Two Hundred "Americans Return Victorious
From War On Russian Famine and Pestilence
ARA Districts sn Russia.
Total Daily Feeding
KH91297-Persons
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f"Tr w. HOWARD RAMSET
f Vfca Aaaka Relief Adminlstra
Ua k ertthdiawlng from Russia.
Dm (uIm la ovar. Colonel Haskell
ud tfca Uth mop of Americans
>W *n nrimc with him an re
tondm to America. They come by
'?nee ud two*, unheralded end una
mad, aa quietly aa they went,
if Amrlea realized their accom
nenta, flan would be flying.
I blaring forth a welcome, ana
ktlons of the moat prominent
., m would be waiting at the pier
I to cheer their homecoming.
I And being plain, unassuming
pAm erica na. unaccustomed to cere
mony and heroic*, the relief workers
iwould be tremendoualy embarrassed
by the oration, and inquire quite le
ilfcusly, "What'* the big idea?
What s all the fuaa about T * and
aome of them would probably add,
"Bow are the chancea of getting a
I Job J" Juat the aame embarrassing
I question that the boya in khaki were
'--Tin l#?l v
t For almost two year* now a scant
'two hundred Americana, on a battle
'fine far longer than the western
i front, have been fighting a foe more
|pitiless than any the allied armiea
' faced. From the Baltic to the Cas
pian Sea, from the Crimea to the
Ural* they have conquered the fam
line, saved more livee than were ioet
'in the World War. healed a sorely
'Buffering people of the diseases which
threatened to ?weep the whole of
' Europe, won the benedictions of a
gTeat, but stricken, nation, achieved
;the world's greatest adventure in hu
manity!
p And because it waa an adventure
I in which *11 America ahared, H is
but fitting that it* accomplishment
should not pass unnoticed, that the
people by whose generosity the great
fleet of ships waa fitted out, the
farmers whose gTfln filled their
holds, the vaat body of taxpayers, the
1 men whose contributions ran into five
or six figures, as well aa those whose
means enabled them to give only les
ser sums, should know their gift*
were not given in vain.
No one of the returning workers
can tell the whole atory. He may
rive interesting details. "1 was at
Kazan when the corn arrived. The
peasants enme from distant villages
to haul it back on sledges. They
had no horses. The ice in the river
Volga wai< breaking up. The roads
were terrible. Somo died before com
pleting the trie "
Om, "I was in Odessa when the
' famine was at its height. There
were bodies in the streets. People
were dying so fast they eould not be
buried. Tne hospital basements were1
heaped with dead." Or, "I was at I
Orenburg when the starved corpses'
were being hauled to the cemetcry
i like eordwood, stark-naked, frozen
i bodies, and tossed into shallow!
'trenches, while doga waited to tear
i open the common graces."
j But their stories will all have
about the same ending, "We opened
up our kitchens, got tne supplies to
the village*. My district fed *o
many hundred thousand children, is
sued com rations to *o many hun
dred thousand adulta, inoculated *o
many hundred thousand, restocked
she hospitals, provided food fit for
fhe patients, cleaned up the town*.
The starvation was cheeked. The
movement of the refugee* ended.
! Cholera disappeared. Typhus de
1 dined. Things are looking much bet
ter there now."
The men who war* at the head
quartan In Moscow, keeping the ac
count*, directing the movement of
the food and the medical auppllee,
receiving and correlating the reports,
fighting the battlaa for transporta
tion, for adequate warehouses, for
freight ears and locomotives, far
(river barree and sanitary train* wBl
Lhasa 2 afferent tan. U wili aot
America'sJGift to Russia Included, in Part:
Th? faaulng of children to the number of 4,173,339
And adults to the number of 6,317,953
Or a total, at the peak of operations, of 10,491,297 Persons
Food enough for .1,760,000,000 Meals
The operation of .21.135 Kitchens
The distribution If clothing to 833,125 Individuals
The distribution of medical supplies valued at $7,685,000
To hospitals and Institutions numbering 10,400
With a daily capacity of 1,039,000 Persons
The performance of 6,390,538 Inoculations
And ." 1,304,401 Vaccinations
Shipment of food and seed grain amounting to 912,121 Tons
And medical supplies to the amount of 15,000,000 Pounds
Shipped in 237 Ships
be to vivid u to detail bat it will
be more comprehensive.
