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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER Z 3
COUNCIL HfIS’NT
FIXED BUSINESS
LICENSES
And Must Meet Again in Spe
cial Session to Act Formally
on Matter---Council Only De
cided to Make Near-Beer
License SI,OOO.
There will be a special meeting of
council Wednesday, at 5 p. m., to
pass the business license ordinance. A
great many people, including members
of council, thought that the business
license ordinance was adopted at the
special meeting held on Friday night
last but such was not the case.
Here is the -way things occurred. Af
ter the recess of ten minutes, which
was taken immediately following ad
dresses by Mr. W. H. Barrett and Dr.
M. Ashby Jones, in support of the SSOO
license and 50 saloons, Mr. William
Martin, of the sixth ward, moved that
the near beer license be fixed at SI,OOO.
There was some discussion, amend
ments were proposed, etc., but council
finally passed the SI,OOO license with
out a dissenting vote. However, it fail
ed to pass the business license ordi
nance in which was incorporated the
$1 ,000 license for near beer saloons.
The proper form for the motion would
have been that the business license
ordinance, as reported by the finance
committee, be adopted This would
have included the SI,OOO license.
Members of council thought, and
some still think, that the motion of
Mr. Martin ended the matter, but as a
matter of fact council must meet to
formally pass the business license or
dinance. It will be a matter of form
but the form must be observed.
Mr. Martin will be excused for his
mistake because, to be perfectly frank
about it, members of council were
still under the spell that Dr. Jones had
thrown over them in his masterful
talk.
LftUEHED ABOUT
KILLING WIFE
Albert Tolbert, White Man
From Greenwood, S. C., Car
ried to Columbia via Augusta
For Safe-Keeping.
Albert Tolbert, a young white man,
apparently about 35 years of age, who
choked his wife to death Sunday af
ternoon in Panora, a little cotton mill
village near Greenwood, S. C., was
brought to Augusta last night by
Sheriff McMillan, of Greenwood
County, who was enroute to Columbia
with the prisoner foY safekeeping.
The coroner’s Jury found a verdict
against Tolbert for cold blooded mur
der and the feeling against him is
running high in Greenwood County.
For this reason the sheriff deemed it
wiser to remove him to a safer place.
He left with the prisoner at 6:40
o'clock this morning for Columbia.
Tolbert appeared very little con
cerned here over the deed. He gave
the officers the impression that he was
either a half wit or a crazy person.
He declared, so It Is said, that he
couldn't go to sleep last night l»e
--cause the fellow in the cell beneath
him was crunk and noisy. He is said
to admit freely that he choked his
wife and laughs about it.
The crime occurred Sunday after
noon and after the woman was dead
he sent for the sheriff and the un
dertaker. Long domestic trouble
caused Tolbert to make away with liis
wife, sd it is said.
Dr. T. L. Davis Entertains
Undergraduate
Osteopaths
Basket Ball Team From Ameri
can School of Osteopathy
Guests at a Banquet at the
Genesta.
A very delightful banquet was ten
dered by Dr. Thomas L. Davis, prom
inent Augusta osteopath, to the mem
bers of the basketball team of the
American School of Osteopathy of
Klrksville, Mo. The affair was held
at the Genesta Hotel and was thor
oughly enjoyed by every one present.
Dr. Davis is a graduate of the Ameri
can School of Osteopathy, which is
the parent school and the largest in
stitution for the study of the scien
tific treatment of disease in America.
The young men who came here to
play basketball made a splendid im
pression. They are a clean-cut aggre
gation, playing a fast snappy game,
and are thorough sportsmen. They
made a most favorable Impression on
every one who saw them last night.
They were somewhat Jaded, having
played almost every night for more
than a week In seven different cities.
They left at 12:30 today for Atlanta.
All of the young men left singing the
praises of Augusta and they are de
lighted with the entertainment they
have received on their trip South.
XMAS PRAISE SERVICE
AT ST. JOHN METHODIST
There will he no prayermeeting at
St. John’s Church tonight.
The pastor announces a most Inter
esting Christmas praise service on
Friday morning.
Christmas song*, scriptural re
sponses. a special message by the
pastor and friendly greetings will be
the order of program.
