Show HELP FOR THE GeRMAN GIRMAN CHILDREN Laboring to send relief t to the I children of ot Germany G-erman Dr H Emerson Emersion who ho is la leading kading In the worth worthy cause came has hag just returned flom Germany Ge where here bero he be h made hand band Investigations as to the con corm condition ot of o the people Ho He la Is sor protes-sor sor por of ot public health MaUll in Columbia He Be reports that the I children of ot Germany are underfed and ia tn need ot of o assistance It Ii the they are arc to escape semi starvation and anilie the destructive e forces of liou lion I The bIrth rate has bis decreased from about abou t 30 SO per 1000 to 15 per 1000 saB Dr Emerson Some Sometimes Sometimes times In other periods ot of o such a decrease has meant better for the mother That's not the case cate In Germany today The decrease has hag not been accent accent- accompanied panted by ement in the con con- con condition of ot the tho expectant pi oth r e-r There la Is s less prenatal care There IS an increase In deaths from child child- childbed childbed bed feTOr fer There Is a great de decrease decrease crease In the proportion of ot mothers ho can nurse their babies babica Not more than one In two to and In some only one mother In three ls able to nurse her hel bab baby And these are able to do so only for a afew few necks neeka Instead ot of o for tor si-c si sl t months as formerly One baby out I of every ten born aln sine alie e In Berlin i is 5 gh gi given en over to an institution to alse because of ot the pOH poverty ot of t the family Cows Cow's ow's milk Is scarce and Its price I is so high a as to make maket It t almost unobtainable by most families The baby's development is arrested as a result and Us its tissues tissues sues are affected Beginning wIth i sh months and even earlier babies i are in the hospitals In con COIl con considerable numbers Kith lIh marked tuberculosis tu It Is not uncommon to find 15 16 per cent an een 2 23 5 per cent of the children under t two tso 0 years yeaTs of age ago In hospi hospi- hospitals hospitals lal suffering of ot lung Jung tuberculosis rus h his ls been a de development of the last twelve 1 Jve or eighteen months md nd Is anew a new experience in the Io visited The child of ot from I 1 10 0 to fh five fie e is commonly less Jess dy I Ihan the infant under one That Is lt tl because no DO child o over mer er four be is in a hospital bo and In mo t cases no child over oser two teo t 0 get os o's III il k except as a rare treat treal ITom Ironi infancy to school age marled marked I Is so common anaemia nebs poor muscular tone unken eves ees C es and are so see seen 11 that one loses a senSe of proportion and Is inclined to un- un underestimate un underestimate the tent extent ot of o lion I ion of vitality t that is almost e ev hele fl obvious among the chil of ot the wage age eainer There laa is isa Isn n a prevalence pre of tuberculosis among I them never before known knon In Ger man many They go without breakfast They often go without lunch The They lack Jacl shoes A At best beat their shoes hoes lire ot 01 felt or are worn v orn out They The hek mele They The haven't stock stock- flocking ing 1110 They need winter coats Alt All this is 15 so 50 common that undersized pallid listless thin children seem the natural result Di Emerson estimates there II e school children and lounger children turning U it cit cir wasted faces toward America With our granaries 0 and our ability to help almost un-I un un- un unlimited un unlimited I limited we e e should hould not fall fail to send alief I Th Tho children ot of o German Germany Germiny are the victims of ot a wrong com com- committed corn coin In 1914 The They should claIm our attention and receive succor The biggest work America can caD en engage engage engage gage ia lii is IB to help belp the helpless Iron ot of o the world including the Ut- Ut UtIle Ut litHe tie Ile ones of ot Gennan Germany 00 00 |