HOOVER CARING
FOR CHILDREN
OF EUROPE
Herbert C. Hoover says the work
of caring for the children of the free
people of Europe is not yet finished.
What we did for the children of Bel
gium, we must do for the children of
Poland, Rumania. Serbia, Jugoslavia,
Czechoslovakia, Finland and the Bal
tic states.
On February 25 of this year Presi
dent Wilson signed a bill appropriat
ing $100,000,000 for the relief of the
European nations who were in need of
foodstuffs. No special mention was
made of the nations who were to be
helped, but special emphasis was laid
on the fact that German, German Aus
tria, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey
were not to profit by this fund. There
was, however, a proviso attached to
the bill which insured the relief of
Christian and Jewish populations in
Armenia, Syria, Greece, and other
parts of Asia Minor which were at
one time or still are subjects of
Turkey.
Mr. Hoover was appointed head of
the American Relief Administration,
and the work of filling up the gran
aries of the starving nations was
started. The first step In the work
was the mapping out of the territory
which could honestly be included in
the relief work. Mr. Hoover divided
the nations into three groups—those
whose credit was good and could
therefore buy food in the open mar
ket; those who were outside the pale
of the fund, and those countries
whose credits were in an unsatisfact
ory state. The first two groups were
eliminated from the program and the
countries in the last were taken under
consideration.
Agents were sent to make investi
gations and surveys of the extent of
the needs in Jugoslavia, Armenia,
Syria, Rumania, Greece, and all other
territory whose nonenemy populations
were suffering from lack of food. The
reports which came back were
harassing. The war was over for
these people, but war-time conditions
were not. The fund appropriated by
the American congress grew smaller
apdjy^aller In proportion to the need
^'that ednf rbii ted At. 'Therfe was a scar
city of farm material, a scarcity of
seed and a consequent scarcity of
crops.
This was true of Poland as well as
of Rumania, of Jugoslavia, of Czecho
slovakia, and of Finland. The suffer
ing among the grown-ups of the popu
lation was great, but the suffering of
the children was discovered to be
almost indescribable. The situation
was acute. Mr. Hoover felt that some
thing more must be done to meet the
child problem. “These debilitated lit
tle ones must have special rations
through special organization and by
direct -charity. The work is vitally ne
cessary,” he cabled across to his as
sociates here.
The same reports wore brought to
the food administration by represen
tatives of the Red Cross. According to
a member of the committee, the
situation boils down to the following:
“Poland, Rumania,' Serbia, Jugo
slavia, Czechoslovakia, Finland, and
the Baltic states are today going
through exactly the same process of
physical disintegration which was
true of Belgium in the early part of
the war. Not only are there the
women and children to feed today, but
the men who have come from the war
besides. A good many of these men
are broken down and need special
care. However, they can manage to
get along with the rations which will
be allotted to them.
"The big problem is the child prob
lem. Just as Belgium was in danger of
losing her next generation by num
berless cases of tuberculosis brought
on by malnutrition, so are these na
tions going through a period where
the child forces are being steadily and
increasingly diminished and wiped
out.
“The answer to this situation m
Belgium was the opening of soup kit
chens and canteens for children and
nursing mothers. This must be the
answer to the situation for these peo
ple. The fund of $100,000,00 can in no
wry. undertake to do this. It can al
leviate conditions to some extent, but
it cannot undertake to specialize
along a field of relief work that is in
urgent need of specialization. The
only solution to the problem is
charity. .
“During the war it was not very
difficult for the American to disprove
the theory that he was a dollar-chaser.
Three times a day the fact that Eur
ope was starving was brought to his
attention in the way of war menus
and war breads and ‘hooverizing.’ To
day the country is resting serene
under the consciousness of having
achieved its goal. The all-engrossing
subject is not victory, but domestic
rehabilitation. What’s more, the taxes
are heavy and the American does not
feel that he is called upon to give to
foreign charities any longer. It is not
that he is uncharitable, but that he is
unthinking. The subject of the
Czechoslovaks is put up to him, he is
tol'd that hey are hungry and starving
for want of food, and he is inclined
to take the attitude that things can’t
be as bad as they are painted; that
the war is over and things are hitch
ing up all around; that if the Armen
ian or Czechoslovak is hungry today,
he is no hungrier than he was before
the war started.
“Things, however, are as bad as
they are painted, or more truly, things
aren’t painted as bad as* they are.
Starvation in war is to be expected,
but starvation in peace means oneJ
thing only, the breeding of anarchy.
"Just now the most urgfent needs
for food are being met. Wheat and
fats are going across and people are
being rationed. But much more is
needed than the fund can ever expect
to accomplish. America, must con
tinue to live up to its ideal of democ
racy and help these people to their
feet. Just now the urgent need Is
not for politcal freedom, but for
physical well being. That means
money.”
One of the suggestions of Mr.
Hoover to meet the child situation is
the organization of a system of child
feeding stations comparable to Les
Petites Abeilles, or Little Bees of Bel
gium. Apart from the fund for food
sent across by the Belgian Relief Or
ganization, charitable organizations
took it upon themselves to support
these child welfare kitchens and sup
plied the fresh food and vegetables
necessary for the proper nutrition of
young children. Twenty-five thou
sand children and nursing mothers
wore cared for in this manner. The
number to be cared for' in the coun
tries mentioned above are many times
tweniy-five thousand. The source of
the funds for this work must, in a
large measure, come from this
country.
One of the greatest responses
toward the creation of a fund whose
sole aim is the care of the children
of the stricken countries is the co
t
operation of the various national re
lief committees with the American
Relief Administration. The Armenian
Fund, the Jugoslav Fund, the Near
East Fund, and many more all have
come to the fore and declared their
willingness to pool their money with
the American committee.
What his means can best be illus
trated by the following incident; Soon
after his new co-operation plan was
inaugurated the Jugoslav committee
of this country turned over $50,000 to
the American Relief Administration,
whose headquarters are in New York.
Three days after the money was
turned in, Mr. Hoover supplied dis
tricts in Jugoslavia with food to the
value of $50,000. Another point of
interst: A group of Jugoslavs in Chi
cago had collected a small fund of
money which they wanted sent to
their own community in their country.
The orders were cabled to agents of
the American Food Administration,
and the food was delivered to its
proper destination.
All the territory in the countries in
need of relief work have been mapped
off into districts. These districts are
in direct communication with the
ports to which the ships bring in the .
food. The work in the inland districts
is a good deal more difficult and un
certain than the work along the coast.
The farsightedness of the directors
and agents of the relief committee is
contantly called into play.
That part of the country which was
near the coastal granaries continued
getting its supply of food. The sec
tion that had experienced a sudclen
richness in eeneals was cut off. If it
had not been for the food that they
had stored up on the advice of Mr,
Hoover, they would have been in dire
straits.
A great part of the personnel of
the American Food Administration in
France has been drafted from the of
ficers’ corps of the American army.
Sound American business sense and
efficiency have characterized the
work carried on thus far. American
charity is what is needed to complete
the task.
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