Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1920 — GRAY SAMARITANS RESCUING CHILDREN [ARTICLE]

GRAY SAMARITANS RESCUING CHILDREN

The Young Women’s Christian Associations of the Ufeited States are keenly interested in the movement for the relief of the 8,500,000 starving children of Europe because a group of their members, the Polish Gray Samaritans, have been in charge of distributing food to children in Poland. They hive been serving under the American Relief administration and have conducted food kitchens and distributing stations in all parts of Poland outside Warsaw. In all the relief work being done in Europe, that of the Polish Grays has been unique because all the girls, though sent from America, were cither horn in Poland or are of Polish parentage. When the need for social service In their country became acute many girls of Polish descent answered the call of the Young Women’s Christian Association for overseas service and enlisted in the preliminary training course that was given In several cities es the United States. From this group thirty girls were chosen and ■Bent to Poland where, sljice 1918, they have been caring for the children of the country. The distribution of clothing has taken them Into all parts of Poland. They are now spending their entire time ip arranging for the feeding of children this winter. .Groups of them travel to strategic centers in outlying districts where they set up distributing stations, receive supplies, prepare meals, arrange for impartial distribution and train helpers to continue the work when they are sent on to the next town.