A cordial Invitation is extended to
all to unite In this early morning
praise service that we may better un
derstand the m*atilng and experience
(he Joy of Christmas Day.
NEGRO'S HOUSE
BURNS MO UE
IS ARRESTED
John Mays’ Home on 15th
Street Destroyed By Fire
Early Wednesday. Some
Suspicious Circumstances.
About 5 o’clock Wednesday morning
fire destroyed the home of a negro,
John Mays, on Fifteenth street, near
the Richmond county stockade. The
negro owned the house and the loss
is probably more than SI,OOO. It was
insured. Suspicious circumstances
| connected with the affair led to the
arrest of Mays by the police, although
no charges have been actually pre
ferred. The negro was drinking at
the time and it may have been the
, liquor he had been imbibing that caus
ed him to make allege conflicting
statements.
Mays said that he got up shortly
before five o'clock and made a fira
in his children's room, he leaving the
house to go to a store several hun
dred yards away. He said that the
house caught on fire, he knows not
how, and burned while he was away.
His wife tolrf Captain Crouch, of the
fire department, that she was awak
i ened by the smoke llmt filled the house
and had difficulty in getting her chil
dren out of the house before they were
Injured. Whether the fire popped out
on the floor in the children’s room
or how the house caught is not known.
There was a piano in a wagon In
the yard that had .been placed there
Tuesday night and/this was the first
suspicious circumstance. However,
Mays and his wife declare that they
had decided to lend the piano to a
relative to be used for an entertain
ment Christinas and had intended
moving it early Wednesday morning.
Developments in the case will he
watched with interest. The house had
burned almost down when the l'ire de
partment was called on and the dis
tance is considerable, while it takes
nearly 2,000 feet of hose to reach the
nearest plug.
Mays is an Industrious negro and
people who know him well do not think
him guilty of arson, although not
vouching for him while drunk.
1. ROCKEFELLER IS
COMING 10 AUGUSTA
Standard Oil King Writes
Friends That He Will Be Here
Within Next Few Weeks, Al
though Bon Air Has Heard
Nothing From Him
r o ro<
Friends of Mr. John D. Rockefeller
in Augusta have received letters from
him stating that he is coming to Au
gusta tliis winter and will be here
within the next few weeks. Although
the Bon Air Hotel has received no ad
vices indicating that the oil king is
to return here for a sojourn, still it is
a fact that Mr. Rockefeller Is coming.
Mr. Rockefeller enjoys motoring over
the roads around Augusta and playing
golf on the links of the Country Club.
He was not here last winter.
It is assumed that when Mr. Rocke
feller comes he will stay at the Bon
Air, as he has always stayed at that
hotel.
STOLE A COW, SAWED OFF
PORTION AND LEFT REST
Fine Jersey Cow of “Uncle”
Wade Mims, of North Augus
ta, Stolen and Killed Sunday
Morning.
Evidently someone was hungry in
North Augusta Saturday night. “Un
cle" Wade Mims, an old negro em
ploye of the town had to suffer for
that person’s hunger, it seems. Mims
was the owner, up until sometime
Sunday morning, of a fine Jersey cow,
having raised It from a calf.
Sunday morning Mims went to feed
the cow when to his dismay he found
that the rope had been cut and the
cow stolen. A search was Instituted
and the cow, dead, was found at the
edge of the swamp of that section,
with its throat cut. The left hind
quarter of the cow was seemingly
sawed off, and was appropriated by
the guilty party, leaving the rest of
the cow where he, or they, had kil'ed
it.
Marhsall Horn arrested two negroes
yesterday but let them go this morn
ing for lack of evidence. He stated
that he Is working on a clue that he
believes will lead to the arrest and
conviction of the guilty party.
SMALL BOY AND HIS
FIREWORKS IN EVIDENCE
Poppers Exploded on Broad
Street in Anticipation of
Christmas.
The small boy, with his harmless
fireworks, was in evidence for the first
time on Broad street last evening.
There were a number of "poppers” ex
ploded during the evening, which cre
ated animation among the little fellows
who think that Christmas is not
Christmas unless they are allowed to
“shoot" their fireworks. It would
seem that the merchants and city au
thorities are vieing with each other in
tlie matter of selling and permitting
the harmless, sane and safe fireworks,
and if the more dangerous ones at • not
used there can scarcely he any serious
objection to the younger generation
having his usual fun In this manner.
