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Show -uu CHILDREN IN NEED OF BREAD. Here is another appeal in the name of a part of the people of Europe. It is officially estimated that there are one million children in Belgium who cannot grow to healthy maturity unless un-less they are provided with additional, food. Dr. Walter Lucas and othei experts in children's diseases who have examined the field in Belgium have reported that the food must be furnished this winter, falling which tuberculosis, already alarmingly preva. lent, and other diseases duo to lack of nutrition will continue to spread in Belgium. rue commission for Relief in Belgium Bel-gium has considered the problem and devised a plan which will save tens of thousands of lives. A letter from Alexander Alex-ander Hemphill, chairman of the advisory ad-visory committee named by the president presi-dent of the United States to co-opera-ate with the commission, outlines the plan in a letter to the treasurer of the Dollar Christmas Fund for Destitute Belgium Children. Mr. Hemphill writes: "By means of our special factory and dairies in Belgium we are now able to supply the little ones with an extra noonday meal costing three cents. Though the cost is low the meal is a real life-saver for children whose con-dltion con-dltion requires just the class of nourishment nour-ishment we are now providing. With, out a special fund much as you are helping us to provide, this servvico could not be rendered and the health of the children would continue to de-terlorate. de-terlorate. For every dollar subscribed . now wo can provide a life-saving meal for a child for a month. "We welcome wel-come the timely aid of the Dollar Christmas Fund for the third year ana wish you God-speed." These appeals are almost appalling, so numerous and all so meritorious.' Hundreds of thousands of children are on the verge of starvation in the war zone, while our own little ones scarce, ly realize there is such a thing as gnawing hunger. nn . |