The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1921-02-04
WILL DO PART FOR
STARVING CHILDREN
Representatives to Hoover Meeting at
Columbus Bring Back Thrilling
Message From Great National
Chairman.

necessity Tor an @OrganlzdClOn WHICH
should give immediate attention to the
work of the European Relief Council,
Of which Herbert Hoover is national
chairman.
AS result Of this meeting Rev.
r. K. Caulk, rector of st. Paul's
church and Geo. M. Denton, editor Of
the Sentinel, were appointed to repre-
sent Medina county at statewide
meeting held at Columbus on Friday,
addressed by Mr.. Hoover, the ppr-
pose being to hear the first hand mes
sage from the national chairman, and
to report same to the local committee.
n Messrs. Caulk and Denton made
their report at a meeting on Monday
evening Of this week at the Red Cross
rooms, called by County Chairman
AL. Boyden, following which plans
were discussed for organizing Medina
county for aggressive work in raising
its quota of big-hearted citizens to the
number Of 900 to save the lives Of an
equal number Of starving children in
Europe.
The whole work Of relief must be.
expedited to be effective, as starva-
tion is already stalking in the far
away lands and will bring everlasting
shame upon a country that boasts Of
enlightenment and advanced ideas,
if it is not abated while possible.
Each township and village in the
county will perfect an organization
as quickly as possible, under the gem
eral direction Of County Chairman A.
l.. Boyden, who in turn is working
under the direction Of state head
quarters.
It was for the added inspiration
for work in this noble cause that be-
tween 700 and 800 men and women,
representing every county in Ohio,.
assembled in Columbus last Friday to.
hear the personal message from the
national chairman, Herbert Hoover,
which was q message that no one who
heard 1t can ever forget.
A digest Of Mr.. Hoover's address
follows:
| An appalling emergency exists in
Eastern and Central Euorpe.
The hope that widely planted crops
would yield an adequate harvest. has
not been realized.
Hunger, privation, suffering and
death still march unchecked.
Economically and politically, the
ruined world must wait, but there is
one cry that cannot be hushed, and
there is one challenge that cannot be
| disregarded.
| A. minimum of three and one-half
| million children are face to face with
disease and starvation. Unless aid is
rendered at once, a vast, unspeakable
tragedy will follow.
| 1t is a physical and financial i'm
possibility that these children be made
comfortable.
It is merely proposed that as many
as possible be saved from actual
starvation by receiving one meal a
day, and this to those only whose need
is most imperative.
In many parts of that desolated
world one meal day is all that
stands between these children and
death.
Just as soon as these children have
reached a grade Of improvement, they
must step aside to make way for those
more miserable than. themselves.
] Undernourishment produces disease
particularly it's own. Starved and
lpuny bodies make quick fuel for dis
ease. Tuberculosis and typhoid merely
| touch them and they are gone.
4 Hundreds of thousands of children
I in Europe have never tasted milk in
i their lives. Mothers unnourished ano
| ill-provided bring into the world
babies doomed before they see the
light Of day.
4 Medical aid must be furnished, to,
gether with clothing and food, if there
| is I'd be a tomorrow to follow the hor
ror and the desolation Of today.
It will require $33,000,Q00 to carry
this project of child-saving through
until the next European harvest. O,
this, $23, ,000, 900 must be provided fol
!. feeding children, and $10,000,000 fol
medical service and aid.
n This amount will only relieve ths
Y critical cases.
The distribution Of these funds will
be under the direction Of the Europe
an. Relief Council, made up of sever
| al cooperating organizations whicl
have banded themselves together t,
meet the responsibility on be
half OF the American people
This mass child-feeding work viii
) be carried on in the future as in tn,
! past, largely through the agency o
J the people Of the country where aid j
t rendered. a
j The American personnel Of the Am
] Ierican Relief Administration in Eur
+ ope consists Of more than fifty repre-
: sentatives, but associated with ther
/ are more than 100000 field worker
X who do the work, gather the children
Z establish the feedingstations, an
\ thru their own efforts and organiza
n tions furnish two units of help I
D leyeryone provided by American aid.
~ For every dollar raised ia Amerfcs
r two dollars will be furnished In trans
4 portation, local food supplies al
labor by the government and loc,