The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 12, 1945, Page 6

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Woeodley Airways Alaska Coastal Airlines, Agents—Phene 612 ITALY—Barefoot in winter are these burlap and rag-clad youngsters but there are no stockings and shoes for their shivering limbs. Exclusive Central Press Dispatch WASHINGTON, D. C. — The lights are not going on again all over Europe for children—yet. There are still children in parts of Poland and Greece who "have never in their short lives eaten a square meal. There are still British child born since 1939, who have ni seen a fully lighted city street. There are still children in Paris who may be stricken with tubercu- losis, because nearly all Paris chil- dren skin-tested in 1834 showed definite signs of tuberculosis. No fewer than 40,000,000 European children under 16 years of age have been hurt by this war, in some cases irreparably, in body, character, in their home environ- ment, in their general education and vocational training, according to the International Labor Office In Belgium, the death rate for children under one year rose 15 per cent between 1939 and 1941; in France, by 16 per cent; in the Netherlands, by 28 per cent; in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, by 78 per cent (between 1939 and 1940.) In the totally occupied countries of Europe, during the war years, they wore wooden shoes red their walking habits, ate bread made with hydrolyzed st weight (some French girls lost four to six pounds be- tween February and November, 1941) when they ought {o have cereals of low nutritive and diges- been gaining, ate substandard food, | tive quality, with chestnut meal 90 to 97 per cent of it rationed.|from which oil had been extracted, They went to school in improvised | with hydrolyzed straw. classrooms lacking toilets and Milk, which children should playgrounds, as little as seven| drink whole, was heavily skimmed. hours a week, or approximately an { The fat content of cheese and hour a day on six school days. And | powdered milk had been reduced, at worst, the children died or were | in some countries by law. ; ruthlessly murdered. In Norway cod liver oil, meat The last study of the effect of|and bacon had virtually vanished the war on European children was | from the market; eggs were al- published by the International most uncbtainable. In most coun- Labor Office jn 1943. tries eggs were distributed first to No Exhaustive Report pregnant and nursing mothers, Because of the diffculty of col- | then to children. lecting precise and reliable infor- The war-time rations, however, mation in war, because the area | with proteins and fats replaced .by covered—totally occupied countries | carbohydrates, failed to provide of Europe—was small in compari- | children with the vitimins, pro- son with the universal scale of the | teins, albumen and calcium that disaster, the ILO said that the | they needed for growth. . study was by no means exhaus-| Even as early in the war as 1941 tive. | Belgian children were subsisting Containing data on what had|on diets 60 to 80 per cent deficient happened to the child population|in fats; 40 to 60 deficient i pro- of France, Belgium and the Neth- | teins; 50 to more than 80 per cent erlands, Norway, the Baltic States, | deficient in caleium, according to and sections of Czechoslovakia, | the Labor Office. Greece, Poland and Yugoslavia, the| While the food situation steadily report covered only approximately | became worse, living conditions be- the first four years of the war, came more and more abnormal. The ILO reported evidences of | Fuel and clothing became scarce, malnutrition in all occupied coun- | transportation broke down. Un- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE —JUNEAU, ALASKA | W;rrswCasualties Include 40,000,000 Childréh Half-Fed, Half- Clothed, Sick in Mind or Body FRANCE—A four-year-old lad, his head ¢ is brought for first aid by a relative to an American Army hospital tries. Between 90 and 97 per cent of the foods normally consumed in those countries before the war were rationed, including bread, cereals, sugar, meat and products, dernourished children had to walk to school. Children helped in the exhaust- {ing hunt for food, queued up in food and clothing lines. Lack of coffee and tea substitutes, fats, |shoes and wooden goods made the cheese, milk and eggs. }rh;hlrcn's lives miserable. In Although the legal rations were | Poland, during the winter of 1941, inadequate from a calory stand-|factories that were supposed to point, they were often difficult m(r,upply 4,500 pairs of shoes a impossible to obtain. The nutritive | month could supply only 80. value of the rations thuuahud; Even wooden clogs were Ta-| steadily. tioned in the Netherlands. Soap For example: In both France|gradually disappeared, and the| and Belgium the meat rations by | dwindling supply everywhere, Of law contained 20 per cent bone.