The Grangeville globe., 1920-12-23
PLIGHT or EUROPE'S
CHILDREN STACCERS
3,500.000 Facing Starvation Can
Only Be Saved by Americas
Response to Joint Appeal.

1t Is utterly impossible for one who
has not actually seen the misery OF
the early Autumn in Europe to visual.
lie what the children of the Eastern
and Central portions of the continent
face this winter TO say that 100000
children have no alternative to starva-
ton or death from disease except
American aid Is startling, but lndepend-
ent observers by the score and care
full scientific surveys OF tie economic
md crop conditions overseas brand
the figure as conservative.
In Poland, Tor instance, Were 1905.
600 youngsters last year subs.sted al
most entirely Oh the one free Ameri-
can meal a day that they received. con
dltions as winter closes down, are
worse than ever before. The BOlshe-
vlk Invasion stripped large portions Of
the country of all grain. Professor
e. D. Durand Food Advisor to he
Polish government, after an exhaustive
survey. has reported that ohly forty
per cent Is available OF the food neces-
sary to carry the populatio through
the winter
In the city Of Vienna tests conducted
In the American Relief Administration
food kitchens showed that 81 per cent
of the children between the ages ol 8
and IA were seriously undef-uo1rish-
ed" Thlrty-three per cent we're aHrS-
edly under-nourished, II Der cent We're
slightly subnormal and only per cent
approached the state Of normal
American child. The Amer IA Relief
Administration Is feeding 200 600
Austrian children every day now and
there Is no chance OF dimuntion Of
need before mex harvest.
The spectacle of the medical needs
of EurOpe's children is equally ap-
palllng Estimates reaching the Amer
lean Red Cross c to needs cor medical
service in the de4titute areas this win
ter include Old Al strla-Hu gary, 75O
600; new Poland, 1,500tz0; Czecho-
Elovakia, 5000; Serbia. 10000. and
Roumania, 100000. In the iscal year
Of 1920 the Red Cross has reached
with the vcritable gift oS life 1,5G0, 900
children In the affected areas. Tuber-
culcsls is prevalent 10 a terrific degree.
Five children out of seven ir the city
Of Warsaw. for instance, have been
found to be tubercular. fyphus Is
widespread; rickets, the right hand II
under nourishnen Is alm0t' uLiversai,
and cholera lifts Its grim head con
stantly in one place and another
The European Relief Council, com
prising the American Relief Admluls-
tration, thes American Red Cross, the
American Frlerds' Service Committee
(Quakers), the Jewish Joint Dlstrlbu-
ton G .nmittee, the Federal Council
of the Churches of Christ In A-neri-
ca, the Knights Of Columbus. the Y. n.
c. A and the Y. W. c. A., seeks $685.
100000 with which to meet the situa-
ton. 1t has estimated that at least
S23, 100000 must be had for food and
$4,000, 600 70; medical service to avert
absolute disaster amor 7 the threa ened
children. Checks may be sent to your
local committee or to Franklin K. Lane.
treasurer European Relief Council, ~
Broadway, New York, or to the Child
Feeding Fund. Lile'a AIRY Digest, New
yark Cty.
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