The Denver Jewish news., 1922-12-20
Have Thrilling Ex-
pefiene on Greco
Turkish Front

some turning experiences leil 10 tHe
lot of Irma May Cantor and Hortense
BreckIer. Of Cincinnati. on a recent
our OF Consiantinopla bulgaria and
Roumaaia in connection with the child
Committee.
They got 10 Constantinople afier u
stormy passage across the Black Sen
from Cons aIzn while the town was
sill in panic over threa cned in
va.sion by the Ncmalist army. Refu-
gees wcrc pouring into the town from
Smyrna, which had just been burned
prom Cons. an..nople we went to
Sofia. tile capital of Bulgaria. That
was me experience" writes Irma
May Cantor in letter received yes;er-
day. by Hepry II. R.Isenfelt National
Director of the American Jewish Re
lief Committee. The railway was
lined with encampments of Greek and
tried to force their way into our car.
and the train had to be darkened he
cause the lighted windows made such
u tempting target. But the ear was
rot dark. thanks to the light from
burning buildings along the line.
"Constantinople has been II refugee
center since the beginning of the WAR.
and the Joint Distribution COMMITTEES
has n refugee and n reconstruction de
partment, the latter To make loans to
the refugees who try TO settle here.
Child-care work has just begun and
there is urgent need,to get the girls of
the streets of this vicious city If they
ara not TO be destroyed morally. Trade
phanage. supported locally. thea are
tcnching the girls embroiderlng and.
the brighter one. accounting: the boys
are taught trades But the number of
children taken care of Is; pitifully small
In proportion to these uncared for.
we visited day nursery-a horri-
ble place. The entrance is through Il
narrow passage leading to n court
yard. The house is dilupidated and
looks as if 1t would collapse any MINI
utc. Inside. in a small room. in
charge of helpless old woman We're
twenty babies. crying pitifully. :.
The local community is doing all it,
can but the new burdens are too great.
There are about 1,5OO war orphans
in Bulgaria. Nothing has been done
for them. But it is The law in that
country that every one must do II GER
tain amount of work for the state
without compensation. The period of
his compulsory labor runs from two
weeks to three months. Unmarried
girls must give three months sewing
dresses for hospitals AID other insti-
tutions. Consequently. the orphanage
receives IA certain amount of help i'm
the way of dresses and the like.
From Bulgaria returned to Rou-
mania. BY American standards this
is six-hour trip. 1t lasted twenty
eight. The express covers about s
miles an hour.
I'VE had n wonderful trip from
Bucharest to Czcrnowitz-in sleep
ing ear with showcr-bath. Aint tina
grand. The showers were the leak
ing roof, through which the rain
poured in streams. 1t was cold. and
we came near FREEING to death. though
wrapped in water-profs. In the eve
ming. the car took on romantic party.
Really, there must have been tank
ou our car-roof. because next morning,
though the sun shonc. the water still
poured in.
THE Joint Distribution Committee
has done a remarkable piece of work
here. Two hundred houses have been
rebuilt in Wiznitz alone. The graft
tude of the population cannot he told
i'll words. The municipality or Wiz
aitz named one of the new strcts in its,
hnnor-'Strad joint Disco
Il visited the homes of "A large num-
Der of widows and their children. 1t |
is all very pitifm 1t was bitter cold
and wci-and though I wore n heavy
coat and IL shawl the penetrating wind
cellars. in attics. clad in rags. under
nouri;Sled. The water-piles were
frozen, thd wall covered with ice and
snow. I can't say that there was no
food in the po;s and kettles because
there were no pots or kettles. Even
'hc cats We're moaning with hunger
oh. / am not writing this to move you.
These little martyrs whom we are say. !
Ing make our work holy. For when |
saw in the insti ution at Czcrnowitz
the children whoIp we had already res