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Ii (00 i WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1921 America Means Salvation to These Little Ones The European Relief Council, which seeks te raise $33,000,000 at the Christmas season, has been formed for the purpose of throwing the entire charitable energy of the United States into the vital iask of providing food and medical assistance to 8,500,000 children in eastern and central Europe this winter. Representatives of eight great relief organizations, working inde- pendently, gathered overwhelming evidence that the plight of these unforty- nates should take precedence in world charity until they are saved. The co-operating agencies which form the Council are the American Relief Admin- istration, the American Red Cross, the American Friends' Service Committee (Quakers), the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, the Knights of Columbus, the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. ge « WAGON LOADS OF NEED LIKE THIS IN POLAND are a commonplace sight on hundreds of roads in Europe. More than 1,308,000 Polish children received free American meals every day during the height of last winter. This winter the situation will undoubtedly be worse, as it will be in Austria and other pertions left economically dazed by war. To prevent the greatest tragedy i to children that the world has ever known eight great American organizations, = under the name of the European Relief Council, are seeking $33,000,000 for : food and medical assistance. x An Appeal to the American People HREE and one-half million children in Eastern and Central Europe have no alternative to disaster between now and next harvest ex- { cept American aid. For months these most helpless sufferers in the y track of war have been admitted to American feeding-stations only if : tragically undernourished, and have received American medical aid only | if desperately threatened by death from disease. One 5 cent hot American meal today has saved a thousand lives. Winter is closing down. The money of many nations is valueless out- {| slide their own boundaries. Economic and crop conditions make famine, with its terrible train of diseases, a certain visitor until next harvest. Inev- i itably the helpless children will suffer most. No child can grow to health and sanity on the pitiful makeshifts for food with which millions of Euro- pean adults must content themselves this winter. It is obvious that the remedy can come only from outside. America saved 6,000,000 European children winter before last. Nor- mal recuperation cut the need nearly in half last year, but unusual condi- tions have resulted in scant shrinkage of child destitution during the twelvemonth just past. The response of America must now decide whether 8,500,000 of these charges, in acute distress, shall begin to be turned away © in January from more than 17,000 asylums, hospitals, clinics and feeding- ! stations dependent on American support. There would be no tragedy in history so sweeping or so destructive of those who can deserve no evil. : The undersigned organizations, working among every race and creed. 4 many engaged also in ether forms of relief, agree unanimously that the 2 plight of these helpless children should have complete priority in over- : seas charity until the situation is met. This is an issue without polities and without religious lines. There can be no danger of pauperization, for the $23,000,000 for child food, and the $10,000,000 for medical service ; that we seek, will relieve only the critical cases. The medical supplies, d of course, must be an unqualified gift, but for every American dollar used 1 in child-feeding, the governments and communities aided furnish two dol- lars in the form of transportation, rent, labor, clerical help, cash contri- butions and such food supplies as are locally obtainable. America has not failed in the past in great heartedness. She has never had a more poignant call than this. Contributions should be turned _over to the local committees which are now being formed for this national collection, or sent to Franklin K. Lane, Treasurer, Guaranty Trust Co., 0 New York City. EUROPEAN RELIEF COUNCIL 7 Herbert Hoover, Chairman Franklin K. Lane, Treasurer s freezi. Comprising: No 'merican Relief Administration, by Federal Council of Churches of Christ ynted Wdgar Rickard, Director in America. by Arthur J. Brown AtiCalirican Red Cross, by Livingston K I~ 4 RR Lh nights of Columbus, by James A. Lunnirgnd, m Flaherty, fupreme Knight > an Friends' Service Committee 5 PEeravgy by Rufus M. Jones, Y. M. C. A, by C. V. Hibbard, Inter- 9 ° national Committee Y. W. C. A! by Miss Sarah S. L: y National Board yon * Distribution Committee, Social Happenings | The Winnetka Woman's club takes pleasure in announcing that Prof. William E. Dodd of the Uni- versity of Chicago will give his popular lecture on Thomas Jefferson, on the evening of March 4, at the clubhouse. 3 Through the generosity of Prof. Dodd this lecture is open to all club members and their friends, without charge. frre' Mr. E. C. Weissenberg of the Weissenberg Coal company and Frank W. Sheahan of the Highland Park Mutual Coal company, were called from Miami, Fla, owing to the illness of Earl Sheahan who underwent a very serious operation last Tuesday at the Highlasd Park hospital. --f Mr. and Mrs. James G. Weart re- turned this week from Magnolia Springs, Ala., and after spending the week-end with their daughter, Mrs. Bertrand Doyle in Oconomowoc, Wis, they will return on Monday to thier home at 278 Linden avenue. iar Mr. and Mrs. Eugene D. Sax en- tertained at dinner on Tuesday at their home, 838 Lincoln avenue, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ad- ler, the occasion being their ninth wedding anniversary. ee Mr. F. W. Copeland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Copeland, 665 Pros- pect avenue, arrived on the Aquitan- ica Tuesday night from a four month's stav in Europe. ST ha Mrs. Charles N. Strotz, of Sher- idan road, arrived in Chicago this week for a week's stay. Mr. and Mrs. Strotz are spending the winter in New York City. -- An announcement of interest is the engagement of Miss Martha E. Pape, daughter of Mr. John Pape of Evans- ton, to Mr. Charles J. Bleidt of Chi- cago. rs me One of the Friday Lunchéon: and Bridge clubs is meeting today with Mrs. C. Barmore Cook, 460 Elder lane, Winnetka. -- Mr. Arnold Horlick of Milwaukee was the week-end guest of friends in Winnetka last week. ----i-- Mr. and Mrs. C. F. M. Miller left Saturday last for San Bruno, Cal, where they will remain uutil July. Scores of letters have been re- ceived by the editor of the American Legion Weekly urging that the American Legion request the state department to obtain the release of the two Americans, who were cap- tured in Germany during an attempt to arrest Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, America's most notorious draft dodg- er. As a result of unusually mild weather throughout the country this winter, especially in the northern states, approximately 3,000,000 more passenger cars and trucks are in service than there were a year ago. 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