The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-11-13

threeelghtS of one per cent, with no remuneration
to the American directors. Now he asks us 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; in cities crowded with
masses of refugees without sustaining food for chill
dren, through the destruction of live stock seeds
for planting, raw materials tools, and machinery
gone; great areas with everything burned or looted,
or smashed; vast unemployment for workers;
means of subsistence a land Of economic ruin of
mutated life, and lingering DEATH and in the midst
of it all-the little children.
In long lines they are waiting at the American
food-ktchens. viii the food be there for them?
- Will they be turned away? There are no happy,
healthy faces in those long lines not one You have
seen rags and barefooted children, but never so
many little boys and girls literally drest in taters.
Soon it will be very cold, and for those bare little
feet and legs and arms there is nothing at home to
put on.
Hollow faces and shrunken bodies are so COM
mon that their real condition does not become evil
dent untilwe inquire more closely, and then 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 are
just learning to stand alone. Others almost as old
cannot yet stand their feet Their arms, and legs
and spineS, and chests are twisted and warped The
flesh and skin shriveled their bones 1t is sur
prlSng that lie can Sl exist there Ii they can nave
food they will gradually regain their health and
strength, but with most of them it is question of
now or never Starvation and tuberculosis will not
wait
In Poland alone million five hundred thousand
such children must be cared for. In Latvia and
Esthonia the people are living mostly diet made
from potato-flour, oat-four and sawdust In
Czecho-Sovakia in Hungary, in Austria, and in
other countries of central and southeastern Europe,
two millions more are in dire need of food and who
stops to ask regarding creed race, nationality
when little child is starving? Children are just
children the 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
half millions of children in immediate danger Of
starvation if this organization fails, who must have
food at once 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 are reduced
te the minimum weight and whose endurance of
hunger has reached the end which merges into ac-
tual starvation, ar admitted to the American ktch-
ems and given one meal day. 1t is hard to turn
away thousands of hungry boys and girls-to hear
them ask, pleadingly, ''Do weigh too much?" "Am
not thin enough?" Cant come any more?" But
this restricting of food to the extreme cases is COM
pulsory because there isn't enough for ALL
And these neediest ones cannot reach the
kitchen through the cold winds and the snow bare
footed and in the pitifu rags which form only par
tiaI covering for their bodies. They must have