The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 6, 1920, Page 13

DEATH BUT Ves oF MOR MANY Thousands Literally Dying; | Babes Suffer From Malnutrition | WARSAW, Poland, Feb. 6.—The abnormal number of children being born blind in this country despite | the fact that the parents are not diseased is due mainly to the mal nutrition of mothers, according ta s report by Red Cross medical officers. ‘The increasing amount of blind- Ress among children at birth was at first thought to indicate the advent of some new disease. Investigation, however, established that the famish ed candition of the mothers, reacting on the infants, was responsible. ‘There are now above 5,000,000 desti tute people in Poland, including more than 2,000,000 children. VIENNA, Feb. 6.—Death from eStarvation is actually only a few] ‘weeks off for a very large propor-| tion of the people of Vienna and for certain sections of Austria. They are today undergoing a slgw process of starvation. Only quick help can save | the lives of thousands upon thou sands.” This is the despairing message of Chancellor Renner of the Austrian! republic to the people of America + at a time when the fate of the whole Austrian people appears to depend| almost wholly upon food relief from | the United States. pt. C. N. Leach of the can relief administration, who has just completed an inspection of the| children's relief work in Austria, | says: | “The physical condition of the! children thruout Austria ts very bad. In Vienna 90 per cent of the children | are seriously underfed and no im. Provement in the general food situa tion is in sight.” Walter Lyman Brown, director of | the American relief administration | | for Europe, says: | “It is difficult to imagine how Nee | | people keep body and soul together. ; “By questioning 500 ragged mat | lected at random from kitchens it was discovered that 40 40 per cent received only a cup of ar tificial black coffee for breakfast, that | with the coffee, 10 per cent being! fortunate enough to have a vegetable broth or soup and 10 per cent having Ro food at all until noon. “At night 25 per cent of these chil-| dren go to bed without supper, 15 per| cent have a cup of coffee and a piece! of bread and 10 per cent bread only. soup consisting of cabbage, carrots | or tomatoes with bread. “The appalling discovery is made _ Ahat between 6 and 8 per cent of these children receive neither break-| (fast nor supper at home, but live! “solely on the single meal served daily by the Children’s fund.” | CITY COUNCIL will act Monday | ‘on expenditure of $226,000 for arteri-| | al highwy thru Fort Lawton district. | The road would stretch from W. Wheeler st. bridge to the fort proper. Ameri’ |the great majority of children get ae ATTL LE, WASE., FRIDAY, “FEBRUARY 6, 1920. This map shows the child starva-, tion areas of Central Europe, the number of children now being fed |thru the European Children’s Relief fund of the Ameriean r tration, and the number who should * * * POLK TELLS OF TERRIBLE |SITUATION WASHINGTON, Feb. 6,—Under- secretary of State Frank L. Polk who is in close touch with the food situation in Central Europe and who, as head of the American mission broad following the return from nee of ne. conditions there, says: “There is no question about it, the situation is desperate. been so many national hard stories that more or less mak very little difference and the peop here have come to accept the situ jation as it is, | have been lost sight of. It ts difficult to see how they can get thru the winter. It is no uncommon sight to overcome with cold or hunger.” eee MORE FOOD QUICK WILL SAVE BABIES fean' relief program in Jugo-Slavia, | which in the early winter was able to meet the most imperative de- mands of hungry children, is now) wholly Inadequate to meet the rapid- ly Increasing demands made upon it. | The majority of children of school age have only been kept in school Less than 50 per cent get a vegetabie| by the rations served in the school- | Large numbers of both boys hungry and emaciated, have sought admittance to the schools in order that they might share in the food distributed there. It is only in the school buildings that rooms. and girls, enough food to keep them above actual starvation. APOLLO CLUB of Seattle gnve its first concert of the sesson Thursday night In Odd Fellows hall. The strength of a Seattle, lines of business in unlikely that a crop | entire Pacific Coast, pair credit facilities. ) are invested in high grade, readily con- i vertible securities. Francisco, and its | sociation. FINANCIAL PROTECTION lies in its capital, surplus and the charac- ter of its loans and investments. Through our association of branches in San Francisco, Portland, Tacoma and loans are made to diversified ties wherein branches are located. t depression will simultaneously affect the | our assets in liquid condition and not im- The Bank of California, N. A., San } | financial institution the different locali- It is failure or industrial which tends to keep Our surplus funds branches constitute, one Association under one management, and depositors at any one of the Bank’s | offices have the protection of the entire : Capital and Undivided Profits of the As- 1 Founded 1864. Capital and Surplus $17,000,000 4 Seattle The Bank of California National Association Total Resources $126,000,000 | | Branch | sail Secretary of State Lan-| has first-hand knowledge of| ‘There have | tuck | and all its horrors! 87,000 120,000 be fed if deaths are to be cut down Heavy figures show the number of children being fed. Light figures show number who should be fed from now until the next harvest. The cost to | feed the starving children one life sustaining meal a day ts 5 cents. * * * |HOW SEATTLE PEOPLE CAN HELP STARVING Money contributed to the starving children of Burope should be sent to the Treasurer, Red Cross head quarters, 315 University st The American Red Cross already |has machinery established for the reliet of babies in Central Europe. Contrt- | butions sent to that organization | will be applied directly to the pur pose of children's relief. The Seattle chapter of the Red Cross 1s daily sending huge parcels lof clothing to the bleak, poverty- ridden districts of Central Europs. More than 500 generouphearted wo- men are working for the relief of Poland, Serbia and Armenia. Money contributions sent to the Red Cross | see people fall down on the streets, / are gure to be used for the succor of the helpless and starving Infants | of Hurope. DEATH RATE |CLIMBS FOR 40 per cent had a slice of black bread| SARAJEVO, Feb. 6—The Amer |ILACK OF FOOD PRAGUE, Feb, 6.