The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-06
HELPING ID FEED
 GERMAN BABIES
Fully a Million Children Are Still UndernOurished in
 Germany
By Associated Press

Berlin, May 1.-The American friends service committee now is feed ing 100000 of the undernourished chil- dren of Germany of whom there are, according to estimates based on phy- sicians reports, at least 1.000.00o. 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 cluster like bees, the correspondent saw several hundred pale-faced children ravenously attack the meal the com mittee daily provides. It was a ground floor room. with big windows flush with the street. Every window had a dado of swarming little ones. They stood on the sidewalk peering in, noses flattened against the panes. their big, round eyes eagerly watching the ehil- dren in the room feasting.
 Most of those on the outside were in the class of merely undernourished, for whom no aid was available. Frau lein Margaret Earth, well-known educator who, as the head of the local committee, supervises all the feeding arrangements in the Schoeneberg dis trict. sighed as she glanced at those wistful faces at the windows, and turned away.
 "On the first day" she said, I've per mitted the parents to come to see their children fed. They wept with grati- tude. 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 sup piled by the American friends commit tee. Of the different menus afforded the most popular among the Berlin children is kind of porridge made of flour. condensed milk, sugar and lard, eaten with a roll.
 Sixty per cent flour is furnished. Fraulein Earth spoke of it with en- thusiasm. 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 consequent disorders in Saxony and the Ruhr greatly interferred with operations mated 90.000 to 1000 needy chil- dren are now being fed. and the work in the provinces is being extended as fast as conditions permit. It is hoped soon to reach all the most urgent cases throughout the country. Germany has been divided into Il districts, with Berlin as headquarters and the princi- pal substations at Hamburg, Leipzig Dresden and Chemnitz. The organiza- tion is said to have sufficient funds to continue it's mission in Germany until the harvest begins to come in, about August 1. German crop pros- poets are poor, however, aud the har- vest is expected to give only temporary relief
 Every child receiving food has been reported by a registered physician as underfed. Political or religious con- alterations play no part in the chil- drens selection. The . food received from the committee is in addition, 1t has been stipulated to the regular rations allowed by the German author ities.
 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 and are actually 13 or IA "grow up amaz- ingly,' as one of the kitchen attend nts put 1t.
 Tn addition to children up to 14, nursing and expectant mothers also share in the committees bounty.
 A Japanese inventor of non-com- bustible celluloid substitute has taken out eleven United States patents on 1t.