The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-12-05

up in heart We felt it imperative duty to
all the power God has given to aid this noble
hearted American in continuing the work Of saving
human lives to which he has DEVOTED unsparingly and
great personal sacrifice his tremendous energy and
administrative genius during the past six years in which
time he and his American colleagues have administered
two billions Of dollars of eref funds for mall parts Of
the world with total overhead expense of only three
elghths OF one per cent, with remuneration to the
American directors. Now he asks all to help
the children who in imminent danger of starvation
this coming winter.
There they are, in the midst of wrecked homes and
farms and factories in cities crowded with of ref
ugees without sustaining food for children through de-
struction of live stock seeds for planting materials
TOOLS and machinery gOne great with everything
burned or looted, or smashed vast unemployment for
workers. no means of subsistence; land of economic
ruin of mutated life and lingering death; and in the
midst of it all-the little children.
In long lines they waiting at the American food
kitchens Will the food be there fo rthem? Will they
be turned away? There no happy, healthy faces in
those long ines-not You have rags mad bare
footed children but many little boys and girls
literally drest in tatters Soon it will be very cold and
for those bare little feet and legs and arms there moth
ing at home to put on.
Hollow faces and shrunken bodies
that their real condition does not become evident until
we inquire more closely and then We find that most of
them from to five years back in their growth.
Children of eight years old have not reached the normal
size of two and half They just learning to stand
alone Others almost old not yet stand their
feet Their arms and legs, and spines. and chests
twisted and warped The flesh and skin are shrveed
their bones 1t is surprising that life still exist
there If they have food they will gradually regain
their health and strength but with most of them it is
question of Starvation and tuberculosis
will not wait.
In Poland alone million five hundred thousand
such children must be cared for In atva and Esthonia
the people living mostly diet made from potato
flour oat-four and sawdust. In Czecho-Slovaka, in
Hungary in Austria and in other countries of central
and southeastern Europe two millions are in dire
need of food and who stops to ask regarding creed
race, nationality when little child is starving?
Children just children the world over and the gerat
American heart is big enough to for them all.
But the appeal now is not for all. The three and
half millions of children in immediate danger of starva-
tion if this organization fails who must have food at
only fraction of the total number The hungry
children of those destitute countries have been examined
by competent physicians, and only those whose wasted
little bodies reduced to the minimum weight and
whose endurance of hunger has reached the end which
merges into actual starvation admitted to the Amer
lean kitchens and given meal day. 1t is hard to
turn away thousands of hungry boys and grsto hear
them ask, pleadmgy, DO weigh too much?' Am |