Arizona republican., 1920-11-22
Total

The American relief administration undertook to allocate resources from congressional appropriations and the presidents emergency fund to those countries where these funds were ap- ulfcable, also securing co-o5eration of numbers of charitable bodies abroad. In addition to the above, the Jewish
 Joint distribution undertook directly the care of some 100000 or S00,o00 chil-
 dren and the Friends service com mittee initiated work in Germany. A
 start was made in Hungary by the American relief administration, but it
 was compelled to withdraw by the bol-
 shevilx revolution until next year.
 The assistance of the American gov ernrnent expired with the signing of
 the peace and the arrival of the 1919 crop. The total expenditure of all the local and foreign groups in the eight months to August 1919, was about s25. .OO0. .00O, of which $16,370,695 came | from congressional and presidential and other American sources directly through the A. R. A., and in addition other charitable support was secured not only from American, but with as- sistance of some foreign governments.
 Second Year, August, 191e-August, 1S2o With the termination of American governmental activities in EurcsSe the
 
 of these millions of children required immediate solution. At the request of the various governments concerned, and with the approval of the president of | the United States, the men comprising
 the American relief administration un- ldertook to carry on the work as a vol untary effort, simpl yadopting the old official name as a matter of convent | ence and as a term we'll established throughout Europe. The American re- lief administration was thereupon con- yerted into a voluntary association. . with an executive committee comprls- ing men who had been largely interest ed in the work, ard the t5roblem was
 attacked from the point of view Of vol
 untary effort.
 The problem of child life in Ger i. many also rose immediately after the
 declaration of the armistice. No we'll
 thinking person considered that the United States was at war with infants 1 and children; on the contrary 1t was obvious that if there was to be 8 remuneration of life and civilization in Europe 1t was fundamental that child life and health should be maintained 5 and that therefore such effort as was possible should be made on behalf oi the children of Germany as well. During the winter of 1919, the Amer
 ican Relief Administration encouraged 5 the American Friends service com {, mittee (Quakers) to enter into the s industrial districts in Germany for th1' . purpose, and to model their operations ] upon those in use elsewhere. Certain n charitable and governmental suppor = was secured as supplements to th' 0 Friends resources. Tn the fall of 1918 d | in consultation with the Friends serv n ice committee. 1t was resolved to ex @ pand their service in Germany, ant if the American Relief Administration if undertook to supplement the resource e of the Friends service committee. Tn $ Friends made an appeal not only t D their own members but also to tn l. German American population fin tn d United States for assistance. Durin if the winter of 1920 the number of chil n dren cared for in Germany by tn
 Friends service committee rose t L. 6O0.000.
 Children Cared for Last Spring ', With the arrival of the 1919 harves ''S famine conditions in Europe becam ameliorated in certain countries an -o the situation of the children improve ,h in those areas where food productio had increased. 1t was therefore pos 1t sible in the summer of 1919 to reduc lo imports into certain countries and int T. certain localities. Their local organ le izations. however, have continued IS function, using entirely local supple le and receiving imports only for the 1e essential deficiencies. In some ir ty stances the American representative ot have at request remained in the loci CT organizations to secure cohesive actio