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Show Moro than $5,000,000 has been spent by tho Amorlcnn ltcd Cross In uldlng the stricken people of Poland, The organization has nursed tho sick, fed tho starving, clothed the nnked, sheltered shelter-ed the homeless, schooled tho children and cared for tho orphans there. It Iiob conducted n relentless light against tjphus, cholera nnd othor tcrrlblo diseases. dis-eases. So today millions ot men nnd women In that resurrected nation speak In grnteful appreciation of "The Greatest Mother In the World." Nearly 200 American Ited Cross workers nro now engaged In relief? activities ac-tivities In Poland. Four Inrgo relief bnsps aro In operation nnd cloven mobile mo-bile units nro In tho field. During tho last twelve months this organization was largely Instrumental in tho re-es-tnbllshmcnt of n million refugees at n enrft for general relief of more thnn $1,000,000. Last winter one-half mil-linn mil-linn wnr orphans were nldcd materially, material-ly, nnd slnco then a series of large or-pbnuagos or-pbnuagos have been established to give tllom permanent enro. 'Rut for American Ited Cross aid, officials of-ficials of Poland dechtrod recently, millions mil-lions of people In that country would have perished of dlsciine, exposure or starvation tho Inst eighteen months. And the work there must bo kept .up forvnnothor yar. |