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Show MILLIONS EXPENDED TO SAVE THEM. History should record most prominently promi-nently the part played by the people the United States in saving the inhabitants inhab-itants of Belgium From starvation; at leas't the text books of the schools of Belgium, in the years to come, should make mention of the response the Americans made to the cry of hunger. An exchange, commenting on the figures for the first year of tho relief work, which show that 140 shiploads of food had been sent to Belgium at an approximate cost of $70,000,000, says a whole nation faced the necessity neces-sity of getting food from the outside, the alternative being starvation, since even the 5,500,000 people who still had the means to buy could not buy what did not exist in the country, and two ' millions were absolutely destitute i.. m i-.-b.tiio iiiivo uui lureu worse than the Poles or the Serbs these three peoples were fated for a desperate des-perate experience. Tho difference is that the Belgians Were directly In sight and within reach of the civilized civil-ized world and the response was prqmpt Pitiful tales are told of tho hardships the PollBh people have endured; en-dured; scant relief, in their distress, has reached the people of unhappy Poland. y oo |