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MILK FOR BABIES p
By Dr. Edmund von Mach
Q LTHOUGH, this "is the year of our Lord 1916, and Bishop
Grecr'believes “New York is improving," the most inhuman
attempt of history is being made right now. It is the attempt to
- starve the babies ‘of the Central Empires. Unable to conquer their
fathers in a fair fight on thesbattlel-tield, the governments of the
Allied Powers are deliberiatiely trying to snult out the lives of the
little ones by depriving them of.-the 'necessary milk and the rubber
nipples for their nbottles.‘ .First they cut off the milk-producing
fodder from the cows, andnow they are preventing the importation
’ of milk. Holland, Denmark’ and Switzerland have been forced to
enact legislation making the importation of milk into Germany im-
possible, while Sweden and Norway have been deprived of so much
fodder that they find itvdiliicult to furnish enough milk to the in-
habitants of their own northern districts. .
The brutal acknowledgment, made by the Allied Governments in
Europe, that the German-babies need milk but that they must not
The allied mode of
campaign here, therefore” has been to deny the existence of a milk
shortage affecting the Teutonic babies.
To "any intelligent man the proposition that the illegal British
blockade, after a duration of fifteen monthshhad had little or no
effect on the German milk supply would, under ordinary conditions,
be preposterous in view of the fact that, thanks to our humble sub-
mission to the British Orders in Council, our entire export in cotton-
seed meal and oil-cake has ceased. I
Germany used to import before the war almost 1,500,000 tons of
this fodder, and anybody familiar with cows knows how the sudden
stoppage of such fodder must have affected the German milk sup-
ply. There are, however, people-so convinced of the German mar-
- velous eliiciency that they believe the German Government is able
to make cows give milk without feeding them any milk-producing
fodder. Such people should read what reliable Americans recently
returned from Germany have actually seen and have publicly stated
to have" seen. Thelfollowing list of such public statements is by no
means complete, but it will suliice for all who do not wish to be
made accomplices in the murder of innocent babies.
What Unbiased Americans Report on the Milk Shortage
January 7th.-Mr. Alfred Grosse, temporarily in America repre-
senting the American Relief Committee, stated: '
“The milk situation in Germany is becoming acute. There is an
acute shortage of milk and‘ it is ollicially recognized throughout the
Central Empires.”
V February 8th.-Judge Ben B. Lindsey, the famous jurist of Den-
ver, stated:
’ “Accompanied by my wife I came to Germany to study the con-
ditions’ of the children. What I saw appeals to me strongly in behalf
of the little ones. I have seen hundreds of babies in various places
where small rations of milk were doled out. I have heard but one
complaint everywhere; that was of the shortage of butter and the
(Speak-
ing of the British hlockading attempt to starve Germany‘ into sub-
mission, Judge Lindsey continued.) ' It -is now inflicting sulfering,
misery and death on the unfortunate children,-the most innocent of
all. If France and England endeavor to stop such shipments (of
milk) let them justify it before the world and history.” '
March 22nd.-‘Miss Carolyn Wilson stated:
“Of course they (in Germany) are short of milk.”
April 51h.-Mme. Nijinski, wife of the famous Russian dancer,
I direct from an Austrian prisoners’ camp, declares “the stories of a.
V anxiety, and, unless a greater supply should become
milk famine in Germany are far from being exaggerated, and thou-
sands of babiesare sutiering.”
'A1m'l 9th.-,The Mayor of Berlin stated in a cabled interview with
the International News Servicei ‘
“The shortage of milk was causing the authorities the gravest
available it
would seriously affect infant mortality.” , ' ' ' ’
1
April 9th.-Mr. Max W. Zabel stated: , N '
"I observed no scarcity of food in Germany though the supply of
milk is short." ' i I
April 3rd-5th.-Mr. Roy S. MacElwee, recently a clerk in the
ofiice of the American consul-general in Berlin, stated on his arrival
in New York: - g .
“There is a tremendous shortage of milk all over Germany, and
"the babies are suffering greatly.” .
The Tragedy of the German Babies
May 15th.-Miss Ernestine Evans, an American newspaper woman,
stated: .
“;l'her’e is, indeed, a need for milk. I spent the entirewinter in
Berlin and insist that the need is there. I shall never forget the
weary lines I used to pass nor the haggard-faced and haggard-
hearted mothers with a child at the heel and another rested on the
hip quite aware the milk they wanted was hot to be bought."
May 25th.-Mr. Franz Hugo Krebs, w'ho returned on May 23rd,
states: - t ’
“Fewer cows and an absolute cutting odi of American‘ fodder for
the cows have brought about a shortage of milk that is endangering
the lives not only of the children but of invalids everywhere.” .
May 28th.-The New York Time: printed an interview with Mr.
von Jagow, German Secretary of State, which says linlpart:
‘Great Britain is warring on the little children of Gen11any,,and
when philanthropic people in the United States, who wish to help
the children, desire to send milk for their use Great Britain inter-
poses its sea veto. What’ do the press and the people of the United
States really think of a warfare directed against little children?"-
May 31st.-The New York Tribune quotes Dr. L. R. Sattler, of
Newark, who states: r
“Excellency von Pfeuhl- and Prof. Dr. Kimmie, President and
Secretary of the German Red Cross, said to me justbefore I. left
Berlin: ‘Dr. Sattler, when you return to America, please do what-
ever you can to induce your charitable fellow-citizensto send milk
for our babies, Above all we need 'milk for our babiesl"' i
June 2nd.-Mr. P. Burchartz, of New'York City, states: .
“My wife made frequent yisits to the poorer quarters of Berlin,
and never came home without tellingme of the mothers who had
not only not enough milk for their babies, but who found the 5milk
supplied to them of inferior quality.” , h 1‘
June 4th.-Mr. A. F. Beach, staff correspondent of the New York
American, who has just returned‘ from Berlin, states in thg June".
4th issue of that paper:
‘‘N3tI1I’3!b'. 2! meat shortage in Germany means a milklshortage,
and hand in hand with the meat problem goes the milk problem.
It has often been‘ said that of all necessities of life the most needed
in Germany is milk, and this is true. '
“So far as it is possible with a supply of milk which must be ‘
husbanded to the last drop, the Government is caring for the babies '
throughout Germany. But milk is needed.
"I have been told that the State Department at Washington is'
withholding insurance on a ship donated to carry a cargo of milk
to Germany because the State Department does not believe the milk
is needed. Whatever the international aspects of the scheme, the
milk should not be withheld for this reason." ‘ g ,
The British Reioiceat German Misery '‘
Contradicting these categorical statements of ‘conditions as ac-
tually seen we hnd the statements of British otlicialslike Lord’
Robert Cecil cabling from London, ‘or British newspaper ‘men like ,
Lord Northcliffe cabling from the French lines at Verdun, or British -
publicists like Mrs. .1-Emmeline Pankhurst, or British sympathizers
like Mr. S. S.AMcClure, all agreeing that there is no shortage of
mm‘ in Gefmany-K Of thgsepeople Mr. McClure is the only one
who hasactually been in‘Germany. The others" nobody willl'con-
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