New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

100000 Jews. 1t is not village, it
is not town, it is the backbone of
Jewry that seems to be broken"
Speaking of conditions in the Slavic
regions, particularly in Poland, Mr.,
Warpurg says:
Il have seen photographs taken by
Major Davis, a Chicago physician of
the Red Cross, recently returned to the
United States, who pointed out to me
in these pictures children, some of them
ten years old, who were leaning against
the wall because they could not walk.
He showed me that this was the last
stage of starvation and that within an
hour this or that child on the picture
would drop dead. He showed me their
swollen eyes, which / had never seen
before, as a sign of malnutrition and
starvation.
Relief Method Established
"To relieve this starvation we have
succeeded in getting the food ship West
ward Ho to Danzig, together with the
Polish national committee and our
commissioners, Isidor Hershfield, Ba-
ruch Zuckerman and Mr.. Hurwich,
safely from Danzig into Poland, and,
after fighting prejudice and all kinds
of organizations, we think we have
found a method by which Jews and
Christians alike in Poland will be
helped for few weeks.
I'VE find no animal in Poland that can
pull plough. We find no plough. We
find nobody working. And, worst of all,
we find nobody in the mood to prepare
for the future which looks so uncertain.
We find roaming, sad eyed. despon-
dent mass of humanity, stripped of its
hopes and fearing the next day, de-
prived of ideals, and just as ready to
die as to continue its present life.
"No clothing is to be had. Thread,
needles and washable material arc
needed to take the place of the filthy
rags, which are knotted in some dread
full, makeshft way that exposes bare
bodies and feet.
No Houses; live in Holes
cat Brest-Litovsk it looks as though
a price had been set for the destruc-
ton Of the last house in that town
The refugees had returned after the
armies had passed, but they found no
houses nor livable conditions, and
those who insisted on remaining in the
town which had once been their home
are now living in excavations and
cellars.
Can you talk of the period of re.
construction in the face of these pict-
ures? My mind is still bent on putting
the people in such condition physically
that they will be able to stand up and
have the strength to think of doing the
necessary work to restore them to self
support. They are not thinking of il
now.
They can scarcely think Of recon.
struction while tragedies occur like
that IN Pinsk, where, under the pre-.
text that relief committee meeting
was a Bolshevik meeting, Polish sol.
diers, without investigation, killed fifty
people.
1T will be long and painful Oh.
Grafton until the Jews of Poland will
be self-supporting, so that they can
share with the Poles in the hard work
of building up new government, on
the farms, in the factories and in the
army, if necessary, in large numbers
and in the trading population in small
numbers.
Trying to Get Cows
"The only reconstructive thing which
we are now attempting is to see
whether we can get some cows shipped
from the neutral countries, through
Holland or Denmark, so that these ami
mails can be used for two purposes-to
plough the fields and to give milk
and if necessary to give meat.
"Can any one speak Of reconstruc-
ton In Russia where they are trying
to find rock bottom for foundation
for stable government, where before
construction plans can be thought of
the quicksand of Bolshevism must be
damned in?"
In concluding Mr.. Warburg says the
great constructive idea in the current
years campaign is to urge the adop-
ton. of thousands Of children orphaned
in Poland and elsewhere. He adds:
1--WE look to the governments, old
and newly established, to make good
their promises that they will look after
the Jews as we'll as after their other
citizens; that in time the refugees Of
the war will be cured by government
tally planned enterprises, probably cap
italized by international loans to be
made to these different governments {"