The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-02-09

even
on the same food az the adults. That
the first act of men in famine is to cat
the food Of their cattle, and thereby
rob their children; that tbs second stage
Of famine is the destruction Of cattle
and a destruction OF the food of their
children. II became therefore neces-
sary in Belgium 10 appeal to The voiun-
tary support of the Belgium women
that they should provide for their child
rem special food outside OF their homes;
that every school-house. every public
building should be turned into = gigan-
tic nursery where the children would be
brought once, twice or thrice daily for
their food. AS a result two and one
half millions BeIgionl Of children were
thus fed over a period Of nearly four
years, and when after the arn1Ist.ce. We
were able 10 go into Belgium and e1-
anime tho result OF this regime. VIC
found that the health and welfare and
physical being Of the Bel gisn children
was better than ever IN the history OF
Belgium. That indeed was our frs,
American intervention sheerly in the
naue Of humanity, but at the time W
came into the war, 1917, we were forced
/ with famine amongst our own allies
| The diversion Of man power 70 the var
the destruction OF their shipping. thu
inaccessibtlity Of the markets Of tn,
southern hemispheres. the shortage Of
the food stuff for their cattle had mad,
| their condition akin to BeiEiur7's. and
| VIC were compelled 70 again irterven,
! TO prevent starvation, this time on :
scale of hundred and twenty millions a.
| people, and due to the self-deniaI OF tn,
! American women. due to the extra e.
! ertion OF the American farmer. VIC yer,
/ able to increase our exports oe Tooc
! from the United States TO the allies From
/ four millions or tons per annunl 70 etrh
! teen millions of tons per year durins
! the war. Nor only did we hold up III,
| strength OF our comrades in arms. bu
We retained the strength and morale o.
their women and children at home.
MUST COMPLETE wonx
Again at the time OF the arrnistic,
re were confronted with a third inter
ventiou- our second intervention hsc
perhaps been in solf-dcTensc. II per
/ haps had not been dominated by IN,
/ sheer ard pure humanity and charity OF
our relation to Be gum but after tn,
1 armisttce We were confronted indeed
s
i moro trein endous than any we had front
I cd before. in that We found that th<
whole Of the two hundreds or millions
! OF people cast OF the old western from
were plunged into famine. and into G
| famine greater than any that Europe
/ had faced since the thirty years wal
when one-third Of the population hac
died. We were faced with two hund-
vw..I Tf..#,.-
( luton, fourteen new governments slow
/ ~ emerging out OF chaos each and ev.
cry one IN an instinct OF self-preserva-
ton holding onto all that they had. Z
total REORGANIZATION Of communication
A failure TO exchange even the comnod.
tiles which they had in surplus. .
/ weakness i'm government that threatened
every moment to ensu]f the whole
OF Europe, and indeed with srouins
famine tho possibility that the no
/ Their Of anarchy itself should doluin.
ate The world. Then came an inter
vention By the American people. not
alone with our economic strength
| but again with the full moral strength
| OF the United States possibly only tc
q people OF single minded detachment
| and q sense Of service to the world II
became necessary that we should tax,
control Of the worlds shipping. anc
| control OF the distribution Of the en-.
| tire food supplies Of the world. tina
VIC should indeed go further and TAX.
| the control and direction - great ran,
way systens IN Central and EASTER
Europe. control and distribute the pro
! duct,cn Of coal, dominate the ex.
/ change Of commodities. and ser Up SO
vice 70 governments and by all thes,
| great measures chaos was prevented
peace was made possible. and as much
as these steps we're demanded BY pri
| mary craftsmanship they were csiieC
/ for in far louder cries by sheer human.
| ity itself. that We might prevent tn,
loss Of life on a scale the world hae
never seen. And throu ghout thes,
great measures there ran colder
thread Of American s3larity. These or.
ganizations for whom we appeal toda,
had been in service in all these tire,
/ great interventions in the preservation
Of the lives Of children. 1t IS indeed
modest computation TO say that during
! this last six years these organization.
/ have preserved the lives Of upward
| of fifteen million Of children, that II
the winter of 1919 when this burde,
vas al it's greatest. seven and one-hal.
| 10 eight millions cried aloud, and lib
Grated countries we're dependent upoi
these organizations As business ha