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Show III CHILDREN ARE I ; A SAD SIGHT K, American Doctor Sees Euro pean Children Dwarfed in Mind and Body. NEW YORK, June 15. "The saddest sad-dest sight in Europe today is that of. rho children of oicht and ten ar.d twelve years of aso rho look and act like children of four and six end eight years," says Dr. Vernon Kellogc. who recently returned from a tour of Flurope for the American relief administration. admin-istration. "They have boon underfed for four years," continues Dr Keliogg. "Man have died; many are war orphan The parents of many are absolutely destitute. Mal-nutritlon has weakened them; has retarded thoir growth and development Their feeble voices cry' I ) j 10 the world for help " Herbert C. Hoover, director general ol the American relief administration, set aside for children's relief work in Furope $2,000,000 of the $100,000,C appropriated by the United States j congress for relief work In the wai H:jj , I desolated countries of Europe. To ex-Hrr! ex-Hrr! J pend this $2,000,000, the American re-' re-' lief administration has established a special children's relief bureau. Dc- j scribing the work of this bureau, Dr. KelloKs writes in a bulletin Issued oy j the American relief administration: Hfi' "Prom iis own funds, added to by, grants from the impoverished governments govern-ments of eastern Europe and by gift from private charity, the children's bureau la trying to furnish free food to the destitute and debilitated infant.. ;nd adolescent- of th. newly liberal-1 ed peoples of Europe; to save and re-, habilitate the next generation of east-j ern Europe. ' But much more money than now available is necessar it more than H small fraction of the suffering little ones are to be cared for Thereloie. the American relief administration an nounces that it is willing and anxious to receive and expend for this purpose1 any money confided to it by any ehint- able organizations and persons inter-', ested Such money will be used for work in any denoted country or region ; . which is accessible to it, or if so indi 1 ! cated will be used at the discretion of the American relief association wherever wher-ever the need seems greatest. ' Lieutenant Colonel A. J Carlson, ; professor of physiological chemists in the University of Chicago, and now one of the directors of the American 1 relief administration bureau for the relief of children in Paris writes: "The resources of the American re-! lief administration available for the: hildren's relief do not suffice for feeding feed-ing all the hungry children in the le spectie countries. It is hoped, how ii in B - w ever, that they will meet the most I acute needs during the period up to (he next harvest, and thur. serve to rjplly and encourage the national child welfare farces In the several countries ! in the laudable efforts of each nation ; to care for Its own." Lieutenant Maurice Pte, former! v i of the commission for relief in Belgium 'and now in charge of the American relief re-lief administration's child feeding work in Poland, writes 'hiii the total I funds now in hand (in Poland) will mean relief for 250,000 children until August 1, figuring 6 cents a day per child. "It Is evident," he adds, "that further outside help will be required if ihe children's relief work here takes on the same proportions that ii did in Belgium |
