Show 1990 14 0 1 9 3 0 4 ail 1 L t 17 V T taa 1 R a keg W arla lw e x I 1 r 1 1 10 aa A V I 1 iader A 0 orlo 0 ka R 3 org D IT 7 1101 B IRV 0 0 I 1 4 by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN S feeding of starving rus sia sin has introduced a new word mord into into the vocabulary of that fam ns ne stil et ilcken clen nation this feed ng of russia Is the biggest piece of phil anth ropy in all history doubtless it will affect the I 1 of the future but wha whatever teNer its effect in the years to come its imme inline I 1 ite tie result has been to add a new word nord to the russ an y that thit Is said with nith lear 1 heartfelt ear gratitude by the peasant masses and shouted joyfully by the children it Is a household word nord among ti tie e a word mord to conjure with in soviet russia f today ahr ahm i Is this new word it Is the native nathe pronunciation nuncia tion of A 11 A the initials which sm L the american relief administration and its manifold worl a of relief t leon trotsky to be sure is saying that the american bourgeois e 0 are glutted v with ith tl tie e blood ind and gold of europe that avlen it en the fire of the european reNo revolution lution Is lighted the Ame american hour will be consumed that punishment and kreneng await the american bourg olsle from the european proletariat but the russian prole prule lariat cry ahra just the same NN vaten I 1 en A we e visited N 1 cited the feeding kitchen in tl e old palace of the czars at Tsar said E ai flesh the cl ildren jumped to their feet and shouted in spontaneous greeting ahra mr flesh didenti cission feed ed with the A R A tl e united states grain corn coin and the purchasing c coram assion I 1 ad just enishel Eni rini shed an inspection trip of a month through fam pirn ane districts this was nas in december 1022 ro eaid vaid further I 1 think the back of the famine Is broken broen though well vell have hane to I 1 leep beep on feeding tie children we fed one and a I 1 alt alf m ilion people at tl e peal pegi of our activities blat tl at number Is being deci eased now and I 1 henceforth ence forth m we e m will ill care for j the or khan han children and the side sick tie Ameil can medi ral cal program in rus ru s a is one of the big biggest est thin things thins s ie ever v er done by one country for agoti er n aved e d go into hospitals and see abdol daely empty shelves P iti en an order w m be issued and in ax pour supplies the gratitude of tl e people w m as to ich ing dg doctors came to us x with ith tears in tl e r ea eves es to express their athani a dut but best of all m were ere tl e clas it made iou feel feet good alen ticy tl ey shouted ahra to tl it Is a word mord of saha salvation tion and cope hope I 1 here Is another contemporary deser piton of the Bitu atlon you are from the ahra 7 the r eyes open and hy gaze as they might do on a ling and gild as aften BS ins not they fall on their knees and I 1 iss houi oui hand tand and then I 1 wish all the people who tall so lou ion ily if letting the Rus russians tike take care of themselves be present they m would be pi pio perly ashamed lus particularly the russian peasants would ouch nuch prefer to live the on their own oun food they lime ao 10 desire to sit down and u wait aft for a nation I 1 ov onn ever kind hearted to come across the sea to tt air lw elp they want their own corn ahey to BOW it even eneri when they were living thing on horseflesh for or foad d they thought even enen god had for otten them and then the ahra appeared it fed heir children first beneral sev eral million of vern tl cm and ind ihor hen ben it U fed tl em if it fed their alel it a implied hir hospitals with mith of stocks of tine lne it put so domett ing in their arroa arms to i sard ward ot the g e dreaded cholera and other diseases froin from which f they hae ha hav e suffered so many years the aari did thih this on bel be elf ot tl e american ie N liy by lid the ahng do it foi trade or political idva tae TI 11 ea hive e got neither though they fir me e in I 1 nearie a air they must I 1 lave an e done it then for pure lov ione e of humanity A wonderful ful nation amer lei ici bg generous strong kind dis there is no word quite cg capable able of expressing wl it america Is that is how hoa tl e 1 ins feel ti d they will remember how ilow does anenia feel if I 1 were mere an american I 1 would mould feel verv erv proud and very humble america has built up tip a tremendous amount of good will for I 1 ersela a dong ti tie e russian people through the relief bolk in the famine d sti acts said preston humler rumler a chicago attorney b bid iel from a years year a ser service lee with i ith A I 1 A I 1 brior to our coming tl it e russian masses knew little of amer lei fell now tl ti e united states Is the best advertised nation in rus russia la the soviet government has shot robbers when ever it cap captured them bt st 11 there or aie e many bin dit gangs m wl I 1 ich ih roam at nv will ill 11 living ing off tl e coun try 11 in meeril instances A P A mor workers lers were nere by atlese bandits and were turned loose with apologies as soon as their identity was mas is 9 ed it actually appears th tint thit it tl ese bandits never interfere with the A it R A activities here Is a story tl it at comes from the Bugge hof district of sanara in elich a billit bin lit tion of oa over er 1000 men with horses Is operating the bandits s hicl lel ed the government ua warehouse in babil oi ova a wl ul ile tl e A P A sin sinice ige house bouse next door bulging with cocol 1 sugar canned mill milk and other good things to eit cit w u is not ed As an illustration of furl furt ler ier consideration by the bandits of tl e cimine sufferers ereis it is related that some t f the g gins inq last summer rode up to one of the A P A village kitchens merely tasted the tool