The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-27
SHOWS WORK OF
AIDING CHILDREN
General Allen Relates What
is Being Done to Help
Starving Germans.
GERMANS HELP TOO

New York-General Henry I. Al
len, chairman of the American Com
mittee for Relief Of German Children,
made public today cablegram from
the Berlin headquarters of the Amer
lean Society of Friends (Quakers) in
answer to his inquiry as to what re-
lief work was being done by native or
CARNATIONS and agencies in Germany.
The survey of the situation, by Gill
bert Manchester, acting head of the
Quaker organization in Germany,
shows that the federal and municipal
governments, agricultural districts,
relief organizations of all religious,
workingmen, banks and big industrial
concerns are contributing large sums
to the relief of children, students and
the unemployed.
Mr.. Manchester cabled as follows:
Native relief for suffering people is
very active. The German government
has provided funds out of receipts
from taxes on large incomes to feed
100000. children daily, which even
though inadequate indicates q dis
position to help in SO far as limitAd
resources will permit. On an average
the municipal governments are supply
ing about fifty per cent of suffering
people with food and money.
Germans Are Helping.
agricultural districts are caring for
city jewellers on large scale. They are
forwarding 10000 tons food monthly,
an amount sufficient for feeding l.,
225,000 children. Arrangements have
been Completed for sending $4,000
children to live with families in the
country for five months. In Gelsen-
kirchen persons who have work are
paying more than 100000 month to-
ward the support of the unemployed.
"Many industrial concerns are sup
porting German students. Factories
contribute fixed SUMS monthly for this
purpose. After having been first to
start the work In his district SHINES
guaranteed certain percentage of earn
| ings. The banks are giving one hum
dred and fifty dollars month and the
| textile Industry is contributing gem
erously to student relief"
Need Is Imperative.
Ill answer W d IGQuSSI 1OL JHC AdGCob
authoritative data concerning the pres
ent need in Germany, Mr.. MacMaster
cabled that medical examinations of
school children now being made by
| trained physicians showed that under
nourishment has increased thirty per
cent since last June. &
1.-TWO million children were found
to be badly undernourished in June"
the cable continued. Today the figure
approaches three millions. 1t must al
50 be remembered that this is the ninth
year of hard times for German chill
dren and that has meant not only in
sufficient warmth and clothing. We
must keep in mind further that the
| parents of at least two and one-half
million of these children are now de-
| pending on an unemployment dole of
| less than twenty cents per day and
that an additional two and one-half
million people are working half time
or less in Germany today.
70 Physicians State Situation.
"Physicians and school doctors rep
resenting all Germany who met here
recently to discuss situation disclosed
| the following facts: First infant NOR
tality had increased twenty-one per
cent during the last three months over
that of the same period in 1921; sec
ond, that tuberculosis increased six
teen per cent in the first nine months
of this year over last year and third,
that births have decreased ten per cent
Representatives of all German well
fare organizations including Catholic,
Protestant, Jewish and others in con-
ference here reported that hundreds
of thousands of children are being
sent to school without breakfast and
that the number of children too weak
to attend school at all was increasing
with great rapidity."
Food Situation PerilOus.
Concerning the fod situation, Mr..
MacMaster said: t'The actual procur-