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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1920
Page
7
The report warns that more than 3,560,962 children in eastern and central Europe risk starvation from now to next spring. It uses stark imagery to compare the scale, noting marching children would span from Detroit to New York and would require forty days to pass a point, and that burying that many in one trench would form a 2809 mile long slave line from San Francisco to New York.
In a message for the Jewish Relief Council he urges a cooperative effort to fund relief in Europe. He frames the goal as saving 9,000,000 children and notes 3,500,000 remain to be cared for until harvest. A $10 contribution per child is requested to secure Europe's future and, by extension, the fate of American children.
Governor Bickett urges sacrifice of Christmas expenses to aid starving children overseas. A state drive, led by Henry A. Page of Aberdeen, calls on every man woman and child to make a first gift for relief and celebrate with a cheer.
The document names Herbert Hoover as chairman and Franthlin KK Lane as treasurer for the European Relief Council. It lists members including American Friends Service Committee, American Relief Administration, Joint Distribution Committee, American Red Cross, Knights of Columbus, Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, YWCA, and YMCA.
A wartime appeal urges readers to send ten dollars to save a child’s life. It argues most children are helpless victims of the war and need funds for food and medical care to prevent death, stressing the priceless value of a child’s life.
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