Show iP I C SAVE TIm TILE CHILDREN FROM FRO WAR WAIL v n. Two hundred thousand or more British mothers have ha asked the women women women wo wo- men of j the e a United States and Canada Canada canada Cana cana- da to Ke a care of their children for tor them while their homes home's In Britain Bri tain tams are endangered by air raids Several million American families have offered to take care of the little BLUe ones from across the seas if ways wars can be he found to bring them over What mother can resist such an appeal on behalf of the children Several hundred children from Britain France and other war-torn war nations of ot Europe have ha already arrived arrived arrived ar ar- rived to safety in America Our Government Go has let town own own the Immigration gration restriction requiring only that those who agree e to take care of or the children from abroad must show that the they ar able to provide pro for tor thorn It Is not a matter of oC adopting foreign children but merely merely mere mero- I ly of taking care of ot them until the tho danger is over and families can either follow them here 1 jor or take tak them back home The chief obstacle to o bringing over oyer overall overall all the tho youngsters between bet five and sixteen whose parents want to send semi them and for whom American homes are ready is that there arnt ships ps enough Under our neutrality law no American ship ma may enter the time ports of a belligerent nation But Dut there have hae been exceptions exception made to that In the case of ot American Ameri Amerl can vessels which lately brought home homo American citizens who had been stranded abroad Their Theil errand orrand orrand or- or rand of mercy was respected b by all l the belligerents Now Novt a group of well-known well and Influential women has been formed to appeal to Congress for an amendment amendment amendment amend amend- ment to the neutrality law to permit permit per per- mit mercy ships to go across the Atlantic to bring these children over over We have plenty o of ships It Is hard to believe that any nation however brutal would hesitate to give ships 9 bent ent on such an errand a clear passage passage passage pass pass- age unmolested The fear that sen sending ing such mercy mercy mer cy ships would somehow somehow involve olVo the United States in war seems ab curd card 1 rd It should not stand in the wa wac way c cf the amendment of the law so as to render humanitarian arlan service to the children of a friendly tf 0 II |