LUHRS CASE*WAS”
POSTPONED TODAY
The case of the city vs. Charles H.
Luhrs, charged with selling whiskey
on Sunday, was called In the recorder’s
court Wednesday morning hut was
postponed until December 30th at the
request of the city. Mr. Lttlira denies
the charge.
Irish Political Contest Interesting
In Spite of War
LADY GRANARD.
London. —Tlie contest between Lord Wimbornee and Lord Granard for the
I-ord Lieutenancy of Ireland is attracting attention despite tlie war. Lady Gra
nard. who was Beatrice Ogden Mills, is a gre.it source of strength to her
husband, for it is known tiiat she has tho ability and tact, to say nothing of
the wealth, to discharge the social duties of the otrice with distinction. The
salary of tlie Lord Lieutenant is SIOO,OOO it year, hut thlH does not meet the
outlays of the post except in the most frugal hands and there Is umple oppor
tunity to sepnd five times as much.
“DOCTORS”LOST
TO THE T 1 Cl
American School of Osteopathy
of Kirkville, Mo., Defeated by
Locals By Score of 52 to 32.
The Y. M. C. A. basketball team de
feated the American School of Osteopa
thy, of Kirkville, Mo., last night at the
association building by the score of
52 to 32 in one of the best and clean
est games ever played on an Augusta
court.
The local aggregation showed far
better form than they did in the re
cent game with Athens, thus the Os
teopathy went down to defeat. The
game was enjoyable from the begin
ning until the end, interest was never
lax. The team, work of the local club
could have been no better, the Indi
vidual play just as good, In fact the
contest goes to prove that the Y. M. C.
A. has gotten together a team that
can battle with the best of ’em, and
stand a chance at that. The star of
the occasion was Captain Hester, of
the locals, Hester being light, simply
piled up the score by his continuous
efforts, aided by his marvelous faculty
to put the sphere through the hoop.
Rheney, who showed grand form was
backed up by every member of the team
Olds, for the visitors, featured with
Englar a close second. The rest of the
visitors demonstrated that they knew
the game for all that It afforded, gain
ed by their experience, not a man on
the club having played the game less
than four years. They were the clean
est lot of players that the locals ever
tackled.
The first half ended In favor of tho
Y. M. C. A. by the score of 26 to 23
points, and wns a little better than tho
second half. It seemed during the sec
ond half that the visitors were a little
fagged, therefore the locals simply
walked away with them. Rheney fea
tured In his long-distance goal-shoot
ing, which was the feature of the
game,
In the last half the "doctors" were
unable to score but 9 points.
The Hqt-up:
Tjocals. Position. Visitors.
Hester Olds
Left Forward.
Young Manhart
Right Forward.
Claussen Englar
Center,
Rheney Wilson
Right Guard.
Muller, fflbley Foster, Johnson
Left Guard.
Teacher—Willie, why don’t you keep
your hair combed?
Willie—’Cause I ain’t got no comb.
Teacher Why don’t you ask your
mother to buy you one?
Willie—’Cause then I’d have to keep
my hair combed. —Boston Transcript.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
CITY BRIEFS
Caught Negro Burqlar.—William
Harrison, alias Bill, alias Georgs
Washington, a negro, charged with
burglarizing the homo of Mr. M. A
Rushton, at 2315 Central avenue, was
turned over to Deputy Sheriff Whit
tle by Conductor John Laird, of tlio
Georgia Railroad yesterday. The ne
gro is said to have stolen a.trunk from
the home of Mr. Rushton, carried It
some distance from the house, broko
into it and stole $25 and then went to
Grovetown, where he hoarded a Geor
gia train. Conductor Laird recognized
him and turned him over to Deputy
Sheriff Whittle, whom he happened to
see at Camak. Twenty-two dollars of
the money was recovered.
Live Wire on the Street.—Consider
able excitement was created yesterday
evening about 6:30 o’clock on the 700
block of Broad street, near the Monu
ment, when a trolley wire charged with
electricity broke and fell on tlie street.
