Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-07
MALCOLM A. BROSIUS
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Warsaw | could have surpassed in half
an hour in the five and tcn-ccnt stores at
home.
CAME NEAR BEING PRISONER.
''To get here, n friend and | spent a
| week conveying n car of food for the soup
kitchens. 1t was tedious trip, except
| for one incident when | was discovered
| at large in military freight yard where
| our car had been standing all day. With
/ out my tunic, | imagine | appeared like
a Bolshevist spy | made an eloquent
plea in Polish, German, French and
English before the commanding officer.
and was released on the promise not to
look at the target practice and the awk-
ward squad drills executed all over the
landscape near our car door.
Under date of May "A, the relief worker
continued "Am on my way to Werbko-
vice in southeast Poland on the old Rus
sian frontier. My mission is to discover
what the 'Misja Anglelska the Ameri-
can mission--can do in the way of build
ing reconstruction In that devastated
area. | understand that the first need is
mission dispensary. | am combining
business and travel and conveying a car
load of flour sugar, beans, rice, milk,
salt and margarine for a soup kitchen
there
On June Z, he continued:
'WERBKowICE, POLAND.
Three of us, comprising AZ present the
building department, have been here
week, and are expected TO rebuild this
district Of 100 villages before winter
We have at present only such tools as
was able to buy in Warsaw. | could
have done much better at Woolworth'S. S.
row ipfa bnc INST arrived
! expect row TO be able TO interview the
local authorities and sages TO discover if
there is not something in a bigger way
that VIC can do. There seems to be some
rather helpless labor here, and it may
be that the most practical thing we can
undertake will be to start numbering in
the woods. II would be too big a Job
for the number and callhre Of our per-
Sonrel as a business proposition, but
something has got to be done to house
before winter, the homeless beggars who
harg around.
II saw starving Germans driven to
work at the point of the bayonet in
France, but even then | did not expect
to sit at afternoon tea with bread and
jam and milk and have hungry children
begging for bread
1T makes one feel very cruel, but if /
give a scrap TO one, why not 10 two or
ten: then why not the same from each
member Of the unit, and why not open
the warehouse and let them carry every
thing away in a few hours and come home?
PACING STARVATION.
MANY of them must starve before the
winter is far advanced and the only thing
we can do Is to deal out food from our
two soup kitchens and from the many
others which we hope TO start in few
days, as scientifically as possible, the
object being the greatest good to the
greatest number.
One more extract, dated June IL, tells
of added difficulties IN starting the re-
building Of the ruined villages. 1t follows:
Seems TO me q fair amount of splritless
labor here which needs employment
There Is an adequate supply of standing
timber and logs in the woods, for the
immediate future Mt least, st not prohi-
bitive distances from the villages. Trans
port is difficult for the peasant; but possi-
bic, especially with horses that the Mis-
sion has loaned for agricultural work
Mr. BrosIus left this country In jan
usry, 1919, for France. where he spent J
thirteen months III relief work When |
the Friends closed in that country he |
went 20 Warsaw. He expects TO remain in
Poland as long as there Is need of him !
there.
Nothing definite has been heard, |
either, Of DR.. Archibald Goudiss, who |
is also engaged in relief work in Poland, |
and who, it Is feared has been caught |
in the sweep Of the Bolshevist armies
across Eastern Poland.
Dr. Goudiss formerly lived in Whining
ton, where he now has relatives A |
brother, Alexander Z. Goudiss, lives in |
New Castle. In recent years Dr. Goudiss |
has made his home in Philadelphia, and |
i was from there that be went to Europe
on the relief mission.