The Denver Jewish news., 1919-07-30
Denver Civic Organization to Aid Campaign for
Starving Jews Of Europe
Bernard Hoc and Jacob Bkspf Describe the Hopeless
Misery of Suffering People

"A child does not die of starvation
as easily as a grown-up. They wither.
Have you ever se,n avon one human
fl,w,l III the slow pee, Sc of witl,"r
ing for want of nourishment9 In War
saw you may see thousands.
I'VE entered little hole of n room
bare of all furniture except bed COW
cred by n ragged quilt and stove
with a cray, twisted pipe.
"a woman who appeared to he more
than 20, but who turned out to be not
much more than half that age, was
standing at Il little opening of win
dow.
"She moved aside from the window
land allowed us to see the other four
children on the sill. IT was here that
the simile of the whitening flower oc-
Cured to me. AS ! have sometimes
seen in the poorer tenements of our
cities n pOtful of flowers trying to
blossom in the smoky city air, so here
were four blossoms trying to be real
liabies despite the fetid air. starvation.
and disease. Two. Of them looked to
l,e about n year old. Between cough
ing fits the mother told us that the
children were respectively Z and s. OF
course they could not walk. Our cap
tain lifted up the elder and tried to
set ii on its feet. The child made no
effort. took no initiative. did not try
10 walk. Its limbs were as tho they
had been paralyzed. ,They collapsed
under the weight of the frail body.
.The youngest child was about three
years old. He was sallow and hollow
eyed. like an old man. 1t was not
necessary to ask If he sould walk. One
asked how he manag,I to keep alive
at all. There was no milk for him to
drink. and no cereal to eat, not even
Tread.
but are there no bright spots In
Warsaw to set over against Kroch-
loalna? You get your answer right off
by walking down this narrow lane
and debouching out Of its lower open
ing into wider thorofare. Quite sud-
denly you come face to face with
large shop painted white on the outside
and clean as wax. Flowing into Its
wide doors, from two sides, are two
streams of tiny youngsters, with here
and there mother carrying baby.
No noise. no hours of delay, as ut the
city bread lines. A young boy stands
ut the door helping and lifting the
youngsters. Over the entrance is
sign which reads: Milk Station No. Z,
American Joint Distribution Commit
tee' Go inside and you find large
white room as sweet und clean as
nursery. At long white tables sit some
hundred children contentedly sOpping
up milk out Of large enamel mugs with
pieces Of bread. Women in white move
in and out, giving each child that
comes in u mug Of milk against the
payment of 10 pfennigs, ut present
value about half cent. In the or
binary stores a cup of milk like this
is worth at least a mark, 100 pfennigs.
The half cent saves the cOmmunity's
self-respect.
"Of these stations, modelled on the
Nathan Straus Milk Station plan, there
are now ten in Warsaw, conducted by
DIR. Bois Bogen for the Jewish Relief
Committee. About 10000 children re-
ceived glass of milk daily ut the
stations. The milk is made from evap-
Grated cream and sterilized water.
Transplanting to Warsaw the methods
great v,,ccaSS iu~fhe work.