New-York tribune., 1920-08-15
American Poles
Hold Sympathy
Meetings To-day
Church Services, Parades
and Other Gatherings to
Form Demonstration for
Stricken Mother Country
Will Back Policy of U. S.
Patriotic Addresses Will Be
Made and Resolutions
Adopted at Carnegie Hall

Solemn high mass in all the nine
hundred odd Polish Catholic churches
in the United States this morning,
paradcs in hundred cities, in which
possibly million persons will partici-
pate, and at least 300 mass meetings
tonight will be held by American
Poles as demonstration of sympathy
with the mother country in it's fight
against the Bolsheviki.
New York is the only city in which
Poles exist in numbers that will not
see great parade this afternoon. A
mass meeting at Carnegie Hall to-
night however, is expected to fill the
big structure with Poles of all classes,
who will listen to speeches by Judge
Nathan L. Miller, Republican candi-
date for Governor; United States
Senator John II. King, NJ. CASTOR Lie
bert, the French Consul General in New
York; James w. Gerard, former Am
bassador to Germany; Samuel Vau-
claim, president of the Baldwin Loco
motive Works and friend of Poland.
and others.
The Carnegie Hall meeting will be
presided over by Francis Fronczak,
Health Commissioner of Buffalo,
colonel in the United States Army in
France during the war.
The committee working at the
Americana Polish Chamber of Com
merce, 40 West Fortieth Street, ycster-
ri ~ II
pathy for Poland, which will be read
at Carnegie Hall had been received
from Theodore Roosevelt jr., William
Gibbs McAdoo, Aenry Morgenthau,
Rupert Hughes, the author; United
States Senator'S Calder and Wads-
worth. Of New York, and others.
Meetings in Other Cities
Similar mass meetings will be held
in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pitts
burgh, Milwaukee, Wilkes-Barre Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, Rochester, Scran-
ton, Dayton, Newark, Jersey City and
elsewhere, including points in the Far
West. Senator Wadsworth is to be the
principal speaker at Syracuse and
other Americans high in official and
civil life are scheduled to speak else
where. Each mass meeting will adopt
resolutions pledging sympathy to the
harassed mother government and
pledging willingness to make every
sacrifice to uphold our government
(the United States government) in the
furthest limit Of it's endeavor to pre-
serve the freedom Of humanity" Dele
cations will be chosen in every city
to assemble in Washington Wednesday
bearing the resolutions, which will be
presented at the White House and the
State Department.
Bands and bunting will be a feature
OF the parades. 1t was estimated yes
terday that fully 100000 persons would
take part in the Chicago parade, at
least $4,000 in the other large cities
and as many as 10000 in Syracuse and
cities of that size
Rally Plan Developed Here
The plan of rallying all of Americas
Poles in concerted expression was
developed more than week ago
at Polish American conference
III New York, when local com
mittees were selected and assigned to
Organize the demonstrations for all
communities with large Polish popula-
tions. AS fast as the plans were wired
to these centers unsolicited contribu-
tions began to flow in to the central
committees IN New York and Chicago
to defray the expenses. Checks from
$500 to $1,000 came from Polish bank
ers, merchants and even laboring men.
More than funds enough were in the
hands Of these committees by Friday
A communication to all Polish Catho-
lie clergy in the United States was
sent out by Bishop Paul Rhode, of
Green Bay, Wis, calling upon them to
assist in the nationwide day of
prayer and supplcation. The response
was immediate.
ut was the sense of the New York
meeting that the time has arrived when
people of Polish descent in America
must assert themselves" said member
of the committee yesterday. "Poland
stands between the civilized world and
the degrading and destructive in
fluence of Bolshevism. Poland will
never yield an inch in the fight for
decent government and we must arouse
the rest of civilization to the necessity
of backing Poland to the limit"
The resolutions to be presented at
the mass meetings will recite that for
nine centuries Poland has stood as