The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-08-05
MAXIM GORkY IN
APPEAL To WORLD.
Declares Millions of Countrymen
on Verge of Starvation.
REDS TO FREE AMERICANS
Soviets Starving Ask "Honest People"
Of All Countries to Save Them
Head of Greek Church at
Moscow Appeals

New York, Aug. 1.-The text of APP
peals for aid by Maxim Gorky to the
American people and by the Orthodox
Greek church to Bishop Manning in
New York were made public by SOW
Jet interests here as follows:
Moscow, July 13.-To all honest
people: The corn growing steppes
are smitten by crop failure, caused by
the drought. The calamity threatens
starvation to millions of Russian peO-
pie. Think of the Russian peoples ex-
haustiOn by the war and revolution,
which considerably reduced its resist
ance to disease and it's physical en-
durance.
Appeals for Aid.
GLOOMY days have come for the
country of TOlstoi, Dostoyevsky, Men
eleyev, Pavlov, Mussergsky, Glinka
and other world-prized men, and l
venture to trust that the cultured Eu-
ropean and American people, under
standing the TRACER Of the Russian
people. will immed ely succor with
bread and medicines.
eff humanitarian ideas and feelings
faith in whose social import was so
shaken by the damnable war and it's
victOrs' unmercifulness toward the
vanished-if faith in the creative
force of those ideas and feelings, /
say, must and can be restored Rus
sia's misfortune offers humanitarians
a splendid opportunity to demonstrate
the vitality Of humanitarianism.
II think particularly warm sympa-
thy in succOring the Russian people
must be shown by those who, during
the ignominiOus war, so passiOnately
preached fratricidal hatred, thereby
whitening the educational efficacy Of
ideas evolved by mankind in the most
arduOus labors and SO lightly killed
by stupidity and cupidity.
"PeOple who understand the words
of agonizing pain will forgive the in
voluntary bitterness Of my words.
81 ask all honest European and
American people for prompt aid to the
Russian people. Give bread and medi-
cine. MAXIM GORKY."
Text Of Church Appeal.
The Greek church appeal was given
out as follows:
Moscow, July II, 1921.-To His
Eminence, the Rt. Rev. Bishop Of New
York: Right Reverend Sir-Through
you l appeal to the North American
nation. There is famine in Russia. A
great part of the population is doomt i
to a hunger death.
"The corn of many provinces, for
merly the country's granary, is now
burned by drought All other consid-
eratiOns must be cast aside.
"The people are dying, the future is
dying, because the population is de-
sorting home, lands, fields, farms and
is fleeing eastward, crying for bread
Delay spells an unprecedented calam-
ity. Send Immediately bread and med
icine. I am sending similar appeal
to the English people through the
archbishop of Canter bury.
spray may God avert His wrath.
"TIKHON."
vi MOSCOW anu ALI nus
sia''
Hoover's Offer Accepted.
Riga, Aug. 1.-The offer of Herbert
Hoover to aid Russia in relieving suf-
fering due to famine on condition that
all Americans now held prisoner in
Russia be released has been accept
ed by the Russian authorities, who
suggest immediate negotiations in or
der to realize speedy assistance, ac-
cording to a dispatch from the Rosta
news Agency Of Moscow, received here.
The American government repre-
sentatives in Riga consider the note
of acceptance as constituting also an
answer to the demand made by Sec
rotary of State Hughes for the release
of the American prisoners in Russia.