Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1922-10-27
Save THE LIFE
OF A CHILD
CHILDREN BY THE THOUS.
ANDS DIES IN EUROPE
OF HUNGER.

4No uoubt you nave Dul you nave
always been able to satisfy that
craving with very little effort.
But think of it, thousands of
children, babies yet in their
mothers arms, grown men and
women are dying Ct starvation in
Europe for the mere want Of
food. In this country we have
enough food to save them of this
horrible death but those unfort-
innate people in Europe are with
out money TO buy the necessities
of life.
Throughout the entire country
drive is being made to solicit
funds FOR the starving and Cot
tonwood will prove no exception
to the case. There will be no
house to house canvas but any,
one having a donation that he
wishes to make can leave the
same at the Chronicle office and
we will see that it is given to the
proper parties.
The ScOurage of Famine.
Famine is on the rage in
Austria parts of Germany and
in the south Of Russia. In those
vest regions which were at one
time the most fertile in the
world, the soil is dried up and
left in the most desolate abandon
ment. After having exhausted
their lest provisions, and sold all
to procure themselves bread.
hundreds of thousands of peas
ants have lied in search of more
favorable districts.
One of the worst aspects of
the situation arises from the i'm
mense number of orphans and of
children abandoned by their re-
latives during their flight.
Filthy insects, propagators of
disease, infest the rags of the
unhappy survivors, rags left un-
washed through absolute want
of soap.
Meanwhile, the absence of
workmen, the difficulty of pro-
curing seed, insufficient means
of communication, drought and
various other causes have COM
bined to occasion this famine
which now forces the miserable
population of these districts to
norrish themselves with what
ever falls into their hands. In
autumn they ate herbs, bark of
trees, gl'ubs and earthworms;
now their daily food is straw
from tie thatched roofs and in
some plaCes-horrible to relate!
even human remains.
The Cry of the Children.
One can readily imagine the
disorders which such substances
taken as food occasion. especially
in children. Photographs of these
wretched people show us their
emaciated bodies deformed and
swollen by gases so produced.
Their intelligence alonHremains
unimpaired in this general physi-
cal destruction, and reveals it
self in their eyes which implore,
with anguish, some relief from
their atrocious sufferings.
The heroic love of the poor
mother avails nothing and they
are condemned to see the gradual
wasting away of their little ones,
without being able to afford
them any effectual relief.
A Russian journal relates that
a poor woman Baikiria (Volga),
Md from hunger and despair,
had thrown one of her children
into the river and was about to
throw in also her youngest a boy
of four years.
But the child, with instructive
horror of death, cried: Mamma!
Mamma Let me live and prom
ise not 10 ask you again for
breadw
The children, thus weakened
by hunger, become an easy prey
to all maiadies: among others,
oedems, which brings with it
gangrene and death.
The greater number, however,
died of inanition; first the child
becomes emaciated, while the
stomachh Swells then the suffer-
er becomes so extremely weak as
not to b able to stand, or digest
anything and at this stage, in
spite of the aid of medicine or
food, the unfortunate child dies
in snasms of intestinal cf.amn