Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-02-16
|ROZEN CORPSES
|OUND In HEAP
|N CEMETERY
|,fvest Of Death From Disease
For Countries Of Plenty Fear
ed From Famine Land

tetic Explorer and Russian Relief
Workcr, Who Recently Returned
From the Famine-Stricken Volga
Region to England.
IN an Interview in London With
Milton Bronner, Correspondent
of NEA Service.)
LONDON, Feb. 16.-To come back
the lands of plenty after being
famine-stricken Russia is like wax,
from a terrible nightmare.
The American people have been
nerous and prompt in aiding the
ussan famine sufferers, but they
bnt possibly visualize the extent of
be calamity.
The lands along the great River
OLGA, where famine followed
bought, have an area and popula-
On approximately equal to that of
8 L France.
Of these people the great number
"a 10 millions is directly menaced
it'll death and millions-no matter
4 hat frantic effort we make now
He doomed to die.
Every time the clock ticks dozens
4 / wasted skeletons, that were once
hen and women and children, are
Oppling over dead.
More Desolate Than Arctic
l am telling you what | have seen.
when you enter the famine lands of
Russia you enter the lands of ter
Die silence. The very birds have
blunned this country of hunger. 1t
sbnveys a greater sense of desolation
lhan the Arctic ice fields.
Many of the hamlets have lost
wo-thirds of their population. And
Ehose who survive-in rage, in filth
starving, freezing, all hope gone,
conserving as best they may the
precious spark of life, can look for
lFard only to one thing-the release
Fhat death brings.
In Buzuluk | saw a pile of stiff
frozen corpses lying in the cemetery
Ewaiting burial The weary grave
digger said to me they came by cart
|Oads every day. They were picked
|up in the streets and alleys. They
Fwere found in Railways. Sometimes
|hey were found i'll novels, where
very one i'll the family had sue
Eumbed.
What Donations Arc Doing
Every American dollar, every Eng
Fish pound sterling, every French
franc spent now in supplying food,
seed and agricultural implements to
THE Volga is fighting three things;
FlRST-The terrible famine of to-
day.
SEGOND-The chances Of an even
more terrible famine in the next win
ter,
THLRD-The plaques of disease
'fat may arise in the Volga country
and, sweeping across into happier
Europe and America, decimate by
thousands and tens of thousands.
Spotted typhus and cholera have
s.4eady made their appearance In
me Volga country.
The poor people can't help being
alty They have no soap, no dis
nteetants, no drugs. And filth and
lamne together are prolific breeders
Of plaques.
Experience has shown that you
'an successfully build wall
against epidemics. They can't be
70 ,O0lIned to their points of origin
iney sweep past frontier lines.
World May Reap Disease
IL the people of the world are cold
"o calIous to the sufferings of starv-
"s Russia this winter, they may
zap terrible harvest of disease and
,saVh in their own homes next sum
ger and fall,
:. roor l,. months ago u begged the
''''zed nations of. the world repre-
e"1cd IN the Assembly of the
'Faeue Of Nations to do something.
=. .Milllons have died because my ap-
g'nl tell on deaf ears.
H. inc chances of helping the sur
~ 7bo'$ nave become less since then,
~. my Eolga and other river ways are
y" NV frozen. The Russian railways
I n now hampered by SHOWS.
-, DOI IN spite of these handicaps we
III u, 10 much if we do it promptly.
oo' we must send grain to keep the
tYpIe tr. alive and we must send seed,
,r ~s'ofs and tools SO that the sur
s5,l, us may do their sowing in the
!, Must Be Put On Feet
a, eniess we do this, the great gran
i. u Russia will become depopu
I'M DESERT. And Russia cannot re-
n. = russia cannot export fooSS
worlds goods untii tha Vol0a