The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-08-03
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INWAR.0NFAMINE
Comprehensive Survey Q
Work Done Given by Col.
William Haskell.
7By EDWARD M.|THIERRY

By EDWARD M.5THiERRY
NEW YORK. Aug '.The
peak OF American relief has been
reached in. starving Russia and the
ispecter of famine fast is oisap-
pearing."
That's the message brought BY
Col. William N. Haskell. director
of the American Relief Admins
'tration. Just back from Russia to
make a report to Chairman Her
bert Hoover he gives The Yves.
fvirginian comprehensive survey
of the work already done.
I'VE are feeding 10. 100000 geo
pie, including 3,500.00o children
and 100000 adults he says.
The work, covering an area Of
100000 square miles. is being
ls00, 900 tons of supplies have been
distributd-
"child feeding was begun last
September and alult feeding
April |. BY the coming September
adult relief will cease, and the
feeding of children will be cut
down gradually to 1000. 900.
by that time crops will have
matured, for there was much more
planting last spring following the
distribution by the Soviet govern
ment Of $4,000, 900 worth of seed
grain.
| U. S. Checks Hunger
America checked the famine,
reduced deaths by starvation to 4
minimum and tided the people
over, especially in the Volga re-
gion. When the harvest comes our
food drive will be practically over
and we shall devote our chief at
! tention to medical and sanitation
work. "
out Of the $50 100000 subscrib-
ed by the American people two
years ago for Central European
relief, IS, 100000 has gone to feed
Russian children. according ~
Haskell.
Daily 8 100000 children visit the
Is, 900 Am erican Kitchens. Each
has plate and spoon and receive q
we'll cooked meal consisting Of
bread. cocoa and milk and either
rice, beans or corn gritS.
Out of the $20,o00oO0 tappropriat-
ed by Congress 200 900 tons OF
corn have been shipped into the
Vo1ga region. Needy adults num-
bering 100000 receive 30 pounds
of corn a month. This they grind,
usually by primitive methods. and
make into corn bread.
Feed 5000 in Ukraine
An additional 1,5OO,0O6 adults
re, I,nin at SCUM, Kitchens in
the Ukraine-mostly refugees from
the Volga region-and along the
Polish border. where from 5000 10
5000 repatriated Poles pour daily
| through the town Of Minsk alone.
They swarmed into railway sta
tions SO fast says H. L. Gil
christ. I'm ember Of Colonel Hask-
ellis staff. that wagons had to be
command eered to carry away the
dead. Babies were born there
daily -
Barracks have been built at
many relief stStions for the inno-
culation of at least 1O-Q00,000 per-
sons This inn incubation campaign,
the greatest ever conceived is
against typhoid and cholera
At least 100000 have been fed
by food remittance packets sent
/ to specifi cindividauls by friends
and relatives in other countries.
81 ,0oo, 900 in Food Monthly IN
The American Relief Admins
tration distributes 81, 100000 worth
of food. month in 100000 pack
cts. Remittance orders are bought
at $40 each-75 per cent coming
from Am erica-and the food, ship
I ped in bulk. is put up at Moscow
| warehouses. b
| Each OF these packets contains
40 pounds of flour, 20 cans. of con-
densed milk, 25 pounds of rice,
10 pounds Of sugar, 10 pounds of
lard and three pounds of tea This
is enough to keep one person alive
for month to six weeks.
Less than one-tent11 OF one per
cent Of food furnished by America
| has been lost through, theft. Trains
4 Of food are double-sealed and
| guarded by Soviet soldiers.
ut is fear of the people rather
than the government that has
checked banditry," says Colonel
Haskell Two men who robbed q
cbildren's food station were
caught, tried by the people OF the
| village, and sentenced to be beaten
to death. And the peoples court
carried out the SENTENCE"
4 The 200 Americans in charge OF
relief work are. aided by $4,000
j Russians employed by the relief
administration with food rations
as wages.
The administration is organized
like an army of.occupation apd
even has its own postal system.
couriers starting from London and
! covering the food-distr1bution area
Of Russi nth to Petrograd, Z
I east to the Siberian border 1000
I miles from MOSCOW, south to the