The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-09-04

CARE Offers Nine
New Packages
F or European Relief
Nine new ways in which
Americans may help to save
European lives threatened by
starvation, cold and disease in
the coming winter have been
announced by CARE non-profit,
government approved service
through which 100000 pounds
of food have already been sent
to IS European countries.
This expanded program, sup
plementing CARES regular food,
cotton, wooden and blanket
parcel service, was devised in
response to authentic reports
that next winter will bring
even greater hardships abroad
than the disastrous winter of
1946-47, according to Paul Com
ly French, CARE executive d.
rector.
For example, of the nine new
packages, three Oayette, infant
food and baby food are direct
ed to meeting one of the chief
concerns of most Americans: to
save the many thousands of
children who will surely die un-
less real help reaches Europe
without delay.
Already infant mortality
abroad is far above the prewar
level. In some parts of Poland,
reports show, one of every three
children born in 1916 died be-.
fore its first birthday. Mr..
French estimated that if time
ly and adequate aid had been
sent, half a million infant lives
could have been saved. In Der.
lin, the prospects are that half
of the babies born will die be-
fore they are a year old and of
the survivors three-quarters will
suffer from tuberculosis.
The layette package contains
articles almost indispensable to
the proper care of an infant
milk bottles, powder, cotton.
CASTLE soap, diapers, safety
pins, receiving blankets, kimo-
nos, indications and other vi
tai items The infant food pack
age (birth to six months) pro-
vides either a complete or a
supplementary diet and will last
from four weeks to three
months, depending on health
and weight Of the child. It con-
sists OF 10 pounds milk powder;
IL ounces cereal; two pounds
granulated sugar; two bottles
vitamins; soap and can opener.
The baby flood parcel (six
months to a year, holds eight
pounds milk powder; 18 ounces
cereal; one pound sugar; 80
cans strained baby foods; two
bottles vitaminS; soap and can
opener. This package will last
from 80 to 80 days. All three
OF these parcels may be ordered
from CARE, so Broad Street,
New York 4, at $40 each. De-
livery is guaranteed in Austria,
Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslova-
kia, Finland, France, Germany,
Great Britain, Greece, Hungary,
Italy, Netherlands, Poland and
Rumania.
For the first time since its
inception, CARE is now Offering
packages containing a single
item. One is the 25-pound par
eel of flour, available at 81,
and the 10-pound package of
lard, also 81. These may be sent
to all countries served by CARE
except Fire and Finland, where
they are not major needs, ac-
cording to the respective gov
ernments.
I'VE have taken this action in
response to mounting requests
of people all over this country
who want to help millions Of
fronted with a life-or-death
battle for bread" Mr.. French
said. The flour will enable re-
cipients in countries served by
CARE to prepare in their own
homes the bread that has all
but vanished from the war-dev-
astated lands, and the lard will
fill an equally desperate need
for fats.
Two other packages now Of
fered by CARE are keyed to
definite needs in Fire and
Great Britain They contain
foods so severely scarce in both
countries that most Of the peo-
pie have not tasted them for
years. This is particularly true
of fruit juices, and each of the
special parcels designed for Fire
and Britain includes two 49,
ounce cans of this vital prod
net Other SlInn1ioc ~ oo,,o1