The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-08-16
BY ". HOWARD RAMSEY

ton Is withdrawing from Russia
The famine Is over. Colonel Haskell
/ and the little group of American.
who were working with him ma re.
burning to America They come by
ones and twos, unheralded and unac.
claimed, as quietly as they went
yet, II America realized their accom-.
Plisnments, bags would be flying
bands blaring forth a welcome. and
delegations Of the most prominent
e'tizens would be waiting &C the pier
70 cheer their Homecoming.
). And being plain, unassumine
Americans, unaccustomed to cere,
nony and heroics, the relief workers
would be tremendously embarrassed
~ the ovation. and inquire quite Sc
E10usiy, whats the big idea I!
what's al the fuss about ?" and
some OF them would probably add,
how are the chances of getting a
7ob! Just the same embarrassing
question that the boys in khaki were
asking in 1919!
For almost two years now a scant
TWO hundred Americans, on a battle
line Tar longer than the western
front, have been fighting q foe more
pltlless than any the allied armies
laced. From the Baltic TO The Cas-.
plan Sea, from the Crimea 10 The
.Urals they have conquered the fam.
hne, saved more lives than were lost
IN the World War. healed a soraIv.
euffering people Of the diseases which
Inreatened to- sweep the whole of
europe, won the benedictions Of a
great, but stricken, nation, achieved
sne worlds greatest adventure in hue
manity! 80 49,
And because it was an adventure
IN which all America shared. r 81
but fitting that its accomplishment
should not pass unnoticed, that the
people BY whose generosity the great
1ieet OF ships was fitted out the
farmers whose grain filled their
holds, the vast body of taxpayers. the
men whose contributions ran into five
or SIX figures, as well as those whose
means enabled them to give onlv les
ser sums, should know their offs
were not given in vain.
No one of the returning workers
can tell the whole story. He NAV
give interesting details. Fl was 81
fkazan when the corn arrived. The
peasants came from distant VILLAGES
70 haul it back on sledges. Thew
;nad no horses. The ice in the river,
!Volga was breaking up. The roade
we're terrible. Some died before com.
pleting the trip" ~
u, Il was in Odessa when the
famine was at its height There
were bodies in the streets. peorle
were dying 50 fast they could not he
purled: The hospital Easements were
1eaped with dead" or. Il w.. III
Orenburg when the starved cornses
were being hauled to the cemetsr.
elke cordwood, stark-naked, frozen
pooles' and tossed into shallow
trenches. while dogs waited to tear
open the common graves"
But their stories will all have
about the same ending, I've opened
~ our kitchens, got the supplies to !
the villages. My district Fed 40
many hundred thousand children al
eueo corn rations to b. marv Inn.
0reo Thousand adults. inoculated 40 /!
many hundred thousand. restockedl
me hospitals, provided food AZ for
S q! patients, cleaned up the towns
me starvation was checked. The
movement Of the refugees ended. !
Gnoiera disappeared Typhus de-
elned Things are looking much bet !
Ter there now" ~ w
me men who were at the head !
quafters IN Moscow, keeping the ac-
counts. directing the movement Of
gag 1000 and the medical supplies. |
Seceiv1ng and eorrelating The reports'
nghtlng the battles for transporta.
Elo4, tor adequate warehouses;. forl
1!eignt cars and locomotives. for
$1ver barges and sanitary trains. vim /
pave = different story, i viii not