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Show PLIGHT OF EUROPE'S CHILDREN STAGGERS 3,500,000 Facing Starvation Can Only Be Saved by America's Response to Joint Appeal. It Is utterly Impossible for one who lias not actually socn the misery of (he early Autumn In Europe to visualize visual-ize what tho children of the Bastcrn nnd Central portions of tho continent fnce this winter. To sny tha 8,600,000 children line no alterunthc to starvation starva-tion or deuth from disease except American old, Is startling, but Independent Independ-ent observers by the score and careful care-ful scientific surveys of tie economic mid crop conditions overseas brand tho Qguro as conservative. In Poland, for liratuncc, vl ere t,803,-000 t,803,-000 youngsters last year subsisted almost al-most entirely ou the ooe frco American Ameri-can meal a day that they received, con-dltlons con-dltlons as winter closes down, nro worse than ever before. Tho Bolshevik Bolshe-vik Invasion stripped largo pinions of tho country of all grain. Professor E. D. Durund, Food Advisor to tho Polish government, after an exhaustlvo survey, has reported that only forty per cent Is avnKablo of the food necessary neces-sary to curry tho populatloj through tho winter. In the city of Vienna tests conducted i In tho AinorlciHi Relief Administration food kitchens showed that 62 per cent of tho children between tho ages of 0 nnd 11 wero "seriously under-nourlsh-ed." Thirty-three- per cont were mark-cdly mark-cdly under-nourished, II per cent wero slightly sAbnormnl und only 4 per cent uppronched tho stato of a normal Amerlccn child. Tho Amerl-nu Relief Administration Is feedlLg 1100,000 Austrian children every day now, and there Is no chance of dlmuulllon of need before nox harvoit. The spectacle of tho medical neds of Burope's children Is equally op-pulling. op-pulling. Estimates reaching tho Amer-lean Amer-lean Red Crow to needs or medical service In the doitltutc nro?s this winter win-ter Include : Old Aratrln-Hu gnry, 760 000 j new Poland, 1,500,10; Czccho-8lovnkln. Czccho-8lovnkln. 200,000; Serbia, 160,000, and Roumnnlu, 100,000. In the Iscul year of 1010-20 the Red Cross has reached with tho vcrltublo gift of life 1,600,000 children in the nffected aicns. Tuberculosis Tuber-culosis Is prevalent to a tcrrlfflc degreo Five children out of seven Ir the city of Vnrsaw, for instance, hnVe been found to bo tvberculnr. Typhus It. I widespread ; rickets, tho right bund of undor-nourlslin cnt Is ulmoi tUtersnT nnd cholera lifts Its grim he'nd constantly con-stantly in ono placo nnd another The Buropenn Relief Council, com prls.r.g tho American Relief Admin!-trullon, Admin!-trullon, tho Atcorlcnn Red Cross the Ainerlcan Friends' Service Cumt,ce (Qunkcrs), the Jewish Joint Dlstrlbu-Hon Dlstrlbu-Hon i Ommlttee, the Federal Council of tho Churches of Christ In A-ner en, tho Knights of Columbus, tho Y M 1 O. A nnd tho I. w. a A, seeks iw I 000.0C0 with which 'to mtc'ta.5: Hon. It has estimated thot-t lensr I $2.1.000.000 must bo had for food und $10,000,000 fo. medlcnl service to avert nbso ute dlsoste. amo. j the threu encd children Checks may be sent to you-ocul you-ocul committee or tp Franklin K. Lane treasurer Buro,- Relief Council" 4 Broadway New York, or to tho Child ?ork City ' U'C'a'7 D,EMt' N |