Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1920 — RED CROSS RELIEF IN CENTRAL EUROPE [ARTICLE]

RED CROSS RELIEF IN CENTRAL EUROPE

But for timely assistance of the American Red Cross during the last year, a large proportion of the 20,000,000 population of the Balkan States might have starved or perished from disease or exposure. Six million dollars worth of food, clothing and medical supplies have been sent to the Balkans —Roumanla, Bulgaria, Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Greece —since the beginning of Red'Cross relief operations in Central Europe, while millions of dollars worth of food alone has been sent to-the needy In these states. The money expended by the Red Cross In this stricken portion of Europe has been used to set up hospitals, orphanages, dispensaries, mobile medical units apd to help in the general re-

Construction of devastated areas. Amerlican tractors and other farming implements have been sent to the agricultural regions where aid has been given in plowing the land. By the last of this year probably all American Red Cross agencies administering relief in Central Europe . will have withdrawn. By that time, it is believed, the people will have approached a normal state of living and will be able through their own agencies which the Red Cross has helped set up to provide for themselves. The Democrat’s job departments unexcelled for its ability to handle at all times the class of work that will please the most discriminating. That we may prove this assertion, let us have your future orders for job printing.