Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1920 — RED CROSS EXTENDS RELIEF TO POLAND [ARTICLE]

RED CROSS EXTENDS RELIEF TO POLAND

More than $5,000,000 has been spent by the American Red Cross in aiding the stricken people of Poland. The organization has nursed the sick, fed the starving, clothed the naked, sheltered the homeless, schooled the children and cared for the orphans there. It has conducted a relentless fight against typhus, cholera and other terrible diseases. So today millions of men and women in that resurrected nation speak in grateful appreciation of “The Greatest Mother In the World.” Nearly 200 American Red Cross workers are now engaged in relief activities In Poland. Four relief bases are in operation and eleven mobile units are In the field During the lust twelve months this organization was largely Instrumental in the re-es-tablishment of a million refugees at a cost for general relief of more than $1,000,000. Last winter one-half million war orphans were aided materially, and since then a series of large orphanages have been established to give them permanent care. But for American Red Cross aid, officials of Poland declared recently, millions of- people In that country would have perished of disease, exposure or starvation the last eighteen months. And the work <iere must be kept up for another year.