The log cabin Democrat., 1920-12-18
PLIGHT OF EUROPE'S
 CHILDREN STACCERS
3,500,0 900 Facing Starvation Can Only Be Saved by America's
 Response to Joint Appeal.

It ls utterly impossible for ono who has not actually seen the misery of the early Autumn !n Europe to visual ize what the children of the Eastern and Central portions of the continent face this winter. To say that $500, 600 children have no alternative to starva. ton or death from disease except American aid. Is startling. but independ- ent observers by the score and care full scientific surveys of the economic and crop conditions overseas brand the figure as conservative.
 In Poland, for instance, vi ere 1908. 0OO youngsters last year subs.sted al- most entirely on the one free Ameri. can meal day that they received, con, ditions as winter closes down, are worse than ever before. Jhe Bolshe- vik invasion stripped large p ,rtions of the country of all grain. Professor E. D. Durand. Food Advisor to the Polish government. after an exhaustive coA WI. paS oitCS lIdt OLIy IOTty per cent is available of the food neces- sary to carry the population through the winter.
 In the city of Vienna tests conducted in the American Relief Administration food Kitchens showed that 52 per cent of the children between the ages of 6 and l4 were seriously under-nourish- ed Thirty-three per cent were mark. edly under shed. II per cent were slightly subnormal and only 4 per cent approached the state of normal American child. The Amer. .an Relief Administration Is feeding 300 900 Austrian children every day now, and there Is no chance of dImunition of need before nex harvest
 The spectacle of the medical needs of Europe's children is equally ap- paliing Estimates reaching the Amer ican Red Cross F to needs Or medical service in the de~titute areas this win. ter Include : Old Arotriu Hu gary. 75O O0; new Poland. l,500l Q: Czecho- Slovakia. 2OOD0: Serbia. l50OO and 1 Roumanla. 100 0OO. In the iscal year of iSl9-2O the Red Cross has reached with the VI rtable gift oe life l,5C0. .OOO 1 children in the affected areas. Tuber. culoss t. pre- valent to u terrific degree Five children out of seven lr the citv of Warsaw, for instance. have been l found 10 be trberCular Iyphus Is widespread; rickets, the right hand of | dp nn,tri h n ic alF and cholera lifts Its grim head con- stanlly in one place and another
 The European Relief Council. com l prising the American Relief AdmInia- tration. the American Red Cross inc American Frier ds' Service Comrlttes tQuakers), the Jewish Joint DIstrihu. ton C .nmittee, the Federal Coupcil of the Churches of Christ in A-nerl. ca, the Knights of Columbus he M c. and the Y. W. c. A., seeks S33.. OW0C0 with which to meet the s,tua. ton. It has estimated that at leas, s230o0OD must he had for food and Sl0,Go,000 fo medical service to aver, absolute disaster ano, ' the threa eped children Checks may he sent to you, local committee or to Franklin K Lane
 treasurer EurolePr Relief Council, 1.
 Broadway. New York, or to the Chile
 Feeding Fund, Li,e .-y Digest, New
 York CiIy.
 For Sale-Spanish peanuts, s1.5
 per bushel; homemade molasses, 5
 per gallon, George Simon, phone 30t 'i-12-l1d3tw3t.