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Show STRONG !M WttP SAYS DR. DAiS i i Former Red Cross Commissioner 1 Tells of Recent Trip to i Poland. FOUND CHILDREN STARVING. American Jtws Raising C?3C30C3O to Cave Survivors Pla to A J Christiana Chris-tiana ae Well as Own People. "'I lu trngiMly of the ncct few uinntlm In Kiixicin l-hirupi- bids fair to ciuiil, if nut to surpass, Hint of the netuul wtir J yi'ins Ihcniseh es. Words are utterly Innilequnte to d'rrlho the suffering J fi'imi ixiverty, xtiirMitlon, dlxeiixe mid i other nllled eniiM's thut Is met on every hum!, l.lternlly hundreds of thou-fiiikN thou-fiiikN of tho unfortunate victims of elrcumstiinees lire looking to America iik their only hope, hut It Is n questloti If Amerleu hns not heard so much ol kiiITi rhiR In recent mouths ttmt she Is uiiiiiIkmI nnil iicrluips eiinuot fully re-iill.c re-iill.c the terrible rlsls thut now confronts con-fronts vast numhciM of iieoplu ubroml. I 'I In- uliuvc (,'lM's In lirlef the cmeful ly cinmlilered npiutoii of no less nn mi-tliuntj mi-tliuntj thnn Dr llulm 1. lnvls. will known neurologist of OIiIcuko, who ie-turned ie-turned it short lime iik from l'lilnnil, wheic be ftiM-cil for Mime uniiillis as I Aineiicmi Hed Cross eouimbslimer mid timile nn IntenslMi stialy of economic, ' Korbil nnd political coihIUIoiih with a I siiei'lul view lo ileiermliiliiK AincrUn'n prevent nnd future rcsuminlbllltles. At the icipicst of I.ouls MurNliall, Felix I SI. Warlitirtr. Jacob II. Scblff of New , York. .Iilllux ltovt'iiwubl of ChlcaKo anil I ntlicr pionilncut mcmbeiM of the Amer-.cnti Amer-.cnti Jewish Itellef Coninilttee, Dr. I)-' I)-' 'n subinltted n peel a I Miiiiuuir, of eomlilloiis In l'ol..U. Tlilb report, to-Ki'lber to-Ki'lber with mblltlnnnl luforumtlon se-euivil se-euivil from other cimmils.sloners ubroml, forms Hie basis for the appeal which the nhove coninilttee Is maltliiK for S:t.VK)0,tK)0 this year to save tbu Ihcs of war's lctlms In thosu countries coun-tries where the situation Is must dire. The henilnunrters are at 15 Dist -10th Street, New York. j "If America coulil he given but u Cllnipse of the childhood of Poland," nays Dr. Dnvls, "the millions of dollars that are needed would be forthcoming Instantly. The common lot of literally thousands of these youngsters, both Christian ami Jewish, makes strong men weep and has actually been the cause of u manlier of Investigators for vnrlous orgiuilzmli i lemlng the country coun-try before their woik was completed. "Walk down the streets In certain peetloiis of Warsaw, Vllnii, Kou d oilier cities In l'ltstem Iluiope ami ,cmi will bee mother after mother, thein-belves thein-belves emaciated, currying chlhlieu who are miparentl Infants of a few mouths, but In leallty are the to eight years old. Iflr j rat's they bad no milk, mid nil the other food procurable bus been stilllelcnt only to keep them u!lo. Undernourishment has been so long Continued that the little bodies uiu ruunted, rb bets beliif, a common udllc-tlon, udllc-tlon, ami many of tbem can mwer be restored to normal health ami strength. "Tho lles of thousands rifti still bo sned, however," the iloctor told the Jewish (' mlttee in bis reporr, "If food Is rushed over quickly. "It Is in tho name of the pitiful children chil-dren of Poland, the babies of Christian us well as JewIsiipaientH, that I urge j oil to make jour appeal to' America for the leiid.i that will 1 estore theli birthright lo these little ones." |