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PAG2 EIGHT. TTTTrTT'TrTl7"'T,T'TTrTTTTTn IlIlIlIEliMIlCHllH i . Asa MMM :- DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON. WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23,1921. LL . moesl to t or THREE and one-half million children in Eastern, and Central Europe have no al ternative to disaster between now ann next harvest except American aid." For months, because the needy were so numerous and the available funds so limited, . these most helpless sufferers in the track of war have been admitted to American feed-. ing stations only if tragically, undernourished, and have received American medical aid only if desperately threatened by death from disease. i ,..,.' Winter is closing down. The money of many nations is valueless outside their own boundaries. Economic and crop conditions, aggravated over considerable areas by actual warfare last summer, make famine, with its terrible train of diseases, a cer tain visitor until next harvest. Inevitably the helpless children will suffer most No child can grow to health and sanity on the pitiful makeshifts for food with which mil lions of European adults must content themselves this winter It is obvious that the remedy can come only from outside. ' 'America saved 6,000,000 European children winter before last Normal recuper ation cut the need nearly in half last year, but unusual conditions have resulted in scant shrinkage of child destitution during the twelvemonths just past The response of America raust now decide whether 3,500,000 of these charges, in acute distress, shall be gin to be turned away from more than 17,000 asylums, hospitals, clinics and feeding stations dependent on American support There would.be no tragedy in history so sweeping or so destructive of those who can deserve no evil. 1 - ' ' Numerous organizations, working am ong every race and creed, many engaged also in other forms of relief, agree unanimously that the plight of these helpless chil ) dren should have complete priority in overseas charity until the situation is met This : is an issue without politics and without religious lines. There can be no danger of pau perization, for the $23,000,000 for child food and the $10,000,000 for medical service that we seek, will relieve only the critical cases. The medical supplies, of course, must ' be an unqualified gift, but for every American dollar used in child-feeding, the govern-" ments and communities aided furnish two dollars in the form of transportation, rent, labor, clerical help,; Cash contributions and such food supplies as are locally obtainable. America has not failed in the past in great-heartedness. She has never had a more poignant call than this. v . . . ARMENIANS and CHINESE Are Starving by the Thousands ! 1 j r ... .. Pendleton, You MVS T HELP! This Space Paid for by the Pendleton Commercial Ass'n TEN PAGES J .: 3 i..m. n )W jh(g