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Show GRAY SAMARITANS RESCUING CHILDREN The Young Women's Christian Associations Asso-ciations of the United States are keenly Interested In the movement for the relief re-lief of the 3,500,000 starving children of Europe because a group of their members, the Polish Gray Samaritans, have been In charge of distributing food to children In Poland. They have been serving under the American Relief administration ad-ministration and have conducted food kitchens and distributing stations In all parts of Poland outside Warsaw. In all the relief work being done In Europe, that of the Polish Grays has heen unique because ail the girls, though sent from America, were either born In Poland or are of Polish parentage. paren-tage. When the need for social service serv-ice In their country became acute many girls of Polish descent answered the call of the Young Women's Christian Chris-tian Association, for overseas service and enlisted In the preliminary training train-ing course that was given In several cities of the United States. From this group thirty girls were chosen and sent to Poland where, since 1918, they have been caring for the children of the country. The distribution of clothing has taken them Into all parts, of Poland. They are now spending their entire time In arranging for the feeding of children this winter. Groups of them travel to strategic centers in outlying districts where they set up distributing stations, receive supplies, prepare meals, arrange for impartial distribution distribu-tion and train helpers to continue the work when they are sent od to the next town. |