New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1920-05-05

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Very truly yours,
KATHARINE F. BALL,
Exec,,tiye Secretary.'

Very truly yours,
sKATHARINE F. BALL,
Executive Secretary"
! Donated $1,S49. 80.
It may be we'll to add here that a total
fof $1,849.30 has been forwarded to the
Minnesota Committee for Relief Of
German Children by Mrs. Meta Crone,
treasurer of the local committee. This
sum represents the amounts collected
in New U1m and vicinity during the
| Tag Day arranged for this purpose
several weeks ago, as well as prior to
and after this event. 5
Copies Of Letters.
L Copies of two letters from Germany,
one expressing thanks for assistance
rendered, while the other appeals for as
sistance, were enclosed with the letter
to Miss Haeberle. They read as follows:
Grateful for Assistance.
/ Copy Of letter received by Arthur NJ.
1 Charles from. District Magistrate, Berlin
Pankow.)
Now that the feeding in the schools
Iof our district is in full swing, | feel i'm
PEELED once more to express to you and
/ your American Friends in the name OF
the children entrusted to my charge
most cordial thanks for the immediate
and vital assistance which you have given
US.
81 allow myself the hope that this
splendid message Of goodwill OF the
American people may find warm re:
Spouse in the hearts of the young as OF
/ the old.
Very sincerely and truly yours,
/ sDR. SCHWEERE,
School Physician of the District, Berlin
Pankow.
/ Pitiable Plight.
Can you imagine the pitiable plight OF q
loving mother who is compelled to help
llessly look on while her 18-year-old son
is slowly starving to death. Such is the
sad condition Of German mother re
Isiding in Dresden, as set forth in the
i following translation of letter received
| by the local food office in Dresden-Neu-
stadt:
CAN YOU HELP?
.eTo the Local Food Office,
Dresden Neustadt.
The undersigned takes the liberty te
request the Food Controller to allow hel
for her son, 10 years 9 months old, hal
a liter labout one quartz of milk daily
and one-eighth Of a pound Of butter
Since IL weeks my son has been laid W
dangerously ILL.,, suffering with heart
disease and rheumatism. He looks sc
/ terribly frail that everybody who has 9
bit of feeling for Others must pity such 8
young man who used to be we'll and strong
before. He weighed 124 pounds before
he became ill, but now his weight is only
1855 pounds. Dr. Reinstudler can assure
you that these statements are quite
correct.
Il can get cocoa, margarine and oats
| in every shop. Such nice young mar
| is wasting away. Again / ask you de
votedly, but most urgently, to let me
have the food requested But as soor
as possible, please.
Yours truly,
FRAU LIMA SCHUMANN,
Dresden, % Pietzschstr., IS, T.
Photos Of Wasting Children.
AS further evidence Of the great ne
cessity of quick and substantial relief
reproductions Of number Of photo
graphs of children, suffering as the result
of under-nourisinnent, were enclosed in
the letter to Miss Haeberle. One Of
these pictures was taken by the units
of the American Friends Service Com
mittee in the municipal orpahnage at
berlin. It shows a normal child, two
and one-half years old, and another child
4 the same age, who has been crippled by
lack Of food and by ricketts,. The picture
lis typical of thousands Of the little
German children. Throughout the in
dustrial sections Of Germany, especially