Bisbee daily review., 1920-11-24
HOOVER URGES
 IMMEDIATE AID
 FUR EUROPEA
HOOVER URGES - -. $$ Eight American Organizations
 Form Relief Council; Plans
 Call for Feeding 3,500,000 EX-FOOD CONTROLLER
 SAYS TRAGEDY NEAR Declares World Facing Most
 Serious Famine in Years;
 Says Americans Must Help

CHICAGO. Nov 23.-Formal an nouncement If ,he orga..iza trl of a European relinf council. ccmpnscd rf eight American organizations was made by Herbert Hoover at dinner tonight. Continuation of American support in feeding the under nourish- ed peoples of Europe was urged by Hoover, who will act as chairman of the council. The dinner, rendered by Howard B. Jackson. formerly vice president of the United tSates Grain Corporation, was attended by 300 Chicagoans.
 The council consists of the Afneri- can Relief Federation, American Red Cross American Friends Service Cor poration (Quakers), Jewish Joint Dis tribution Council, Federated Council of the Churches of Christ in Ameri- ca. Knights of Columbus, r. M c. A. and Y. w. A.
 This council. after full investiga- tion, has decided that complete prior ity should be given to American re- lief in Europe to support $500 900 children who have, since the armis- uce, been dependent on American charity until the children are secure over the winter" said Hoover. Here is an issue in our foreign relations which is neither race politics or re- lision It is just the preservation or the lives of children.
 Greatest Famine
 The war has collapsed. among both allies and enemy in the face of the greatest famine in three hundred years. In the first stage of famine the human animals eat the food or their cattle and thus undermine the production of milk. In the second stage they consume the cattle them selves. The children of the white races are dependent upon cattle for their very existence, thus famine bears hardest upon. the children
 Today there are 3, 500,000 waifs who live by virtue of the three thou sand asylums, hospitals. clinics and canteens where doors would be clos ed but for American charity At the time of the armistice. Americans were carrying the burden of 100000 chil- dren in Belgium and 6O0,00O in north ern France. This system was spread over Finland, Esthonia, Letvia. Lith- uania. Poland, Germany, Austria, Czecho-slovakia Serbia. Rumania, Hungary and Armenia.
 With the harvests of 1919 and 1920 and the gradual economic recupera- tion the burden has grown ress ana the harvest of next summer will great ly tighten the burden. It is not a per- petual charge on American charity. It is an emergency demand It will cost $23,000,000, about one dollra per month per child until the next har- vest. For every American dollar, an- other dollar of local support is pro- vided in equipment and food. togeth- CT with vast amount of voluntarily service. We have but to supply them with their deficient milk, fats cloth ing and in some countries bread and they will succeed; without it they fail. .l
 Biggest Campaign Vet
 ITO me it is a glory to the United States that 3,50O,0O0 hungry waifs should sit every day at our table. would rather nave the American flag implanted in the hearts of the chil- dren of Europe than flying over any citadel of victory. Twenty years from now they will form the basis of civi- lization of Europe. f. we are to pre- serve the foundation of society in the east, if we are to keep open the love of humanity in the west our duty is clear before us.
 This is the largest cooperative benevolent organization ever attempt ed in the United States. The organi- zations represented have come to the unanimously, though independently formed conclusion that nothing but prompt and united action by the whole American people can avert in- creasable tragedy for the helpless children involved. The organizations forming the council will organize their representatives in every town and community of the nation for the raising of necessary funds"