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Show THOSE IN DISTRESS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. LLM On Monday President Wilson ap H Sealed to the nation to help save: H three and one-half million children on j LLLS the verge of starvation in Europe. In his announcemcm , the president said. V "Three and a half million children H aro facing starvation in central BJur-LLLLJ BJur-LLLLJ ope. Since 1911 our people have given LLLL with unparalleled generosity, and they H should not be lightly called upon for H additional chanties. But there is a j H life and death situation in central Eur- tfpe, where orphans, destitute, fam-j LLLLj iahed children, pitilul consequences of LLLpj the world war, must die unless aid is LLLLj "1 suggest to my fellow countrymen LLLLj that the circles around their Clui-l- LLLLj mas trees will be Incomplete unless, 'I mingled with their own expectant chil- 1 'lien, they shall visualize some of the p waifs of central Europe, stretching out LLLL their hands to pluck from the boughs Ji of the trees, not toys, but bread wlth-nut wlth-nut which they must perish." LLLH There should be a better method of LLLh raving Starving children than tin- un certaihty attending a contribution t j charity. The countries involved should offer to get back of I loan from th i government of the United States or the banks of this country At present they may be bankrupt, but eentunll; they can pay Three million and a half children at $H each would be not more than $35 uoo.OOO. The Lighting 'nations shot away more than that sum jeach day as lhe struggled tp kill. Why is it that humanity nations do inot stand ready to give that compara 1 lively small sum in the ending of the I worse of misery for a great army of j children" What Is wrong with Hiis Old world of ours'.' There aic 59.000,000 men. women and children staning in t'hina While part of the population stare, there are men who have sufficient tot their own 1 comfort and money to spend in paying pay-ing $2 each lor girls who are to be Ubcir concubines. Evidently there are grea' inequalities in t'hina and in Europe It is not necessary to go to t'hina to find distress I n Monday a man ap peared before the mayor and said Can you point the way io work In i his cityany kind of work"' I wen' out in ihe switchmen's strike lasi sum mer. While I have never been an agl Mator. I have felt a sense 61 loyaltv 'to those with whom 1 have associated 1 became ihe victim of circumstances tpver which I hail no control. 1 have worked two days in four weeks, shoveling shov-eling coal, and have tramped until 'weary. I have a wife and three Chil jdren and have reached a desperate, state of mind My wife worries and is distracted and I am deeply concerned con-cerned over my little ones What am I going to do with winter ahead and nothing in the house?' It is about time that concerted ax :tion be taken in Ogden to handle somr of these problems of distressed In our own community ever before we begin to look over the hills or across the ocean. I Hundreds of men are being laid off by the railroads at a time when work is at a low point. Many of the dls I missed have made no provision against a day of adversity. They have been ! living as the average American up t the income. They have no surplu.- . and. where a number of children are ! involved, there will be privation. A survey of the city should be made to determine the extent of the adversity adver-sity which has come so suddenly upon 'he entire country. no |