The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-13
Women Lucky To Secure Work In
 Soviet Russia
By NELLIE GARDNER.

Moscow, April 1s - whenS an american makes his first visit to a central European city, and sees Wom- en working with brooms and show els on the street car tracks, he shud ders. and says. tOh, how dreadful! In this country. they let the women work On the streets at labor hard enough for a man.
 But as he pushes on farther east, tc Riga or Warsaw, and enters Rus sia, whenever he sees a woman per forming this mans work he says, How fortunate that she has work New she can get some bread"
 universal in Russia. It is merely a question of degree. Every one is more or less hungry all the time- some a little more than others They are hungry in Petrograd. They are more hungry in Moscow. They are dying of hunger all over the Nolga
 And the only relief in sight {, the gift bread which America and other countries are sending, with all possi- ble speed into starving Russia
 The relief program of the Ameri- can Relief Administration in Russia includes the daily feeding of 2,OOO.- 0o0 children; adult feeding of 5000 GoO men and women in the Nolga famine area. with the American corn purchased by the $2O,0OO,0OO. Con gressional appropriStion; delivery of chased by food draft sales in Ameri- ca or other countries, for delivery in Russia; distribution of S8..OO0.OOO medical supplies, nearly half of which were given by the American Red Cross, and the remainder of which were taken over from the medical stores of the L. $. Army.
 At the request Of Herbert Hoover chairman of the American Relief Ad- n1Inlstrauon. Colonel William \. Has keil, |. $. A. accepted the director snip of the - Russian Unit. This is the second occasion on, which Colonel Easkell has been detailed on extend ed foreign service from the army, for the directCrship of American Relief work abroad He was Allied High Commissioncr for the distribution of \ i.2erican four in Armenia and Trans ;.7sisted by Major T. c. Donergan, |. A. who served with him as execu-
 we officer in the Near East, and by Donald Quinn, of Saginaw Mch who has been attached to the Ameri- can Relief Administration executive staff since the beginning of its child feeding work in Central Europe The American Relief Administration per s'nnel in Russia now includes ap- T. oNimately 150 men. chosen from all paases of American army and civil creasing personnel is scattered all over the famine area of Russia from 200 to 1.5QO miles from Mos with them. America's offerine of sympathy to a starving people-the sack of flour. or the can of milk. And NAiSS cie IeteINeu as tile 4lLeGal en- voys of Providence that has heard and answered prayers.
 For the storage and delivery of these life-saving rations for children and adults, the American Relief Ad- ministratiOn has abolished ware houses and kitchens in seven districts of the Volga famine area They are located at Kazan, Samara Saratov Simbirsk. Tzaritzin and Ufa. ChiIdren's feeding kitchens are being maintain ed Moscow and Petrograd as well. And food remittance stations are be ing operated wherever child-feeding and adu1t-feeding is being carried on, as well as in the following additional stations: Odessa, kiev, Kharkov l sMinsk. Vitobsk, Ekaterinoslav, PoIta-