The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-11-12
The Slaughter of the Innocents

elghtS 4 enc per cent. with remuneration to the
American directors Nav he asks rs AT ,ofcip save nc
children who arc in imminent danger ot starvation .,s
eolnmg winter
There thcv arc, ia tine midst of wrecked homes and
farms and taetores % cities crowded with masses Of
refugees niihon' sustaining food for children. thronp
the destruction II lis, stock, seeds for planting raw
materials tools and machinery gone: great areas with
everything burned u loased or smashed; vast unen,
ploNmen for workers; means Of subsistence: land
~ economic nin Of mulated lfe and lingering death,
and in the midst of it all the little children
n long lmcS they ale waiting 1t the American
fooAdtehens WIN the food be sberc for thcml will
the, ~ turned aways There are no. happy. health,
faces ia those long lines ono Yuu have seen RAGS
and arefooted children. hut never So man, tlc bo,~
and girls literally lecst IN ,atterS Soon Il viii Il, ,ev
cola. and fos those aMs nttlc feet and legs ana ,ns
there i nothing al home top put on
Hollow faces and Shrunkcu bodies a,e d common
That their real condition docs not become evaen, until
We inquire more closely aud then we find that most ii
them are from one g fise wears hack IL thcl growth
Children Of eight old have moi reached the normal
size q two and hof TIE yarc iusi eainng a. stand
alone oAoe- ahps aS NJ can not yei stand IA ae,r
fect Their arms ana lees and spncs aud chests ar.
twisted and warped The flesh and skin are shrvclea
on thcr bones i i suprzing that life can still exist
t,ere # they can have food they will gradually regain
tier health and strength b with most of them il is
question Of now or starvation and tuberculosis
VIZ noi wait ~
IN Poland alone million five hundred thousand :,
sqch childicn must he cared for u Latyia and
Fshonia tho pnopc living mostl, 81 i diet made
ffom p''atothaa, ,dt-0aul and suwduSt la Czcehp
SloFakia, in jlngary AUSTRIA and III other countries
q central and southeastern Europe, two millions more
are ia dr need Of food and who stops "a AK regarding
creed, q race, nationality when little child is
sianingt Children are ius children me world oyer
A. dthe great American heart is bic enough 10 care for
thcm all
jnt The appeal now is not for all The three and N
half millions Of children il immediate danger of starya-Y
ton i this orgi' '1a fails. VIII, must nave fod M
once, are only fraction Of the total number The
hungry children x those destitute countries have been
examined l competent physicians and ony those whose
wi.icl little bodies arc reduced 10 the minimum weight
and whose endurance " hunger has reached the end
which mcrgcS into actual starvation are admitted to the
Anicrican Kitchens and given one meal day II il hard
70 turn away thousands Of hungry boys and girls-to
hear them ask, pcadngIy, "Do | weigh loo much2"
Am not thin onoughi" "Cant | come any moicg"
Bat this restricting ~ food 70 the extreme eases i.
pulsorg, bccals, there SIT enough for all
And these nrclics can not reach thc Xii, hons
thrcng the cold winds aud the harefoocd aud in
th pitiia rags which form only partial covering for
their bodies. They must havc clothes Each outfits ron
ssts Of one pair Of WOODEN stockings one par of
boots and little oycrcoaf. This one meal day. anI
these boots, stockings and little coats be supplied
only If we give them. II do not the slaughter Of the
innocents BY cold and starvation will DE appalling.