Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 58, 17 January 1921 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY, JAN. 17, 1921.

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RUSSIAN CHILDREN STARVING, IN RAGS, SAY RELIEF WORKERS

(By Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 17. Frederick J., Libby," commissioner of the American Friends' Service committee (Quakers) who recently returned from Reval, brought back Information that many children are starving in Russia. ' Mr. Libby obtained his information from Arthur J. Watts, an English Friend, who has been engaged in relief work in Russia. Mr. Watts gave Mr. Libby a translation of the reports of Russian commi&ars from various Russian cities. It is upon these Mr. Libby bases his information. Conditions Are Varied. It appears from the commissars' report that the situation of the children varies greatly in the different centers. In some cities such as Vitebsk, it is reported by the commissars that whole tmmilies are perishing from starvation, fn others such as Smolensk. Taroslav, the children are reported to be obtaining sufficient nourishment. The report from Vitebsk stated that the bread substitutes give the children chronic dysentery which it Is impossible to cure. The commissars reported that in several centers the children had been unable to obtain bread for a long time and that in others no kind of fats or meats were obtainable and that milk was received rarely. Sugar And Fats Missing. The children of Moscow were declared to have no sugar nor fats and were reported to be either starving or falling ill due to undernourishment. Inmates of the children's homes in Novgorod are starving, the reports stated. They receive no meat, butter, potatoes, milk or salt, but live on a daily portion of sour cabbage soup, millet cooked in water and black bread made from bad flour. They are suffering from scurvy as a result of undernourishment; Tho children in the schools of the Bashkir republic are reported to be in rags, barefooted and hungry-

About Some New Books

Almost everybody who reads knows Ly this time something of the "Intimate Diary of Margot Asquith." About everything that is published in the way of reviews and extracts from current literature has had something about and from it. America had the fever by second intention as it were and of course it has not been received here with the frenzy of comment and disapproval that has been the case in England. Perhaps the best condensed expression of the Uritish attitude is found in the limerick which the London correspondent of the Cleveland NewsLeader send. over here saying that it was received by a htep-daughter of Mrs. Asquith's: "Why didn't your eminent Pa go And lay on this book an embargo? Instead of which he Thought lie"d just wait and see To what indiscreet lengths would your Margot." Alt hroueh last spring and summer the Atlantic Monthly Magazine was !ublishine: another sort of a diaryOpal's Diary of an understanding Heart. As far ar, a real, genuine understanding of m?n. motives and morals goes, Opal would hardly dare enter into a competition with Margot. But the developments since the publication ceased would indicate that the former can be backed against the latter and all other "comers' in the realm of pure, inventive imagination. Opal's production was brought out with consummately skilful devices to stimulate the public interest. In many of the readers, however, the interest began to wane and incredulity to take its place before the second or" third instalment was finished. It was really too great a tax even upon one's faith in the honesty of purpose of the publishers when Opal (aged six) remarked that the brandy bottle had been evoluted into a milk bottle by the simple process of putting on a rubber cap especially as "Life" is said to have thought of it first and given it to the public more than a year ahead of Opal. Before the scries was finished the list of doubters had erown to a roodly size and most people are now

quite ready - to believe that while j Opal, like most little girls probably

kept a diary from the age of six to twelve, the , original probably bore about the same relation to the finished production that the t-mall bone with which : the scientist began operations did to the mastodon with which he finished his labors. Furthermore Opal is said to be at present in a sanitarium and her most sympathetic apologists say then think the really believes that it all happened. That such a condition is possible is proved by a number of well authenticated cases. Perhaps a case in proof which has happened within the bounds of our own Indiana can be found In Mrs. May Wright Sewall's latest (and last) book. Neither Dead Nor Sleeping. The most sincere believer in spiritism if of a turn of mind at all practical will not believe that Rubenstein if as busy conducting orchestras and training musicians in the spirit world as he represents, could or would stop and devote so ranch time to the musical training of a woman as old as Mrs. Sew all who had never had any such training. And all the rest of the book is just as improbable. To have known Mrs. Sewall, however, is to believe that she could not consciously have tried to deceive the public so the logical conclusion is that she was the victim of a remarkable series of strangely persistent hallucinations lasting through many years. To turn from diaries of things real too real, perhaps fn the case of Mrs. Asauith's and imagined from hallucinations and morbid imaginings to the little book of poems. Fagots of Fancy, written by Mrs. Scottie McKenzie Frazier of Dothan. Alabama, snd brought out by the Progressive Publishing Co., of Wheeling. W. Va., is refreshing to soul and spirit Mrs. Frazier. a well-known writer and lecturer throughout the South, sent a poem in competition for a nrize offered by the Federation of Women's Clubs of Alabama. As the winner of the prize offered it attracted so much favorable comment that she was asked to send the company named material for a volume. Another poem was included in the Anthology of Newsnaper Verse published by Franklyn Pierre Davis, of Enis, Oklahoma. Both poems, as well as most of the others which make up the attractive little volume breathe a spirit of bright and cheerful optimism which the poetry of today is as a rule rather sadly lacking in. "Free verse" as the writer modestly classes most of these, is rather likely to run to the melancholy and depressJnp. Tb serene and steady faith and hopeful spirit of the writer is well shown in the poem "My Prayer", the one printed in the Anthology: To live not long but well. I pray. Clean, noritrht. honest, and sincere; Let, m be bi? in little things, And brave when trials come. Let me neither condemn nor scorn my weaker brother. But always know he does the best he can; nd that non but Cod Can completely understand. If sickness, failure, or suffering should be my fate, Oiv me ccuraee to meet Each, a soldier, bravely; And when the last Great Adventure comes. May I go smiling. And it will be hard to find In all literature a better philosophy of life and work than the prize poem, "For This I Pray." O. Lord. Cive me work to do. Oivp me health. Oive me joy in simnle things. Cive me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth. A heart that loves. A mind that reasons.

A sympathy that understands, Oive me neither malice nor envy; But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent. M. D. V.

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