The wire, In falling narrowly missel
striking a lady. Tho motorman and
conductor of a street ear took charge
of the situation and kept pedestrians
and vehicles away until linemen came
to repair tlie damage.
Bridge Over Canal.—A concrete
bridge Is to he creeled over the ea
nal at Ninth and D’Antignac streets
and Mr. Nlsbet Wingfield, commission
er of public works, has drawn plans
In accordance with instructions from
city council. The bridge is to cost
not over $3,000.
Elks Plan Christmas Tree.—A
Christmas tree will he given on.Chrlst
mas Day by the Augusta Elks fln their
lodge rooms. It Is expected that every
Elk In the city will be present and It
will he a most enjoyable affair. The
Elks this year, as usual, are giving a
great deal to charity.
WAR PRESENTS ITALIAN
RIVIERA OPPORTUNITIES
Monte Carlo.—The war has brought
an opportunity to the Italian Rlverera,
and towns In this region will make
strenuous endeavors this winter to
gather to themselves what Is left of
the winter resort business formerly
monopolized by Nice, Mentone, and
other French places. At the llochers
Rouge, a Htone’H throw beyond tho
border, a Casino Is to tie opened with
n. government license, to compete with
Monte Carlo. There Is also much ac
tivity at Han Remo and Bordighera,
although these places are largely filled
up with Germans and Austrians who
have been expelled from France. Nice
and Mentone, which formerly saw at
least 49,000 German visitors every
season, will suffer heavily as a result
of the war,
106 GERMAN THEATREB OPEN,
Amsterdam, via London. —The Ber
lin Tagehlatt. In a review of the the
atrical situation, states that 106 Ger
man theatres have opened for the
season, while JO7 have decided to re
main (dosed. Of 7,200 unemployed
actors, about 3.000 are known to bo
at the front. I
FIGHTING MAKES SOLDIERS
HUNGRY—EAT TOO MUCH
London. —Fighting makes soldiers
hungry and they also eat in excess
when food is at hand, through fear
that they may not get any more for
somo time, a Servian soldier writes a
fellow countryman here.
"If I wanted half as much to eat at
home as I do when campaigning, my
little farm wouldn't support me,” the
letter said in part. "We all feel the
same—that we must lay up at each
meal enough to last us for days, the
future being to uncertain.
"When we were In the trenches a
hundred yards or so from our oppon
ents, likewise In trenches, we wanted
something to eat besides maize and a
few men risked their skins to go for
aging to the nearest villages. They
cumo hark next day with three roast
lambs, and, In the joy of the feast,
we forgot precautions. Hitherto we
never popped up our heads except to
fire, but now wo could not resist call
ing, 'Hey, Swabos! See what we've
got for breakfast!’ and we showed
them the roast meat, knowing it would
make them wild. They fired a volley
at it, breaking It into fragments.
The Babes of Belgium
Bg WILL IRWIN
Eighty Thousand Innocents Bom
In War —Mothers Scrape Empty
Tin Cans Thrown from German
Camp Kitchens.
TWO or three little pictures before
I really begin:
It was the Pas tie Calais at the end
of October—an October blessed, In
this year of dread, with clear, cool,
bracing weather, much like our own
Indian Summer. Around a turn In the
road came a strange, shuffling multi
tude, doubly strange in that well-or
dered landscape.
At the head marched an old woman
—a stalwart, straight-backed Flomlßh
woman vigorous In spits of har
sixty years. Beside her walked a boy
of not mors than twelve, hts figure
already settling Into a peasant solid
ity. He, like the old woman, car
ried on his back a bundle wrapped In
a sheet. And between them they
dragged by the hand a little girl, not
more than six years old —half car
ried her, since now and then she
raised her feet from the ground and
let them support her.
BEYOND TEARS.
It was plain to see why she lifted
her feet. Her poor little shoes, heavy
though they had been In the begin
ning, were worn clear through. Her
clothes and hair were matted with
dirt, and her face was gray with It,
eavo for tile streaks made by l r
tears. She had stopped crying now
she was beyond that. There come
the time with all these refugees,
young an 4 old. when they get beyond
tears.
