Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-14
Tub STEW DINNER
ADDS $250,000 TO
EUROPEAN RELIEF

Boston, Jan. 12--The starving waits
of Europe We're the invisible guests
tonight at dinner in Symphony Hall
at which 1000 persons socially prom
inent in this city and state sat down
to a meal Of stew, bread and cocoa,
for which they paid 500 a plate. The
invisible ones. to feed whom the mt,n-
ey viii go through the European Re
lief Council were kept Immediately in
mind by a vacant chair, the ,nly
empty one in the hall, on which a
lighted taper burned and before
which the same dinner, constitutes
their regular ration, was placed.
After the dinner, Herbert Hoover,
chairman of the Relief Council. Gov
ernor Cox. President F'aunce #
Brown University and Mayor Peters
addressed an audience that had paid
fancy prices for balcony seats. 1t
was announced that the di1ner add
ed $4,000 to the council funds.
Everything from stew to sugar
Was contributed.
The numbers and the plight OF the
Hoover who said
Eve have been compelled to ask
the American people to save this sit
uation in the midst of a grea. eco
nomic depression in our own country
but great as our anXieties and diff
culties are 7 can not survey the eco.
nomic situation of the United States
in its comparative prosperity with.
out the conclusion that we still have
the ability to extend at least This
helping hand to Europe.
I'VE have in our warehouses AMI
on our farms today Is months food
supply for the entire American pao
pic. We have a harvest coming
again within another eight months
Our shelves are over loaded witt
clothing; our warehouses with raw
materials; we have ample coal and
our people are warmly housed. II
there is any hunger or any cold ir
7 the United States, it is due to the
foolish functioning of either our So
| cial, our economic or our politiCa
system.
There is indeed some where {
weak link in the economic or the 50.
cial or political system of the worlc
as whole, when we can contemplate
American warehouses bursting with
food and raw materials, our farmers
unable to sell it at their cost of pro.
| duction and yet people within three
! hours of communication with us i:
the midst of starvation and sufferine
for these very materials, lacking .ne
essentials necessary for the preserva.
ton of courage to meet their daily
difficulties.
THE effort of these associations
| comprises today the only practI a
service that the United States is
rendering Europe. 1t is the only
moderating influence in a world Cd
| contention. 1t is the only effort be.
ing made in the world today by any
che nation toward any other nations
Of moral and real support"
The relief fund has now passed
the fifteen million mark, Mr.. Hoover
said. and more than 100000 has beer
raised in Massachusetts. The people
of America have assumed heavy bur.
dens in order to help others, Governor
Cox said in his address.
'The sacrifice we have made will
have been made in vain if we do not
see the work through and do all in
our power to help those in distress
through no fault Of their own" he
added. "We can not allow the limo.
cent peoples of other nations to sui.
fer needlessly when it is in our power
, to help. We do not know how near
at hand may be the day when we
shall need the aid. moral and physical
support of other peoples"
The admonition of DR.. Faunce was
to "stay out of the League Of Nations
if you will, but get into the League Of
Children"