The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-13
URGES STATE TO
AID STARVING
Governor Issues PrOclama-
ton Asking Aid for
Starving Children.
PEOPLE MUST ACT NOW

acknowledgements Blaine today
implored the people of Wisconsin
"of all races, nationalites, tongues,
and creeds" to come to the aid of
suffering humanity in Germany, in a
proclamation in which he urged spec
ial efforts toward relief of distress
and misery in Germany before the
holiday season.
Governor Blain's proclamation is as
| follows:
| "Over forty per cent of the German
industrial population are today either
totally unemployed or so partially en-
ployed as to be unable to earn a liv-
ing wage.
Germany is about fifty per cent
short of the normal supplies of fats
and dairy products.
"The aged men and women are suf-
fering want and restitution as to food
and clothing.
There are millions of children in
Germany undernourished and under
fed
"The misery among the German
people is daily increasing due to the
failure to settle the Preparations cues
|
in accordance with Germany's capacity
to pay.
Bread lines are growing longer, and
with the oncoming of winter much
distress, misery, and want will reduce
the people of Germany, if not at once
relieved, to state of poverty and des-
peration such as may produce the
most unfortunate results, not only in
Europe but to civilization generally.
"The president of the United States
proclaimed, during the war, that
Americas part in the war was not a
quarrel with the German people, and
surely it was no quarrel with the aged,
! it could be no quarrel with the women
of Germany, and much less could it
! have been quarrel with the children
of Germany, with the generations of
the unborn.
"We have a large population in Wis
consin who are of German parentage,
and whose hearts go out to that great
people across the sea, so badly in want
and misery, as does the heart of every
citizen, no matter what may be the
origin of his birth.
/ "There is a nationwide movement
for the relief of the German, people,
/ in addition to the individual and group
movements looking to the relief of the
distress in Germany.
"Little children everywhere are
nearest to- the Kingdom of Heaven of
any earthly thing.
Divine Providence has beautifully
supplied US with all physical wants, it
/ is fitting and proper that out of our
/ bountifulness fair contribution
should be made to the suffering peo-
pie of Germany and to her children,
and through our generosity in this
| Christmas season we can be the in
strumentalities in the hand of him
who contributed the great sacrifice for
childhood and womanhood.
I earnestly call upon our people of
| Wisconsin, of all races, nationalities,
| tongues and creed, to come to the aid
of the suffering humanity in Germany
before it is too late; to contribute
generously to the present national
undertaking for relief, and to contri-
butte to every other worthy project
and organization seeking the same
ends.
"a picture of the restitution and
misery in Germany tSday among the
helpless masses cannot be overcolor-
ed or exaggerated. That restitution
and misery is beyond the human mag
| ination to conceive and no language
can adequately describe it.
sour people have always generously
answered the call of suffering human
ity everywhere. trust and hope and
believe that they will not fail in af-
| fording substantial relief.
81 also earnestly suggest that the
ministers of every good creed and de-
nomination in the state, at their serv-
ices on the three Sundays proceeding
the Anniversary of Our Saviour, direct
their attention and that Of their re-
spective congregation to the impelling
necessity of quick relief, especially for
the German children. No greater serv-
i've can be contributed toward the
Christian movement during this
Christmas season"