Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-03-11
LUTHERANS GIVE
POLISH FARMERS
F FINANCIAL MD
Agricultural iStS Receive
Loans TotaIing $3.50, 900
To Be Used in Getting a
New Start in Life.

LulneIdHS nave just competed
year of relief work in Poland. de-
signed to help Poles to help them
selves, which is highly gratifying to
DIR. John Alfred Moorhead, Euro
pean commissioner. of the National
Lutheran Council of America, who
has just finished an inspection
tour in Poland.
With $4,000 which we loaned
to Polish farmers. and did not give
to them. we have enabled the ag-
riculturists in nearly 500 villages,
with q total population of PROBABLY
400, to erect temporary homes. re-
store their farms and become self
sustaining" said DR.. Moorhead II
Just visited the section to which
the loans were made. The farmers
have paid per cent interest on
the small loans. as they agreed,
and in some cases they have even
paid off the principal in a single
year.
Country Had Been Laid Waste.
The villages aided by American
Lutherans are chiefly in the vicin-
ity of Lublin and Cholm, where DR..
Moorhead found the population
living in cellars and shacks in the
fall of 1919. The country had been
laid waste by means Of fighting. 1t
was land of small farmers, having
tracts of lands varying from five
to forty acres. but with little ma
chinery, no stables, no houses, no
animals and no seed.
When the farmers asked Dr..
Moorhead for food and clothing he
called together local committees
and told them he would rather help
the communities re-establish them
selves on a permanent basis than
grant temporary relief which would
only better their situation for a
short time. Loan banks were es-
tablished in each of the villages
under the direction of local COM
mittees. An agreement was reach
ed with the government whereby
the impoverished small landowners
we're to have timber at a nominal
price and small loans, seldom ex-
ceeding 5000 to family. secured
ON real estate mortgages. were
made for the purchase of neces-
sary food. implements. cows,
horses and seed,
MANY Planted Rive.
r.t,os s5.,,,o.s u,oro.sgt,n IN rot
~, ne Ell 10 , ,,,o 49,, INA ,ans
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w., ~ 'nton ~ - so. -
49, 9 ~ 49, y" p% ain IT, en-
nnn aiau otl'o' ~ t,,,a T-g
~ 80, az ,",'e NOS on,',yainnt 70
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Us NY oS' ~ ,,,,o,,a,,ro
r..;. ' ~ 81, 80 ,,oaatabIoe
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w. ~. g. a. e. r,i,ias ,,,tinh bad
- ,aIi.a ha,,1,a,,o
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plo 49,, ei,io sn on me- ,"' mo :" p''p
"ra.ioh ~, i,eA. ye"i' -.
1ouhd the villages nave IN
iereh, ou'ioo ., upoIi ne. sdlu ~
Moorheau' Inc splrlt ol mopeless-
ness ana rum IS gone, WorklHen
ana inerchants nave pToiiteo oy tlie
gooo fortune ol the farmers, anu
there mas oeeh seiierdl splrl.ual'
as wen as ecohornlc' reSeIera'ioh'
me pan Worked 50 wen that tlo
interest IS belng usea 10 nelp otner
villages ana adoi'ional approp,iar
tions VIII De maze from our feiet
iunds 10 extend TINS sort oi reiiel
IN poianu. -..-s -
me ViIlageS assls.eu wele i,Laue
up emery OF Lutnerans, ous WIis.e
there were Je"lsn ana od'nolic
farmers " the communities lhese
were also alueu ny ,he loall pahha
In many or the viliases assistance
was diso eA.eiuSu W 'ea'iis