The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1920-12-23
AN APPEAL FOR
STARVING CHILDREN
Every Body Should Assist in This
Great Relief Work Send Money at
Once.

Three and one-half million children
III Eastern and Central Europe have
no alternative to disaster between now
and next harvest except American aid.
For months, because the needy were
so numerous and the available funds
90 limited, these most helpless suffer-
ers in the track of war have been ad-
mitted to American feeding-stations
only If tragically undernourished, and
have received American medical aid
only if desperately threatened BY
death from disease.
Winter is closing down. The money
Of many nations is valueless outside
their own boundaries. Economic and
crop conditions, aggravated over con-
siderable areas by actual warfare last
summer, make famine, with its ter
rible train of diseases, a certain visit
OF until next harvest. Inevitably the
helpless children will suffer most. No
child can grow to health and sanity
on the pitiful makeshifts for food with
which millions of European adults
must content themselves this winter.
1t Is obvious that the remedy can come
only from outside.
America saved 6,000,000 European
children winter before last Normal
recuperation cut the need nearly in
half last year, but unusual conditions
have resulted in scant shrinkage of
child destitution during the twelve
month just past. The response of A.
merica must now decide whether 81
100000 Of these charges, in acute dis
tress, shall begin to be turned away in
January from more than 1900 asy-
lums, hospitals, clinics and feeding
stations dependent on American sup
port There would be no tragedy in
history so sweeping OF so destructive
Of those who can deserve no evilg
The undersigned organizations,
working among every race and creed,
many engaged also in other forms Of
relief, agree unanimously that the
plight Of these helpless children
should have complete priority in over
seas charity until the situation is met.
This Is an issue without politics and
without religious lines. There can be
no danger Of pauperization, for the
s28,0Q0,000 for child food, and the $40,
100000 for medical service that we
seek, will relieve only the critical
cases. The medical supplies, of course,
must be an unqualified gift, but for
every American dollar used in child |
feeding, the governments and com
munities aided furnish two dollars in
the form of transportation, rent, la |
Dor, clerical help, cash contributions |
and such food supplies as are locally |
obtainable. ~ VI
America has not failed in the past |
IN great-heartedness. She has never
had more poignant call than this. |
Contributions should be turned over |
to the local committees which are now |
being formed for this national eollec-
ton, or sent to Franklin X. Lane,
Treasurer, Guaranty Trust Co., New
York City.
American Relief Administration,
by Herbert Hoover.
American Red Gross,
by Livingston Earrand.
American Friends Service Committee
BY Wilbur K. Thomas.
5ewish Joint Distribution Committee.
by Felix Warburg.
Federal Council If Churches,
by Arthur J. Brown.
Knights Of Columbus,
by james Flaherty.
Il BY g. v. Hibbard.
BY Miss Mable Crafty.
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