Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1920 — FOREIGNERS SENDING VAST RELIEF HOME [ARTICLE]

FOREIGNERS SENDING VAST RELIEF HOME

Over 90 Per Cent of Food Drafts Sent to Europe Gitts From Immigrant Population. Out of their earnings, for the most part as unskilled laborers, living, from hand to mouth, the foreign-born element in the United States Is contributing largely to the funds for food supplies to aid the starving peoples of their native lands. Figures from the Food Draft section of the American Relief Administration show that $593,110 had been sent to Polund, up to the end of "November. $158,170 had been sent to Czecho Slovakia, Hungary had received $382,700, Germany had $1,448,619 and Austria $2,040,720. It was estimated that more than 90 per cent of this money had been spent by nationals of these various countries who are now in the United States. There are about 1,500,000 Poles, 800,000 Hungarians, 500,000 Czechs and 600,000 Slovaks in this country. The profits which resulted from the sale of these food drafts have been turned Into the fund for general child feeding. It Is to bring this fund up to the point where it can meet the demands on it, to save the lives of 3,50<V 000 children that the European Relief Council has been formed by eight great relief organizations.