fool icing prepared prep ired gred for the children pronounced pronounce 1 it deiy vel v ed a few voun q un ler the chins china m wis 11 1 1 arg tl 0 em ern good appetites and then went x ent tl air m dav ai to the I 1 ome of the village ti U which tl ti ev looted an interesting feature of tl e A r A work ts Is the nging ning n ing up of I 1 un freds of new villages am corn built these nev ne v IlIg blitch sprang up practically over oner night last piang ahe 1 be sime thing is u e pecked tl is sprin aprin film aid I 1 ox 0 A R A supervisor in the S ambusk district tells of it thus tl ei bic i lias has been a genuine bid to the soil moi move e ment on an exodus from the c ties m diee I 1 e e pai par lel y thousands lied fled m wl I 1 en fam farn nl m came canic I 1 icing aali st at the brevity of the summer seas n I 1 1 1 I I abi ting time to plant tl tie e unfertilized fields grout s of m we e k and NN gry men I 1 lave a e idt dig g ear eaith th I 1 louses auses t con cover er their hands and those of their fain lies iles x isala no time merely tossing up a in ike shift I 1 me tal ing into account the fim ne siti atlon tl ti e local had quite pre prepare parel 1 themselves tiem selves for an increase trier inci ease of the refugee movement with tl e nd nil vent of spring with tl e issue of corn the fl cht ht from the ill ages iges dim nisi e el I 1 an I 1 by tl e e 1 d I of april tad lad completely ceased mav even een siw the return of many of the illta villagers gers to thea native nathe i all it lages farmers returned to the r f riner occupy tion a ind gad in NN wl I 1 ole b itches ind col colonies onles A nn tl e village newly firme 1 in the sim irk irti called Peste hany ozero may inny be pointel point 1 out where 10 adult farmers biln hiving first assured themselves then selves of i orn rati n settled on land given ghen them hurriedly du themselves vea earth huts and seeded their land and with all they could obtain so forming an entirely new village just what Is ulna blin done now in the maa wa of relief and whit nhit will be e necessity necess iry ret spring and summer Is difficult to siv it seems probable th it the A I 1 A may be able to close its work nork after lifter the nest next harvest except insofar as the 1500 orelan an children ant an I 1 stel in 1 lo are on ion i berned estimates place tl ti e number of russian Rug now rec receiving ehing belp at nt from the so soviet bet government european bellef associations and the AHA A R A A i the american relief of st starving arNing russia may be thus recapitulated in brief the first station of the amerlean Amerl cin relief aamir isolation atlon to feed russian children was nas ocene I 1 in Peti erad orad in september of 19 0 three hundred cl ildren then received the first american Ameil can mf mal al originally nally herbert hoover in response to an ap peal aa from maxim goi boily I 1 y and with the I 1 elp of the amer can people planned to teed feed Russ russian lill children the morl grew until in august of 1021 no less les than 4 children were NN ere receiving ing daily meals from the A it A and a dally daily corn ration or its equiNa equivalent lent was nas going to 8 adults a total of individuals lq the tire original pro gr grim im I 1 ad been multiplied tenfold the adult feeding not included in the original intentions wis ais A is made possible by the apar ilia jila tion by bv the un ted states congress of 20 foi for the pui purchase chase of corn in amer america tl tits Is pod plod net aag begin agn to arrive in aussig in february of 0 1 J 2 aiom riom that time I 1 the last carload of corn m was as a sl dipped to tl tie e interior districts the railroads of r isu from the era ern and bouti souti ern p to tl e f mi mb e greas m were ere taxed to their capic ltv the rhe delin erv of tl ti e fo d became it tie e greatest grei greg test problem wl ml ich tell tl e A R A m ws is calle I 1 upon to face ware louses were mere filed flied and ant emptied ind filled aggen B biro trag log boiled led with mith cin were mere sent up and down domn ta tie e A 01 oli ol i rin river er ind up the 1 kama aan alela and viat vint iq 11 rapi horses an I 1 sledges camels and wag mag ns and peas ints bacis carriel the anin fi in the river ports and from tie rall roal I 1 ns to the 1 d I stant villages il lages by august 1 20 40 tons tong f corn and oti er products ha I 1 been dis till ute I 1 to tie it e d sti lets for adult a ault feeling fee fang in n the n atter of d stances alone and in view lew of ti t e 11 of sufficient elent i connections it Is sig tint tl at the worl of the A r A has not been I 1 i gilted to tl e cisily accessible alegs and even tl ti is covers only n pirt of the worl norl of tl ti e A I 1 A tl TI ere are tl e food remittance divis ion and tl ti e medical division eich of which digs I 1 kindled something over oner worth of sup plies since tl e beginning of their operations and the cl thing remittance division 01 01 ol N vilil lin Is Ilas haslell lell U S 8 A took tool charge ui dr er in september of 1021 he ile Is a NN est pointer agn binl I 1 I 1 las as been awarded the D S BI fr bi chiai t service in the arnorld orld gr lie ile was as in charge cl argo of american relief in rumania and the caucasus us lie ile Is now also in charge of american red cross relief in the near pen dr chirles Theod theodore denae has just gone to moscow as ns commissioner for tl e N il Lu therin council he Is also CommISS Ionel by the A R A lie ile Is a theologian author college prest dent and n lender tender in the board of foreign missions of tl it e united lutheran church it is a q w hether the chirety or the cm bency of the americans the more astonished the i eople anyway tl air new word ahra expresses tl air feelings and it Is a I 1 ouse household hold word from one end to the other of their unhappy land |