The Cordova daily times., 1920-06-09
UNDERFED ARE
 GIVEN SUCC0R
 BY AMERICANS

BERLIN, June (by Associated Press) The American friends serv- ice committee now is feeding 100000 of the undernourished children of Germany of whom there are, accord, ing to estimates based on physicians reports, at least 100000. Only one tenth of them are being cared for as the committee can feed only those seriously or dangerously underfed.
 In a kindergarten at Schoeneberg, a huge district where the Berlin poor lA cluster like bees, the correspondent saw several hundred pale-faced child ren ravenously attack the meal the committee daily provides. It was a ground-floor room with big windows flush with the street. Every window had a dado of sWerming little ones. They stood on the sidewalk peermg in with noses flattened against the win dow panes, their big eyes eagerly watching the children feasting.
 Most of those on the outside were in the class of merely undernourished for whom no aid is available. Fraul- ein Margaret Earth, well-knoWn edu- cator who, as the head of the local committee, supervises all the feeding arrangements in the Schoenberg dis trict. sighed as she glanced at those wistful faces at the windows, and turned away.
 "On the first day" she said, " we permitted the parents to come to see their children fed. They wept with ' gratitude. We didn't let them come again. They were hungry themselves and their pinched faces were more than we could bear in place where food was being served"
 Cocoa, milk, flour, sugar, rice, peas, beans and lard are the foodstuffs SUD- piled by the American friends commit tee. Of the different menus afforded the most popular among the Bedlln children is a kind of porridge made or flour condensed milk, sugar and lard, eaten with a roll.
 Sixty per cent flour is furnished Fraulein Earth spoke of it with enthu- siasm. Such flour hasn't been seen in Berlin for years" she exclaimed. Crowds come to look at it.
 The committee began work in Ger many the latter part of February. The Kapp revolution and the conse- quent disorders in Saxony and the Ruhr greatly interferred with opera tiOns. However, in Berlin, 5O,000 Of the estimated 90,O00 to 100000 needy children are now being fed, and the work in the provinces is being ex- tended as fast as conditions permit. It is hoped soon to reach all the most urgent cases throughout the en- tire country. Germany has been di- vided into eleven districts, with Der lin as headquarters and the prinCi- pal substations at Hamburg, Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz. The organi- zation is said to have sufficient funds to continue it's mission in Germany until the harvest begins to come ii, about August l. German crop pros poets are poor, however, and the har- vest is expected to give only tempor- ory relief.
 Every child receiving food has been reported by a registered physician as underfed Political or religious con- alterations play no part in the child .jn's selection. The food received from the committee is in addition, 1t has been stipulated, to the regular rations of the German authorities.
 A few weeks of regular feeding makes a remarkable difference in the appearance of the children Little ones that look to be nine years old are actually 13 or IA grow up amaz- ingly" as one of the kitchen attend ants put it.
 In addition to children up to IA, nursing and expectant mothers also share in the committees bounty.
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