Behind followed the rest of tbs
refugee caravan, like these leader*,
except for minor details. Of course
there was not among them a man of
vigorous years—only a few grand
fathers. trudging along beside their
women folk. Mainly. It was a col
lection of yeung children—all, like
tha little girl In the leading party,
beyond tears and misery.
A MONTH OF FLIGHT.
A doxen of ths women, at least,
carried babes In arms who had some
how survived the miseries of days
and days of walking. These were the
last of the Belgian refugees to pour
Into France. They cams mainly
from that thickly-settled, fertile, one*
prosperous southwestern strip along
which Germans and allies were now
fighting for the bridge-head of the
Yaer.
But not all. Borne of them as
I learned from the few who had the
energy to talk—lived further north.
A month before they had tied from
the German advance after the capture
of Antwerp; and they had been flee
ing ever since sleeping In the fields
through rain and shine, eating what
bread of charity Heaven only knows.
BABE BORN IN TENT.
The tall of ths procession, I foand,
had halted at a arossroads beside
which som# ons had erected a tent
from blankets strung on sticks. As 1
approached, wondering what this
might be, an automobile came whir
ling down the road at seventy miles
an hour—there are no speed Laws for
military automobile* In time of war.
It stopped beside the tent; there was
a parley and a man In Belgian uni
form wearing a Bed Crons brassard
on his arm alighted.
"What Is It —what Is happening?”
I asked the first of the refugees be
side the tent —an old man who
crouched In the gutter.
“l/n enfant —a baby Is being born,”
he said briefly. The man In uniform
was a Belgian surgeon taking time
from hln work of repairing death to
assist in giving life.
Again: It was ths next day In
Calais—Calais, once so busy and so
venerable, and In spots so pretty, but
now faded and dirty with the passage
of armies. Ten thousand of these
refsgeea came Into Calais that day
That day, also, ths Bad Cross was
bringing In Belgian wounded by the
thousand there had been serious
fighting along ths Yser.
HERDED ON THE PIERS.
The refugees, herded or escorted by
ths polloe, streamed down ths streets
to ths concentration yards prepared
for them on the docks of the French
Government, which woe going to
transport them to ths Midi as soon **
It could get the steamers. You would
hear now and then the toot of an
automobile horn, and the refugees
would make way for the passage of a
motor-oar loaded to capacity with the
white-faced wounded. Tlie car would
go on, and the refugees would eloes
their gaps and resume their weary,
nerveless pees.
At the concentration yards they sat
tn family groups, ths children hud
dled about their mothers and grand-
“ ‘Thanks for carving it! We had
no knives and forks, so in return for
your service we will share with you,’
shouted our corporal. Then we lay in
our trenches and ate our fill, throwing
the bones to the Swabos and laughing
at their shots which all went astray,
they were so angry.
‘‘The next day we saw boats sus
pended on sticks outside the Austrian
trenches, and a voice called In broken
Servian, ‘See, you rots, how are
shod, whilo you have not even sound
sandals!' Then our commander re
minded us of all the roast meat we
had consumed, and said that on the
strength of it wo ought to be able to
earn a pair of boots. So we charged at
a moment when the Swabos least ex
pected it. Sure enough we drove them
out and captured hundred of new
boots, with many other good things.
In that charge I was wounded, but 1
briught away my new’ boots."
DURING THE~WAR MANY
“DEPLORABLE MISTAKES”
London. —Many deplorable mistakes
have been made during the war, Colo
nel Uniacke of the Gordon Highland
ers. declared in a lecture recently be-
mothers like chickens around hens.
No child among them laughed or
played; they were too weary for that;
but no child cried. I was trying to
have speech with these refugees, and
flrdlng them too nerveless to give
any account of their adventures when
an ambulance arrived.
NO MILK; BABIES DIE.
A nurse and a physician descended.
A woman rose from a distant group
and joined them. She carried In her
arms a bundle wrapped in rags. The
slant of her back showed that the
handle contained a child—there Is an
attitude of motherhood whloh none
can mistake.
The women In the nearest group
followed the pantomime with their
tearless, hopeless eyes.
"What Is It?" I asked.
For a time none of the women an
swered. Then one spoke la a dead
tone.
