The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-19
Europe, Trying to Make Herself
Ouer, Looks to u. S. For Food
Hoover Next to Cod Say Poles-Long Lines of Children
Await Chance at Daily Ration-Soldiers At
tend Church in Regiments at Time

cry for help. Nowhere have the fires
of nationalism burned so unquench-
ably. Through persistent persecution
and Siberian exile, through terrible
poverty and deprivation of all admin
strative rights, the Poles have man.
aged to keep the fires of national spirit
Naming with light that has attracted
the sympathetic interest of the world.
That is why the world is looking on
in kindly spirit today, hoping that
Poland will once again be able to
stand proudly among the great ma
tions-yet half fearing, because the
present generation has had no exper-
fence in self-government
There is genius among these peo-
pie; will they develop it in time?
Poland Cultured Country.
Through her years of repression, de-
spite Russia's tyranny, Poland has
held fast to her culture. In music, lit
erature and art they yield to none.
Even the children in the streets speak
more than one language. ! asked a
young stenographer how many Ian
guages she spoke, and she replied
alphabetically "only six"
II ID uSudl lOI IolSS 10 speak
French, Russian as we'll as his own
| Polish to his accomplishments. This
refers, of course, to the middle and
upper classes, as the peasants are
without education.
| Essential to Poland's economic sal.
| walton that she turn to the cultiva
| ton of her great plains; hers is an
| agricultural country. There her fu
| ture lies. The limitless plains cannot
| however, be speeded to full productiv.
| ity in a season. There is scarcity
of seed, fertilizer and machinery
there are no horses.
Return Students to Schools.
| As fast as possible the army is be
! ing demobilized and young mer
! there are many boys of sixteen) who
show that they are going to the farm;
or back to their studies, are mustered
out of service. Hundreds of these
boys are seen in the fields, wearing
their old uniforms, and the college;
are crowded with them. Great mum
bers owe their ability to continue
their studies to the generosity o
American Students. who are providins
money to give the Polish students on,
hot meal a day.
It's a good meal, too, soup and hug,
plates of noodles and rice and bub
bling hot chocolate, thickened will
flour.
l often think how inadequate an,
} unappetizing this food which provide
the children and students here witt
: their only link with life, would seen
: to our American boys and girls. On
acquires respect for the simplest foo
when seen through the perspective @
the Poles radiant joy in what Amer
lea sends them.
Sad beyond words is the conditio
of the class termed the 1ntelligentsi;
This group comprises the educate
people, the clergy, professional peopl
and owners of estates. Millions {
these people are hopelessly ruinet
Vast numbers of them exist largely O
/. help from America.
Peasants Are Content
( OF the peasant class we have 4
5 equivalent. They often live in
: squalor that sickens but in the mai
[ they have enough to eat and are CO
! tented. l have seen many peasaI
Y cottages of one room where the chic
e ems lived right along with the famil