HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1942-03-19, Page 7THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1942
THE SEAFORT.H NEWS
THE QUAKERS
..ARE READY
For Their Second Invasion
of Europe
By A. RUTH FRY
Hon, Sec. Tile Friends' War Vie.
tiros Relief Committee 1914-1924
British and American Quakers, or
the Society' of 'Friends 'AS' they call.
themselves, Have now ender survey
the service which they will be able
to give to Ilurope in reconstruction,
Today small groups of Quakers are
to be 'Lound on the Continent, in
.France, Germany, Switzerland, Holl-
and, Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
These were mainly established as a
result of ou' relief actviities after the
last war, and they maintain their
activities despite the present one.
Already last November, under the
aegis, of the American Friends, 10,000
babies were receiving milk through
clinics in France: 750 children were
in colonies; 50,000 children were get-
ting supplementary meals,
The invasion of the Continent, the
goodwill invasion, has in fact begun,
So it was in the last war, an invasion
then of nine devastated countries by
doctors, nurses, builders, farmers, tea-
chers and When and women ready to
help in every possible way. The
workers, their goods and living quar-
ters, all bore the black and red star
invented by the forerunners, the
Quakers who helped in similar work
during the Franco-German War of
1870. The first pioneers could snake
110 detailed plan. They went to France
early in October 1914, to find the
work that wanted doing, end do it,
their particular concern the rehabili-
tation of the .civilian war victims,
They helped whoever they could, ir-
respective of nationality, creed or
Politics, but always with the desire
to express friendship to individuals..
Fron small beginnings growth was
rapid. A central office in London sel-
ected and equipped personnel, purch-
ased and despatched stores, public-
ised the work and collected funds,
co-operating with a similar' office 1n
Philadelphia. The work eontinued for
ten years during which about 1,000
English and 700 American men and
women tools hart.
Probably millions of people were
helped. £1,500,000 were received in
the London office (21,000 a day dur-
ing the Russian Famine) and about
half a million pounds worth of goods,
Far more money and goods from
other sources, Governmental and Phil-
anthropic, were administered.
A typical centre was that at Ser-
maize-les-Bains in France, Where a
hotel housed 400 refugees from the
nearby destroyed village—a family
crowded each into a room, The
Friends settled down to help and be-
friend these people, tiling to fill the
endless gaps in their lives and equip-
ment resulting from war's cruel de-
struction. Distribution of clothing,
schools and occupation for children,
handicrafts for grown-ups, were some
of the first needs, Then followed the
erection of wooden houses, distribu-
tion of beading and simple furniture
to make the nucleus of homes. These
wooden huts were stanclah•ilised and
macre by our own amateur builders.
Agriculture obviously had suffered
heavily; seeds, animals, machines as
well as workers were wanting. The
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Friends distributed seeds, rabbits,
farm stock, and htohnselves worked to
thrash, to reap and to sow for the
needy people.
Medical needs were attended to by
village nurses aucl doetore and a Mat-
ernity Hospital at Ohiilons-sur-Marne
functioned all through the wee and
was finally ]loused in a new building
erected as a final gift to Prance from
the Mission,
Such all-round help for refugees
was typical of the Friends' wont all
over Europe,
The most complete reconstruction
worst was that in the district of Ver-
dun, undertaken at the request of
Me French 'Government after the
war, In an area of 200 square miles
500 Friend workers built homes for
2,500 people, fields were tilled, medi-
cal care given and 19 shops serving
5,000 families in 200 villages were in-
stalled: 607,000 pieces of furniture and
beds were sold,
The German invasion of Russia in
1915 drove thousands of peasants
from their homes, The Friends estab-
lished help in one of the neediest dis-
tricts, that of Buzuluk in the province
of Sahara (now Kiubishev).
With the news of the terrible fam-
ine of 1921 British people were eager
to help the sufferers whatever politi-
cal differences divided their countries.
Friends took an active part in a Nat-
ional Appeal and international relief
under the presidency of Dr, Mansell,
and returned to help Buzululc again,
On a visit I paid to Buzuluk in Jan-
uary 1922 I found a land of death,
people falling dead in the streets, a
vast Heap of unburied corpses, child-
ren wailing for hunger, as death ap-
proached mer'iclessly, and typhus au
ever-present danger. Transport was
so derelict that the journey from
Warsaw took ten clays each way,
making sending of supplies most dif-
ficult. With splendid co-operation and
help from the Soviet Authorities the
English Friends. organised 900 feed-
ing centres in.280 villages, the Amer-
icans many more in an adjacent
area.
