Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-11-13

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inuneratio 70 the American directors. Now lie asks
u.s. all to help save the children who are in imminent
danger Of starvation this coming winter:
There they are in the midst of wrecked homes, and
farms, and factories; irscities crowded with masses of
refugees without sustaining food for children, through
the dhestruction Of I've stock; seeds for planting raw
materials tooisYand machinery gone; great areas with
everything burned, ors1ooted, or smashed; vast unem-
Accommodating ofI1rtilated life, and lingering death;.
and in the idst oft all---theS little children.
.#1. 1n. long lines they are waiting at the American
ood-kitchens:J Will the food4be there for them? Will
they be. turned away? There are no happy, healthy
faces in those long lines---notsone. You have seen rags
and barefooted Children but never SO many little boys
and girls literally drest in tatters. Soon it will be very
cold and for those bare little feA and legs and arms
there is nothing at home to put:on.
Hollow faces and sarunken bodies are, so common
that their real condition does not become evident until
wesjnquire more: closely, and then we find that most of
them are from one. to five years back in their growth.
Children of eight years old have not reached the normal
sizesof two and afhalf: They are just learning to stand
alone. Others almost as old can not vet stand on their
ftNN" = I'LL al liz, dAus fSSs,&dAN ,SpHlcS, dlQ CHESTS are
and warped. The fesh'altd skin are shriveled
on their bones: Il is surprizing that life can still exist
there. # they can have! food they will gradually regain
their health and strength, but with most of them it is a
question Of now or never. Starvation and tuberculosis
will not wait. @@
~ In Poland alone a million five hundred thousand
such children must be cared for. In Latvia and
Esthonia the people are living mostly on a diet made
from potato-Rour. oat-four, and sawdust. In Czecho-
.Slovakia, iii: Hungary, in Austria, and in other countries
of central and southeastern Europe, two millions more
are in dire need offood and who stops to ask regarding
creed, or5race, or nationality.W when a little child is starry
ing?. Children are just childrenthe world over, and the
great American heart is big enough to care for them all.
But the appeal now is not for all. The three and
"a half millions of children in immediate danger. of
starvation, if this organization fails, who must have
food at once, are only a fraction Of the total number.
The ngryschildrs Of those destitute countries have
been examined bye tent physicians;and only those
whose wasted little bodies are reduced to the minimum
weight, and whose endurance4of hunger has reached the
endgWhich Inerges into. ctualsstarvation are admitted
to the american kitchens and given one meal a day. It
is hard to turn away thousands of hungry boys and girls
to hear them ask, pleadng1y, do I weigh too
niuch?s Am notsthih enough2' Cant I come any
more ~ hit this restrictions, Of food to the extreme cases
is compulsory, because there isn't enough for all.
II sthesen eedest. ones eannot reach the kitchens
through the cold windsand the snow barefooted. and in
the pitifurrag which form only a partial coyering for
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