SAVE THE CHILDREN FUND

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7472, 13 August 1920, Page 4

SAVE THE CHILDREN FUND

i TlieChuroh Army was stared m England Ihy R>v Wilson Carol*, in l'^">, to help the I iv<or una friendly?, both iv body and soul, the I vvMk \»inc commenced with a Rescue Homo--1 Chinch Army work piiMinlly commenced !in New Zealand en Ash Wednesday. 1010 as t., c o ]f._,r.nvii effort for the benefit ot London ! "v-oo^. .^V('-e then :._il 10s 3d has l-cn suVcrib--7i for thn purpose of helping tbe Church .7, ~r- nf Horn-, to feed the many thousands in"t>-d> Lahurond liest Home?, £700 of tins money being eanr.arke. for Cbristm-s dinners i\.r children. , ' Dut a more pressing n.oa is brought under („,,' IK ,tiee s'uee the war, consequently a -7. Y e the Ch^ktreu Fund" has beeu commenced Vp-usland, In June, P'TO. it was officially announced tint the Trea-ury would provide j£ i f"r . rai-^d hv eharita'do organisitions in the I Uip'tW Kingdom for th" relief cf distress in 1 K'.irope. Two months ago £970,000 was piid j i'U.-i "th" Treasury hv the Mansion House ! Fund. Church Army and other?, therefore, douh'c that amount was available to relieve ! the distress. The Chur.di iinn'seutmc the ! paiticuiars in a pamphkt. All money subUcriled in Xc.v Zealand and forwarded to* I Iteadqnarters will receive tho subsidy as if j :ui-vd in the United Kingdom. i lord Curzon says :It is difficult, for our 1 peoole to realise the extent of suffering that ! still exists. The effects are seen in a scale of 1 nvei.alitv that can hardly be measured.'' I The Lord M<;vor of Loudon, speaking of I Asia "Manor and ' Armeuia, said : "Words fail j to de-crihe. or even faintly outline, the. acut. I nn'.ov .- of the child-en The funds at our 1 disposal have been spent to the. last shilling. ! Child life in these regions is a life of starva--1 fc'-m, of neu!oct and hopeless, dvawnoutageny. Will you help to afford these thousands of little p'nes something of food aud covering for their poor emaciated bodies something of loving care." '•Save the Children Fand" tells your readers that the war has left Scrim with 500, 1 000 fatherless children and of the'c 150,000 I are quite destitute. I From Budapest, Hungary, Mr Hoover I says. '-Tlure is no milk for cli' Mien. Rickets i is' an almost universal disease, aud paper j clothing and paper bandages have to 1)2 used. i There is no vaseline or ointments to treat bedsores aud other ills caused by the mahuitiition of babies." Madame Milyuka .ays 'That in somo districts in Ilusshi the mortality among children reaches 05 per cent. Milk cannot be obtained, . aud no soap to wash children's clotho3." Mr Hoover wrote to The Times, saying i there wore a million under nomished children j in Poland. Lady Muriel Paget, whose mission has I accomplished so much good work in Czeoho Slovakia, told a Times representative that iv ! one d'stCet of GO.OO'i people there was only j ono doctor. Children do not attend school, bcc.i.ur.3 they have no clothes, and aro too huitgary to lean. Grass is used as a vegcatable. "Bread is made of straw bran and wool. Mr Hoover also said : "I coin mend to the efforti of all English speaking people the staiviug vouug children. There are more than .'ll millions in Europe who will die if not provided with milk. This will have to be done by p.ivate eharitlc"." We rye living in the favoured country of New Zealand and escaped the lavages of war, aud although we have many obligations, yet, could deny ourselves of luxuries to send the money so saved to help those who cannot help themselves iv devastated Europe I shall be glad to re.eive contributions, or the result of any act of self denial for tho sake of others—however small tho sum may bo. The money will be cabled monthly to headquarters, so pressing is the noed. Yours sincerely, j F W. WjJIBLEY Hon. Secretary Church Army in N.Z. Tho Vicarage Orinonchiilo.