Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-02

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began, and here is the picture he
paints of conditions there:
lima CINE a country nearly twice the
size of New York state containing 90
100000 people, q fat alluvial plain,
well fwatered, with large forests and
fertile fields. and you have Poland in
peace times.
Take from that country practically
all the livestock, cattle, horses, pigs,
geese, all sources of meat and dairy
products, and then requisition (the
German word for steaD all the cereals
and vegetables for an army of $780,
600 men, returning to the natives only
what is left after feeding the army
and the constabulary, make it a crime
by proclamation for any Pole to feed
any other Pole who has refused to
iation by starvation-keep all this up
for four and one-haff years, and what
is left?
Bolshevism a New Menace.
TN spit Of all this. Poland has
hung on struggling for liberty, and
now that We have access to her she is
threatened by another force more ter
rible than the first bolshevik revolu-
ton. differing little from the Prussian
system. Bolshevism feeds on starva-
ton and famine. 1t is working upon a
population there which has lost nearly
all of its young children, white those
remaining are so undernourished that
their bones are soft and break from
the slightest strain.
mo relief has reached these famine
stricken people for four and a half
years, except some condensed milk
sent in by the Rockefeller Founda-
ton for few months just previous
to our entering the war to keep
IL In, tbr.
industrial centers of Warsaw and
Lodz Now, Mr.. Hoover is cabling
for relief, and the funds which have
been eady and waiting to relieve
are at last going into Poland In the
form of food to save the relatives of
Ship to Dock at Danzig.
The Jews and the Poles have CON
tributed Jointly, for, this relief; and
! the first ship has been loaded, &C
cording to Mr.. Hoover's general
specifications. one-third condensed
| milk, one-third fats and vegetable
oils. and one-third cereals-7,0 600 tons
| in all. This ship, the Westward-Ho,
, can ships, will dock at Danzig, in the
Baltic sea, its contents to be re-
Skinned by rail into central Poland.
Agents of the Jewish relief socie-
ties and the Polish ORGANIZATIONS VIII
be on hand to help protect these sup
plies. to insure their safe arrival and
distribution, and in order to report to
+ the people of the United States the
! exact conditions and manner OF dis
tribution.
The story of Poland's 10000, 900,
| waiting, struggling, pleading for help
from the out. Il t.u ~ - L
a half years of restitution and fnal-
" of famine can never he fully told
No human catastrophe in the worlds
history compares with it. Its relief
is a governmental undertaking. The
relatives of these people cannot do
more than commence the work OF
saving. VIII the civilized world look
on in silence now that the curtain of
steel has been lifted? The govern
ments of Europe and America must
helm: these people must be supplied.
not only with the present necessi-
ties of life. but with working CAPT
tai for the future. + leir factories
have been destroyed. their raw mate
rails stolen or burned. Their only
hone comes from others. Shall we fail
them?
The first relief ship carries 1000
tons of food and this food cost two
and half million dollars. including
the freight and insurance.
Magnanimity of Jews.
| '~The Jewish relief societies have
been obliged to contribute consider
abIv more than half of this money.
| for the Poles did not have enough at