The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10
CHILDREN WILL DIE OF STARVATION F
 AID IS NOT GIVEN
Chairman Ramsay Calls Atten- ton to Tremendous Task Facing Relief Council.
 Detailed Figures Given

To give Alabama citizens some idea of the tremendous task they are to be asked to help accomplish, Erskine Ram say, chairman of the Alabama division of the European Re lief Council, and w. J. Adams, chairman in charge of the work in Birmingham and Jefferson county, have compiled figures from the reports received from the national organization, ot which Herbert Hoover is chair man.
 These reports show the vast number of children who are being aided in Europe and who must die of starvation between now and next harvest time unless the people of America come to their rescue. They show the staggering amount of food that must be handled by the relief coun-
  these helpless little ones. The official ap- peal for Alabamas portion of the funds necessary to save these lives will open February 19 and continue through March S.
 The detailed figures compiled by Chair men Ramsay and Adams deal principally with Poland, in order that the suffering in only one of the numerous stricken countries may be made plain, Their statement follows:
 ITO feed the great numbers of Polish children who are facing starvation this winter, an average of about 2,6o,OU pounds of American foodstuffs will be needed each week according to latest estimates of workers under Herbert Hoover, chairman of the European relief council This is the amount required every six days. for the American feed- ing stations are not open on Sundays The daily ration for each child is scant half pound.
 More than 900, GOO undernourished boys and girls were fed daily during the month of December. With the coming or the cold weather the number must be grandually increased it is anticipated, until the maximum of 1.50O,OO0 will De reached during January and February
 "A total of approximately $500 metric tons of food will be required in Poland for the next eight months, or until substantial diminution in the child-feeding programme can be expected The principal foodstuffs are cocoa. sugar, rice, beans, lard and condensed milk.
 'An American personnel of only l6 men has general supervision of the Polish feed ing operations. The detail of the work IS done by 27,T79 native Polish men and women, 2O,239 of whom are paid and the rest volunteer,
 t'The entire child-feeding programme IS carried on at a cost to the European relief council of only s1 month per child, this sum representing the money actually spent for food alone. The re- mainder of the working expenses, repre- senting about s2 per child, is borne by the native committees in the form of rent, transportation, payment of workers and clerical force.
 "The programme of the European reiel council calls for the feeding, one meal each day, of 3,500, 900 of the most seriously undernourished children under the age of 15 in Austria, Hungary, Czecho-Slo- yakia and Poland This will require an expenditure of $23, 100000 before the har- vesting of the next crops. In addition. SIC. COG, ,UU will be needed for medical care for several million little sufferers from the diseases incident to malnutrition.