The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-13
By JOHN E. LATHROP.
(Written for I. N, S. )

London, Oct 12-Poles frequently and justly cite that when the Ameri- can colonies were fighting Great Brit ain, Kosciusko and Pulaski, able gen. erals skilled in military engineering, went across the ocean to help eStaD- fish the new republic.
 What has the United States done to repay that debt? What is Uncle Sams stake in Poland?
 These American organizations have sent hundreds of workers and soldiers and millions of dollars to Poland dur ing the past 6 months: The Ameri- can Red Cross, the Jewish Joint Dis tribution Committee. the United States army, the American Y. M. c. A., the American Y. w. c. A., the United States Liquidation Commis- sion of the army in Paris mounting in 1919 to more than s5O,000,000. There were flour. fats, sugar, hos i pital equipment, and raw cotton for tries. Red tape was cut in the regu- 1 lar Yankee way. These things were needed and needed sorely. Hoover went to Poland, sent on or two cable | things were forthwith shipped and | the first relief was at hand.
 Million Appropriated.
 Meanwhile, the Red Cross, from it's Paris European Headquarters, dis patched commission to Poland with | plenary powers to act on the judg- ment of the instant. Again no red tape. No long-drawn-o -out conferences Millions were appropriated of cash and thousands of tons of food, medi- cines, motor car transport with a per sonnel which up to July this year ot i 35O-among them world famous spe-
 cialists-a network of operations be- | ing spread over entire Poland, and on l into that intervening territory to-
 ward Russia just so far as conditions | permitted.
 Colonel Ches1ey, Colonel Whiteside | others to aid them, worked with g
 zeal which would not have been ex- | ceeded had they been busy in the United States. Hospitals were equip ped and supplies given. Whole train l loads of food and supplies of all
 warehouses in Warsaw. Sleeping cars
 were chartered, fitted and operated | to convey American workers to al
 the corners of Poland. American l hospitals were equipped, too, in order | that, if Americans fell i'll they nigh | not become a burden on the already 1 overburdened Polish facilities. Any
 American might go to one of then I Rules were made only to be
 broken when it seemed wise. A Polish | army officer fell one day. There was no bed for him in a Polish hospital
 The rule was that only Americans
 might go to American hospitals. l called the Red Cross. The answer 1 was:
 l Positively against the rules. Sen6
 the man immediately to Praga Hos l pital, (the American hospital fol l Warsaw and I will phone them tc 1 take him in.''
 Splendid Jewish Co-Operation. | The Jewish Joint Distribution Com
 mittee organized and maintained l body of efficie relief workers, sen millions of dollars, contributed tt other relief organizations and coop 1 erated with all of them
 The Y. M. c. A. up to July main
 tained personnel of 225, under tn, able leadership of Senior Secretar7 A. s. Taylor, and, after demonstrat
 ing their work among the 3O,O0O mel | of Haller's army of American Pole was formally asked to undertake tn, work for the entire Polish Army O | 100000 men. So far as the Polisl 1 Army went on the fronts that ia 1 the Y. M. c. A. went, and came ava,
 only when there were no Polish sol l diers among whom to labor-and il
 numerous instances retiring amid tn
 l shot and shell of the Bolshevists.