|poor quality, was doled out in And the meat, from underfed ani- | small quantities, the ILO reported. mals, contained much sincw and| Discase sprea¢ and the death nerve tissue. rate increased. More young chil- Bread was adulterated with|dren and adolescents died under JUNEAU CAMPSNO.2 ~ A. N. B. and A. N. S. Meet Each Monday-7:30 P. M.-A.N.B. Hall e e R 5 4 i 24 GREECE—In rags herscif, this litile girl sees that her baby sister is as tomforiable as voscible amid the ruin of their. war-ravaged home. anti-diphtheria inoculation. Malaria reappeared in areas where it had been stamped out. In certain dis- tricts of 'Athens, where malaria raged, anti-malaria remedies were lacking. Education suffered severely. Anemic and undernourished chil- dren could not learn, because their memory and powers of concentra- tion failed. Many fainted in school from hunger. In winter those who were able to attend school shiv- ered in cold classrooms. Some- es, in bad weather, they stayed home because they lacked warm clothes and footgear, Without soap, or fuel to heat hot water for washing, young chil- failed to learn habits of per- hygiene. Hunger, physica misery, poverty, brutal oppression were the common lot of children. Vast numbers wer uprooted from their normal environment at the most critical stage of their de- velopment, in eire great disorder and d evacuated from areas of military importance or under bombing. Sometimes the children wi ported for forced labor without their families. ‘They had to adapt themselves to unhealthy and mis- erable lives 4n refugee camps or barracks. Juvenile delinquency increased. In Belgium, for instance, the num- ber of children brought before the courts rose from 14,550 in 1939, to 19,329 after only one year of oc- de- ng German shrapnel, vt by flyil cupation. The main charges were theft especially of food and clothing; begging, absence from school. Similar conditions were _reportexl from the Netherlands and France. Between 1940 and 1941 juvenile de- linquency probably doubled in France, according to the Inter- naticnal Labor Office. Where disorder was greatest, where children’s lives were most shockingly distorted, the ILO was able to compile data. More Hopeful Now Facts were obtained only from the Athens and Piraeus areas of Greece; only from Belgrade and Serbia in Yugoslavia; only from two Czech provinces, Bohemia and Moravia, and only incomplete facts from all of Poland. But as the fifth year of war drew to a close, there was more hope for Europe's children than there had been. There was hope that the lights might begin to go on again for Europe's ehildren. In France, after the Allied lib- eration of 1944, youngsters whe had never seen their country's flag ' flying, saw the French tricolor trimuphantly unfurled. <3 In the liberated areas of the YUGOSLAVIA — Smiling thanks @ neyeriands, where nutrition had tot poses in her American pajamas. o0 resgively deteriorated during | the first two years of the occupa- the war until the average was 51 tion than had died proportionately |Per cent below standard, somo before the war. The birth rate fell. | food came by plane in November, Tuberculosis, diph! rickets, | 1044, anemia, typhoid feve sentcry.} Allied transpox;t» planes flew in linfantile ‘diarrhea, oedema in-|20 tons of food daily, and another | creased and spread disastrously, | 125 tons of desperately needed fats weakening the child population. | Were received by plane. By May, 1943, 80 per cent of | A few weeks after Eindhoven Belgian children had reached the [was liberated, Dutch citizens | pre-tuberculosis stage. In Norway, | formed a committea to supply | diphtheria cases increased so that | food for boarding schools for Jew- in 1040 there were 20 times as|ish and Gentile children who had many as the average for the two|been living “underground” either | imm + years, and 40 | with or without their parents, dur- | times as many in 194 ing the five-year blackout of the Debilitated children proved un-|Dutch democratic education sys- | able to withstand the shock of | tem. 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