Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-12-11
RUSS CHILDREN
NEED CLOTHING
HYNES DECLARES
Relief Worker Describes
Conditions in Five Famine
Districts Which He Wis.,
tied Recently


New York, Dec. 10.-"They have
even run out OF rags is the way
John Hynes of New York city,
chief or the inspection and control
division of the American relief adj
ministration In Russia, summed up
tho desperate clothing needs which
he found in five famine districts
which he visited recently hazan,
Samara. Saratov. SimbirslS and
Tzaritzin. ct is tho same story
everywhere ] went. children run
ming about barefooted and without
overcoats in weather that to mo
was chilly even when | was wear
ling q fur coat over my heavy cloth
ing.
"If anything tho children out
side of the children instltuuonu'
homes arc worse off than those ~
the institutions, but even those III
the institutions have almost notil~
ing. In a few homes thete arc
clothes still available and in use
which the A. Il. A. distributed lasI
winter and early in the spring
Generally, however, a single gar
ment of thin cotton, with nothing
underneath, is the garb OF poth
bows and Girls in the homes.
Not Rags Enough
There are rags everywhere put
not rags enough. Many tanl'less
have apparently run out of RAGS, ana
unless clothing is Forthcoming IN
large quantities. the winter VIII
certainly bring many deaths from
exposure. The chief hopes OF nun
dreds of thousands OF these people
will be the clothing remittance
system which the A. X. A. mas JUST
put into effect" .
The clothing remittance system
is designed to permit persons out
side OF Russia, by paying S2O per
unit for clothing remittances. 10
have delivered to any designated
individual by the A. r. A., a pack
age of cloth sufficient to make a
warm suit or dress, and underwear
each unit being enough for an
adult or for two children. A SINH
lar system for sending food pack
ages saved untold thousands OF
liyeg, more than S9,000,000 being
sent in this manner with but $5,-
900 refunded to the sender because
tho beneficiary could not be found.
The small production Of textiles
in Russia since the war. is i'll part
the cause of the clothing shortage.
And in the famine districts every
article of clothing that could pos
sibly be spared was sold months
ago to buy food. With industry at
standstill there has been no OPP
portunity for the poverty-stricken
people to secure any more clothing,
for the prices for -uch clothes are
for sale far above tho earnings OF
the average worker.
Appeals Pouring In
Appeals for clothing are pouring
into Moscow headquarters or the
A. Il. A. telling of the unusual
shortage of even the most essential
garments, making impossible the
transfer of children to cities where
food conditions are favorable and
warning that many of the lives
saved from famine last year Will be
lost this winter unless clothing can
be provided.
One of the later appeals to Mos
COW headquarters of the A. Il. A,
came from the department OF pub
lie education of the Smolensky gov
ernment. which was unable to
transfer 400 starving children to
Saratov because they lacked suf-
ficient clothing or shoes. This tel
egram was followed within a few
hours by report to the Jewish
Joint distribution committee from
Saratoy telling of similar condi-
tions. "The children of the Sara
toy poorer classes have neither
clothes or Shoes said this report,
appealing for supply for distribu-
tion to enable the children to face
the winter weather.
Dressed I'm Rags
Close on the heels of this came
letter from an A. Il. A. worker
In Kazan who had inspected the
children's home institutions within
the city. and who said: For the
most part the children were Dress
ed in the rags they possessed ct the
time of their admission into the
institutions. Man, however. had
been given flimsy dresses OF cotton
print with large chrysanthemum
design in pink. ordered. certainly.
by some government supply agent
without the slightest sense of the
fitness of tlings, for the tragedy
written In the thin. old. little faces
and expressed in every line of tAs
shrunken little bodies was merely
emphasized by these gaudy cover
ings."
Still, 1t Is hopeful sign when
et a toep,n,, ,.o+4ia d, daftc cit ipstaa Il