The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-02-19
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RAISING HOOVER
RELIEF QUOTAS

G. 3. Stockton of Jacksonville was
in Lakeland Friday, representing the
European Relief Council, of which
Herbert Hoover is national chairman.
giving the Council its more common
name Of the Hoover Child Relief"
Mr.. Stockton was on his way home
from the Pinelias county banquet in
st. Petersburg Thursday event n e
when $1,700 was raised for the bene.
fit of the relief work carried on by
the Council. which comprises eight
organizations united in the common
cause Of "undoing the work of the
war" by feeding the starving children
Of Europe
Mr.. Stockton was a student at OK
ford when he volunteered for service
with the Belgian Relief. On Ameri
cas- entrance into the war, he Joined
the United States navy. Upon the
signing of the armistice, he was
placed on an inactive status and went
into the relief work in Austria, and as
sisted i'll the feeding of 5000 children
daily from the kitchens of the palaces,
where previously only dainties for the
palates of the nobility had been pre-
pared. From close association with
Mr.. Hoover through months of such
work, Mr.. Stockton is able to speak
authoritively of the methods followed.
According to the buSiness-like system
established by Mr.. Hoover, the gov
ernment of each country pays the ad-
ministrative cost of the work and the
transportation on the food from the
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button, and the aid of 100000 Euro.
peans is enlisted under fifty Ameri-
cans. Mr.. Stockton says that it has
been Mr.. Hoovers idea to conduct the
work as carefully and economically as
though it were a business institution.
How well he has succeeded is shown
in the fact that 2 IL percent covers
the cost of delivering the food from
the purchasing point in America to
the distribution to the starving and
underfed little ones abroad The cost
Of each meal is 1-2 cents, incredibly
as this seems
Mr.. Stockton left Austria for Am
erica last September after having as.
sited in the feeding of 100000 chill.
dren, all under fifteen, for the work is
confined to children under this age.
He speaks in glowing terms of the
value of the work" An impoverished
Europe is a menace to the United
States" he says. I'VE have saved the
lives of hundreds of thousands of
children and built up the constitutions
| OF hundreds of thousands more. We
are reaching the hearts of the people
by our service to the little ones. We
are helping to stem the tide of un.
rest and misery that leads to SRol.
shevism, and we are building up the
morale of Europe through our work of
feeding the children"
Florida has had two splendid work.
ers in the field in Mr. Stockton and
Capt. Merriam Cooper, also of Jackson
fville, now thought to be in prison in
Russia as the organizer and leader OF
the Kosciusko Squadron. Capt Coop
er who left the relief work for an ac
tive part in the political ahairs Of
Europe. is supposed to have been
made captive by the Bolsheviki. How
ever, Florida has been more backward
than most OF the states in taking uI
the support Of this work andsthe visit
Iof Mr. Stockton to- Lakeland was
made with the purpose of arousinl
tthis city to a share in the great cause
n A conference was held during Fri
lday afternoon In the T. e. L., room Ii
the First Baptist church when plans
.lwere outlined for participation, BY
i Polk county IN the Hoover relief work
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