"Her baby Is dead,” she said. "Ghe
had no milk In her.”
All that happened on the fringe of
Belgium, to the refugeos who had
made their way out and were nearing
aafety, and enough comfort tc keep
soul and body together.
I could multiply Instances from the
observation of others. There was, for
example, the group of two hundred
refugees who arrived in Holland early
in November. They carried with them
four dead, new-born babies.
It was the same story which one
hears everywhere. The mothers were
to reduced by privation that they
aad no milk of their own. As for
cows’ milk, it was not to be had for
any money.
MILK FROM GARBAGE.
Add another plctare, brought out
bv an American from Belgium. He
stood one tn&rnlng by the back door
of a German cook camp, watching a
group of Belgian women grubbing
through the trash-heap plied up be
hind the camp. All tnese women car
ried babies.
"What are they doing?” he asked
a German sergeant with whom he had
struck up acquaintance.
’’.Scraping our condensed milk cans,”
aald the sergeant. "It's the only way
to get milk for their babies. I've seen
them run their lingers round a oan
which looked as bright as s new coin,
and hold them Into the babies' mouths
to suck. My company,” he added,
"baa been getting along without milk
In Its coffee and giving It to these
women. We’ve received no orders to
the contrary—and we re mostly fam
ily men. But we're an exception; and
It doesn't go very far."
A MOTHER COLLAPSES.
Here la another recent picture from
stricken Brussels, that gay, dainty,
lively city In old times the city
whose smiling people called It petit
Parts. The scene Is the once busy,
pleasant boulevard Blschofshelm. A
woman collapses on a bench set along
the Sidewalk after the fashion of the
Greater Paris, in her arms is a baby.
A child staggers along, clinging to
her apron. The woman’s face Is blue
and yelloW; she la on ths verge of col
lapse. The baby, surely not over five
months old, has a pale, lead-colored
skin. Its mouth is open us though
set that way. Its eyes are closed.
Two women of Brussels pass this
unhappy group. They harrledly ex
change somo words, turn back to the
woman on the bench. Then one stand*
guard while the other hastens for
some milk and bread—such as Is to
be found In the Brussels of to day.
They force a little milk between the
teeth of tho mother. They let the
baby drink. Unwearied though It was,
it drinks as though it had never
drunk otherwise.
NO FOOD FOR TWO DAYB.
To the face of the mother comes a
few patches of color. She slowly re
covers until she Is able to eat a hit
of bread. The baby opens Us mouth,
drinks mors greedily. “It has not fed
since two days,” the mother whtspors.
The mother tries to rise from the
bench.but she cannot. The elder child
drinks the milk that Is left, it looks
curlossly at the place of bread ns If
It dtd not know what It was The
mother forces It to eat. A crowd has
gathers!], murmuring This sight is
not new, yet each time It draws a
little crowd. Every one would like
to give—but no one can. Who Is not
poor at this mornent7 Many of them
have children at home who to-day
weigh less than ths day they were
hor n.
France end England and Germany
and Austria are Issuing their lists of
tho deed, which are mounting up day
by day to a ghastly million. But
these take account only of the strong
young men wtio tiavs died In the light
ing. They do not taks account of
mere non-ebrnbatants. They do not list
ths women who, foolishly or Ignor
antly stick te thslr homes, have died
under the shell-fire of enemies or
friends They do not list ths weak
and helpless who have dropped ost
from the pathetic caravans of refu
gees to perish along the edges of the
roads. They do out take list ut these
fore an audience of soldiers at the
Hounslow Barracks. A summary of
tlie lecture was permitted to pass the
censor too.
It was a “deplorable mistake,” ac
cording to Colonel Uniacke, which
caused Huch heavy casualties In his
regiment. An order to charge was
given which never should have been
given, he said, and the Gordons went
forward “only to come under a ter
rible shrapnel and shell fire” to which
rthey were exposed for a long time. It
watt never ascertained who gave the
order to attack.
Nor was this terrible experience of
the Gordons an isolated one, Colonel
Uniacke said. He declared he knew
of other regiments that had been or
dered to make “a perfectly hopeless
attack” and had made It at the cost
of half their strength, and afterwards
"It was found that the order to at
tack was never given by the General.”
