Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-01
Seek Money For Milk
For Babies of France
by Frede RE ]. Hask;s

Babies" strolled into the headquarters
Of the Committee on Free Milk for France
and looked about inquiriDgly for milk
counter. They found only . young lady
behind a desk.
ANY milk for sale7' asked one.
| ftOnly for France" replied the young
lady briskly Would you care to make
n donation for providing milk for little
| French children7 You see, they haven't
got much milk over there.
| For second the two soldiers looked
a trife crestfsllep. Then they grinned
,vrnpatbetically. "Yes, we know" said
the taller one, who did the talking 1--WE
/ know all about that DO you remember,
Jim" he added, turning 10 the short
| soldier, 'the time we caught that
! French COW and kept her IN the dugout for
| three DAYS? Before we caught that COW
We hadn had milk for six weeks
well, let's be sports, SAID the soldier
named Jim, suddenly rendered. artlcuiate
by the young lady's sympathetic SIN Ie.
| Lets buy EN- some milk. Zoo knows,
they need it, And between them the
two men contributed the two dollars ana
sixty cents necessary to send hVe POUNDS
of milk 10 France.
SOLDIERS BRING TRUTH
| This incident is self-oxplanatory II
! American soldiers come hack from the
trenches and tell you that France ts IN
desperate need Of milk, YOU can believe
| il even If there were not such lot of pitt
| f,il evidence The files Of the Committee
on Free Milk for France arc full OF 1t.
| But II takes long tlrne TO translate these
letters and get them before the pubic.
| SO the Committee on Free Mils to'
| France is asking you 70 take them for
| granlcd when YOU hear some OF the awful
| facts of France condition, and be moved
| to sui scribe anyway.
The committee has been sending ton
| of milk 20 France every day. but i cannot
keep this Ip indefinitely without the help
Of every patriotic American Thirteen
cents will send quart of milk from an
| American dairy To a French habv. Fifty
two cents will send pound 81 90 will
send five pounds; $500 ten pounds, and
$50 will send q hundred pounds.
The milk is sent in dried form, because
| IL is easier to ship. II is scientifically
dried by srbiectlng fresh, pure, full-cream
milk 10 rapid evaporating process which
kills every disease germ, makes the milk
safe, and preserves al the nut-itive solids
in drv powder form II * the best known
substitute for fresh milk. and has the
| great advantage of keeping without ice
| for six months Only the addition nf hot
water ia necessary 70 make II ready for
| use.
GREATEST AID 10 SICK
/ Everybody knows that one Of the great
est aids to convalcsoencc II milk Thou
sands Of Americans are nov relying tipon
it to help them back 70 strength after
having the "fu Fortunately they can
get it. There j. plenty Of milk IN this
country.
France and Belgium are now GONZALES
cent nations For four years their vitality
has been sapped up by that greatest Of
| diseases -war-and now that IL Is over
they need milk as they have never need
ed il before They need il for their
babies and young children, who arr dying
| from the lack OF it. They need it for
their wounded soldiers, for their tubercu-
losis patients, and for the YOUNG men
whose health has been bro. Town
through overwork in the mum ION fac
! tones But thcv cant get It. Thev are
facing milk famine.
In this country milk is expensive
enough, but the increased price is due 10
the increased cost OF labor and trans
rortation which the milk dealers have to
| paw, not 10 any scarcity of the product
England too, Is fairly supplied with
milk But neither England nor the United
States are invaded France stood be-
tween them and invasion And in 50
standing she lost great deal that was
| valuable, and even necessary 10 her exist
ence-among other things, cattle.
In retreating from the occupied terri
tories os France and Belgium, the sdun
drove all useful domestic ANIMALS before
them. The people returning to their old
homes found only cats. This robbery,
L -. 1 :.
milch cows and beef in the army, caused q
tremendous shortage IN The nations milk
resources But there WASH time TO make
Ii up When u nation Is fighting for its
i life it cannot stop TO lead the COWS to
pasture.
! FRANCES OUTPUT SMALL.
Az a result, France is now producing
only one gallon Of milk where two and
one-half were produced before the war;
| In Paris milk IS selling at 81 cents quart,
| and even At this price there IS not enough
to satisfy the demands OF ordinary con
| sumption Hotels, restaurants and all
forms of public eating places are now for
hidden to serve milk or cream for any
purpose whatever after nine o clock IN the
morning, and In private homes the supply
is voluntarily restricted to Young chill
dren and sick persons.
The government Is dong everything n
its power 10 conserve he supply \ herd
of mich COWS : under civic care IN Paris.
| and vigorous measures have been taken 10
sec that every milch COW IN France is well
taken care OF. 1t Is Il matter of hilarious
celebration when two or three at time
are occasionally led back from the woods,
| where they strayed during the lombard
ment of town and a farmer who kills
| his cow with the excuse that he cannot
| afford 10 feed her, Is treated with bitter
contempt by his neighbors.
The situation is desperate Wounded
men, brought back from the tcld hos
pitals arc diving for want OF milk Moth
| ing can take the place OF milk in fever
| cases II is the most nutritious hound
food and broths and soups, which arc
being fed the wounded men Of France
are only poor substitutes Ii Is abso-
lutely essential to the health of infants
Yet many French babies arc being fed on
soup and weak tea, IN the absence of milk
| with sad consequences.
FROM the humanitarian standpoint
alone, il Is aupalhng, but each dying
sick man and baby bears upon a bIg ma,
tional question What is to be come o.
France Her older generations have beer
decimated by the war, and now her young
er generations are threatened by ma
tion-wide shortage of miik.
DEATH Is MERCIFuL
4 letter was recently received from IN
| American woman in France bv tn,
| 4