Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-30

of vaccine and serums were distribut. ed. The fact that in spite of the low cred resistance of the people and the | insanitary conditions which prevailed | throughout Russia there were only one | third the number of cases of cholera in the summer of 1922 that there were | in the summer of 1921 speaks volumes as to the efficacy of the inocufation campaign.
 The child ZfeediuE and the adult I'd. tioning continued until the harvest. It freached its maximum in August when 10,429 ,399 persons were being fed. Altogether the American Relief .Ad- mintstratton shipped into Russia more than $500 tons of foodstuffs and medical supplies from the beginning of it's operation up to December II, 1922.
 Does the figure seem small ? Trans- late it into pounds. It will include | nearly five hundred million pounds of corn, more than three hundred mill lion pounds of Wheat, more than two hundred and sixty-five million pounds of flour, more than quarter of a bif- lion pounds of corn grlts, nearly one hundred eighty million pounds of sug- ar, almost as much rice, some twenty | six million pounds of fats, some sew enteen million pounds Of beans and peas. nearly eight million pounds of cocoa, nearly thirteen million pounds
 of medical supplies. The last item, however, does not include the supplies contributed by the American Red lCross from it's European stores, but
 only those shipped from the United States.
 And aside from all it's general feed
 Ing and medical relief. the American
 Relief Administration has sold in the 1, United States for delivery in Russia
 nearly $10,00Q. 900 worth of food remit
 tances. Building up a cash business
 of S10, 100000 in a little more than a
 year in ten-dollar sales units is, in it.
 self no small feat. To have made that business profitable under the handi-
 caps that European. and particularly
 Russian, conditions imposed during the year 1922, is an ever greater achieve , Hent. It was made profitable, how ever, and the profits went far toward
 supporting the child feeding activities , and covered the overhead and incl. dental expenses of the whole adminis.
 tration.
 Under the agreement with the sov. jet government that government wal [ required to pay the entire cost .oi , dfscharging ships, railway transporta.
  l equipment for the distribution of tht ; whole of the foodstuffs delivered in. . to Russia. And the chairman of tht American Relief Administration, Her.
 Der Hoover Is therefore enabled to re. port proudly to the president of thu United States tn accounting for hi. trust:
 I'm consequence 6f these two ar. engagements, there has not been a de.
 auction of one penny for admintstra 6. tive purposes either from the fund provided by congress or from pubic charity in the United States"
 The work of the American Relief Ad.
 ministration in Russia is not done Tn, famine has left an aftermath of poy. ; erty, suffering, disease which must bt combatted. Mir. Kaminoff has asket ! that 5000 900 children be fed by the A . R. A this winter, and the probabfii
 ties are that his request will be grant < ed. The Russian people are facing tli 2 new year with confidence. They hay, learned that America sympatfiizes witl , their distress. Their morale Is far bet . ter than it was last January and wi1il , their granaries are not bursting witt an overabundant harvest, there Is ia !, more food in sight than there was year ago. The A. R. A. has arrange V for clothing packages to be sent tfIer and their second great need Is to b :, met.
 7 7 Their New Year may not be exact z ly a happy one, according to Ameri
 can standards of happiness, but a will certainly be far less unf1app Q than 1929