The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-01-18
In Humanity's, Name We Plead With You to Do
Your Part to Help the Starving Millions
Who Perish in Eastern Europe

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Inc lana, and u great part of the pop
ulatton Is doomed to hunger and death.
- me crops OF many provinces were
burned rs u result of the dought, and
IN many places the people are in flight,
though I'm the regions TO which they come
thcrc Is no food To give them. This terrible
disaster, due in no degree to human fault,
comes on the top of the admitted failure Of
the soviet government TO stimulate the
peasants Ia n maximum production. The
dimensions of the need are staggering. out
OF 80 millions, 25 millions must be fed. One
cannot nope to collect In the present i'm
poVcrtshnicnt of Europe more than "a mere
traction of what il needed.
lhcro is tragic monotony In the stories
Oh suffering. with the fields burnt dry and
showing only here and there n few stalks
OF corn, the wrctched men, women and chill
uren made desperate attempts 10 support
ne IKE me beasts In the field. eating grass.
dry leaves and weeds. making cakes of
acorn Hour, eating the bones of animals
ground To a powder. dcyouring ne times
even Oral. Panic seized them, and they
iied IN hundreds from their villages, mailing
up their doors and sometimes I'm n m Of
wild despair setting their deserted dwellings
on fire.
Whittier they fled they know not. Tho
Issues from tho northern districts of the
Don moved down towards the Kuban. An
hiohS the Nolga great companies of staryinp
men, women and children waited for d,ys
nmu uaSs Tor some steamer 10 carry them
away from the dcsolation. And thcy sicII.
ened and died while they waited.
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Long cara vans of hopeless sufferers trckkcd
up through the Tambof and kursk towards
Moxcow. Then In the midst of devastating
drought cholera appeared aud spread from
the mouth of the Noiga all through the
famine aera. being carried far and wide
by the wandering hosts of starving peas
antry. The starving population moved like
an avalanche, sowing contagiou and death
on its way. The attitude of most of the
starving hordcs is one of dcsDairing fatal
ism. The little children who haze been
keep alive by grass and acorn bread are
terribly dlsfigurcd by swollen stomachs,
Their little bodies break into horrible
ulccrs-then very soon they die. PitifuI
little emaciatcd children, too bcwiidcrcd to
cry, lie about waiting for death. Every
where you see these naked children with
bodies like HttIc balloons of tight drawn
yellow skin, with the head and limbs af.
fixed. They look like inflated gobIins.
surely the heart and conscience of human
lily VIII protest against this terrible situo-
ton.
Surely the heart and conscience OF human
idle whcn these unfortunate people are
suffering indcSCribablc agony, when lt Is
50 easily within your power to mitigate their
distress. We urge you To send us n gem
crous dollar you pos
sibIy can, II will he used TO buy life itself
for these desperately wrctchcd human be-
iIigs. Every dollar you send us designated
for the society of friends will be turned
over to them Intact.
NOW is THE TINE THESE EOPLE
ARE SUFFERING. Now is the time they
are desperately In need of help. Tomorrow
or the next day may be too late.
HERBERT HOOVER SAYS
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.
Office of the Secretary
Washington
November 23, 1921.
David a. Brown,
Chairman Jewish Relief Committee,
1903 Park Avenue,
New York City.
Dear Mr.. Brown:-Each year when the
American Jewish Relief committee has made
its appeal i have had the honor OF COM
mCnding its work to the American people,
and likewise each year l have observed The
continued necessity and the continued high
efficiency of Its SCI vice.
II has always maintained n broad mind
cdncss in the matter of race and rclIgio,
and has given Its support, both financi.J
and moral, to every effort in the aIleyia-
ton of human distress.
! trust the ommittc win have the snmc
support again that II has had hitherto.
Yours faithfully,
HOOVER,