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fl 8 I hi. OGUL'N ST NDARD-X AMiNER WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1, 1920 IH
I I The Slaughter of the Innocents I
! X "Three and a half million children call to the heart wo billion? of dollars of relief funds from all parts of the pitiful rags which form only a partial covering for Y
! X and resources of America for these daily lupplies, not te worj w;t n totai overhead expense of only three- their bodies. They must have clothes. Each outfit T
available f aJ? JjiSci? Led eighths of one per cent, with no remuneration to the consists of one pair of warm woolen stockings, one pair X
I survival and to the rebuilding of then physical well- M . i n i i c u j Wii tl- i j j
being" American directors. Now he asks us all to help save or boots, and a little overcoat. 1 his one meal a day, and
"Our resources will be exhausted in January. the children who are in imminent danger of starvation these boots, stockings, and little coats can be supplied fty
"We must not step asido and permit the spectre of tms cormng winter. only if we give them. If we do not. the slaughter of
m death, in the form of hunger and cold to haunt these the innocents Dy cod ancj starvation will be appalling. A
JL helpless ones this winter, yet we can not continue without -n .i ,u i . i j l j a a .l ii j ,Mm,.n Z
j ke 1 here they are, m the midst or wrecked homes, and Among the more than two million men and women
"This is a charge on the American heart, and Amer- farms, and factories: in cities crowded with masses ol who will read this page there is not one there cannot
ica can not fail in her solicitude for these little ones. refugees without sustaining food for children, through be a single one whose heart will not respond gladi :
. J " Twenty-three million dollars must be raised without the destruction of livestock, seeds for planting, raw to the challenge of this great need. We arc asked, vou
Y delay, and remembering the new heart you put into the materials, tools, and machinery gone; great areas with with us, to co-operate with Mr. Hoover in raising twentv-
Commission for Relief in Belgium m the dark hours of . - 6 J s , , .... ' v , , . , , V,
X 2)ig j come to you again." everything burned, or looted, or smashed; vast unem- three million dollars to teed and clothe these children ani V
(Signed) HERBERT HOOVER. ployment for workers, no means of subsistence, a land save them from this winter. It can be done. It shall
JL , , T.. t-.. . . of economic ruin, of mutilated life, and lingering death; be done! THE LI TERARY DIGEST knows its readers 4
V (From a letter to The Literary Digest.) . . . . i i i i i i i i 1
and in the midst or it all the little children. and the deep earnestness, the quick sympathy, the great-
f J 4- fV f rJlrwArintr hearted generosity thev always show when any real
X H immediate response Uie rOUOWlOg ln ong Hnes they are waiting at the American food- human need calls to them. You have never been called J
I editorial was published in The Literary kitchens. Will the food be there for them? Will they upon in vain. We are counting on you now with a
I t r October 30th C turnec awa-v-J There are no happy, health' faces w great confidence We know, also, how truly you rep!'- rB
&r llgeSl Ol VtlODcr JUL those long lines not one. ou have seen rags and sent the American spirit, which beats in the hearts of a 1
barefooted children, but never so many little boys and hundred and three millions more in this big land of y
THEN JESL'S CHRIST came upon the earth, girls dressed in tatters. Soon it will be very cold, and plenty, a spirit which leaps ready at every such call, and
WW nearbr tvvo thousand years ago. to save all man- for those bare little feet and legs and arms there is i . never weary in well-doing We arc not a hermii a M
kind, His mere coming seemed to interfere with nothing at home to put on . nation, isolated from the world, when suffering and want H
the material interests of a few people of that period. cry out to us from anywhere under the sun A great, fi
notably King Herod, who promptly decided to dispose ol Hollow faces and shrunken bodies arc so common that a beautiful, and heart-sustaining hope supports these
V this "interloper," and sent forth his soldiers with orders their real condition docs not become evident until wc stricken people America will come to their relief. For y
to slay all the children of two years old and under. Thu inquire more closely, and then wc find that most of then. in the far places of the earth, where famine stalks, one
JL was consummated the most atrocious crime against inno- are from one to five years back in their growth. Children name and one alone is synonymous with rescue and hopo Tj
X cent childhood ever committed up to that time. It has of eight years old have not reached the normal size of and that name is America.
X come down to us through all the ages in song and story. two and a half. They are just learning to stand alonr
the master painters have pictured it on marvelous Others almost as old cannot yet stand on their feet The small individual unit of ten dollars will provide 4
J canvases. Their arms, and legs, and spines, and chests are twisted the coat anj bools anj stockmgs and one meal a day
and warped The flesh and skin are shriveled on their r mi . tj j
i i i i r ii i 'or one cnil- tnis winter. We urge our readers we
i Today passing in review, as wc look out through the bones. It is surprising that life can still exist there.