In Poland typhus was so rife, that
the unpleasant and dangerous task of
fighting it was undertaken by the de-
lousing of the people, their clothes
and houses, `Relief was given, seeds
AGE STOVOIN
were distributed, industries started,
(lectors and nurses gave their help.
1,100.Arrny horses were obtained and
ploughing for the people organised
by the Mission. In the winter the
horses hauled timber for the peasants
to build huts to replace their miser-
able dug -outs,
During the war Friends had helped
German in England, and by February
1919 permission was obtained to ex-
port gifts to Germany—Laebesgaben,
gifts of love, as they were called. Iu
18 months about 874 tons of a value
of £127,855 were despatched besides
private parcels,
Relief workers went to German as
soon as possible and showed their
sympathy in many ways. Depots were
started where food and clothing were
sold below oust price. In co-operation
with University authorities feeding
for students in 31 Universities and
Technical schools was supplemented,
Throughout Germany the American
Friends hacl organised feeding for the
children, "Kwalter-speisung" as it was
known. Nearly 80,000 children were
being fed in 1921, the English Friends
co-operating in the Cplogne area.
In Austria the tragedy of Vienna
was heartbreakihig, When an egg cost
the equivalent of 18 shillings and one
good restaurant meal would exhaust
the salary of a General, living be-
came a nightmare. Here again the
system of depots was introduced for
sale far below cost price of rations
for the most undernourished children.
In 1921 over 64,000 children received
these. Clothing too was distributed,
and Lancs Settlements were helped
and encouraged.
Help was also extended to Hung-
ary; internment camps and prisons
were visited and children sent away
for holidays.
In Holland the hospitality of the
Dutch to Belgian refugees' was re-
markable, -Holland was responsible
for the accommodation of 20,000 peo-
ple for whom four main camps were
organised, Here Friend workers lived
with them, trying to make their lives
happy and useful by clubs, handi-
crafts and the like. As in France,
wooden houses were erected and lit-
tle villages nhade for some of the re-
fugees. Work 'extended also to the
small unoccupied part of Belgium.
Standing beside the snout of a big coastal gun, this sentry looks westward
To -day again there is a Friends'
War Victims 'Relef Committee and a
Friends' Ambulance Unit, At the
moment the former is working there
in England, rescuing bravely in air
raids and maintaining more than 40
hostels for evacuated people, young
and old.
Members of the Friends' Ambul-
ance Unit are scattered over the
world, some doing relief work at
lhonse; some taken prisoner and in-
terned in Germany or Greece. Some
are on the Burma Road and in Carina;
some in the Middle East.
All over our devastated earth a new
generation is gaining experience to
serve the world in reconstruction.
American Friends and those Quaker
Groups on the Continent of Europe
will wish to share that service. The
need will be immeasurable; we can
only hope by devotion and experience
to play our part in building the
afresh. The Quakers aresready,
Returning to his hotel room for the
night, the weary traveller had just
got into bed when there came a
knock at the door. When he opened.
it he saw a stranger swaying in the
doorway. "Shol'ry—wrong room!!" ex-
plained the stranger.
Ten minutes later the knock was
repeatell. It was the same man
again. "Oh, par—hie—don!" he said
"My mistake. Wrong room!"
Half an hour later the incident was
repeated. This time the stranger
looked quite bewildered, "My good-
nesh!" he exclaimed, "Have you got
every room in the place?"
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ism —.Editorials Are Tiinely and Instructive and Its Daily
Features, Together with the Weekly Magazine Section, Make 5
the Monitor an Ideal Newspaper for the Home. ye,?
The Christian Science Publishing Society
One, Norway Street, Boston, Massachusetts
Price $12,00 Yearly, or $1,00 a Month.
Saturday Issue, including Magazine Section, $2,60 a Year.
Introductory Offer, 6 Saturday Issues 25 Cents.
Name
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Friends distributed seeds, rabbits,
farm stock, and htohnselves worked to
thrash, to reap and to sow for the
needy people.
Medical needs were attended to by
village nurses aucl doetore and a Mat-
ernity Hospital at Ohiilons-sur-Marne
functioned all through the wee and
was finally ]loused in a new building
erected as a final gift to Prance from
the Mission,
Such all-round help for refugees
was typical of the Friends' wont all
over Europe,
The most complete reconstruction
worst was that in the district of Ver-
dun, undertaken at the request of
Me French 'Government after the
war, In an area of 200 square miles
500 Friend workers built homes for
2,500 people, fields were tilled, medi-
cal care given and 19 shops serving
5,000 families in 200 villages were in-
stalled: 607,000 pieces of furniture and
beds were sold,
The German invasion of Russia in
1915 drove thousands of peasants
from their homes, The Friends estab-
lished help in one of the neediest dis-
tricts, that of Buzuluk in the province
of Sahara (now Kiubishev).
