The Washington herald., 1920-09-01

(Formerly Associate Editor Golfers
Weekly)
Two gifts. aggregating s5Oo.OOO,
have recently been made to the
American Relief Administration for
the purchase of food for the edu-
Gated. professional people in Central
Europe where the Hoover relief
warehouses are operating. This is
entirely separate from the free
meals for children, which include
more than 100000 daily IN Poland
and 800 900 in Austria. Distribution
of the first S25O,0OO of food packages
has been completed. Reports, and
numerous letters of thanks, received
at Mr.. HOover's New York orfice
yesterday. to be forwarded to the
donors. show the great extent and
variety of need TO be met by such
donations.
How Gift Was AppOrtiOned.
The first half Of the gift was di-
vided as follows:
To Austria, 1900 packages at SO
each; 1000 packages at $50 each.
To Poland, 5000 packages at $40
each; 2J0 packages at $50 each.
To CZeChO- -SlOvakia. $50 packages
at SO each; $50 packages at s5c
each
To Hungary. $3.50 packages at sic
each.
In conference with a committee
headed by President Earl Seitz, OF
Austria. which had been in existence
for some months to coordinate the
distribution Of some 100000 OF gen.
eral relief packages from the Ameri-
can Relief Association Warehouses,
1000 S50-packages were handed over
to the Austrian universities The
single stipulation was made that
food should go only to the most
needy professors and students.
A Difficult Task.
After discussion the 1900 $40 pack
ages were allotted to teachers in the
elementary and secondary schools.
teachers in private schools. former
officials of the state and officers of
the army whose pension allowances
are pitifully small physicians, law
yers, engineers, architects. authors,
artists, musicians. cIerEymen. rabbis
and such professional men ah chem
lists. President Seitz's committee,
with strange courage. undertook to
carry out the following resolution:
fine arts are concerned. only artists
OF high rank shall be taken into
cOnsideration-that is to say. real
artists, without regard to educa-
ton"
1t was suggested that 20 per cent
of the total should be distributed in
Vienna and the rest sent to the prov
inces. particularly to the university
cities Of Innsbruck, Gratz and Salz-
burg.
Will supply Kitchens.
During tile university vacation
term food supplies were given to
professors and to the few students
remaining in residence. At the same
time plans were perfected to furnish
food to university kitchens where
meals could be given at a small cost
during the winter term.
The plan worked out in Austria
was generally followed in making
distribution Of the remaining s125,-
0OB in Poland. CzechO- -SIovakia and
Hungary IL was n notable variation,
however, when the university pro-
fesSOrS Of Prague renOunced their
appOrtiOned share in favor of teach-
erS in the intermediate ScbooIS
"whOse number is far greater and
among whom are many destitute de-
serving support" Only those uni
NerSity professors with large fam
lilies, PensiOned professors and wild
ows of professors would consent to
receive food gifts.
Two Jewish Homes Aided.
Two homes for Jewish students ar
Prague received $1,000 Of food pack
ages; and in acknowledging the
gift. their managers referred to the
fact that because of special diff
culties placed in the way of Jewish
students in Poland and Hungary
and because Of conditions in Russia
extraordinary numbers had come 70
study in Prague.
The majority Of these foreign
Jewish Students said the latter,
ARE obliged no undergo great pri-
vations. With their very limited
means they find il hard to paw the
enormous prices asked for food.
cheap lodgings do not exist. Often
girl students have slept all night on
the benches at the railway station.
and IL is common to find three or
four men students occupying one
bed; and for many the cost of fuel
and light is prohibitive"
An Illuminating Letter.
From the president of the Hun
garian Association of Artists Cpain-
ters, scUlptOrs and architects) came
a letter Of thanks which is iIlu-