Show MILLION A MONTH N- N EDEO TOSA VE j I BELGIAN BELGIA PEOPLE BELGIAN PEOPLE FROM STARVATION War Var to Continue a Full Year Yea Yet and Necessities of i a Helpless s Nation Must Be B Bei i Cared for by the American f 1 People Together Able to Aid in Foreign For For- eign Lands i Director of the die Commission for Relief in the Occupied Country Sets Out Present Presen Needs and Future De Dc Demands mands Upon the e Charity of of ofte the te World at Large in Ap i Appealing Appealing Ap- Ap pealing for Funds v v YORK Sept 23 Believing C that that thc the war will continue at least auther full fun year the Commission for sR R Relief in Belgium announced toda today f that it faces the ne necessity o of asking asking- and c soon will ask the A American p people peo- peo opIe o- o pIe fo to give Jl a million dollars e cr every J month in order to avert widespread sickness and death from the lack of proper roper food To iro date the United States has hns P con- con contrib trib an a average e of I less s than half J a million a month while the commis- commis Ji l Dion's Dions 5 purchases in this country p funds provided from other othor t ro have lately averaged over millions of or dollars a month r WIx V Jj Ii Honnold who lio has just lust arrived i New York to succeed Capt J. J F. F ey ns fiS director of the commission rica aft after r having Jm filed a simija similar simi simi- ja lar position in London sa says s U If If the thc children of Belgium and northern Franco France are to grow grm to healthy maturity the they must be provided provided pro pro- vided i e with more food than is now Supplied to them and to this em cn enCl the thc Commission for Relief in Belgium will soon on ask the thc people of the United States to give at least one million dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars monthly toward the cost of a special spa spa- 1 cial e 31 meal which will be served every everyday Ida I day in the schools Just before he sailed for America Ameri Mr Honnold inspected conditions in r the thc occupied areas and he comes here 4 i i r r fer il SP A J 0 v j 4 r fi x t E ji Jt j Af I. I 4 4 L fir f ir f J i 7 L I t a convinced con that the comm commission must increase increase its activities on b behalf half of the thc children childr n and particularly must combat an au alarming increase of f tubercular tubercular tubercular tuber tuber- cular troubles among both hoth children and adults Mr rr Honnold ld added I am sure that the plight t of dh children will appeal to the charitable i instincts of the Amer American can people and that they hey will gladly sup sill support port pot us in meeting this thi insistent call cull of humanity V Millions Must Be Bo Fed Ted Sin Sine Since c it is the thc opinion of the commis commission com corn mis mission ou that the war will sill continue continuo forat for forat forat at least another year relief must be afforded for a n corresponding period This means that the commission I which has now now been in operation for fort t two o years ears will probably have to deliver deliver de de- de- de deI I liver during the the- next year about 1250 tons of foodstuffs into Belgium and northern France Prance calling for an expenditure of more than A large portion of the population say people leople owing to the cessation cessa cesa- tion of export and import trade are arc wholly or partially destitute and have o to be provided with food free of or charge This class will call for fully 6 of charit charity in the coming year ear or over o per month It would seem therefore that the tho more adequate feeding of the children now no noso so urgently calling for additional funds offers an opportunity for fur- fur 4 w I I I z I i L r 1 t-f. t I i. i i I z Jv r k I J fiM jv j v if s issaH i f S 4 1 L S 4 45 S 5 5 2 4 S t t ther e gen generosity rosity which tb the Am American rican people cannot but welcome I Tho The commission has lately made a thorough investigation of health con con- I in n Belgium and northern France to determine the thc degree of success success suc sue cess that has attended its operations operation j Dr William Villiam Palmer Lucas of the thc medical medical medical med med- 1 ical department of the University of a 4 M H HM 4 r 1 M l i f- f 5 ll tHI 1 1 1 Ip aI I S. S 1 z A 1 I r Maxine Maine Elliott and her barges which are sending relief relie supplies from Trance Prance to the interior of Belgium The American actress is an enthusiastic enthusiastic asic work worker er in n Belgian Belgin relief circles Center a street scene in a Belgian town tow two years after German occupation occupation tion note the piles of debris Below the town hall hail at Brussels |