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Show HOCe FEARS SIS PROJECT WILL Fl People of the United States Lose Interest in Fate of the Belgians. WAsniNGTOX. Feb. 17. A fear that tho American commission for relief re-lief in LVIgium may not be able to carry car-ry its ttttk to a successful conclusion was voiced bv Herbert C. Hoover, director di-rector or the" organization, in an a-l-drcs tonsalit betore the National Geu-graiilt';L-;il society. " - neeil an' additional three to five million dollars a month," l.e said. "We luH-del for the .bihirfu 1,230,000 per mouth to pav for the ad. led lmoorts. Five months' ago we appealed to the American people to find this money for us. but despite tint efforts of thou-I thou-I sands of devoted supporters in the United Unit-ed States, the apathy of the country c-r.-.iscd failure, even for this modest sum. Yet. within two mouths I have stood ashamed before a thousand .-hil-drcn N'.-lio oa uiv cutiane,-. r,.se i'c.ini their daily meal and warble I the i.pen-ing i.pen-ing stan.-.as of the ' Star-Spaugled Banner. Ban-ner. Wc had hop.f-d." , deeiaved. "to hac writtca a l.rinht ei.apt- r of Aieri-ean Aieri-ean bi-t..rv ia this war nf A tn.-viean efficiency, of American humanity, of an institution devoted, not to destruction destruc-tion but dedicated to self-sacrifice and the saving of life but I fear tonight that this chapter will never be completed, com-pleted, and that we may have failed in the great task which we set for America in the saving of ten millions of helpless help-less people. "We initially appealed to the world. and during the firt nine "months $25,-000,000 $25,-000,000 to $3O.0i0,000 poured into our treasury. I'p to the present time, however, how-ever, the r-.ost of supporting the destitute desti-tute in Belgium has exceeded $100,000,-0O0 $100,000,-0O0 and the $70,000,000 which public charity b;) failed to provide has been so far provided, one-half bv the British Brit-ish government aud one-half by the L'rrnoh. ' One great proof of the necessity and efficiency of Belgian relief has been (lie mil lions who ha ve d ivd in Sciiiia .md Poland bpfanpn tbrv h;id no such support and protection.''" |