Instead of telling of one city or
one district with its hundreds of
thousands fed, they will talk of the
extent of the operation in terms of
millions. They will illustrate the
freight movement from the Northern
and Southern porta to the heart of
the famine area by graphic charts
they have prepared. They will tell
how many million cans of milk were
ordered, how many consumed and the
use that was made of the empty cans
and eases, of how many thousand kit
chens were opened and how the ra
tions were allocated months in ad
vance, so that the children who came
to the kitchen could be certain a meal
would be waiting them.
And down on lower Broadway, to
ward the end of Manhattan Island,
in one of the skyscrapers there are
men who could tell still another story.
They would speak of vast grain pur
chases, of the chartering ol hundreds
of ships, of the mobilization of funds,
of crop estimates and international
negotiations, of a detailed accounting
system, of expert auditing. They
would tell of a business administra
tion of entrusted funds under the di
rection of Edgar Rickard, which en
abled the chairman of the American
Relief Administration, Herbert Hoo
ver, to report to the President of the
United States: "there has not been a
deduction of one penny for adminis
trative purposes either from the
funds provided by Congress or from
public charity in the United States."
But by whichevei group the story j
is told, it is one of which America i
may well be proud. In July, 1921,
Maxim Gorky snd Patriarch Tikhon i
appealed to the whole world to save.
the starving population of the Volga
Valley The very day that appeal
was published Herbert Hoover tele
graphed to Gorky the conditions un
der which the A. R. A. could extend
its relief. Within a month Colonel
William N. Haskell was appointed di
rector of the A. R A. in Russia and
food ships were on their way. Amer
ica was the first country to respond.
It offered to feed a million. It was
feeding more than ten times that
number day in and day out before
the first twelvemonth had passed.
It trsnspprted to Russia and dis
tributed there close to a million tons
of grain and other foodstuffs. A
fleet of 237 ships plied its way
across the Atlantic, through the
MediterraneAn. Baltic and Black
seas, and under the direction of only
200 Americans an army of 125,000
Russians labored, unloading, ware
housing, hauling, weighing, cooking
and serving that food. It was food
enough for one billion seven hundred
*1. J** m'Hion meals. Surely nev
er before has one nation set so great
ft feast for a famished neighbor!
Is It any wonder that the peasants
wWHlmitsUd and famine
stricken village, having no gold and
ae bronze available, painstakinrtv
taM iMte talfitauid cut . n?U]
hungred, and ye gave me meat"?
They might have quoted further,
"Naked and ye clothed me," for the
American Relief Administration
purchased, and distributed in Russia,
close to ?' 1 ">6,000 worth of clothing,
principal^ among the children,
many of whom were so scantily clad
that they could not decently come to
the public kitchens for their daily
meat In addition to this it delivered
in Russia more than 400 tons of
clothing collected in the United
States by other organizations, to say
notbing of vast quantities of bedding,
hospital garments and complete lay
ettes.
The pious Russian villagers might
well have completed the text, "I was
sick and ye visited me." for never
was there a sicker nation than Rus
sia when the A. R. A. arrived. Ty
phus, cholera, recurrent fever, small
pox, typhoid?all were raging in the
starvation districts and taking a tre
mendous toll of life among the peo
ple whose resistance was weakened
by famine. Moreover the movement
of refugees was rapidly carrying
these epidemics into every p^rt of
the country, and even across the bor
ders into the neighboring states, un
til Europe was threatened with a
pandemic of immeasurable severity.
And the A. R. A. in its visit of mercy
came not, like Job's comforters, em
pty-handed.
Rather it brought $7,685,000 worth
of mediciner and other sick room ne
cessities. It brought a score or more
physicians, skilled epidemiologists:
it brought the largest quantities of
serums, vaccines and other di < n ?
freventivea ever ordered at one t i ni?*
t opened free dispensaries, clin <
ambulatories, hospitals. It cleaned
up entire cities: it purified water sup-,
plies; it batheo, d^louse l, purged, in-]
oculated, vaccinate rich and p??or,|
old and young, rot by tens or tens
of thousands, but literally by million <
?almost by tens of millions. So that
Instead of there being 277.701 cases
of tynhus in Russia as there were in
March 1022, March, 1923. saw only
6,321 cases. Relapsing fever ha*
been eliminated in the same propor
tion and the incidence of cholera is
negligible as compared with last
year's figures.
