be unutterably proud.
been told this story, in Its purpose
and its detail. sooner.
As DR.. Alonzo Taylor put 1t of this
one "children's prop of the American
relief administrations:
1T Is producing a new generation
of young people in these newly lib
Grated lands, who will know that
their lives here have been saved by
the allies. and especially by the
United States; and by this they will
have a totally different outlook on
life. Nothing in the world has con-
vinced the people of Rumania, Great
er Serbia, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Po-
land, Finland. Esthonia, Lithuania,
Lettonia and Armenia that the United
States had no motives in this war
but pure idealism like this whole
business of the American relief ad-
ministration.
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There are Just two names in all
these regions-Woodrow Wilson and
Herbert Hoover. The difference be-
tween having food and not having it
means everything in preventing So
cial unrest and bolshevism at present.
When you feed up the children, fam
lilies take heart. And ten or fifteen
years from now, when these children
are grown up, they will not be docile
troops for any militarist power. but
will take the word of the United
States and league of nations. They
will believe the word of the United
States like gospel"
Until harvest time, the United States.
by gift. Is feeding one rich. fattening
supplementary meal per day. completely
different from their other food, to tho
following numbers Of children in the fol-
lowing newly liberated nations:
Rumania, 171.0C0 children; Czecho-
slovakia, $4,000; greater Serbia, 222.-
900; Austria, 100000: Poland. $4,000;
Finland, 10000; Esthonia. 6S,000i
Lithuania, $1,000; Lettonia, $1,000. and
Armenia, 100000.
They are being fed at this hour moro
than 100000 meals per day for moro
than 100 days, until our money gives
out, In August, and they will have their
own new harvest" says Aonzo Taylor.
"On the big program, which means the
feeding Of Rumania, greater Serbia.
Czechoslovakia and Poland, 1t is done by
loans from the United States Treasury
and by the 31oo.ooo.000 appropriation.
In that case they borrow. But this chill
dren's feeding Is q gift from the United
States funds"
have been told not to quote these
men by name-"just tell the story
but am going to risk 1t with this pro-
fessor Of biology of the University OF
Pennsylvania, who made 80 many sur
veys, and with Commander Baker Of the
Navy, who. with Hoover, had the Joy
to see this same child-feeding in devas-
tated France finally taken over entirely
by the national authorities as previously
in Belgium. Now the latest is that Ru-
maniaiit has been turned over to the
American Red Cross in association with
the Queen of Rumania and the Ruma-
nian Red Cross. So all will finally
take over; but how can they ever
forget the American Army and Navy
that carried them on mighty shoul-
ders over the bad places. How can l
fall to mention lieutenants, captains
and majors who appear like arch
angels to these poor mothers-aye. to
orphans and thousands Of lost chill
dren who have wandered with the
armies, slipped forlorn, hand-in- hand,
through bolshevik lines, and for
gotten their own names, they were
so starved. frightened and knocked
about
Two-thirds Of the children, says
Lieut.. Harwood Stacy. u. 8. r.. had
been barefooted all winter in the best
orphans home of Dublin. eastern Po-
land. And the same, generally, for
Chelm. Kowel and est-Litowsk. all
IN hls territory. Their clothing was