The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1907-04-02

something of the horrible condition Of
80, 100000 starving Russian peasants.
Not only hunger, but diseases as well,
is ravaging their ranks, and threaten
| ing a death ron Of millions. Indeed
so bad have matters become that the
women of Russia, in a letter just re-
ceived by Samuel =. BaIrows, the sec
rotary of the committee, have appeal
ed to the women of America in their
great extremity. The letter cites the
conditions in one village as typical OIL
thousands and says: Eat present.
the temperature in this village IS in the
neighborhood of 20e below zero Many
of the peasants are living in holes dug
underground They. are almost maxi
| ed ana they Are without fuel; for inI
| this region, the peasants make their
fuel from straw, and there has been no
straw from which fuel can be made.
Their food IS "a sort of bread made
from ground acorn or other timetables
to which has been added little rye
meal. Typus, scurvy and blindness
resulting from starvation are on all
sides striking down grownup people
and children. This is not a single
village, for there are thousands like 1t,
and these thousands of villages have
no hope unless aid comes to them from
the outside. n Seventy-five cents will
keep grownup person alive for a.
month"
DIR. Barrows states that the commit
tee whose offices are located at 1875
East Fifteenth street will be glad to-.
| receive any contribution, however
small, since If life is to be saved inn
mediate help is the chief requisite.
The feast OF the Passover will be
| celebrated by Jews all over the world
this month, and the people who are,
busy making preparations for its OBJ
| servance are working night and day.
There is much ceremony and many
! quaint observar9ces connected with the
weeks festival butt it's best known
feature in New York Is the vast guam
ltity Of niatzoth, or unleavened bread,
| the baking of which has kept hundreds
| of, people employed for months in
ltsome forty bakeries on the eastside.
No Baker tells his neighbor how mucht
| he turns out; but there are zoe, 900 or
thodox. Jews in New York, and an av-
! erage consumption during the week of,
I8tenJ pounds for each person would
| mean 100000 pounds, or some $4,000
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been working for six months on the
product which will be consumed in
| single week, and there is one Ave- story
establishment in the city where moth.
! ing is done all the year except to man
| ufacture the crackers which are used
in lieu of bread during the Passover
| season. It's output is sold not only
to dealers and consumers in this city,
4 1D,1% ali
besides going in large quantities to
| CubaT Porto Rico and all parts of
South America.
New York consumes more canned
| goods than any other place in. the
] country The neat packages and, att,
| tractive labels are SO well adapted to
the narrow confines of life in a fiat
| that it seemed as if a kind providence
had designed them as perfect comple-
ments to each other The half dis
closures which accompanied the agi-
tation over the pure food bill in con-
gress, however, induced a sort of visit
i full curiosity to know what actually
i went withHthe label when it left the
4 cannery5 butr when it was announced
some time ago that the National Pack
ers' association proposed to show this
through the medium of an exposition
in the fall anxiety on the subject sib-
sided and sales of canned goods resurn-
ed thei normal proportions The
| later news that the big Chicago pack
ers have so far eyinced little disposi-
stick behind the white house door falls
heavily here, perhaps the packers of
this sectionAef the country have less to
conceal; but 1t is the general opinion
Iamong them that the exposition will
be good thing and that they will be
1 Herewith the lids off the cans
when President Roosevelt presses the
button which will open the exposl-
| ton.
A permanent national building to
cost $14,000,000, wherein to house ma
| tional theatre a national library, ma
tional art salon. banquet hall, and an
exhibition hail and luxurious club
rooms for each of the various state so
/ cieties having headquarters in New
York, is the ambitious scheme pro-
4 pounded by these sons of elsewhere for
the education and uplifting of the ma
1 tiyee Gothamfte William j. Wofden OF
Il Michigan modestiy admits that he is
j the father of the movement, Which was
1-fiEst discussed publicly and enthusiasts
tically at the recent annual dinner of
the Michigan society at the Hotel AS
"A tor An interstate organization is
/ forming to take charge of the move
ment, which promises 50 it is said, to
ripen into a speedy success Congress
at it's next session will be asked to
appropriate s5,00O.O0O toward the cost
of the enterprise, and each of the state
legislatures will DE asked to appropri-
ate $200,000sto the same end. 1t Is
argued in support of the scheme that
most of the people who live in New
| York, as we'll as a quarter Of a million
Evisitors daily. are from other places
anyway, and that such a monument to
the greatness Of elsewhere staring the
, naughty native sternly in the eye from
some prominent corner Of Fifth avenue
Iwould do much to teach him how lit
! tie he really counts and foster that
feeling Of proprietorship and super
iority 50 inadequately expressed at the
. annual talk tests Of the various state
I societies.
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