It take* more than figures to tell
the story. When Dr. Henry Beeuw
kes. as chief of the Medical Divi
sion. writes truthfully that sinco go
ing into Russia, the American Relief!
Administration has supplied upwards i
of 16,000 hospitals and other insti-j
tutlons having a constant capacity
of 1,039,000 persons, the task may
appear to have been a monumental
one. When one glances at the map
of Russia and finds that these insti
tutions were scattered over an area
(11-rapplied with railroads and that
I some were separated from Moscow,
the base of supply, by more than a
thousand miles, one's wonder grows.
Bat no one who has not stood in
side a Russian hospital, as It was In
the dan of tl? treat famine, before
tlx relief cam*, can realize the fall
mearare of America', achievement.
CrentUnc waa laektef. Be4* were
often merely plunk* auppnrUd nm
wooden horses. wt ?,
scarce, sheets were miniin-. Opera
Uona wero perform.-.. with i,?r<
hands, in unlieate.l operating rooma.
without nmcslhctir . ami onl ?? loo
often without any hope <.f ? Vpsis.
Wounds were drc.ised with ivwv
papers or wraps I in rni:s ftha
patient 3 own all too scanty lie- n ?
\Vater supplies were polluted. ] *um:Jl
inn was beyond u. e and almo i he.
yond repair. Dm* room. ... ?
empty of the simph.t and mo t <
sent ml remedies. Tin- t\.od n, ,n
speakuMy poor, utterly unfit for r. -!c
persons and woefully inadequate in
amount. Men and women crawl.-d
to the hospitals to die. rather than
?1? bo made whole, and not a Xi.w
succumbed in front ot institutions
that had no room for another patient
America has wrought a transfor
mation here. It is u.r'.e.s to pile
up the figures, but a few may bo
significant, The A. R. A. distributed
to theso institutions a million :.n,l a
half pounds of soaii. Neo-salvarsan.
which proved a perfect specific for
relapsing fever, was supplied t:, the
extent of 700,000 ampules. Thu
quinine alone, some thirty tons of it
was valued at more jthan half a
million dollars, but no one can esti
mate what it was really worth to a
country whose most prevalent dis
ease is malaria. And so the list
?""'-tl?ro1u>-'h aruesthetk's, a.pirin,
bichlo#de bismuth, chlorlnators. dig
italis, ether, forceps, clear down to
sine ointment, including' nil of tho
best known items of the pharma
copoeia and most of those tr, be found
in a catalogue of surgical instru
th.n % Son J ?rSpltnl ""PP1"'. "'O?
than 2000 different commodities m
i*Uch th.it the
125,000 packages sent on sixty nine
different ships, weighed fifteen mil
?ji distributing this
medical aid the American Relii' * I.
, ministration acted 'as the ag>ril of
the United Siatvs Government and
the American Red Cross. The sur.
Plus Army medical supplie s Vf ?>
turned over to the A. R. A. by :i t
?,v ongress and the Red Cro,
tho Amv st. cks vn t
'14,000,000 by its pwn c< ? ribu' ?f
I supplies to the amount of $;! r ?>
I while the entire < ,,t , ' ,rq,
tion nnd handling -..-n, r , V*
. an individual donation of
I [rom the I>aura SpeJu... i 1
! Memorial.
, Alton ther Amer'c ?
! ture in hu-nan-'y he. r
I W2.000.0fKj, Kveryone
h?? thiti d in t .e W,.-.cuon 1 *
I nited :???-(, ... , ' >
! ftfe<i? in addition t.. Ih me - ,
Piicd, (onie $20,000,000 i<,r < ,
fed grain. TV of "' p.
tea, thro-j^h U, ? : ~ \CL t,
Distribution C'-rrn
000,000: Cfttholks K
.)
