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Show STRONG MEN WEER SAYSJR. DAVIS Former Red Cross Commissioner Tells of Recent Trip to Poland. . FOUND CHILDREN STARVING. American Jew Raiting $35,000,000 to Save Survivors Plan to 4 Id Christiana Chris-tiana aa Well aa Own People. i "The tragedy of the next few months In Kntern Kurope bids fnlr to equal, If not to surpass, that of the actual w'nr years themselves. Words are utterly Inadequate t,o describe tho snfferlnK i from poverty, starvation, disease nhd i other allied causerf that Is met on every , hand. Literally hundreds of thou-i thou-i sands of the iiftfortunnto vlctlnii of i clretiiiiMtnnci's are looking to Auierlcn i ns their only hope, but It Is n question If America has not heard so much of sulTerlng In recent months that rIio Ih numbed nnd perhaps cannot fully realize re-alize the terrible crisis that now confronts con-fronts vast uuiabers of pcoplo abroad." The nhovo gives 111 brief tho carefully careful-ly considered opinion of no less nn authority au-thority than' Dr. Halm I: Davis, well known neurologist of Chicago, who le-turned le-turned n nhort .time ago from Poland, whero he served for some months ns American Red Croas commissioner and made an Intensive study of economic, social and, political conditions with a special vlcw'to determining America's present nnd future responsibilities. At the request of Louis Marshall, Felix SI. Warburg, Hncoh II. SdiltT of Now York, Julius Rosenwnld of Chicago and other prominent members of the American Amer-ican Jewish Relief Committee, Dr. Da-, vis submitted a special summnry of conditions In Poland. This report, together to-gether with additional Information se cured from other commissioners abroad, forms tho basis for the appeal which the above committee Is ninklng for $J5.",000,QOU this year to save tho lives of war's victims III those countries coun-tries whero tho situation Is most dlru. Thu headquarters are at IS Kast 40th Street, New York. "If America could be given but a glimpse of the childhood of Poland," says Dr. Davis, "the millions of dollars that lire needed would bo forthcoming Instantly. The common lot of literally thousands of these youngsters, both Christian and Jewish, makes strong men weep and has actually been tho cntise of n number of Investigators for various organizations, loaylng the country coun-try before their work was completed. "Walk down the streets In certain sections of Warsaw, Vllna, Kovno nnd other cities In Kustern Kurope and you will see mother after mother, themselves them-selves emaciated, carrying children who are apparently Infants of n few month, but In reality are five to eight jenrs old. For years they had no milk, and all tho other food procurable hns, been Hulllclent only to keep them alive. Undernourishment has been so long continued that tho little bodies are stunted, rickets being n common affliction, afflic-tion, and uiHiiy of them cuu never be restored to normal health and strength. 'The lives of thousands can still he saved, however," the doctor told the Jewish Committee In his report, "If food is rushed over quickly. "It Is in the name of the pitiful children chil-dren of Poland, thu babies of Christian as well as Jewish parents, that I urge you to mako your appeal to America for the funds that will restoro their birthright to these little ones." |