New Britain herald., 1922-02-04
SAKE TELLS AIMS
 OF RELIEF WORKERS
Chairman Of Local Committee Describes Suffering Abroad

While countless thousands of lives have been saved in Eastern and Southeastern Europe through the ef- forts and generosity of Americans, the real aims of the most difficult and unusual task in modern history are yet to be achieved" according to Morris D. Sake, chairman for New Britain Of the s14,oo0,on0 appeal for Jewish war sufferers toward which Connecticut Is raising quota of S2h0,0O0. And the American public. which has already given $47,ono,ooo for the tremendous work already ac cor,plished, is entitled to know about what has been done" said Mir. Saxe.
 Feeding and clothing the starving and helping them In their fight against famine, exposure and disease is. of course, the first duty" said he. However, the Joint Distribution com mittee, which disburses the funds for the various American Jewish Relief societies, has broadened its scope and includes medico sanitary measures against cpidemics, to establish child caring and training work and to help bring these sufferers to an ability to help themselves.
 Prom the beginning of the great war-the Joint Distribution committee was organized in December, 1914-up to very recently in most cases, any effort to carry on from any given points along what was formerly the Russian border was futile as to stay an ocean tide. Emergency conditions arose here and there and the prim- ary duty was to give relief. Was food needed? It was directed there in such quantities as could be secur- ed. Was medical relief called for? Medical unit members were sent so far as the limited personnel of this group permitted Emergency hospl- tals were established temporarily in literally hundceds of places, only to move on wiAl the immediate need was met. Sometimes these latter moved under pressure, as, for instance at kiev. When the Polish army went there. committee workers took along quantities of medicaments. only 10 leave supplies behind when the pre- cipitate retreat came. The refugee problem kept the committees repre- sentatives on the jump from the Bal tic states to southern Rumania; and child caring work was often compel led to be as mobile as other types of service.
 Now as peace is being restored in some of these countries the speaker continued, "the work is taking on more permanent character. Refugees are being handled in two great classl- fications, orphanages are being built and supplemented by schools in which industrial training is given medlco- sanitary work is being organized Tn educational and preventive lines by communities and rehabilitation work is taking the form of establishment of loan organizations to help the ar tisan and small trader back to his feet.
 Problem of Refugees.
 '.When it comes to refugees, the problems are two-fold. One aflses from those former residents of parts of Russia which are now lndepend- ent states and who fled into the ln- terior of Russia when armed lnvas- ions came to their provinces. The task for the committee is to help these refugees to prove their 1den- tity. and to care for them in con centration camps while action per mitting their repatriation IS being taken. Tn the Ukraine the situation of the large Jewish population IS pitiable in the extreme. Constant counter-revolution, guerilla warfare and banditry have resulted in the deaths of scores of thousands, includ ing 200 ,oo0 heads of Jewish fam iIics The survivors are broken in body and spirit, and great army Of them has fled from the terror and starvation into the hospital border countries
 "One great purpose of the loan in organizations is to rebuild the homes of sufferers of which more than 90 per cent have been destroyed One great group of loan organize tons is made up of artisans Co-op- erative bodies. working through central body and ten district groups Each district has ten subordinate committees a committee represent ing villages in it's area.
 Through the cooperative. artis- ans are supplied with tools and raw materials s-whcl1, being bought in quantity by the central body, are available at lower cost--and are helped to market their products. Similar plans are being used in the case Of the traders and merchants orga nizations.
 While in the seven countries where the comr,ittee's reonle are at