The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-05-03
100000 in Pitiful Need.

ne committee IOuHu tHdl lucIS are
approximately $4,000 families, number
ing about 100000 men, women and
children, who are in pitiful need of in
slant help.
Even when employed, the workman
in Ireland receives wage so low it
would be difficult for an American to
understand how he can support him
self and his family, the report said
Now, through no fault of their own,
the families are without even this
small income. In most cases their pa
thetc savings have already been spent
for the barest necessities Of existence.
They need bread, and they need it
quickly, the Quakers declared.
The committee spent 40 days investi
eating economic conditions in Ireland.
The distress which they witnessed is
separate and distinct from that dis
tress which arises from unemployment.
1t is different from the distress of
Irish women and children whose male
relatives may be engaged in armed
opposition to the British military
forces operating in Ireland. The dis
tresS that the committee dealt with is
that of habitually thrifty and indus
trious workers, who would be able to
continue in their occupations were it
not for the abnormal situation now ex-
listing in Ireland.
1t is for such persons now thrown
out of work that the committee seeks
to invoke the sympathy of America.
Other Sorrows Than Hunger.
The women of Ireland are suffering
other sorrows besides that of hunger
The committee found that trouble has
fallen on many women and children,
the aged and inhrm. By day and by
night their homes and their posses
sions are burned, land thousands of
their farms and shops utterly destroy
ed. They live only by the generosity
Of neighbors who are almost as desc
late as themselves. Babies in hundreds
die before birth or in infancy.
The Irish situation is considered as
critical today as it has been at any
time since open rebellion began. The
solution of the tragedy seems to be
remote. There have been four different
times set for the final debacle of the
Sim Fem by Lloyd George or his
supporters. Despite the thousands OF
English soldiers on duty in Ireland,
with city street and country lane pa
trolled day and night, the Sim Fem
organization apparently is as strong
as it ever was.
Although the Irish people have made
frequent efforts to secure the moral
cooperation of the United States in
their stand against the British govern
ment and in their effort to secure free
dom the American government nat
uraly refrains from taking sides in
the dispute However, President Hard
ing's approval of the plan to raise $10,-
100000 for the relief of distress in Ire
land has come to official London as
bombshell.
America, not as a government, but
with the presidents sanction, is get
ting ready to rebuild the creameries,
factories and homes burned either by
the Sim Feiners or the Black and
Tans.
Besides having no work, the $4,000
Irish families reported in dire distress
do not receive the unemployment al
lowance, which was limited to eight
weeks.
The committee said these Irish peo-
pie manage to keep alive on diet
which would seem a starvation diet to
the poorest American family-a diet
consisting of no more than bread and
tea at every meal, with bowl of soup
two or three times a week as a lux
ury. 1t is for these people, thrifty, but
unfortunately out of work, that the
committee is making its appeal for i'm
mediate help.