With the news of the terrible fam-
ine of 1921 British people were eager
to help the sufferers whatever politi-
cal differences divided their countries.
Friends took an active part in a Nat-
ional Appeal and international relief
under the presidency of Dr, Mansell,
and returned to help Buzululc again,
On a visit I paid to Buzuluk in Jan-
uary 1922 I found a land of death,
people falling dead in the streets, a
vast Heap of unburied corpses, child-
ren wailing for hunger, as death ap-
proached mer'iclessly, and typhus au
ever-present danger. Transport was
so derelict that the journey from
Warsaw took ten clays each way,
making sending of supplies most dif-
ficult. With splendid co-operation and
help from the Soviet Authorities the
English Friends. organised 900 feed-
ing centres in.280 villages, the Amer-
icans many more in an adjacent
area.
In Poland typhus was so rife, that
the unpleasant and dangerous task of
fighting it was undertaken by the de-
lousing of the people, their clothes
and houses, `Relief was given, seeds
AGE STOVOIN
were distributed, industries started,
(lectors and nurses gave their help.
1,100.Arrny horses were obtained and
ploughing for the people organised
by the Mission. In the winter the
horses hauled timber for the peasants
to build huts to replace their miser-
able dug -outs,
During the war Friends had helped
German in England, and by February
1919 permission was obtained to ex-
port gifts to Germany—Laebesgaben,
gifts of love, as they were called. Iu
18 months about 874 tons of a value
of £127,855 were despatched besides
private parcels,
Relief workers went to German as
soon as possible and showed their
sympathy in many ways. Depots were
started where food and clothing were
sold below oust price. In co-operation
with University authorities feeding
for students in 31 Universities and
Technical schools was supplemented,
Throughout Germany the American
Friends hacl organised feeding for the
children, "Kwalter-speisung" as it was
known. Nearly 80,000 children were
being fed in 1921, the English Friends
co-operating in the Cplogne area.
In Austria the tragedy of Vienna
was heartbreakihig, When an egg cost
the equivalent of 18 shillings and one
good restaurant meal would exhaust
the salary of a General, living be-
came a nightmare. Here again the
system of depots was introduced for
sale far below cost price of rations
for the most undernourished children.
In 1921 over 64,000 children received
these. Clothing too was distributed,
and Lancs Settlements were helped
and encouraged.
Help was also extended to Hung-
ary; internment camps and prisons
were visited and children sent away
for holidays.
In Holland the hospitality of the
Dutch to Belgian refugees' was re-
markable, -Holland was responsible
for the accommodation of 20,000 peo-
ple for whom four main camps were
organised, Here Friend workers lived
with them, trying to make their lives
happy and useful by clubs, handi-
crafts and the like. As in France,
wooden houses were erected and lit-
tle villages nhade for some of the re-
fugees. Work 'extended also to the
small unoccupied part of Belgium.
Standing beside the snout of a big coastal gun, this sentry looks westward
To -day again there is a Friends'
War Victims 'Relef Committee and a
Friends' Ambulance Unit, At the
moment the former is working there
in England, rescuing bravely in air
raids and maintaining more than 40
hostels for evacuated people, young
and old.
Members of the Friends' Ambul-
ance Unit are scattered over the
world, some doing relief work at
lhonse; some taken prisoner and in-
terned in Germany or Greece. Some
are on the Burma Road and in Carina;
some in the Middle East.
All over our devastated earth a new
generation is gaining experience to
serve the world in reconstruction.
American Friends and those Quaker
Groups on the Continent of Europe
will wish to share that service. The
need will be immeasurable; we can
only hope by devotion and experience
to play our part in building the
afresh. The Quakers aresready,
Returning to his hotel room for the
night, the weary traveller had just
got into bed when there came a
knock at the door. When he opened.
it he saw a stranger swaying in the
doorway. "Shol'ry—wrong room!!" ex-
plained the stranger.
Ten minutes later the knock was
repeatell. It was the same man
again. "Oh, par—hie—don!" he said
"My mistake. Wrong room!"
Half an hour later the incident was
repeated. This time the stranger
looked quite bewildered, "My good-
nesh!" he exclaimed, "Have you got
every room in the place?"
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