Aid for Pakistan
Sir, —In 1915 I was scolded when I threw my apple info a Colombo Street gutter. "A starving little Belgian boy would be glad of that.” My attempt to retrieve the apple for Belgium meant another scolding and a life-long concern about the miseries we can do something about and those which are only news items. The apple sticks in my gullet uain when I see large teams fighting vainly for the lives of incomplete, multiple babies, bom through druginduced medical error, while normal children starve in Bengal without my representative on the spot—the news cameraman—lifting a finger to help. I know my priorities are wrong. The photographer needs to be well fed, and why should he save the child in his photograph when it is only one of so many? But still something is wrong and my C.0.R.5.0. contribution falls short of absolution.—Yours, etc-, “JIM ABELSON.” June 16, 1971,
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32635, 17 June 1971, Page 10
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153Aid for Pakistan Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32635, 17 June 1971, Page 10
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