The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-10-07
j. s. RELIEF IN
RUSSIA GREAT
ACHIEVEMENT


the American Relief Administration. to
feed Russian children. was opened in
Petrngrad one year ago today. Three
hundred children then received their
first American meal. Today more than
10. 100000 Russians. when they give
thanks for their daily bread. might
we'll turn their faces toward America.
The story of the expansion OF this re.
lief work il worth telling again in BRIEF
form.
Originally Herbert Hoover. in re.
Spouse tn an appeal from Maxim Cork,
and with the help of the American PEG
pie. planned to feed 100000 Russia
children. The work grew until in Au-
gust Of this year 4.17l4I children
were receiving daily meals from the
\. r. A.. and a daily corn ration. or
It's equivalent. was going to 6.251,9ss
adults. a total of l0.429,399 individuals.
The original program had been multi
piled tenfOld.
Feeding the Adults
The adult feeding. not included in the
original intentions. was made poss:bl:
by the appropriation by the United
States Congress of $20,O00.000 for the
purchase of corn In America. This pro-
duct began to arrive in February CT
1922. From that time until the last
carload OF corn was shipped to the In.
terror districts. the railroads of RUSSO
from the northern and southern ports
TO the famine areas were taxed to their
capacity. The delivery of the food b..
came the greatest problem which the
A. X. 4. was called upon to face. Ware
houses were filled and emptied and filled
again Barged loaded to the Eunwales
with corn were sent up and down the
Volga River and up the Kama, Bicla
and Viatka Rivers. Horses and sledgcs.
camcls and wagons, wheelbarrows and
pcasonts backs carried the grain from
the river ports and from the railroad
stations TO the distant villages. by
August I. about five months after tn"
adult feeding began. 6,25i.95S men AMI
women were having their daily meal Of
american corn and up to that date
266. i07 tons Of corn and other products
had been distributed to the districts Tor
adult feeding.
Covers wide Area
In the matter of distances alone. ant
In view Of the lack of sufficient railroad
connections. il Is significant that the
chld-feeding and adult-feeding OF the
4. II. A.. has not been limited to tne
easily accessible areas. but covers In
their entirety the following republics.
governments. and regions: kazan. Tar
tar Republic. Simbirsk. Mahri. Samara.
Fotskaia region. Saratov. German COM
munes, TsaritZin. tralsk. kalmuck re-
gion. Rostov-Don. Kuban- Black Sea re-
gion. Astrakhan zone. TIA. Bashkir Re-
public, Ekaterinburg. Cheliabinsk. orer-
burg Kirghiz Republic, Kustanai. Pet
rograd (city). Moscow (city). the
ukrainian Republic. the Crimea. and
parts of the governments Of Walks.
Perm. Pensa and Nijni-Novgorod.
And even this list covers only part
Of the work OF the A. r. A.. In the
Russian Socialistic Federated Soviet
Republic. There Is also the food remit
lance division and the medical division.
each Of which handled something over
s7.0n0.o00 worth OF supplies since the
beginning Of their operations.
Medical Assistance.
The medical division has distributed
supplies consisting OF medicines, surgi-
cal Instruments. bedding. linen. BANDA
ges and cotton. rubber goods. laboratory
equipment and other items too numerous
to mention to literally thousands OF Rus.
sian hospitals and institutions, besides
having carried on a campaign OF moo.
ulation against communicable diseases
on scale never before attempted in the
history of preventive medicine. 1t has
supplied serums and raccines sufficient
to inoculate not thousands but millions
OF persons in districts where cholera
and other epidemic diseases are raging.
The food remittance plan is one BY
which the friends and relatives Of Rus
SLAMS who live In America or elsew here
outside Of Russia are enabled to Iseno
them packages of food. This is accom-
plishcd without the actual transmission
ofthe individual packages. because the
"A. r. A.. has depots OF supplies all
over Russia and individual packages
are made up from these supplies on the
SPOT In accordance with the letter OF
remittance. These packages are In $lU
units and multiples Of that amount
Thousands Of persons have taken ad-
vantage of this system and their pur-
chases to date amaunt to more than
81 0O0. 900. Last moth deliveries were
made at the rate Of 3.2lo ten-dollar
packages daily.