Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-08
RUSSIA AWAITING
RESULT OF FARLEY
BY f. A. MACKENZIE

MOSCOW, Aug. 5.-Russians are
awaiting with painful interest the
outcome Of the conference in Wash
| ington between Secretary Hoover
and the heads Of American relief
administration in Europe concern
ing the continuation of operations in
Russia. The mere report that the
Americans intended to withdraw was
| sufficient today to cause a semi.
panic, sending the prices Of food
stuffs, particularly white flour, sky
high. Ef
| ; Those who have had an oppor-
tunity to study the situation realize
| that while the Americans have COM
pleted the Volga campaign glorious
| ly-the campaign may be described
as one of the most efficiently man
aged in the history of world phi
| lanthrophy, still greater tasks lie
right ahead. Famine is still sweep
| ing parts Of the south and the dead
| in Odessa are so numerous that it
is hardly possible to bury them. One
| recently returned visitor told the
| writer that a whole section Of the
city had been wiped out, and that
1.-THE cholera was assuming an uglier
Easpect. .f@ *'f's go -
| Apart from this the situation over
| the greater part of the country is
| one of exceedingly great distress
and this is bound to continue even
| if the harvest meet the highest eX-
pectations.< Moscow will boom but
| the suffering Of the masses must be
tappalling for months to come. Pub
| lie institutions are so badly off for
the barest necessities that many Of
the inmates must perish without
| American aid.
whoever enters our hospitals
without private supplies Of food in
eYitably dies" one Petrograd sister
Of charity told the correspondent
| last week. She spoke truly. Chill
dren's institutions afford especially
painful examples OF the shortage of
foods and medicines. The authorities
do the best they can but the best is
not good enough. 1t is heart break
| ing to see the white-faced, ill-nour-
| ished institutional Riddles" swept
by infectious diseases for the lack
Of simple remedies. If the supply OF
American medicines ceases Russia s
sick must suffer promptly.
DR.. Beeuwkee, head Of the medical
| department of the American relief
administration, finds it. necessary to
| provide scores of thousands of little
outfits of baby clothing for newly
| born children as otherwise the babes
are wrapped in rags. These outfits
are Of his own designing and are
ideal for wrapped in rags. These out
! fits are of his own designing and are
| ideal for the purpose. American dis
| The Moscow dispensary, which was
| opened aqfortnight ago, already has
| 500 patients a day. = ~
Americas campaign against We
nereal diseases is checking one of the
most accursed legacies from the war
and the. wholesale campaign Of i'll
incubation against typhoid, cholera
and smallpox for the first time in
many years is helping to check the
| seasonal epidemic which will threat
en- the world if the Americans with
draw now and this campaign virtu-
ally ceases.
Twenty times a month I am
| tempted to chuck everything be.
cause of stupid obstruction, but
twenty times a month I remember
that I am here to help the common
people and I go on" one of the
bravest workers on the border OF
Asia said.
General adult feeling will probably
cease except in the new famine
areas, but for the United States tc
abandon the relief Of children anj
the furnishing Of hospitals for those
who are i'll will be an appalling
tragedy.