—Food relief tn |Czecho-Slovakin must be extended |far beyond even its present wide scope if the situation thru the late months in the winter is to be met. Hunger, suffering and the death rate climb steadily higher every day. ‘The children especially are in direst straits. Hundreds and thou- | sands that crowd to the child-feeding canteens of the American relief ad- ministration come with swollen limbs, indicating tissues full of water —due t6 lack of fats. Many have the swollen, bloated stomachs that mark the early stages of starvation, and malnutrition is universal. In the fa- mous glass manufacturing districts of Bohemia more than 40 per cent of the entire population has become infected with tuberculosis as the direct result of poor living conditions jand lack of food. BILLS CAN SLI CAN SLIP BY THE SENATE ‘Result of Palmer’s Anti-Se- dition Engineering BY HARRY B. HUNT WASHINGTON, Feb, 6.—Adroit in charge of Attorney General Palmer's antisedition bill has | brought about a situation wherein it | books repressive measures of the | having been open for debate in the | senate. The senate passed an “anti-sedi | tion” bill, 8, 3317, by Senator Ster- |ling, which, while objectionable to Senators Borah, Norris, Johnson and other champions of free assembly jand free speech, was by no means as far reaching as the bill drawn by the department of justice. ‘The senate bill, going ta the house for action, was referred to the house judiciary committee. The house committee “amended” the senate bill lause and substituting different measure, much more sweep- jing and far-reaching than Sterling bi. Altho the measure now before the house is an entirely different bill from that approved by the genate, | it will never get befort the senate for debate passed by the house. The senate will simply have the chance to accept or reject the amend. | ment-—-which is the {tot %t cannot | ify it entire bilkK-in debate it or moa- | THE Queen Anne Alumni be held Wednesday, February 11, in room 108 of the high school. The | business on hand includes election of | 1920 officers and the formulation of | plans for the annual reunion assem- The present ation are George joclation will Dorothy Thomas, president; Cathryn Cochrane, ary, and Rupert Hamilton, treasurer, | Yy. M. C. A, MI were scheduled to meet in ann state conven- tion in Tacoma Friday, the starving millions of parliamentary maneuvering by those | is possible to get upon the statute | most drastic sort without their ever| by striking out all after the enacting | an entirely | the | ANNUAL MEETING of the} IF. vdkcy Raisin Is i Raisin’ Hob| DENY SOMPERS | TO BE RETIRED Reports to That Effect Are Called Old Stuff WASHINGTON, Feb, 6.—Reports that Samuel Gompers, president of we American Federation of Labor, is to be retired at the convention of tho federation in June are said by US. INVASION London Must Care Wealthy Tourists LONDON, Feb, 6.—“What’ll we do with the American invasion?” The British government, the Lon. don dailies and the hotel associations are all agitating this important ques- for | RE HAUTE, Feb, 6.—Sclen-| tists and some others who are not| scientists here are considering the} triends of Gampers here to be mere.|Problem of the barnyard chicken | sion | Judge. ly @ repetition of similar stories that |#n@ the fermented raisin, Recently | “ ” | appeared prior to the Inst conven-|raisin mash confiscated by the|,.THe “invasion” expected is the) ne fined sheriff in a still raid was fed Terre Haute chickens, Result: Stewed | pel ult: Stewed) pattiefields this year and next pe Hotels in London are always full SPECIAL SESSION of the legisia-|—*° 18 ® problem ture to reform the tax gystem was | indorsed by ttle Real Estate asso- clation Thursday night. Taxation of stocks and bonds was suggested by | State Senator T. D. Rockwell. from those intimate with the admin- istration of labor affairs. “Gompers will have the vote tion. “Gompers will be doing business at the old stand, after the next convention,” sald a man high tn labor cireles to “Of course there are thowe who would like to see Gompers retired, either entirely or as president emefitus, but nothing on the horizon now indicates any such ponsibility.”* Reports are that nat only Gompers but a goodly portion of the executive council are to be retired. “Nothing like that can happen,” is the reply | value the British pound, nominally | worth $4.86 and now worth over a dollar less. | The conservative London dailies | « him. ‘WORRIED OVER ee tee | | TERRE HAU |have to be sever “It's a federal offense now| jand we must be stern.” Charles 200,000 or more “wealthy tourists” | miner, $1 for intoxication. who are coming to England and the! wwwrnnnnnrrrwerrerrerrrr $200,000,000 in England. So, they advise the Britisher who |» has given up his home to move into| oot, The British say that providing for) hotel because of restrictions and} these Americans, who want to come| the difficulty of heating, to go home| over, means restoring to some of its /again if he knows what's good for|ment has ruled that the trumess of ‘The hotel proprietors are holdin: meetings about it every week or tw and the,government is considering say that the Américans, if they can|what can be done to provide ample be accommodated, will spend about | accommodations. 18DIE; 60 HURT ~INTRAIN WRECK : | French Express Telescopes Freight in Tragedy PARIS, Feb. lghteen persons were killed and 60 injured when the Digon Express reb, 6.——"I shall! a freight train. " said the police Shoes or No Shoes RANGOON, Feb. 6-—~The shoe question has again bobbed and been finally settled. Ancient us ge dictates pagoda visitors be bare: Young Burmese “ objectors” insists that shoes are far more religious. 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