Evening journal., 1920-03-23
FRIENDS feed
HUNGRY GERMANS
A. c. Jackson Tells City
Audience of Much Suffer
ing Among Children
WILMINGTON MEN
IN RELIEF WORK


German men are not working twelve
hours a day, as has been said in this
country. for the reason that German
factories cannot get the raw materials
or the fuel to run full time. 1 saw only
two factories on full time In Germany;
one was Krupp's, and the other was
mandatory OF optical goods In jena"
said Arthur c. Jackson, In a lecture at
Friends Meeting House, Fourth and
West streets last night.
Mr.. Jackson has just returned from
Germany where he spent several
months with the group OF relief work
ers OF the American Friends Service
Committee, who at the request OF Her
bert Hoover undertook the feeding OF
undenourished German children. J.
Edgar Rhoads and William Ewes are
two Wilmington young men with the
sroup. and were highly praised by Mr.
Jackson FOR their work. Mr. Rhoads
took most Of the stereopticon pictures
shown last night. The relief workers
expect 10 remain In Germany until the
middle OF July. and hope to feed one
million children so that the little ones
regain normal physical condition. How
ever, there are at least ten million IN
dorfed German children. said Mr.. Jack
son.
Il received q cablegram this morning
that all the relief workers are safe and
well, and that William Ewes had Just
reached Berlin" said the speaker. "The
present German uprsings are not unex-
recied. although I did not expect the
Happ uprising 10 come frst. I have
found the German people universally
opposed to a return OF the old regime,
except some prussian officers who don't
know any other way 70 make a living.
would say the German people feel
.hsl they were forced into the war by
eessia; they realize they have been
utterly defeated; they are willing 20
.lske amends for what harm they have
Gnne. Thes hate miLtarisn, and they
hova been iopt In ignorance Of The out
raeee committed by their armies. The
.h.fs which Is most feared IN Germany
toGav Is go invasion Of the Russian
no7lcv.Ffl
Thinking people among the Ger
mau tot0y," Mr. Jackson continued.
"fasr that continued lack Of sufficient
foe1 and lack cf work for want OF raw
material. causcJ by The blockade, will
grn re German masses toward Boil
shev'slc The allies are draining the
cora.-s by tremendous demands, and at
a. same time, expecting It TO produces
a. tss things demanded 1t is Ike cut
Dnr ihe ccw'g throa. and expecting her
ia give milk. transportation Is one or
t.e must serious difficulties In the res
toralion OF German industry today"
"The weakness OF the militaristlc
nower was shown by the brevity Of its
uprising. think that IL got this brief
return because Of the allied demands
f0r q great number OF war criminals
90 be tried out. OF Germany. ] believe
IL the Allies had named twenty-five or
90 war criminals 10 be tried In Ger
many it would have solved this prob
lem. At these trials in Germany the
crimes .commitsed by these men would
have become known TO the Germans,
who now do not know about them.
"The wealthy IN Germany are like
ihc wealthy in any country" he re-
Piled it, answer to a query. Those who
ave generous have been extremely gem
crous in helping the less fortunate.
Those who are selfish have pr0flieered.
There is more food proflteering in Ger
many today than in any other country.
The Ebert government fhas not the
power to stop 10. Food prices are from
twenty to forty times higher than they
were before the war The rich can get
what they want. The unskilled labOrer
gets from five to ten times what he got
before the war, but he cannot get
full days work.
rf
most as their salaries have not ad-
yanced much and they cannot support
heir families on what they get.'
Il did not see a potatoe in any city
store in Germany. They can be OBJ
tanned in only the country. At railroad
stations have seen nifty or sixty wo-
men with knapsacks. going into the
country to buy potatoes. Workmen do
not get the right nourishment to give
them strength for their work. Where
TWO men could do a certain Job Of load
ing before the war. Il takes ten now
Coming 20 the particular work Of his
relief unit, Mr.. Jackson showed many
pathetic pictures OF German children,
with bowed legs and enlarged joints,
two OF three years undersized In stature,
shabbny dressed, and uniformly sad
and old In facial expression.
1T Is very hard to get German chill
dren OF today TO smile. We give them
a standard ration. and they respond
rapidly 10 the treatment. Their teach
ers tell us they are one or two years
under age mentally, aud suffer from
severe headaches when they try TO
study in their underfed condition"
The pictures showed a few extreme
cases OF malnuirition In infants, the
bodies mere skeletons, and the little
wizened up faces looking like old men
of sixty. The bulk OF these poorly
nourished children are In the cities.
The Germans objected TO the taking OF
photographs OF extreme cases, saying
hey didn't want the outside world to
get wrong impression. They pre-
ferred 10 send average pictures.