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Show POLAND NOW RIVALS PLIGHT OF BELGIUM Children Chief Sufferers In Land Stripped of Necessities, Says Relief Worker. Poland! I In the destitute state for want offfood and clothing among the poor tlwt Relglunr would haTe been daring 4Mrwar, had there been no commission com-mission for Velle f In that country, according ac-cording to Dr. Vernon Kellogg, American Ameri-can Itcllef Administration official, who recently returned from Warsaw. Dr. Kellogg was n member of Mr. Hoover's staff In Delg'lum, and at the conclusion of hostlltles, entered Poland Po-land ns the Hoover emissary In charge of food relief. Ho first entered Poland In 1019, a fow months after the German Ger-man occupation. Ills report of starvation, starva-tion, disease and suffering that existed exist-ed st that time Is ono of tho most harrowing documents In the records of American relief work overseas. Dr. Kellogg mnde the following statement regarding the work after the armistice: "With Wartsw as onr headquarters, we began operations In Poland In Jan-uary, Jan-uary, 1010, and within few weeks there was established steady Importation Impor-tation of food Into that country. Tons nnd tons of It came from overseas through the Port of Danzig. "It xtns Impossible to do, all that the administration wanted to do, because be-cause the need of Poland was too great, hut It was agreed that enough food should be sent to Poland to care for the. four million people until tho great agricultural districts could again pro-lde pro-lde for them. "Hut In addition to thee four million mil-lion people v ho so presslngly needed relief, thero was another call for relief from a source that could not be resisted: re-sisted: the children of the land. Many of these were orpbnns, hungry, emaciated, ema-ciated, destitute and diseased. So tho American Itcllef Administration added to lis work by Instituting a system of feeding these children. In n few months n million nnd a quarter Polish children nere getting a free meal cv ry day of special food prepared to counteract the effects of their prevlouj undernourishment." To llnsli the Job eight great organizations organ-izations lime united under tho nnme of the Huropean Itellef Council to rals-j the funds necessary to care for the food needs and the medical needs of the n,.VOlO00 children of Eastern nnd Central Hurope. Thee organizations are the Amerlcnn Itellef Administration, Administra-tion, the American lied Cross, the American Friends Service Committee (Quskeis)', the Jewish Joint Distribution Distribu-tion Committee, the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America, thd Knights of Columbus, the V. M. C A. and the V. W. C. A |