No order to advance or attack
should ho taken, he insisted, unless It
were properly authenticated.
“Why is that man laughing?”
"Because he bought a horse cheap
ly."
“And what’s the other one chuck
ling over?”
“He sold the horse.”
No Strong Men In Fugitive Army.
Babe Born in Tent—Amerlc*
Attempts to. Supply Quarter
Ration.
who are beginning to die by IraajpzF
lr. stricken Belgium. And finally, they
do not list these babes of Belgium,
dropping off before their Uvea bsvu
fairly begun, because there Is HO milk.
BABES MUST HAVE MILK.
Lot us view the situation In ooM.
blood. Belgium la aturt off from tha
world—ringed with steel. Har own
food supply was used up long ago.
either by the people or by their con
querors. Tha cattle were Brat of oil
to go; oven In A a gust I aaw tbs Ger
mans killing milch cows far rations.
A cow or a small dairy hard Is loft
hers or there; but tbsy arc the ex
ceptions.
The supply of oondenaed ratlk ran
ahort long ago. Now milk la e ne
cessity to most olvUlaed children be
tween the ages of one and two years.
Gome children. It la true, pull through,
under exceptional clrcumatanoaa of
privation without It; but thaae are
the unusually sturdy; they stand
apart from tho rule. The average,
young child must have milk or ha 1
will die. And there Is no milk.
Again, tho suckling baby must have
mother's milk or a substitute. There
ls, of course, no substitute to be had
in Belgium and equally there la little
mother’s milk.
Every woman knows that a civil
ised nursing mother must “keep up
hor strength.” She must have nour
ishing food in many cases special
food. Every woman knows that a
certain proportion of civilised
mothers cannot feed their awn babies
even at that.
Nourishing food special fooodt
The news which Biters out of that
locked, stricken country to the
American Commission for Belief in
Belgium makea a sarcasm and a
mockery of those phrases.
BUN AND CABBAGE oOUfM
In many. If r.ui in most Belgian
cities, tha populace la down to oae
large baker's bun a day. Issued by
the municipal authorities In some
places the authorities have been able
to supplement that ration by one bowl
of oabbage sou > a day. Ons bun and
one bowl of Garbage soup a day—tor
a nursing mother!
Yet that is all they have and all
they will have this Winter at the beat
America can do. The American Com
mission hopes at best to transmit ten
onnees of food a day to each Inhabi
tant of Belgium—and to do that tho
people of the United States must
strain every resource of charity. How
little that Is for a civilised human be
ing. and especially for a nursing
mother, becomes plain when one
learns that tha average Inhabitant of
Greater New York consumes forty
two ounces of food a day. The best
the mothers of Belgium can hope for
is a quarter ration this Winter.
80,000 INNOCENTS.
Kven allowing for the reduction of
the birth rate due to the war. there
must have been forty thousand births
in Belgian: sines tbs Germans cense.
There will be forty thousand more la
this Wlntar of hardship and priva
tion, How many of the newly arrived
forty thousand hare already died on
naceesarlly—undecorated, unsung vto
time of this war—no ons wtu ever
know.
How many of the coming forty
thousand will die thw Winter depends
upon us In America—upon how muett
food we send to the nursing mothers,
how much milk to the bablsa
AMERICA'S OPPORTUNITY.
No Christmas In our time has
brosght such a call for ths Christmas
spirit as this. Belgium Is starving.
America Is trying te feed ths Bel
gians. The best ws can ds Is t* give
(hern quarter rations this Winter—
Just enough to kssp soul and body to
gether Ws cannot do svtn that an
ise* every American helps,
A barrel of flour will pull tws Bel
gian adults through this Winter A
case of condensed milk will save ths
lives of rhres Belgian children. A
few tins of mast will gfv# a nursing
mother ths strength to kssp bar ohlld
alive. Think *of that when you sit
down to your Christmas dinner
Many organisations are solioltliig
food and funds. If thsra Is ene In
yosr community, help It. If there is
none, start one. Ths Commission for
Belief In Belgium, No. T 1 Broadway
New York, will tell you how to go tl
work. *
Copyright bv Commission for He Hos.
in Belgium, No. 7i Ihoadway,
Novo York,
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