The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17

ever, mass migration would not do.
Families would be broken up; indi-
vidual skills, talents and special
interests would be subverted. To
solve this, IRO has both a family
replacement center-history's first
and an individual replacement cen
ter-the worlds most unique hiring
hall.
Through the former more than
400 families, as whole units, have
found homes. Through the latter
have come over thousand indivi-
dual offers of employment for re-
fugees. IRO has seven special rep
resentatives assigned to Cover
various parts of the world in search
of jobs for it's Clients. The jobs
filled range from symphony con-
ductor to watch maker, from col
lege professor to textile dyer, from
oil engineer to glass blower. Those
placed through IRO's clearing
house have gone to II countries,
from Ethiopia to the u. S.; from
Ecuador to Canada; from Pakistan
to Great Britain.
This summer a middle-age Lat
Wan DIP, an expert in river naviga-
tion, ice conditions, aerial photo
graphy and meterology, got job
in Norway training young engine
ers; five refugee musicians walked
on the stages of Europe's leading
concert halls and gave perform
ances which led to jobs for most
of them; an official of the Indian
Ministry of Education went to DIP
headquarters in Geneva and offer
ed staff appointments to the Ind
ian Institute of Higher Technology
for refugee professors; two Baltic
DPS completed their first year of
study at Antioch College in Ohio
which provided them with scholar
ships; 500 refugees sailed to Can
ada and jobs as general laborers;
an Estonian DIP walked into a
classroom in Sioux Falls, S. Dak.,
and started teaching his students
biology; little Dace Epermanis be-
came the $50 millionth American.
These are recent things There are
hundreds of thousands of other
stories like them. Stories that are
real because an organization start
ed out three years ago on a job
termed impossible, "too big,
miracle work"
IRO is scheduled to disband
next March. There are 250,000 still
in DIP camps. The U. S.-already
home of 170,500 DPs-Canada,
Australia, and other countries have
promised to take the majority of
them. The minority forms a group
not eligible under the normal inn
migration programs. They are the
physically disabled, the aged and
their dependents. Of these one
fourth comprise IRO's "hard core"
the severely handicapped and
chronically i'll who will need insti-
tutional care for the rest of their
lives. The other three-fourths have
slight disabilities or are of fam
lily with a handicapped member.
There's Mychajlo z. who was
thrown into a concentration camp
for tearing down a picture of Hit
Ter. A bombing cost him the sight
of one eye. There's George A., an
accountant and carpenter with al
wife and grown daughter. The
whole family is mot eligible" be-
cause Mr.. A. is 81 and has a slight
limp. There's Anton A., tool-maker
and blacksmith. An afraid cost
him leg. There's Bella o., linguist,
ex-diplomat, writer. He, his wife
and son are still in an Austrian re-
fugee camp because Mr.. o. is Sc,
There's Mrs. u, mother of two|
children, one of whom had a tuber-
cular infection in a leg bone. The
child is we'll now but is labelled
handicapped. There's Nikolajs|
and Liliju p, both little over sol
with small ailments. They are class
flied as childless couple, too old|
for productive work.
On and on. The saga Of the re-
fugees stamped disqualified for|
entry" is the saga of thousands of|
uprooted lives waiting waiting for!
release; for acceptance; for a de-
cent future. IRO, in it's remainingl
months, is dedicated to getting the|