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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1920
Page
2
Herbert Hoover urges aid for 6.5 million European children facing winter tragedy. He warns current relief funds are depleted and a combined effort by eight American groups is launched as the European Relief Council to avert a potential massacre of the innocents.
A united effort led by Herbert Hoover forms the European Pelice Council to raise 53 million for starving and diseased children in Eastern and Central Europe. Agencies include the American Relief Administration the Red Cross the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the YMCA and YWCA among others. Local committees will secure bonds with governments and communities contributing two dollars for every one raised. No free food without medical tests.
The Vienna death rate grew from 15.3 per thousand in 1913 to 22.5 in 1918 as famine and undernutrition ravaged the city. Dr. Gustave Bohn reports worsened child health with 4 637 of 54 849 examined children deemed healthy in 1918. Hoover led American relief feeding about 800 000 children, part of a broader European effort by eight American groups under the European Relief Council aiming to raise 33 million dollars.
Dr Harry Plotz reports dire medical conditions among Poland’s Jewish children based on investigations for the Jewish Joint Distributions Committee. He cites high infant mortality, malnutrition, tuberculosis, typhus, favus, and smallpox amid overcrowded homes and wartime destruction, with vaccine shortages cited as a factor.
An appeal invites readers to send a charitable gift to support relief for European children. Donors are asked to mail contributions to the local joint committee or directly to the European Relief Council at 482 Broadway, New York City.
A snapshot of American relief work in war torn Europe shows eight organizations banding together to appeal to American donors. The European Relief Council includes the American Relief Administration American Red Cross American Friends Service Committee Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Federal Council of Churches Knights of Columbus Y M C A and Y W C A urging continued funding to aid malnourished children.
A call from multiple organizations urging urgent American aid to 3.5 million hungry Eastern European children before next harvest. They request $23,000,900 for child feeding and $10,000,000 for medical service with in kind contributions offset by government and community support. Contributions go to national focal committees or Franklin K. Lane in New York.
European leaders appealing for aid emphasize the needs of orphans as they face a severe winter. The European Relief Council unites major American groups to raise 33 million dollars to save children from starvation and disease.
The Polish Gray Samaritans, part of the YWCA effort under the American Relief Administration, have distributed food to Polish children since 1918 and now focus on winter feeding. Forty or so girls of Polish descent travel to strategic centers to run clothing distribution and feeding operations across Poland outside Warsaw.
In Livingston on December 12 a robber entered a residence via a window, woke the banker Carl Bechtel of the First National Bank, demanded the money, and fled after taking only 50 cents from Bechtel’s pocket. Police found no silverware or other valuables disturbed.
The oral trade commission recommends extended anti trust measures against the International Harvester Company and several farm implement associations. It cites a 1914 to 1918 farm tool price rise partly due to manufacturer dealer understandings and proposes proceedings against groups such as the National Implement and Vehicle Association and related bodies. A re opening against International Harvester is urged to restore competitive conditions in the harvesting machine business.
Spokane Washington December 1 A charge of manslaughter was filed today against W J Van Skye a rancher held in jail over the death of Mrs S Kirkpatrick He allegedly knocked her down and dragged her under a automobile for thirteen feet before she released the undergear
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