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SHINER GAZETTE, SHINER, TEXAS
Washington Digest/
Voluntary Help Can Save
Europe's Dying Children
By BAUKHAGE
iVetvs Analyst and Commentator
WASHINGTON—What to do until the doctor comes.
Pretty important to know that. Pretty important to be willing and
able to do it. There are 230 million children in this world today who need
first aid. The European recovery plan (E.C.A.) will help a lot of these
children who have the stamina to outlive the ugly interim period when,
dirty, almost naked, they must roam the countryside or live in cellars
and hovels, hungry or starving.
But the E.C.A. is a huge under- ■
taking, and like all great bodies, it
moves slowly. Anyhow, its chief
purpose is to pro-
vide the means to
restore normal
conditions to the
stricken areas of
Europe. It is large-
ly indirect aid, not
gauged to indi-
vidual cases.
Meanwhile thou-
sands upon thou-
sands of these chil-
dren will die. Some
will be saved by
individual help —
your help. To make that help effec-
tive the many humanitarian organi-
zations which seek to save as many
young lives as possible have been
merged into one great Crusade for
Children. Local groups are organiz-
ing in the cities. In the rural dis-
tricts, the Farm Grange, Farm Bu-
reau federation, Farmers’ Union,
Council for Farm Cooperatives, U.S.
department of agriculture and other
groups are furthering the movement.
To anyone who has seen this tor-
tured young generation, the effect
is as staggering as the sight of a
battlefield. To a young soldier,
there is no shock like the sight of
your first dead comrade. That still
form, wearing the same uniform
you wear, lying crushed against
the earth. To me, the shock of the
sight of European children moving
with the shadow of a living death
upon them was a terrible thing too.
I can remember getting off a train
in what once had been one of the
great railway stations of Europe—
rubble ground into black mud, the
ghastly smell of those buried deep
under “ the foundations of ruined
homes and shelters. Military police,
hardened to the sights around them,
walked back and forth. In the sin-
ister shadows of the ruins the ghost-
ly movement of little wraiths slip-
ping in and cut of sight, bent on any
mission, no matter how fair or foul,
that would win some chocolate, a
piece of K-ration, a cigarette that
might be traded for some bit of food.
No matter what the sins of the
fathers, they could not be great
enough to justify the punishment
inflicted on these children. There
is only one way their bodies and
their souls can be saved. That is
through the groups which are sup-
ported by individual donations,
until economic life is restored to a
degree of normalcy when society
can be rebuilt, broken homes
mended and the institutions which
can care for the homeless put into
operation as a part of a healthy
community existence.
Government aid, like E.C.A., can-
not establish direct contact with the
individual. It is a matter of ar-
rangements drawn up between na-
tions. It means dollar credits which
make it possible for the receiving
nations to buy supplies.
Some of this money, of course,
goes into food. But it takes time for
the machinery to get into operation,
and even after it is in operation, it
is inadequate to satisfy the needs of
the whole people. Much of the as-
sistance goes into material things
such as the reconstruction of fac-
tories, replacement and moderniza-
tion of tools, machinery and agri-
cultural supplies.
Frequently, supplies of such sim-
ple things as rakes and shovels are
This tiny child, long in need of
medical aid, is now in a hospital
supported by the U.N. Internation-
al Children’s Emergency Fund.
Funds are being raised through the
Crusade for Children of American
Overseas Aid-United Nations Ap-
peal for Children.
so short that farms Ccjn't be forked
until they are furnished. Later they
will be manufactured. But that
means machinery for the factories
comes first.
Crusade for Children is a well-
organized private effort which has
the backing and cooperation of the
United Nations, and the sponsor-
ship and approval of the govern-
ment from the President down.
It provides direct citizen-to-citizen
aid which is administered carefully
with experienced personnel on the
scene — personnel which cuts red
tape and is free from many of the
rules, regulations and restrictions
which a government necessarily
must employ. As a matter of fact,
when th,e European recovery plan
was first drawn up, it was contem-
plated that voluntary private aid
would supplement it.
As an example of the type of thing
Crusade, for Children is designed to
further: In Europe at present, there
are some 50,000 distributing points,
such as schools, child clinics and
hospitals serviced by the Interna-
tional Children’s Emergency Fund
of the United Nations.
At schools and child centers, par-
ticularly through dried milk, ICEF
makes a supplementary contribu-
tion to the noon meal, which costs
the fund about three and a half
cents per child. The entire meal
An Austrian orphan waits on
snow-covered steps for the daily
meal provided for him by the
United Nations' International Chil-
dren’s Emergency Fund. He is one
of millions who would starve with-
out this vital service.
costs only seven cents per child. One
hundred dollars provides 7,500 hun-
gry, undernourished children one
glass of milk each at every meal.
But because of limited funds, ICEF
is feeding only four million of Eu-
rope’s 30 million hungry children.
Here are some of the sickening
facts, carefully collected and
checked by United Nations authori-
ties:
Infant mortality in Europe and
Asia has jumped from 40 deaths
per 1,000 live births to as high as
330 deaths per 1,000—compared
with the United States rate of 38.3
per 1,000.
