THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
AMERICA HELPS POLAND
ans and Old Peoples Homes to Save Polanders
By Capt. F. G. Johnson
By Capt. F. G. Johnson
Member of American Red Cross Com
mission to Poland
(Written for the United Press.)
New York, Feb. 10.-Poland's starving population cannot help itself. Its immediate future depends on the interest and help outside nations give it better environmental conditions improve materially.
Poland is doing all she can for her people but her present resources do not begin to meet the need.
I have visited desolate communities in the Department of the East, that vast stretch of barren country lying east of the River Bug, whose people were literally saved from extinction through the vigorous ministration of relief organizations. There is no limit to the field to be covered.
Before the Americans got to Novrodek the people of that town and the surrounding country were in a condition pittable beyond description. They were the most likely to ease. Particularly said the wilt of the little children and the old people without families. Local effort brought little result in getting homes established for the inhabitants and absolutely nothing to work with.
The combined effort of the American relief organizations soon effected a change. Orphanages and old people's homes were quickly started, with not only a decent shelter for these homeless and helpless people, but beds with blanks, and service rooms for those in vermin-infested rags, and food in at least sufficient quantities to keep body and soul together.
The smaller children many of them for the first time in their lives, got real milk to drink—condensed milk, it is true, but sweet and clean from great American canneries, and containing the nourishment that they had lacked so utterly. The aged found asylums of rest and comfort, where they might regain some portion of their strength, or at least, pass the
most of their years in escape from the ninth-mirage existence that had long ago disappeared, there were host pits to check the dark invades of the dreaded typhus.
trade, no industry, because no raw materials can be brought into the country until transportation conditions are improved. And it is literally true furthermore that relatively few of the people are strong enough to do a day's work. That is what underlies our business. We have done to an once蛮乱 community.
Novogradek still seems desolate enough, for there is practically no
This is simply representative of what American effort is accomplishing all over Poland—at Berera-Karatasku, at Kobryn, at Pink, at Brest-Litlowsk, at Barnowicz and other points in the country. Ezekiel Kozak the third in Galicia—were ever the need is found to be the greatest.
FINANCES WORRY HUNS
Currency Inflation Causes Constant Increase in Prices of all Commodities
Berlin, Jan, 18. (By Mail.)-Germany has been blowing up a paper balloon, with not much else in it than gas and perhaps some hopes for the
Inflation of the currency has reached the point where serious-minded bankers marvel at the situation and wonder when the end will come. Briefly, banknote circulation in Germany has grown from 2,400,500,000 marks in June, 1914, to 34,000,000,000 marks in 1920.
The nation's banknote presses are grooming under the strain of work imposed on them in recent months. A veritable stream of paper money has been pouring out of them to be used by billions of billion marks since September, 1919.
Official figures show that at the close of the old year Germany had in circulation thirty-four billion marks in certificates of loans. The total increase in paper money in 1919 was 15,500,000,000 marks.
Along with the currency inflation has come, naturally, a constant increase in the prices of all living commodities. Then, also, quite naturally have arisen constantly increasing demands for higher wages. These are being granted from time to time, when a breadfish, for the laboring classes.
Recently bread and meat prices have mounted and at the same time there has come a decrease in the potato supply so that for a time, turnips had to be substituted in the government rationing.
There are various causes for the inflation, all of which are quite easily understood when one realizes that German jet her war debt pile up without efforts to cut down--expecting that somebody else would pay the bill for her. She pyramided and pyramided during the war, or in the language of the hayman she tried to 'run a shootering into a tannery', with the result that she now is extremely decrept financially.
All Germany at the moment is beginning to believe, however, that the advent of peace something will be done from outside to strengthen the financial structure of Europe, and that it will be in for a share of such support.
share of such support.
BY THE WAY
Delta Upsilon held initiation Monday night for Harold J. McKeever e'22, of Lawrence.
Delta Upsition announces the pledging of Richard D. Weaver sp. of Wichita.
Delta Upsilion entertained tauches of the chapter members Sunday with their annual "Dads, Day Mixer." The guests were: H. Putney, D. R. Alford, and D. I. J. Steacy, of Leavant, M. A. Oakes, of Independence, M. A. J. Oakes, of Independence, A. D. Picklering, E. Hughes, Dr. W. Russ and W. S. Wood of Lawrence.
The K. U. Band concert is postponed on account of the flu and the tickets will be good for the concert when it is given.
7:30, Friday at 5 o'clock.-F. I Kendrie.
Mens Glee Club rehearsals for the rest of the week will be: Wed. at
Good advice from the Kansas Collegian—You may have outgrown the valentine; but remember the letter to mother,
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