Show HELPED FEED MANY HUNGRY CHILDREN the dally daily task last of ad feeding 0 0 children fider we was but an la incident 1 in the past war duties of at all carlat A stockton now post common commander der of the t h edw de post of the arie american 1 ean li legion gio n in jacksonville fla luckier who be was US an mch attach of tile lie american diplomatic dip lorn a tic is W ID london land at the outbreak of 1 I 1 the war resigned liff hla post to enter the tha novel naval service rod and wead was made an alde aide of ad sim serving to ID this 1 capacity anell 1 I april 1919 thu then the young run an flo art rid d an ws w placed on an inactive ru e rod and went to vienna with the tha A american me r 11 1 I relief administration 1 n this wax was not at his first experience in relief work as he had volunteered ered for far servin with herbert herber hoover our duties during the period of at belgian relief when the plans plana for the tha fel feeding of delours ours the starving starring child children mix in austria austri me ma tend under der mr all hoover a direction stockton was chosen for the post of chief of if the tha mission last and ad went want about the great grant task mok with sith the tha enthusiasm which has bull characterized american re is ilif warker worE iera he in vienna may 8 1919 and immediately plunged into the merv lee ice of savaging human life there than the die most net unusual I 1 problems problem presented themselves vea to stockton lor far solution pit kaleal leal the mission ra had bad plenty of available supplies at trieste tricks but the first problem was wa to get the bie stuff staff ta in austria from what had bad become became a tugo port the first trainload lOad gotten through to vienna was consigned to indi nobody ly there th m wea so me consignment of 1 it of the 83 93 carloads carload that w were to cons come 22 were lost unloaded unleaded bt 1 wrong stations sidetracked elas flome broken broke down despite 1 I 1 spite these chaotic ronell ions every y car was hi located tl and 4 the f B at net tow loss of the first shipment was less les than ill n 1 per der cent stockton Stock toa attributes tributes 1 th the burces of that to providence alone for a while atile the traffic was undisturbed ahl mod then lien it annunzio Annun iio broke I 1 loos 1 in the flume hare rod and trieste lay unit under threat of being bel 9 1 la t the be war or on net hot a ear car of food could be gotten out while that continued cautioned so the port of entry tor for the austrian food we wa changed to rotterdam this caused a sew problems of transportation se it had to come by the rhine by rail through troubled germany to handling hamburg therace by barges down the denote danube he surmounted ivory every difficulty overt even to dock hard handler lere strikes ikea tr as the only thing that went through Man belin dur der 1 ing 19 9 such ell walkout time were ware ameri alert ma relief supplies A system of food cards was D proved ld ed tor far the undernourished youngsters of austria and St tock ton says that tha me saddest sight of ghisu his life felya was as to dee some little one dep deprived ri id I d of hla his food card after flat havi having been pronounced safely past malnutrition vienna was wag dotted with 43 american kitchens kitchen me he largest providing meala meal for 13 children all thle this work was done un no der supervision of fr tour Al americans lerlane one of whom was the youth from jacksonville A total of an tri weve were employed the most moat of them volunteer work workers stockton Is 18 the scion of a famous family of southern fl 9 h tere and an a atutes a ra tes men iran be was ft a rhodes rhode scholarship man from florida and took his degree greif low law at oxford during the world war he attained the grade of senior tar lieutenant U 8 N he returned to jackson jacksonville 1 in october 1 1820 fol fill ichi lowing 9 we his im 1 in austria rod and has be been identified with real met estate let it firm wina since that mad it time Us he hai beg take alien an ac tive tim part pan in legion affairs affair both local and it department |