The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-12-29

THROUGH AMERIC. n AID
HUNGARY IS REBORN

New York. Dec. es.-'Through the
Hungary has been reborn and In riS-
ing from a skeleton of a country TO
some semblance of national be-
ing"
This Was the statement of X. u.
Ham. manager of the ST Regis hotel,
this city, upon his return from a
two months stay In Hungary as a
member of a commisson sent there to
establish child-feedfng stations for the
American Relief Administration Euro
pean Children's Fund, offspring Of
the Hoover organization.
The moral effect Of American re-
lief work in Hungary has been magi-
CAL" declared Mr.. Ha&n. The coun-
try, disorganized and disrupted by po-
li,ical and racial enmitles. wasted and
stripped by war and anarchy, became
united and revitalized when the peo-
pie saw that America had sympathy
for their suffering and was sending
them food.
The Hungarian government. stimu-
lated by the arrival of american food
for Its starving people. has shown a
Willingness to cooperate In relief
work far beyond its means and is
giving forty tons of -four and Ave tons
VA iaNSy ~iAiSI are NSAJ AaiCt
month, in addition to an outright
grant of five million crowns to our re-
lief organization, as we'll az turning
over hospitals and orphanaEes with
their STATS"
Mr., Ham told of having been in
parts of Hungary and Austria where
there had been no meats. fats. eggs
or milk in two months. Hotels in
Vienna, formerly the gayest in the
~,
now. he said. Offering scanty meals
with no butter or sugar. little meat
and coarse black bread at prices rang
ing up to 100 kronen, where formerly
a good meal could be had for 10
kronen.
THE peasants added to the terrible
food conditions by refusing to bring
their .-rcr,-.v-t ~ h Attic there werc}
to market while the genera, unres,
was going on continued Mr.. Ham
GAS soon as our commission arrived
and the people saw the American flag
flying from our Office, on freight cars
automobiles. or pasted tn packages
the scanty crops were released imme-
ditely."
Mr.. Haan arrived in Budapest Octo-
Der with Captain Gardner Richard
son of the American Relief Admins
tration. by October - the ars'
IrAlntpal OF SuppllrS Tau dTIIscu 0hN
ten days later the first Kitchens were
serving food to starving children" hi
said. Before left nearly 100 o.
these desperately needed relief sta
! tons were giving one mea; daily &c
100 600 children"
I Fifty thousand dollars toward the
maintenance of these childreu's feed
, ing stations was recently contributed
! from money raised by the American
/ Jewish Relief Committee and allied
| orga MIA tons. A half million dollar.
was donated from Jewish Relief fund.
for the purchase of clothing by the
European chHdren's fund. which dis
hurses all relief irrespective OF race OF
/ creed.
| budapest. formerly n -prospcrcu'
and beautiful city. reminded me Of .
+ cultured man who had become {
hunt Is sloventy. shabby and fear
/ fully hungry" continued Mr.. Ham
I'm giving picture of Hungary, car
do no better than to refer to my owr
family When met Them in Buda
pest was shocked. My daughters wht
married Hungarians, seemed to m
hardly more than pale shadows o
what they once were Although the.
have been among the more fortunate