The New York herald., 1922-07-23
QUININE BY CARLOAD
\ SENT TO RUSSIANS
Col. Haskell, Returning Home,
Tells Details of American
4 Relief Work.
1o,oOO,ooo HUNGRY FED
Will Report to Hoover and
Expects to Go Back in
\ September.
Special Cable to THE NEW YoRK HERALD.
Copyright, 1929, by THE New YORK HERALD.

Special Cable to THE NEW YonK HERALD.
Copyright, 1898, by TIE NEW YoRK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
London. July 22. !
Col william N. Haskell. once Com
mander of the New York Sixty-nnth
Regiment and now head Of the Ameri-
sailed to-day on the Aquitania with his
wife. two sons and daughter for New
York. He will report to Herbert Hoo
yer on the Russian work and expects to
return there in September. He refused
to discuss Russian politics or reports
about Lenine's condition.
IT am going home for a conference
with Secretary Hoover and probably
will return in September" Col. Haskell
said. He declared he knew nothing of
Mr.. Hoover's decision to limit the relief
work then. but will present a full state
ment OF the situation to help Hoover to
a decision.
Col. Haskell gave some figures on the
organization which he built and made to
function. 1t is feeding more persons
than are IN all the standing armies of
the world; more people than the Amer
lean Army ever fed overseas. popula-
ton equivalent to that of the State of
New York-10, 900 900 people.
When he reached Russia late in Sep
tember he had mapped out a program
to feed 100000 children. That mark was
reached at Christmas. but as other
FUNDS became available and as the fam
Inc need increased the work spread to
100000 children and then 100000 adults,
and now. including~tlt. Crimea and tina
Ukraine, 1t reaches total of 10000, 900.
hA MA t,.I t. T.
OF the entire State of New York. II is
run on the basis of hospital, with
$4,000 beds, 5000 clinic patients and
$4,000 children and others treated in their
homes.
Problem of Transportation.
Every small boy In the world ought to
shiver at the thought of an organizat ton
that buys codliver oil by the ton and
quinine by the carload. Most of these
medical supplies came from the army
n surplus stores and the American Red
Cross. To carry these and the food
supplies coming through eighteen Rus
sian ports in nearly 300 shiploads re-
quired 10000 freight cars--the length of
a train stretching from New York to
Denver. And every ship was unloaded
without payment of one cent for demur-
rage. That is bigger merchant fleet
6aSkelI
smiles when he Is asked whether the
Cars ships got by without demurrage.
Right here I want to tell you that
the Russians got things done for rs"
said Col. Haskelf> There are onlv a
rev score Americans in our organiza-
ton The Russian workmen unloaded
the ships and ran the railroads for us.
Furtnermore I want to say. irrespective
OF politics OF any sort. that the heads
OF the Soviet State lived rp TO their
agreement with the United States and
done" .s'~.a.,.N'-oss
Asked how he overcame the bad rail-
road situation, Col Haskell paid a
warm tribute to Dzerjinsky. dreaded
neao OF the Cheka. but also chief COM
missary In Charge Of railroads.
We once had congestion of sew
enty trains at a certain junction point
that seemed hopeless" Col. Haskell
said. "Dzerjinsky cleared this up al
most Immediately and things have been
running smoothly ever since" That an
piles to the regular work Of the Re-
lief Administration.
Hussian Cooperation.
What Is an even more impressive
demonstration of the efficiency OF Col.
Haskelrs organization is the willing
ness or the Government and tho Rus
sian people to cooperate and the
fashion in which arc handled the food
remittances purchased abroad in so
units and sent by individuals to friends
and relatives In Russia. These pack
ages now a.; cunt in value to 81 900 900
a month-representing 100000 packages
Ninety-five per cent. of all the pack
ages sent are delivered to the persons
to whom they are addressed. the other
per cent. are not delivered because
the persons to whom they are ad-
dressed are either dead or cannot be
found.
COLI Haskell employed 100 Russian
couriers who transferred for the organi-
zation more than 1900 900 900 rubles to
all parts of Russia without the loss of
a. single ruble Many of these men
travelled loaded like pack horses with
money, and supplies of medicines and
vaccines." said Col. Haskell. "They
covered more than 10000 miles week
In the aggregate and though in the
winter many of them caught typhus