The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-11-16
RUSSIA BADLY IN
NEED OF CLOTHES
American Relief administration. Az
Ter Feeding Millions, New Must
Provide Clothing Q o keep Them
From Dying Prom Exposure.

New York. Nov. IS Sunless the
American Relief Administration and
Allied organizations which fed mill
ions Of Russian adults and children
last winter are 20 see their work IN
done and q large percentage Of those
saved from famine die of exposure,
clothing must be furnished at once.
Colonel William n. Haskell, chief Of
the Russian unit Of the A. r. A. has
reported to Herbert Hoover, head Of
the organization. With fuel almost
unobtainahle. and clothing consist
ing Of rags which beggar descrip-
ton. states Colonel Haskell, literar-
ally millions will be faced with death
in a new form,
Even the children in orphanages
and other institutions, who are fed
by the A. r. 4. are menaeed. In near
" all Of these places, declare the re-
ports, the children have but one gar
ment-often made Of flour sacks, and
lack shoes, stockings, underelothing
or outer clothes. In the children's
homes they have recently been sup
piled with blankets for their beds,
but cannot go out of doors because
Of the lack Of shoes. Those children
who live with their parents, say the
reports, will be unable to go to the
ehild-feeding kitchens to get the food
which the A. r. A. and allied organi-
zations provide.
Colonel Haskell's %cablegrsm to Mr..
Hoover stated that one million chill
dren are in extreme need of shoes,
sweaters, stockings and boomers,
and urges that this minimum figure
be increased as much as possible.
Not only is there almost no cloth
ing for sale, but the prices are so far
out Of reach that it would take a
years work to earn the cost of an
overcoat,-if one were able to 60
without eating or spending wages for
anything else.
As a result Of the report the Am
erican Relief Administration has in
itiated a plan for the sending of
clothing packages into Russia in the
same manner as food packages have
been handled for some months. Like
the food remittance system, individ-
usls and organizations in America
may send clothing packages to desig-
mated individuals and organizations
in Russia, the A. r. A. handling the
packages and securing receipts from
the consignees or refunding the price
Of the package to the sender. Each
package will cost $50. and will in
elude materials which cost actually
more than that sum in some of the
great New York or San Francisco de-
partment stores.
The package to be delivered to the
beneficiary for each $50 clothing re-
mittance will contain approximately
the following clothing material: 4 %
yards Of all wool cloth in dark eolors
sufficient to make one suit Of clothes
for either a man or woman, or two
children's outer garments; 4 yards of
lining; Is yards of muslin sufficient
for four suits of Undertaking; 5
yards Of fannelette sufficient for two
mems shirts or two women's shirt
waists; and buttons and thread suf-
feient TO make this material up.
The A. R. A. has arranged with the
Soviet Government to provide ware
house facilities and transportation
from the port Of entry as well as to
make concessions in the matter of
duties.
In the case of food remittances-
which to date total more than s9,000,-
900 in value, with but $4,000 return
ed to the applicants, because it was
impossible to find the persons desig-
nated-several thousand banks, bus
mess organizations and individuals
in the states agreed to receive the
remittsnces and forward them to the
American Relief Administration head
quarters, ~ Broadway. The same or
CARNATIONS are being asked to serve
in the new form Of aid.
Fourteen banking and business or
CARNATIONS in seven Oregon cities
which acted as receiving agencies for
food remittanees and transferred
such remittances TO headquarters Of
the American Relief Administration,
AZ Broadway, New York City, have
been asked to undertake a similar
service in connection with the cloth
ing remittanees. They are as follows:
Portland: First National Bank,
Peninsula National Bank, United
States National Bank, Northwestern
National Bank, Ladd and Tilton
Bank, Hibernia Commercial and Saw
ings Bank, and John W. Miller, 623
Lumberman's Building. Ashland:
Citizens Bank; Brownsville, Bank u
Brownsville; La Grsnde, La Grande
National Bank; Linnton, First Ma
tional Bank; Oregon City, Bank Of
Commerce; Salem, United States Ma
tional Bank.