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Show SHOES PLEASE! Footwear is desperately reeded reed-ed in all the liberated and looted loot-ed countries, relief worker re-' re-' port. In Norway alone there will be nearly three million pairs of wet I feet this winter, a recent survey j indicates. Many children will have to be kept indoors all thru the bad weather. The thousands of pairs of reconditioned army shoes sent to Norway do not begin be-gin to meet the total need. In Greece, Poland and Yugoslavia, Yugo-slavia, farmers whose feet are wrapped in burlap or paper drag their carts over the rough rub-, rub-, ble strewn roads. In France a pair of rationed shoes costs several thousand i francs. In the Philippines $50 I cannot buy a pair of the cheap- est quality shoes- In one Czecn-i Czecn-i oslovak town there was not a single pair of shoes among the ! population of 300,000 people. From Holland come reports of ' children wearing women's high heeled sandals, or mismated shoes. sho-es. There is no leather for mend-j mend-j ing old shoes. The Dutch child-i child-i ren have not even the tradition-I tradition-I al wooden sabots for the Ger-j Ger-j mans carried these away with ! them in retreat. This lack of shoes, galoshes, rubbers is not only an immediate threat to health but a source of t future malformations and illness-1 es. I In contributing shoes, overshoes, over-shoes, boots, rubbers, bedslippers, playshoes, infants' booties or any type of footwear to the Victory Clothing Collection for overseas relief, we are asked to tie them securely together in pairs. This will help get the shoes overseas writh a minimum of delay to those who need them so desperately. |