Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-06-17

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! s696,OOO. Since July /. 1921, the
moneys expended for these five pur-
poses have not been carried under
these heads, but have been included
! under the head of general relief.
Y. NJ. &. 4. Spends s3S, 375,OOO.
! Expenditures by the Young Mems
! Christian Association for prisoner-of-
war. humanitarian and relief work in
| Europe from the beginning of the
world war to January l, 1928. totals
$3S, 900. This represents service
| for the people of European countries
only, and does not include monies eH-
| pended for the American expedition
J airy force nor for American forces in
/ Germany.
This humanitarian work was con-
i Quoted in twenty different European
! nations. During the summer and fall
! of 1920 there were 500 American man
and woman secretaries representing
! the American Y. NJ. G. a. thus occu
! pied. This does not represent the
! total number of persons engaged, as
! a large number of natives were
! trained and employed by the Ameri-
can Y. NJ. c. A. to conduct its efforts.
! At least five times as many natives
/ assisted the American secretaries who
/ We're in charge of the relief work.
J The continuing service of the Y. NJ
, ploying, on the first of this month, 100
J Americans.
knights of Columbus Aid.
| The knights of Columbus, besides
| spending more than S15,000.000 on
welfare work abroad for the Amcri-
! can eXpeditionary force. co-operated
! closely with Mr.. Hoover's central
| European relief fund and with the
Irish relief. giving literally to both.
; The knights of Columbus also sup
| ported the Near East Relief and the
China famine fund. In addition. they
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| Italian welfare work under the aus
| pieces of the Vatican. 1t is impos-
| sible to definitely states the total con-
! tributions of the X. Cs.. but the do
nations from the Knights to relief
funds abroad amount to many mil
lions. Substantial sums also were
, given to Cardinal MERCER and to
/ Nine. Foch for Belgian and French
! relief.
| Few in this country have even heard
| of the relief activities of the American
| Friends service Committee, and yet
| these quiet QuakerS have dispensed
! nearly Sl1.000.000 in wide-fiung works
of mercy abroad during the last six
Years. They have done relief work in
France. Russia, Armenia and Syria,
Germany. Serbia. Austria, Mexico, Po-
land and China, with total disburse-
ments for the years 1917 to 1928 of
! $685. II. Additional contributions
/ included donations of food by the Amer
! lean Relief Administration for work in
! Austria, of cottonseed meal for increas-
! ing the milk supply in Poland. food
/ drafts for Germany. corn rations IN
! Russia. food credits for Minsk gifts !"
/ kind for relief in Russia and Germany
/ by the American rubl!c 3:noun..-,-
! S261 GA: clothing for au%t"i'
! Germany and Russia; supplies for
! France and Syria and foOd pa, hi,.., 81
i with money contributed by the $3,OO0,0oO
! German child-feeding campaign COM
! mittee for child feeding in Germany.
Three Years Work i'm France.
/ The Friends work in France in 1917
| to 1920 was done as civilian branch
! of the American Red Cross. caring for
| civilian refugees. looking after re-
! Mobilization of the devastated areas
and the establishment of Chalons Ma
| ternity Hospital. The Serbian work
in 1919 to 1921 was civilian relief,
! largely medical. and agricultural re-
construction. In Syria the Friends
| WreStled with the refugee problem.
In Russia from 1916 to 1928 this
! organization engaged in civilian re-
! lief among the war refugees who had
evacuated from Poland. in child feed
! ing. in the Moscow and Minsk famine.
! in medical relief and agriculture
reconstruction. In Poland. in 1920 to
! 1928. their task was medical recon-
structiOn. house building throughout
! the devastated areas. giving food and
| clothing relief 10 returning refugees
! In Germany in 1919 to 1923 they were
fkept busy feeding a million school
| children. In Austria in 1919 to 1923
! they dispensed food relief to children
| under six years and care of mothers
! They also supported tubercular instf-
| buttons and imported dairy animals.
! distributed milk. aided in land set
/ Element developments and admins
| tered general clothing relief
The Young Women's Christian AS
; ISOLATION had 361 American secre-
! taries in twelve European countries
and spent s3.O71.197 Their work was
! Their program for women included
| hotels. camps. hearth. education. rec
! reation, business training. interna-
tional migration service. The relief
work of the Y. W. c. a. was done in
emergencies only, such as sending
thirty trained American Polish girls.
called Gray Samaritans." for district
feeding in Poland under the Ameri-
can Relief Administered on. At the
time of the Smyrna disaster. the Y.
w. c. a. distributed 10000 through
| their secretaries.
132 "Y" Secretaries Left.
All the American Y. w. e. A. secre-
taries in France. Italy, Belgium,
Czechoslovakia and Poland have now
been replaced by native women ex-
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France. Twenty-Five American secre-
taries are now in Russia. the Baltic
states. Rumania and the near east.
There are 1872 American secretaries
in the Orient and Latin America
| making total of 157 secretaries do
| ing humanitarian work in fifteen
countries.
What is known as the American
| Catholic Bishops Relief Fund. col
lected in this country and distributed
, through the hierarchy in the dis
! tressed countries has reached total
! of $1,000,000, according to a dispatch
| from Mgr! +. A. Rempe. vicar general
| of the Chicago archdiocese
! The response of the Catholics of the
| United States to the Popes encycIican
! letter has been prompt and generous
! and it is expected that several mill
| lions of dollars will be raised More
! than million has already been col
| lected according to advices received
by the National Catholic Welfare
J Council. One of the principal matters
| submitted to the meeting of the
] American hierarchy last September
was concerning a united country
| wide response to the Popes appeal
and the securing of financial aid for
| Russian relief. The meeting of the
| bishops ordered a general collection
on Sunday, October 30.
Sl1O.5OO.OOO in 1918 Drive.
1t will be recalled that a united
war drive in 1918 raised $17O.5OO. 900
I which was annortiOped ap,ooo ,,o,,