The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-06-21
WORK OF n. D.
MAN IN RUSSIA
NOW COMPLETE
Mr.. ROthschiller Distributes
Clothing and Food to
Hungerstricken Colonists
PROLONGS STAY
TO Collect Information Rela.
tive to Actual Needs and
Conditions

JACOB III ItltcI
from Odessa, Russia says the dis
charge of all obligations resting up
on him as president and represen
tative in behalf of the N. ID. c. r.
A. for r. for the proper distribu
ton of a consignment of clothing,
money and foodstuffs among the
hunger stricken colonies of South
Russia has been completed. Arriv
ing in Odessa March l4th, three
days subsequent to the revision and
emplacement of his goods under
task Of distribution proceeded rapid
ly, and within one week was entire
ly completed.
Odessa is the central marketing
point for those laying within a rad
JUS of as miles colony villages.
Automobiles being prOhibitive lux
uries and railroad facilities the hope
If the future, the land-settlers regu-
arly drive into the city to do their
rading. Therefore it was that Mr..
Bothschiller was able to deliver per-
onal packages to addresses them
elves, or to friends, or relatives SO
nat none were miscarried or lost
lnce having completed his mission
in that respect, Mr.. Rothschiller is
prolonging his stay to extend greet
ugs from personal acquaintance in
North Dakota, to collect information
ralative to the actual needs and con-
dltion Of the people, also names and
..idresses of lost friends and rela-
ives, and to accept other numerous
dlties imposed upon him by the
core or more colonists who visit
nm every day.
In order to obtain clearer under
landing Of the shortage emergency,
remission was requested from the
soviet officials to make trips into
the different colony villages. On
oae tour, occupying weeks time,
III company with Herr Schmitt,
branch president of the Schwarz-
Nleer kolonisten Verein, wing of
,illages were visited the most i'm
nortant of which included; Luisdorf,
hleinliebenthal, Greszliebenthal, Neu-
dorf, Josephthal, Freundenthal, Jo-
hannesthal, Mathematical, Mannheim,
tlsasce, SELF, Handel, Strasburg and
Baden.
The villages are very numerous,
md time was wanting, therefore
I tops of only an hour or two were
made in each, sufficient in time for
registration at the government Off
ces, and Immediately following hast
lily to call a meeting of the respec-
tive village relief committees which
further attended by the vicarage
clergyman assembled in joint with
Mr.. Rothschiller and Schmitt to dis
cuss the needs of the villages and
The most efficient means of render
ing future aid. Mr.. Rothschiller
spoke briefly at each meeting tend
ering greetings from America, and
welcoming questions and sugges-
tons. He invited the poor in each
town who were unable to buy seed
to confer with their respective re-
lief committee and report in Odessa
for share of carload of potatoes
purchased for this purpose with
funds from the N. d. c. r. A. for r..
In open discussions it developed
that the urgent need for food and
clothing among the colonists had
substantially decreased and that the
greatest need now lays in the de-
mand for actual money or credit
necessary for a recoup lin farm
equipment and provisions with
which to build up land productivity.
Only a small fraction of land avail.
able for cultivation is at present be-
ing worked. The farmers lack mach
ines for cultivation is at present be-
ing worked. The farmers lack
machines, horses and seed for this
purpose and have no immediate
means of acquiring the capital neces-
sary other than through loans or
gifts, hence all eyes are turned to-
ward America. Under the present
system of partial field cultivation,
short of total crop failure spells
another following starvation period
the people are unable to he.I'
themselves sufficiently to avoid it.
At the close of each meeting the
priest or preacher present described
wildly the extreme conditions Of
19RNs21-22 in which years large men,
bers of persons in each village died
Of. disease, cold and starvation, and
voiced the uttermost heartfelt thanks
Of his community for the timely aid
and generosity of America in render
ing assistance beginning March 1924
It.aKas commonly repeated that had
help from America delayed two
months longer the half of the popu-
latf0n would have died outright from
starvation. The Russian people and
especially the German Russians who
received personal aid from friends
andarelatives cannot sufficiently ex.
press their tahnkS and admiration
for American charity. a.
III cases, such as in Handel and
ElSasce Mr.. Rothschiller and the N
DC. R.. A. for R., were. honored by
a rising vote of thanks for the part
that North Dakota through private
ard general iniative had played II
a following up relief consisting ~oi
foxG drafts and clothing packages
MoSt every colony family has friendi
or relatives in North Dakota VIII,
haatS sent personal donstions. Man!
photographs were taken of commun
fairgrounds and private families
which in North Dakota will prove in
te1etting to former colonists. On hi
waS back Mr.. Rothschiller will cross
the Roumanian border and spend ,
feNk.days among the German-R
si6ns in Bessarabia, q region alst
st4tngly represented BY farmer set
tltDG in. North Dakota.
II . y,
b. q. +. Annual picnic Sun
day, June "a.