SAVE THE CHILDREN FUND.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 143, 14 December 1922, Page 9

SAVE THE CHILDREN FUND.

A NEW QUARTERLY JOURNAL..

(HOI! OCR OWN COXItIIPONDINT.)

LONDON,-13th October "What is the Save' the Children Fund?" This is the question which, the new quarterly journal of the organisation sets itself to answer. What children, are to be saved and why! The first issue of the third annual volume o<! "The. Record" is intended to answer these inquiries. . It places before ,':its readers a review oi the work done by the society since its inception- in the spring of 1919, and those who have contributed to this fund in the past will gain -added interest in the. work they have assisted .from, a perusal of the current issue of the journal. .. :. Hitherto "The Record" has been • small bi-monthly 1 magazine. The new . quarterly contains articles by Miss Eglantyne Jebb, who, with her sister, Mr». O. B. Buxton, founded the Save the Children Fund; by the Lady Muriel Paget, whose mission in Latvia New Zealand supported for a. considerable period; and by Miss Ethel Sedgwick. the novelist, who deals with;;the relief work of the Save the Children -Fund in Great Britain. There are som» strik* ing photographs, including one of aNew Zealand kitchen at Saratov, -Russia, and a map graphically indicates the fact that the fund has administered relief in no ' tewer than 22 States in Europe and the Near East. • " As.it is asserted in the editorial. foreword: "Throughout a varied career during three of the' most fateful years - in, the history of Europe, the Save the Children Fund has held steadfastly to the principle of. placing the needs of the child first, and if, as Disraeli asserted, 'the secret of success ia constancy of purpose,' this society may well have laid the foundations of-a-move-ment the like whereof secular history haa never known." :..,'.. It is recognised that all wars, just or unjust, disastrous or' victorious, are waged against the child. Changing yeart bring new appeals. "We conclude this history," writes Miss Jebb, in her article, "under, the shadow of ' a new tragedy in the Near East, whereby, undoubtedly, many thousands of helpless children have become victims'of minge» and disease and death. True to the principles and the practice which have-been its own since its inception, the Save the Children Fund has lost no time in holding 'out the hand of succour to these little victims of the world's latest crisis and once more it is its proud privilege to go forth, into the field of strife and sorrow and disaster with life-saving gifti in its hands." ' „