7 e r i t i f - j if . l i t j .i ii j n urRe everyone whose eves are on these words to give 4u
windows of our comfortable homes in this great and If they can have food they will gradually regain their e i ,, nnv f
happy land, arc three and a half millions of helple.. health and strength, but with most of them it is a question qly many of these units as poss.ble. TO BUY
W children the innocent victims of the greatest war that of now or never. Starvation and tuberculosis will not FOR THEMSELVES THAT PRECiOUS AND PRICE- J
j has ever afflicted humanity. It matters not. as we gaze wait. LESS THING, THE LIFE OF A LITTLE CHILD J
J in the direction of these children, that our eyes must as many of them as they can. and every one will be a J
! V stretch across three miles of ocean, we still can see them In Poland alone a million five hundred thousand such shining star in an eternal crown. It was the Divine Love
I and we still can hear them, if we wish to do so; and children must be cared for. In Latvia and Esthonia the of little children, who came to earth as a little child, and
I wc cannot help hearing the tragic appeal in their voices people are living mostly on a diet made from potato flour, who reigns now as th King of Glory, who said. "Inas- ? ; H
ancJ seeing their tiny arms stretched out to us, and their oat flour, and sawdust. In Czecho-Slovakia, in Hungary. much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these. JL
j searching eyes looking into souls, as they say. "Help in .Austria, and in other countries of central and south- ve have done it unto Me." I Ic does not forget, no:
Y us or wc perish." And if we fail to listen to this great. eastern Europe, two millions more are in dire need o fail to reward.
call of three and a half millions of God's helpless children; food: and who stops to ask regarding creed, or race, or VM
j X if we dose our eyes and ears to this great demand of dut . nationality when a little child is starving ? Children arc So deeply do we ourselves feel the uigency of this great
i1 -wc shall be just as guilty of the "slaughter of the inno- just children the world over, and the great American need, knowing all the facts, that we should feel a heavy
I cents" as was Herod, nearly two thousand years ago heart is big enough to care for them all burden of guilt if we did not go beyond anvthing we
f r i i f ii xl t j have felt possible heretofore in order to save these inno-
In these lands, swept bv death and filled with tragedies Hut the appeal now is not tor all. I he three and a
1 r r i n i 1 i c ir c u u j' , j r cent children rrom sutrermg and dath I heretore, HL
too deep for tears, a sum of human suffering is beinr: half millions of children in immediate danger or starva- , . .
written greater perhaps than for all ages gone by. The tion, if this organization fails, who must have food a' DICES I will start this fund with the sum 4
mind grows numb and the heart sick from a constant once, are only a fraction of the total number. The hungry of $25,000 to feed and clothe twenty-five hundred little
j recital of tales of such tragedy as it is difficult to believe children of those destitute countries have been examined hoys and girls this winter. What an inspiration it will be
jP the twentieth century could hold. by competent physicians, and only those whose wasted lo ajj Qf us wnat an mspiration and example to many
little bodies are icduced to the minimum weight, and .L j l u v. i ' "
' .. , , T i i i i i j i i thousands who rna be uncertain how much to give
; And so, when we received a letter from Mr Hoover whose endurance of hunger has reached the end which . , , .
A ... i a ii j wt -t i .i a . it in the verv hrst week there shall be a great shower
; tellmc: us that America must not allow death in the form merges into actual starvation, are admitted to the Amer ; ... J
of hunger and cold to come to these 3.500.000 helpless ican kitchens and given one meal a day. It is hard to of checks for $1000. for $5000, for $10,000, as well as
j children our soul was stirred and the hot blood surged turn away thousands of hungry boys and girls to hear a deluge of small amounts, to send the fund rolling on J
J up in our heart. We felt it was our imperative duty to them ask, pleadingly. "Do I weigh too much?" "Am I toward the necessary twenty-three millions. Let us see I
X use all the power God has given us to aid this noble not thin enough'" "Can't I come any more?" But this again what the father's heart is like in this great rich
hearted American in continuing the work of saving restricting of food to the extreme cases is compulsory. land of America. Let us have again a wondrous revela- '
human lives to which he has devoted unsparinglv. and because there isn t enough for all c , . , . . , . , . ,
, .r , . i i tion of the heart of American motherhood. Let us have
J at great personal sacrifice, his tremendous energy and ,
administrative genius during the past six years, in which And these neediest ones cannot reach the kitchens great outpouring of love ana helpfulness in the name
time he and Lis American colleagues have administered through the cold winds and the snow barefooted and in of Him vho said, ' Feed my lambs!
I I President-Elect Harding, in a Great-Hearted Response, Sets an Example for all Americans I
In-the rrridst of the flood of telegrams, telephone calls, and election returns pouring in upon him from every part of the United States, Mr. Harding turned from it all v
to write and dispatch the following telegram from home:
X THK LTTEBARYTTIOTJST, XBW YORK -CITY: !
j I Lave just nov read your splendid appeal to the pee pit of America in behalf f three a nl a half millions of unfortunate children in Central and Southeastern Europe
I A Tvhx are the helpless victims of the. Great "War. Because euch a raovemenl for relief reveals the true hearl of Amerii-a lirausc n UespeHks an American desire to play a great , mT,
(i people's part in relieving and restoring Ged's om ehildren, I want to commend and support your noble undertaking hi seeking Gods blessing for ourselves I him surf Ih ,
I -rill bless us the more abundantly if -we share our Ron. fortune in acts; of sympathy and human fellowship. I wish you a success which will reveal anew the unselfishness J
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i ef our gTeat people. I am forwarding you mv cheek for two thousand five hundred dollars by mail toda.
I A (Signed WARREN G. HARDING. T
I Make all checks payable to "The Literary Digest Child-Feeding Fund" and mail ihem direct to The Literary Digest. Everv
remittance will be acknowledged, and the Literary Digest will be responsible for every dollar contributed, to see that it goes,
j I without one penny deducted, to the purpose for which it is given. Address, Child-Feeding, THE LITERARY DIGEST, 354-360
J Fourth Avenue, New York. 5t
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