Tuberculosis has doubled in
many areas, especially among chil-
dren. Lack of food has vastly in-
creased such diseases as rickets,
scurvy and pellagra.
Physical examinations in one
zone (of Europe) showed that boys
14 years of age are three inches
shorter than boys of the same age
four years ago. This is the direct
result of malnutrition.
In some areas half the physicians
were killed; teachers, nurses and
those trained in child care are
lacking.
I have sat in the office of a Ger-
man physician—-one room left liv-
able in a bombed house, windows
boarded up to replace the smashed
glass, operating room, consultation
office, bedroom, living room, all to-
gether with an endless line of pa-
tients with nothing to pay for the
doctor’s services which would buy
anything for the doctor. That doc-
tor told me that because of the hope-
less fate of children, abortions were
the rule rather than the exception,
with sickness and death as the re-
sult.
Not the government, but private,
voluntary agencies can alleviate
these conditions. One may feel that
Europe has brought much of its
anguish upon itself, but it is not the
children who are to blame.
As Secretary of State Marshall
said: “Voluntary aid supplements
the general relief which only govern-
ments can provide. It affords the
things and services, including spir-
itual comfort, needed by the weak-
est of the war victims. . . .”
* * . •
Secretary of State Marshall has
warned South American countries
that there will be no Marshall Plan
for them. It appears that they either
must go out and obtain private
financing or work up a good Com-
munist threat to share in Uncle
Sam’s largesse.
* * * v". ;
A modern president spends more
effort trying to get what he wants
into the papers and on the air than
in finding out what’s there already.
TRUMAN AND HIS DOG
Somebody asked President Truman
the other day what had become of
Feller, the cocker spaniel pup pre-
sented to him last winter. “Oh, he’s
around,” answered the President,
admitting under pressure that the
pooch was still non-resident at the
White House and in charge of the
presidential physician, Dr. Graham,
over at his place. This is bound to
cost Harry more votes.
_ * -3
A dog, especially a puppy, is
good publicity. Affection for one
warms the public heart. It gives
the human touch to a man and to
a situation. But Harry seems about
as close to this pup as he does to
Hank Wallace.
_ * _
After a single day’s blast of pub-
licity when the dog arrived at the
White House as a gift, Feller fell
out of the hews. It later developed
that, not being housebroken, the
pooch had been turned over to Dr.
Graham. And now, months later, the
animal is still an outsider. Mr. Tru-
man’s campaign backers had better
look into this.
— * —
Any reputation a man may have
built up for big-heartedness, au-
thority and an ability to cope, with
major problems is shattered when
the impression spreads that home-
breaking a pup is too big for him.
_* —
We warn the Democratic na-
tional committee that all is lost
unless it immediately takes action.
The Republicans may circulate a
photo of a sad-looking presidential
pooch, alone and desolate, under
the caption'“When a Feller Neefds
a Friend.” ' '
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Harry should adopt a more heart-
warming dog policy at once. (Has
he a pup policy? Is he for tolerance
when it comes to housebreaking a
hound? What is his doghouse prob-
lem, short term and long range? We
pause for a reply.)
_* _
Better have the doctor bring the
pooch back to the White House,
Harry. He must be fairly well broken
by this time. If not it might be a
good idea to keep the dog and fire
Dr. Graham.
* * *
THE COUNTRY EDITOR SAYS;
Ezra Cooper and family had a
quiet dinner last night to cele-
brate the third anniversary of
their application for a new auto.
Clint Crockett is talking so
much against everything that’s
always been considered dear to
America that he may run for the
presidency.
* * *
Removal of a Landmark
To these eyes the destruction of
the Charlie Schwab mansion, long
a landmark on Riverside drive, New
York, and stared at by countless
visitors to the big town for more
than half a century, is a sad sight.
To us the Schwab place was the Riv-
erside drive of yesterday ... we
can remember gazing at it from the
top of a bus as a boy . . . and won-
dering how long it would take us
to make Charles Schwab, the steel
king, move over and make way for
us to eclipse him as a wonderboy.
_ * _
As it crumbles into dust something
of New York goes with it, including
the spirit of an era when a man
wasn't hated because he had made
money, when people smiled at the
mansions of the rich and when a
well-built house was not a novelty.
The more you watch the wreckers
struggling to tear down the Schwab
place the more you appreciate the
fact that the builders of yesterday
never did it with a few stray nails.
* * *
Vanishing Americanisms
“What makes everything so quiet
and peaceful around here?”
_ * _
“He wouldn’t dare do that; it
would violate a treaty.”
_ * _
“Let’s go out to dinner twice
this week.”
_ * _
“Waiter, that was a fine dinner;
here’s 50 cents for yourself.”
_ * _
“This round is on the house.”
_ * _
“Charley, fill up those platters
on the freie lunch counter! "*
* * *
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high pay, Y 229 Herald Tribune”—
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_ * _
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century plant be okay?
* • *
CAN YOU REMEMBER:
Away back when a man could af-
ford a yacht even if he had only a
million or two?
_ *__
An old-fashioned American was a
fellow who thought nothing should
cost more than five times what 11
was worth.
* * *
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