. he;
n An
^?--v1.wmfs, viiHker.H. Memo
nites, Jlaptists, l.u ,i i;,ns, Adv. n
llmm fl 0ltlpr f;hl : ",lnn
Imh!^ 8 "?PMtive orenn
iintions, swelled the total. nut tha
nnifTii 0 TV m",r* un'I"r
KiwW!1011,'' the American
Relief Administration It ws* made
m..nh?Xper*'V0 P.r"*ntT Well, U
tha mVr! m- " co'1 mor? tfian
tn? mere millions. Two of tha
*7'"?' "ho went to Russia sr.
not comma home. One died froia
typhus and tha other dropped from
doTur.-Iw? jT" a"fl W2,OOO.OfK?
n.t?V ^ States to maintain Ha
"" ?<w
.. -i
Rare Ceramics Are
a Great Mvsterv
Wotulorful l'nth'iy Made l?> Indian
Tribe \\hl?h I* Now
K\( flirt
Washington, Aiu. 1- ?.ui- <?: t-.??
greatest puzzles i*i ill study of the
I prehistoric American Indian is the
nature of the 'pt'oplo who made a
| wonderful type of pottery found in
I the Mimbres Valley In NVw M?-x!co.
j I)r. J. Walter Fewkes. Chief of
I the llurcau of American Kthnolosy
of the Smithsonian Institution, re
cently returned from an Invest iga
itlon in the valley, hut reported ho
| had learned absolutely nothing of
t.he hint cjce whose ceramics. first
found by him In 1913. are pronoun
ced -to he among the best ever un
Iearthed, in North America.
The figures of men and animals,
I'ilrds. tl*h. reptile* and Insects, as
well as geometric designs of unusual
Iexcellence, decorate the pots, how]*
land oth r household articles found
I by Dr. Fewkes. The representa
? lions of life are full of action, and
lit is difficult for scientists to under
stand how the ancient inhahitauis
|of ihe valley were able to achieve
? the accuracy and perfection of the
Involved.designs without the aid of
[mechanical devices.
The pottery has boon found for
the most part under the floors of the
ruins of ancient buildings, and com
mercial exploitation of the material
has become so widespread that the
valley ruins are being rapidly d?
|molished and the instructive archeo
logical objects lost to science. One
reason of Dr. Fewkes* visit was to
make a collection for the National
Museum before the supply was ?x
h a listed.
EIGHT COACHES I I'l l.
FOR S. S. EXCUIISION
Fight cr?acbo?? of happy exmrsion
J'sts left Klirahctli City Thursday
morning on the IMackwell Memorial
train, and the city has had a lialf
iwnv Sunday biok all day with so
tinny of the young people, and older
'one* teo. ont of the city. Th< ?ight
crmclii ? w re comfortably tilled
when tlicy 1-ft-KllzaV?th ritv. and.
n -'l !* nun. rf rf Slop, tc'iefllt!' 1
? n T?. r :? nd Vorfo'.k, *.ros; ? ' ?>
lfidlrnto.1 t'> n-oal M- crowd of
ii' :-?iV s-'r-'.-rr-f that lb" lll?c!;w '1
M? ? irl.' Ex ? rt?nn tra?n n i i!!y
' ? - 1 ' ,} '* -
? ' ; l.!|/ -l ? I'?
? v:, \ Thurdiy morning.
I'O'U) SAI.KS SHOW
CHEAT INCREASE.
l>'tro'*. "Heli.. \it^ii??t C.?
lie i? <l IJ-. 1 |fHi' f' , TVrd Me
tor r ii r u !!? m r.? <,f .tip
were 1 <11.22^ car and fiuclrsi, on ln
jcifeavc ';f 33.201 nvejp the rami
monCi a yed? a no. if i-- anunnuced.
; The Month's deliveries repn KCllt
only a little more iban f?0 p? r cent
[of tbe netual ninnb* r of cars and
trucks which could linve been sold
I had manufacturing facilities of the
I company been ur?:tt enouvh to fill all
the orders. Dealers' requirements
on hand the first of June called for
I a ii excess of 313,000 cars*?nd trucks.
1 but production, though runuiiit- at
the highest schedule in the com
pany's history, could not meet all
these orders.
The June sales bring the total of
F -ril earn and truck deliveries ln>*?
I . it.-d States for th.' fir<t slv raon?h?\
1"2.! ? up to the ? tioi moiiK flcure
of S9|.0"S. an inrr?;?>- of :'."4.075 or
.ihou* p. r u?. r f. *;iL:e i>e
rt?- I lnt'% y. ar.
