Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1922-02-09
APPEAL To AID
STARVING Russ
PUBLIC TO BE ASKED TO All
THE MILLIONS IN THE
NOLGA REGION.


Famine Relief with headquarters il
iO5-409 Steinway building, Chicago.
Governors of eleven midwcster
states, nine United States Senators
church dignitarieS of every denomna
tino, representatives in congress
prominent business and professional
men and women and representative
of farm and labor organizations al,
members of the advisory council o
the American committee.
The appeal will be made direct
the people through local organization
in every city and village.
Tens of Thousands Dying
Tens of thousands are dying dali,
in Russia from starvation and pest
lence, Colonel Haskell, head of tn
American Relief commission in Rus
STA, reported the other day. Hundred
Of thousands will be dying mex
month, unless further aid is sent, h
says.
Inadequacy OF relief to meet tn
famine situation in the Nolga valley
a territory as large as Illinois, Wis
consin, Minnesota, North Dakota
South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa an
Kansas-prompted the organization
the American Committee for Russia
Famine Relief by congre smen VIII
were responsible for passage of tn
$20,000,000 appropriation bill for Rus
sian relief. Part of this appropriation
will be used for the purchase Of see
grain.
Senator Joseph Irwin France
Maryland, who visited Russia las
summer, estimated SlO0,00O,00O
needed for food, clothing and medica
supplies. Former Governor Jane
Goodrich of Indiana, who also recent
returned from visit TO the famin
area, says the 20,000000 appropria
ton is admittedly inadequate.
With S12,000,000 heretofore at tn,
disposal of the American Relief com
mission, Colonel Haskell said 10000
children could be fed until spring H
estimated 100000 other childre-
would die, unless fed.
In planning the appeal for funds
VI llit -Al4lti licll ANI4lll4AAI
said they hope to be able 20 save IA
theirs and mothers and older sister
and brothers from starvation, too.
Money collected will be used IN tn,
purchase Of grain, clothing and medi
cal supplies in the United State.
which will he turned over to the Rus
sian Red Cross for distribution undo
American supervision, in districts an
touched by other organizations. Pur
chases of wheat and corn are also ex
pected to furnish some relief TO tn,
farmers Of the middle west, who have
been forced to take prices below tn,
cost Of production largely as resul
Of the continued severance Of trad,
relations and the depreciation o.
European money that followed th'
war.
The Russian Red Cross will be uti
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distribution of relief, since that or
ganization has field workers in ever,
village in the Nolga valley, and n,
money need be spent for maintaining
them. These workers are able {,
do little now, reports from Russi:
say, for lack Of medical supplies am
food.
The Russian Red Cross has tn
same international standing IS tn
American organization and was recog
nized at the recent international Re
Cross conference in Geneva. The con
ference certified that tine Russian Re
Cross administers relief without re
gard to sex, faith or political opinion
That pestilence- typhus, choler
and osis-which has accom-
panied the famine in Russia ma
spread to the rest Of the world, wa
the opinion voiced by Bishop Samuo
Falows of the Methodist church, Chi
cago, unless steps are taken at once t
check disease there. Bishop Fallov
is a member of the national advisor
council Of the American committee.
There is every probability, too, h
said, that the spring planting thi
year will be unbelieyably small, sine
the peasants are deserving their farm
in the hope that conditions are les
severe somewhere ciSt. Meier WoIh
crs report finding bodies at the road
sides-bodies Of men, women an
children, left to die where the
dropped from exhaustion. Babies, j
countless instances, have been left be
hind by the refugees, mothers bein
unable TO stand the strain Of hearin
them wall for something to eat.
With vegetation burned up, whol
families in districts remote fror
American relief workers are subsist
ing on clay, dried grass and weeds an
the bark Of trees. Nor. recent re
ports say that cannbalism is bein
practiced, the living eating the deaC
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