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Show 7,000,000 mm CRYING FOR BREAD Three Thousand Tons -of Food a Day , Is Needed In " Belgium fl'H - . r H Now York, Nov. 2G This Thanks- fl giving day found 7,000,000 stnrvlng iH persons in war swept Bolglum crying B out for bread and only halt enough if food on hand to appcaso tholr hun- . J gcr. Three thousand tons ot food H aro required each day to feed tho , I, H sufforers yet to dato the United ''tH States, upon which tho Bolglans'must . ' H depend In tho main for sustenance, H has furnished less than halt that . H amount. Ten ounces a day will save ' ll a human being from death by Qiitn- 'ul Tho forogolng epitomizes a. .state- ; ll inont issued today by tho American !v'l commission for tho relief of Belgians H carrying a plea for the small quantity H ot food specified or each Inhabitant j H of tho stricken land. H A cable from 11. C. Hoover, chair- H man of tho London commission do- H clarcd tho situation despcrato and jH urged nsslstanco Immediately. Ho , ; said tho commission wns chartering lil several ships for dispatch to tho At- ' lnntlr Rnnlinnril trnuHiii ihnt Am. 1 1 miiiiu suuuuuru, iruuiiug iiiui im- .H Orleans would fill them with supplies. Tho middle states aro leading In ii.l contributions, the commission saj. It'l Presidont Edmund James ot tho Unl- ' H versity of Illinois has started a move- .P H ment to raise G00,000. Tach of tho i H nlncty-nlno counties In Iowa soon will contribute a second carload of iil flour. Kentucky la giving freely, an !' example ot Its charity being ehpwn H recently when J.r S. Ellington, .a j blind and armless soldier, 82,y,oars H old, of Mayfleld contributed flfty '"1 cents. And in Kansas, 10,000 activo ' !H workers have been organlzed,.to work H tor tho cause in just ten days,,,. , M A shipload of food will start :noxt ij' H week from California and nnothenis , M being loaded In tho state of .Wash- ll'lil Ing ton. Salt Lako City has gl von fit- I , ty carB ot foodstuffs, which will bo , ! sent by way of tho west coast. ,i , Tho south, oven though It suffered' iiH Itself from tho wnr, is helpm'ettoo. Il'l Alabama will send a shipload of 'pro- j 1 1 IH visions from Mobllo about December i i M 15. Flour will bo sent in cotton sacks l' "H and whon tho sacks are jipty ,they l I i can. ho turned Into clothing. Virginia j i'H Is preparing a cargo of C000 tons for 'H January shipment. ' '1 , L |