T!i?* increased volume of c-r buy
ing. :?? l.'ji-t so f:ir us it relates to
the Ford. promts* s to continue. ,
Vide from tl?. Irx'tvu.-oit demand
for r?;i?s. nu?r cars, a Munitlrant fea
ture < i t!u? soles. reflecting the coun
try's pros parous business conditions,
is the inanm-r ir? which Industrial
and coninn t-Hal interests have been
absorbing Ford trucks. Sales of
these trucks have been little short of
phenomenal. A total of 17.774 Ford
truck4 were delivered to retail cus
tomers in June, an increase of more #
than 6,000 over the same month a
year auo. and truck sales for the six
months since January 1 total 97,123,
a pain of nearly Do per cent above
the same months of 1022.
Another feature which shows that
present prosperity is general In the
agricultural sections Is the Increas
ing demand for it'ordson tractors.
While industry is rapidly adapting
tin- Fordson for power uses, about
90 per cent of the output uocs to the
farms. Sales of Fordsons for the *
first six months totaled 4 4,023, an
Increase of nearly 8.000 over tho
same period last year.
The nation-wide demand lor Ford
products, which has been - greater
this year than ever before, Is stead
ily increasing ami in view of the
prosperous conditions prevailing
promises to bring new sales records
in the coming months.
ON lU VINti Tllll*
?t\ W. Alellck is in New York and
other northern maiketa buying fur
niture. hooks, toys, pottery, china,
pictures, and other fascinating things
for iite iv W. MelU-k Company store,
lie r? turned front the High Point
Furniture Show and left almost Im
mediately on this trip.
< lll< KKA* DINXKK
Fried chicken and waffles for din
ner Friday at the Linden from 12:30
to 2:30. Aug.2-hold
TELLS ABOUT HER
GRMT BENEFIT
Was Afrr.;.. Never Be
?/.re;. . .* ;.iill?Takeft Stella
Art&U Nov.- V/ell
; . d Happy
d> vn 1:111 ao '
iirii ? : to foar '
? I ji 1 ugaiu;
i i ? i l found
n : : i . r ,a,i:(ttin?iU*. said
i ? t f.; . i ' -i- n i of Green
h id iut! ? ? ? r np|M iJ ? 9lid my
; I ? . ? I'. tl?r : ? . or I full off'
?eiv i u-i.-il. My jeg?
< r mil:ing It
i r . <*?.? : ? ? ^ :k or do my
ia< S vue d'xjty spells
would comh on, iny nerves were all
on ?i!and l would want to-scream
at the least 1 i11!*? excitement.
"People were talking so much
.. tiout Si el la Vitae tTi.it I dccidcd to
try i bottle. and rlfrhf 'way I felt it
was helping me. I kept o:i taking
Stel'a Vila*'' tili 1 h id gottpu rid of
ail'my troubles, aud I am now feel
ing J ii ? f nv hne.as I could wish." \
Stella-tiffao. iimy-he obtained from
. ny druggist and the purchase price
will hi- refunded Ff~lt falls to bring
relief. adv
ARE YOU
CONTENTED?
An enterprising publication recently asked thousands
of farmers' wives this most personal-question: "Art
you contented with your lot?" In 01 per cent o^ all
cases the answer was "Yes, decidedly."
Yet, only n decade a?o farm life meant drudgery. To
il* y tl ? washintf-n chin ? and el< trie iron r, 1 ?
work of what Used t > be a formidable task. . lit ;>
slls sjK?:d up tli ? pr "paration of meals. t>i:h w. hiiv;
i.; di.-jM . in f'. it order. Vacuum < !? - >? >>? ??. I'd
th ir r vc .id. KuimhiK write . InC 'i- <.) . i
era an ; inn'U.. rat) ? household helps lighten, <|Uiclit:n
an 1 in\ u ove the wo> k.
jj *i i ' is V.))".! ml il i/'H ine-tus t-? v.on.???> (,;? Ih'
jj farm. U has brought 1 hem coutilh ss applia
? h"lp in their Work, Iter conditions in their liom- i .,<i
to their pleasure a. I increase their interest in life.
Adv I'tisiiiK me < as much to i/mi. Advertisements
publi ' ;d in this i iper continually tell of mnny con
vcniei "es and conif .rts that you miKht otherwise miss. *
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