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Show STRONG MEN WEEP SflYSJR. DAVIS Former Red Cross Commissioner Tells of Recent' Trip to Poland. FOUND CHILDREN STARVING. American Jaws Railing $39,000,000 to 8av Survivors Plan to ld Christian! Chris-tian! as Wll as Own People. "The tragedy of tho next few months In ICastem Kurope bids fair to equal.'lf not to HuriHK, that of the actual wiir years themnclve. Words are utterly Inadequate to describe tho suffering from poverty, starvation, disease nnd other allied cnusCs that Is met on every hand. Literally hundreds of thousands thou-sands of the unfortunate victims of circumstance aro looking to America ns their only hope, but It Is a qtiustlr.n If America hust not heard so much of. suftoilng In recent months that hho Is numbed nnd pcrhnps cannot fully realize re-alize the terrible crisis that now confronts con-fronts vnit numbers of people abroad The above gives In brlof tho carefully careful-ly considered opinion jof no less nn authority au-thority than Dr. TTalm I. Davis, well known neurologist of Chicago, who ic-turoed ic-turoed a short time ago Xrom Poland, where he served for some months ns American Red Cross commissioner nnd made an Intensive study of economic, soclnl and political conditions with a special view to determining America's present nnd future responsibilities. At the request of Louis Marshall, Felix M. Warburg, Jacob II. Schlff of New York. Julius Rosenwnld of Chicago nnd ilher prominent members of the Amer-. Amer-. can Jewish Uellof Committee, Dr. Da-lis Da-lis submitted a special summnry of conditions In Toland. This report, together to-gether with additional; Information secured se-cured front other commissioners abroad, forms tho basts for the appeal which tho nbovo cominllteo Is making for $M,000,OOG" this year to save" tho lives of war's victims In thrtso countries coun-tries where the situation Is most dire. The headquarters are at 15 East 40th Street, New York. "If America could be given but a gllmpso of tho childhood of Poland," says Dr. Davs, "tho millions of dollars that nro needed would bo forthcoming i Instantly. Tho common lot of literally thousands of these youngsters, both Christian and Jewish, makes strong men weep nnd has actually been the cnuse of it numbeuof Investigators for arIous organisations leaving tho country coun-try before their work was completed. "Walk down tho streets In certain sections of Warsaw, Vllnn, Kovno nnd other cities In Eastern Europe aud you will seo mother after mother, themselves them-selves emaciated, carrying children who are apparently Infants of a few months, but Tn reality nro live to eight years old. For years they had no milk, and nil the other food procurable has ' been suuiclcnt only to keep them alive. Undernourishment has been so long continued that tho llttlo bodies ore stunted, rlrkets .being a common affliction, afflic-tion, ii ml many of them can never be restored to normal health and strength. "The lives of thousands can still bo saved; hQwocr," the doctor told tho Jewish Committee In hi report, "If food Is lushed Over quickly. "It Is In the uumo of the pitiful children chil-dren of Poland, the babies of Christian as well as Jewish parents, that I urge you to maku your appeal to America for tho funds that will restore their birthright to tlieio little ones." |