The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-17
STARVING POLAND
 SEEKS RELIEF IN
 AMERICANA HOMES
Local Committee Plan For Local Collection For I'm
 mediate Aid.


 The following appeal issued. by the Polish Relief Society tells in graphic detail what conditions in the war stricken country are today. A con certed effort to get relief is being made throughout America and Brid- geport win pFobab1y do it's share in the contributions that will soon go to the aid the descendants. of a noble race
 3in the name of common huma11ity-I appeal to the great American people fo:
 Some bread for the Polish women and children
 Some. seed for the Polish farmers.
 Ignace Paderewsxi
 s.PaoIand's s tragedy is well known to all human hearts lsthroughout the wor4d The innocent victim Of today is the nation who was the knight of civilization and Christianity in Europe from the 10th century to it's last par tition in 1795-
 Torture by it's triple oppressors for fover a century today these same rop- pressors are deciding their different on helpless Poland territory dwellings devastating fields, gardens, and for ests, starving and exterminatfng hu- man beings and animals alike.
 -+Ttle horrors of the gigantic strug- gle have overwhelmed more than twenty million inhabitants; over twen1ve mill lions of helpless women and1children, ness said: We saw babies sucking beet roots wrapped in rags. but slow ly dying of starvation: men formerly prosperous eating bark and chewing hay: women and children dying the terrible death of starvation, huddled in ruins and makeshift huts.'' ! srsIt is not the cry of the wounded at they fall on the battlefield which is the most terrible feature of this deepening war tragedy writes an official observer from the Eastern Front. ~
 sIt is the sight of the dead as they lie there. It Is not even the cry Of the wounded boys calling for their mothers-for there are thousands of mere boys among the wounded and often there is no one to do anything for them
 No!-the concentrated horror of it all is the suffering, physical and men tell of those straving mothers mad dened by the terror and pain, driven hither and thither in what once was atIne homeland-now charred in ruins. "On/ them the he1l-hailu of war S torture never ceases to fall. The picr ture is too awful to paint And yet the world must know, so those who can help may do so.'
 Reader-these mothers of Poland hre suffering as have the mothers of no other nation during the war. -.
 'sPoIandss sons, compelled to fight In hostile armies, slay one an other in fratricidI combat-The young men been killed by the hundred thousand Little children, stretching out their ceiVe in answ er-but tears.-O forum nate American, what will you do now --tOday-1or the women and children your suffering fellow creatures-in torture Poland?
 Your generosity will allay suffering and save lives. In some mothers heart there will be a prayer of gratitude for yon, the unknown helper in the name of world wide brotherhood and kisterhood.''
 sgThe Polish Relief Committee ot Poland organized in the city of. Bridge port for the purpose of rendering aid to the needy ones in war ridden Poland. Appeals to- all noble and hu- man hearts in the city of Bridgeport and vicinity for a contribution to such R worthy cause.
 By permission from Mayor Clifford B. wilson, youngk ladies will solicit contributions durtng the next few days The ladies canvassing for con tributfons will have credentials con sisting of written authority from the committee and the mayor.
 They will solicit aims to save tho helpless ones in the land of Copernicus Kosciuszko, Pulaski. Chopin. Sfenkie wicz, ndsPaderewskf.
 All funds collected will be sent b1 the Bridgeport Polish Relief Commit tee of Poland to the General commit tee for Polish Relfef--Lausamne Switzerland. Henry Sienl1iewicz presi dent; Ignace Paderewski, vice presi. dent.
 Cheeks may be made payable tC The Polish Relief Committee of Po- F1<. 4r T2o 1Ix& Michniewicz, 491 Arctic street or Rev .AIphons M FiglewsIi, Hon Chairman pr B. L.. Smykowski, Chairman Etafnslaus OrIoWski, Secretary.
 The Italian steamer Cretic arrived