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Show EUROPEANS HELPED TO HELP THEMSELVES BERLIN", March 12 American Lutherans Lu-therans have Just completed a year of relief work In Poland, designed to help Poles to help themselves, which Is highly gratifying to Dr John Alfred Al-fred Morehead. European commissioner commission-er of the National Lutheran council of America, who has just finished an inspection tour in Poland. "With $25o.(i00 which wo loaned to Poland farmers, and did not give to them, we hae enabled the agriculturalists agricultur-alists ln nearly 500 villages, with a total population of probably 40". 000, I to erect temporary homes, restore their farms and become self-susta In-just In-just visited the section lo which the I loans were made. The farmers have I paid four per cent Intere st on the I small loans, as they agreed, and In some cases they have even paid off the principal In a single year." The villages aided by the American Lutherans are chiefly In the vicinity of Lublin and Fholm, where Pr Moor-head Moor-head found the population living In cllars and shacks In the fall of 1919. I The country had been laid waste by years of fighting. It was a land of small formers having tracts of lands varying from five to 4 acres, hut with little machinery, no stables, no hpust no animals and no seed. |