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Show Atoi:iUOAX INIHKKKUEXCfi TO HKLGIAN TKAC3i:Y Although conditions In Delglum arc appaullng nnd tho need Is apparently ap-parently growing, Americans aro completely indifferent according to the statement of ono of tho members of the Belgian relief commission in tho March American magazine "American," ho says, "have practically prac-tically stopped giving to war charities, chari-ties, now that tho novelty has worn off. riothorlc with peace and plenty,, our whole offorlng to tho Belgian relief re-lief work had been only eight million dollars hardly tho slzo of an average aver-age war order and his amount had Included old clothes and other collateral. col-lateral. I mention the fallacy of re- gardlng tho relief work as an American Ameri-can lntorpriso (save In tho men who manned It), when French institutions institu-tions nnd tho British government were giving nlno million dollars n month in tho gulso of a loan to Bel-glum, Bel-glum, and the English working class, ground beneath tho Jugemaut of war, wero managing to raiso moro than soven million a year. " 'AH Europe flaunts in our faces tho fact that wo do not represent our country. Do you wonder that our ono 'hundred workers mostly American college men fool that they have been deserted? Thoy know that If the work to which they aro giving their lives, their energies, woro to stop tomorrow, it would go down in history as the eccentric effort ef-fort of a few mon cbmplotely divorced di-vorced from their country. I " 'And meanwhile tho children aro I starving!"' I m |