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Show POLAND NOW RIVALS PLIGHT OF BELGIUM Children Chief Sufferers in Land Stripped of Necessities, Says Relief Worker. Poland Is In th destitute state for want of food and clothing atnong the Vor that Belgium would have bceu during the war, had there been no commission com-mission for relief In that country, according ac-cording to Dr. Vernon Kellogg, American Ameri-can Relief Administration ofllclal, who recently returned from Warsaw. Dr. Kellogg os t member of Mr. Hoover's staff In Ilclglum, and at the conclusion of bottllttes, entered Poland Po-land as th Hoover emissary In charge of food relief. He first entered Poland In 1010, a few months after the Oer-man Oer-man oecrtiatlon. His report of starva tlon, dlstAse nnd suffering that existed exist-ed at that time Is ono of the most harrovvlt.g documents It, th records of American relief work overseas. ' Dr. Kellogg mnde tha following statement regarding the work nftci fJir nrmlstlco: "With Warsaw as our hea-'niiarterk we began operations In Pain .id !',i January, Jan-uary, 1010, and within a few weeks liiere was established n steady Importation Impor-tation of food Into that countrj. Tons and tons of It camo from ovctacas tlnough the Port of D.iuzlg. "It was Impossible Io do nil thnl the administration wauled to do, b 'iitise the need of Poland was Inn great but' It was agieed that enough food Ii-miM l" enf to Poland to care fot lie four million people until the great igrlcultiiral districts could again pro ilde for them. "Hut In uddlllon to these four 'mil lion people who so presslngly needed relief, there was another call for relief from a source that could not be to slsted: the children of the land. Man; of thesa were orphans, hungry, etna elated, destltuto and diseased. So the American Relief Administration added to Its work by Instituting a system of feeding thest children. In a few months a million and a qoniier Polish chlldran war getting a fre muni every ev-ery day of special food prepared to counteract tht effects of their previous undernourishment." To flnih tha Job eight great organizations organ-izations hart united under the name of the European Relief Council to rattq the funds necessary te car for tho foed need and tha medical needs of hr 8,500.000 children of Eastern and Central Europe. These organizations ere the American Relief Administration, Administra-tion, the American Red Cross, the American Friends Service Commute (Quakers), the Jewish Joint Distribution Distribu-tion Committee, the I-'edernl Council of the Churches of Christ In America. trM Kulgbts of Columbus, tho V. M. C. A. ami the Y. W. C. A |