The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-10-07
One Yser i Ara. {
Wstk IN Ru.sia

MpeeoWy OK 0--41lS first Stsefou
Of stha iAkn>rs slanslRsliS3i Ad,ninfstral
tion, 70 4eeds Rpssian children. w.s
opshd IA lSttaad av&fa Z var so
Three hundhsi childrsn than .recsiy.
ed their flrss American meal. Today
more thsn<10, 900, 600 Russians, whr,
they sSivs ssthanlksr for their ;, daily
bread, might well turn their faces to-
ward America. The story Of the ex.
pansion Of this relief swork is worth
telling again in brief form.
Originally Herbert Hoover, in re.
sponse to IN appeal from Maxim
Gorky and with the help Of the Am
erican people, planned to feed T,o0o,-
600 Russian children. The work
grew tintil.h August Of this year A.
III AL children were receiving daily
meals from the A. R. A., and q daily
corn ration or its equivalent, was 60
ing to 6,257,s5s adults, total Of TO-.
429,399 individnals. The original
program had been multiplied tenfold
The adult feeding, not included in
the original Intentions, was made pos
sible by the appropriation by the
United STATES Congress of $20, 900 900
for the purchase of corn in America
This prod6ct began to arrive in Feb
ruary Of 1922. From that time until
the last carload Of corn was shipped
to the interior districts, the railroads
| of Russia from the northern and
southern ports to the famine areas
were taxed to their capacity. The
delivery Of the food became the great.
est problefh which the A. R. A. was
called upon to face. Warehouses
were filled and emptied and filled
again. Barges loaded to the gun
wales with corn were sent up and
down the Volga river and up the
Kama, Biela and Viatka rivers.
Horses and sledges, camels and wag-
ohs, wheelbarrows and peasants
backs carried the grain from the
river ports and from the railroad sta
tions to the. distant villages. BY Au-
gust 1, about five months after the
adult feeding began, 6,257,95S men
and women were having their daily
meal Of american corn and up to
that date 266, ,4O7 tons of corn and
other products had been distributed
to the districts for adult feeding.
| In the matter of distances alone,
and in view of the lack of sufficient
railroad connections, it is significant
that the cHild-feeding and adult
feeding Of Che A. R. A has not been
limited to the easily accessible areas,
but covers in their entirety the fol-
lowing republics, governments, and
regions: Kazan, Tartar Republic,
Simbirsk, Nahri, Samara, Votskaia
region, Safatov, German communes,
Tsaritzin, Unlsk, Ka1muck region,
Rostov-Dons Kuban, Black Sea re-
gion, Astrakhan zone, Ufa, Bashkir
Republic, Ekaterinburg, Cheliabinsk,
orenbure, Kirghiz Republic, Petro-
grad (cityl, Moscow (city), the Uk.
rainian x Nss,- the Crimes and
parts Of jlhe pvernments Of viatka,
Perm, Pensa md Nijni-Novgorod.
| And even his list covers only q
part. Of the prk Of the A. R. A. in
the Russian Socialistic Federated
Soviet Repuli There is also the
food remitt hce division and the
medical division, each of which has
handled something over $7,O0O,O ,O0O
worth of supplies since the beginning
of their oprations.
The medical division has distribut-
ed SUPPLIES consisting of medicines,
surgical Instruments, bedding, linen,
bandages and cotton, laboratory
equipment and other items too num-
erous to mention to literally thou
sands of Russian hospitals and in
stitutions, besides having carried on
a campaign OF inoculation against
communicable diseases on scale
never before attempted in the his
tory OF preveiftfvef medicine. 1t has
supplied sertihds and vaccines sufi-
cient to inoehlAte not thousands but
millions of persons in districts where
cholera and other epidemic diseases
are raging.
| The ofod remittance plan is one by
which the friends and relatives of
Russians whoslivssih america or else
| where outside Or Russia are enabled
TO send them packages Of food. This
Is accomplished without the actual
transmission iof the individual pack
ages,vbecausa the A. R. A. has de-
pots .of supplies all over Russia and
individual packages are made up
from these supplies on the spot in
accordance with the letter of remit
fanes. Thess.packages are in SO
units and m6ltiples of that amount.
Thousands of-persons have taken ad-
vantage of this system and their pur-
ebases to date amount to more than
| $70Oo,ooo. Last month deliveries
were made at the rate of S,2lO ten
dollar packastS daly.
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