Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-12

eighths of one per cent with no remuneration the
American directors. Now he asks us all to help save
the children who are in imminent danger of starva-
ton 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; 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 for them? Will
they be turned away7 There are no happy, healthy
faces in those long lnes-not one. You have seen
rags and barefooted children but many little
boys and girls literally drest in tatters. Soon it will
be very cod for those bare little feet and legs and
arms there is nothing at home to put on.
Hollow faces and shrunken bodies are 50
common 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 stand alone. Others almost old
cannot yet stand their feet Their arms and legs
and spines, and chests are twisted and warped The
HeSh ana SKIN are Snr1Veled on their DOneS 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
now 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-four, oat-hour and sawdust. In Czecho
Slovakia in Hungary, in Austria, and in other coun
tries of central and southeastern Europe millions
in dire need of food; and who stops to ask
regarding creed, race, nationality when little
child starving7 Children just children the world
over and the great American heart is big enough
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 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 reduced to the
minimum weight, and whose endurance of hunger
has reached the end which erges into actual starva
ton, admitted to the American kitchens and given
meal day. It is hard to turn away thousands of
hungry boys and girsto hear them ask, pleadingly,
DO weigh too much?" Am not thin enough2"
Cant come any more?" But this restricting of food
to the extreme cases is compulsory, because there
isn't enough for ALL
And these neediest cannot reach the
kitchens through the cold winds and the snow bare
Great-Hearted Response, Sets
econ returns pouring in upon him from part of the