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International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926

February 19, 1920 · Page 7 of 8

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r\' IS as if Had Pre- V- f-'.'i'S.I. In asking assistance for the people of the Near East, one needs but to retell the following incident, related by a re- as lief worker in that part of the world: "There Were six Children, Belonging to As Many Different Families, Drifted Away Prom Home and Parents. They had 1 Food But Enough to Last Them One Day. In a Vague Way 1 'They Had Heard That a Committee Would Bring Relief in a I Week Or So. Death By Starvation Stared Them in Their 1 Faces and Rather Than All Should Perish, Five Walked Out Into the Desert and Sure Death, That One Might Be Saved and live. tt Don't you wish you were there to save these children? V- that noble group, but there are others. Little Children, Men and It is too late to those five did. People, who in former days, in the happy days before Women, starving as the war, helped are now helpless and begging for bread. Relief of IJB I "'-1 '-r*i il t'# Vi-* -rf tMWSBft *v 1 *,r ... ?Cr 4 V"*- 4 v.% •••, 7]