Arizona republican., 1921-06-22
CHILDREN DYING
 OF STARVATION IN
 PHOENIX IS FACT
It is almost unbelievable
 But it is nevertheless true

l
 It is almost unbelievable
 But it is nevertheless true
 Little children are dying of starva- tion in Phoenix
 Hundreds of older children and adults are continually hungry; have not had a filling meal in months
 It is said that there are not less than 2.100 persons in Phoenix and vicinity known to be affected by the food shortage.
 HOW many more there may be whose cases have not been reported to the authorities is a matter of con lecture, and some such eases are known
 Most of those who are suffering | are Mexicans and their families who | were brought here from Mexico. But l there are others among the unfortun- ates who have lived here for years
 There is a daily. almost continual heart-rending sight about the rooms of the Associated Charities at the corner of Third and Adams streets Every day throngs gather about the building along both streets and crowd one another to peer in at the win | dows and doors And then there is | pitiful sight when the distribution of food begins.
 Buckets are held high in the air as the throngs crowd toward the en- trance whence the food is distributed Any little thing offered is seized avidly. Many of the starving begin eating on the spot Others carry the modicum away to be divided infintes-
 mally with other members of the | family.
 Many who go there get nothing.
 The Associated Charities Is doing an
 1t can. 1t Is giving away all 1t gets but there is not enough to go round I The people living in that vicinity are Il giving what they can spare to supple ment the distributions of the Asso- ciated Charities. One woman. a lncighbor. has frequently stripped her kitchen. But she said that she could easily do that. for she had no heart to eat after witnessing what is daily
 brought before her.
 The other day a Mexican woman
 with small child was sitting on the
 curb in front of the house of this lady.
 The woman was evidently too weak
 to stand in the throng across the street to await her turn But she had sent her little girl over with a bucket
 in the hope that she might be given , some milk
 !, The child at the side of the woman i was whining and when the lady i asked the mother what was the mat es ter she replied wearily and fin a mat ' ter of fact way. She has nothing to {, eat-'' The woman was too far gone to work up a feeling of bitterness al
 her condition. In the meantime the little girl returned with some milk in q the bucket The lady went into the a house and brought all the bread she : had. Other children who had stood !, about grabbed at the bread. seized fl ' and began gnawing it like animals giving utterance at the same time ts Q those whimpeTing noises which ani. 7 mals make when admitted to foot ' after a long abstinance.
 Yesterday in the crowd a woman ' stood holding a babe not more thar A four or five months old The bab d was trying to gnaw green apricot = A lady said to the mother. That .e bad for its stomach "Wen.r was tn ,- reply. there's nothing else" Tn
 apricot was taken from the babe an ' a piece of buttered bread was substi ,- tuted.
 This is not a new situation It ha I- been going on for a long time: 1t wa a in progress last spring when we wer of contributing literally to the starvin ,n children of the Near East and Ar D. menia-
 F. Perhaps many had not then hear " of the starving children of Phoenix ie if so. perhaps they regarded starvin DO at home as commonplace and vulga a l There was something noble in stary IT, ing on the other side of the worl es There was lent to starving in Al
 menia and Poland that enchantmer ]. which distance Is supposed to confe cyl A situation in which millions wei an starving was worth giving some al st tention to- The magnitude of such he situation was magnificent; it al e. pealed to those who like to do thinf m in a big way. But when only hun is dreds were hungry-pshaw. it wasr in worth while monkeying with s- But something must be done abol nd these hungry people of Phoenix. N he know that the situation is one whis e- reflects upon the town. and the long IT. it persists. the more serious will n the reflection.
 m There are several ways in which
 can be relieved. and all of them oug h. to be employed. There should las generous contributions by those WI "a can afford to make them. All of of have little luxuries, with a part or- which we might dispense until the lsa people have been relieved We e lde do that very easily if we keep igs mind. when we are about to indulf " tidt green dpflcot Is a Luxury 10 ide Phoenix baby: that a hard crust lad bread is something which hundreds the Phoenix people. would gioat ov es- That a pint of milk will afford mo her real pleasure to some than a pint ms. Moet ct Chandon ever gave to a the man or woman in the prohibit ade days.
 owe The plan by which the Mormc 'm- raised fund for the relief of suff. has ing last spring might be follow
 Then every Mormon was asked by ice, head of the church at Salt Lake
 in abstain from one meal on a cert rge day Most of us could get along W lor. one meal less for a day or seve dge days and be the better for that the stinence- Each meal so abstain 2 from could mean a meal for some
 by who had not had a square meal Ium months.
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 ting DAVIES GOES EAsT-w. w ded Davies. general ticket agent of 4 the zona of the Cunard lines. left