New-York tribune., 1921-01-08
Hoover n anes
Jan. 10 Child
Aid ast Day
$4,000 Women Will Ask
Housewives to Omit One
Meal or Eat Repast of
Rice and Dry Bread

Every home in New York City will
be asked to entertain an invisible
child guest" at meal on January 19.
which was appointed yesterday by Her
bert Hoover fast day for the benefit
Of the starving children of Central
Europe. Delegates representing 6O,-
600 organized women met yesterday
morning at the Engineering Society
and outlined their program for inter
esting the women Of the city in the
fast day.
Mrs. f. Louis Slade called upon the
women to omit one meal on that day
or else TO enter into the spirit Of the
campaign by eating a Hoover meal,
modelled on the meager rations fed the
children of Europe by the American
Relief Committee
1--WE dined the other night with Mr..
Hoover on rice and dry bread,' she
said. "and it was the most satisfying
meal many of US had ever eaten. If
you women will do the same on jan
uary 19, you will find it the most
IuSuI iouS meal you ever. served. LeC
the children do without dessert on
that day. They will feel so badly if
they are left out"
Cafeteria Fund
The delegate from the Young Wo-
mems Christian Association announced
that the association had dedicated
February J as a day on which the gross
proceeds of their cafeterias all over
he M, k., Fl ~,
Hoover fund. Women will be asked to
make up luncheon parties to visit the
cafeterias on that day and swell the
fund.
Mr.. Hoover said in his address to
the women that the American Relief
Committee was carrying on the wor},
begun during the war, when 5000 900
children had been fed and that the
number Lad been reduced to $500 900
by the gradual reconstruction of the
business activities OF Europe. BY an
other year the work Of the committee
would be unnecessary. lie said the
American committee is merely supple
lnenting now the worl. of foreign or
ganizations, by providing the needed
food supplies. The entire cost of dis
tribution is being financed BY the local
governments.
THE amount we ask@S33 900. 600
is less than ) per cent on the amour.
the government is preparing to spend
on naval armament alone. It would
be vastly better and more economical
Of life and peace to put the price Of
one battleship into this last measure
OF relief, which will build up friend
ship for our country in the hearts OF
the next generation Of Europeans" he
said.
Mrs. Willard Straight, chairman of
the Women's Emergency Committee
organized TO help the Hoover campaign
announced that $l,5OO,O00 had been
raised in New York City, but that the
total needed was S3,500,000. Each or
ganizaton was asked to take pledge
cards Of $40 each, the amount neces-
sary to support one child for the next
Year. The committee will meet every
FRIDAY morning to report progress.
Members of Committee
The members Of the committee are
Mrs Richard b. Aldcroft. Miss Amey
Aldrich, Mrs. John Blair, Mrs. Nicholas
+. Brady, Mrs. James A. Burden, Mrs
Eliot Cross, Mrs James Cushman, Dean
Virginia Gildersleeve, Miss Mary Gar
rett Hay, Mrs. Ransom Hooker. Miss
Mabel Kittredge, Mrs J. Borden HArri
man. Mrs. Alexander Kohut, Miss Ruth
/ Morgan. Mrs. Henry Moskowitz, Mrs
John T. Pratt Miss c. G. Rumscy. Mrs
Mary X. Simkhovitch, Mrs. F. Louis
Sladc. Miss Florence Wardweli, Mrs
Vanderbilt Webb, Mrs. Thomas Wells
| Miss Martha Draper. Mrs. Willard
Straight, Miss NJ. Louise Dixon and
Mrs. Courtlandt q. Barnes.
Barnard College students and faculty
pledged themselves yesterday to raise
$4,000 for the relief Of students ano
teachers in universities and prepare
tory schools in Eastern and Centra
Europe at meeting addressed by Her
bert Hoover, chairman of the American
Relief Administration, in Students
Hall, ll7th Street and Broadway
The occasion marked the forma
opening of a drive which will call foi
an average contribution from cacl
member of the faculty and student body
of q least SIS. Dean Virginia c. Gil
derslecvc presided and Miss Orills
Holden, student chairman, outlined the
plans of the campaign.