Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-01
MINISTER MUST
KEEP BOOKS IN
TEN LANGUAGES
Representative NJ
United States in RumanIa
Has Work Cut Out for Him
Every Day,
ASSOCIATED Press Correspona.,..

Bucharest Rumanla TIt
Charles J Vopicka, of Cbic,oo -
American minister TO Rumapa "e
hia and Bulgaria, has found h'.'r ,,
in a peculiar position as a reg1l, y,
the war. The demands upon HIM S., VI
been such that when am Assoc',t'5
Press correspondent visited him.
palatial home in Bucharest. Nm. t,. ''s
lean minister was wrestling ,,in
bookkeeping and eerresBordsro,
all the ten languages of Central pa
rope. ''0'
He was sitting behind a largo ds..
strewn with letters each contain
either request for information NJ,
to the fate of some missing solli,.
from Austria Hungary. German, ga.
bia or Russia, or a money-order IN.
some prisoner of war.
This is the second of our five d,,,.
, mail deliveries" said he. "and so l,r
l have received 1872 letters NV s,,,n
staff is SO overworked that NJ,
obliged TO lend hand. ] Thought
this would be only until somebody
could be found to do the work. M
such people are extremely scarco IN
Rumania. So / started In 10 koen
books and records and what NOT. M,
Las mail clerk, and about Inc onw
thing | have not done so far is Go lako
my letters to the postolficer
Likes His Work.
In private life Mr.. Nopicka is
wealthy Chicago banker.
Il have come to like the work he
said, after telling how he spent from,
twelve 10 sixteen hours in bonkteen.
ing each day Each little effort In
behalf of these poor men means NOT
only comfort to them. but reassuIan,.
for some poor soul at home. Zoe
transmit money from persons in AUS
tria-llungarN Germany, Serbia and
Russia to prisoners of war held In
the enemy's country
Some of the amounts Transmitted
are humble mites for prisoners whose
relatives had to save hard to spare
even the little they send. The re.
mittances TO officers are larger as
rule. Some Of the Austrian prison.
ers held by the Serbs are wealthy
men who receive money from home Ia
thousands.
Il must deal here in German marks,
Austro-Ilungarian gronen, Serbian
francs, Russian rubles and Rumanian
lei. ! am glad that / had at least q
little experience as banker for other
wise my predicament would be
greater than it is"
Prisoners Wen Treated.
A few weeks ago the American
minister made a trip to Serbia to n-
quire into the treatment Of the Aus
tro-Hmgarian prisoners of war He
reported that the men were well treat
ed. They are given three substantial
meals a day and few of them COM
planned.
Mr. Nopicka saiG that Dr. Edward
w Ryan, who is i'm charge of the
American Red Cross unit i'm Serbia
was now in control of all the Serbian
military hospitals and that his efforts
we're greatly appreciated by the Ser-
bian government. DR.. Ryan found q
Woeful disregard for the essentials IN
hospital sanitation and started in by
insisting that all the hospital floors
be scrubbed once a day-in the morn
ing. AT first he had great difficulty
enforcing this Now, however, clean
floors have become a habit with
which even the Serbs are loath to
part During the bombardment Of
Belgrade a shell hit one of the hos
pitfalls under Dr. Ryan's control ldII-
ing one nurse and wounding an Amer
lean nurse SLIGHTLY.