Beulah Hurley Waring letter

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Dear Friends,

Two montha singe last f wre te you « tw months of bu ay
ing for the Winter clese ahead. spring hopes were blasted
y the Juemer heat and drought. For six weeks ne Yuin at ali, —
and it spelt ruin to se many. Only death ahead and soon, unless
We Gan help. ate rains saved much of potatees and iate millet,
. Gabbages and melene, but without the grain there is no hope.
Areas near the forests had rain enoughto save the ie oreps, but
the extreme north and south eustexed to tal — failure and the
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we hear from outside and even fro the Ue vernment deg |
tHe hI “et Me 08 teulhtuigius, twat amine is ever, —
wut we on the apo’ know better. Caad it what you will, unless ss
We help, thousands, «ven milliens, are deemed to die in Kussia a
this year for Laek ef food and thie due te failure of the creps
they planted. The areas and numbers affected are much amaller,
thank Heaven, but those affected are in ever woeree plight, since
their strength io depleted by the past year of pauffering arid

theixy slenderQeources of last fall “utterdy at amend: animale
eaten and ail things saleable sold « what nextt















Just after writing you last i made a orip Chinen our

nerthern ares te see heW the erep was turning Outs sever have
it met eueh utter depression and hopeleseness. #e stepped te
ask family after family how much they had harvested ete., “ere ~—

a family of eix, three grown pa. and three ehildren,. “ith a 4

dilapidated grain fan they Were Gleaning the rye flaiied out on Ra

the hard eround « ~ 4 poods whan they expected 30 - 50, and the Ose
wheat would about equal this amount. Lt take a pood apiece |

each month for food adene not coun tine geed, or marin with which

to purchase other necessities. "de can deat a . mene “ maybe

two. What then t We gan only die."

Up to. the middle of August, wa leeued ‘food te all whe -
needed it, seme 146,000 gut of 164,000 and sinee then have hemmed ae
nearly the full. quantity but with inetructions/ te withhold cron" a
families taving harvested. |























Ucteber first we plan to begin feeding again but on @
to tally aiffer ent UALS. +e are ghey wi Ling, |
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fiteelf is doing. Another year of food without a abor in re turt
Would mean utter demoralization rather than a avi y of the peo.
eo We Will distribute at the end and not the ‘beg inn ng ef oac.
month er fertnight, and then only to those who hae done Work on
BO mE industry or vYepair work for tie dx Villages. ‘The +e vernuen
ie trying to furnish adequate supply ef materiale for repair a
of buildings, roads, bridges ote. and adults able to work, really
must do at legat & weeks Work on such projects each man th, if we |
i thew | and dependent nunbers of their famblie we | ey

| The idea of reeo pan: ius kitehens gives place "a sontine |
vange of dry rations. Fuel io searce ae food, and cle thing,
besides we are Leeding on the family aurvey basis this tine pn
of picking i dividuals ae laat year. |

This fail planting io pitifuli; reduced by lack of otemi
Va per ¢ent loss in horses means a gloomy future Reg there isa ne
hope for surplus ef grain with whieh eo wessem An no rses for the
planting season. Horses and tractor ry ing need if |
there is to be hope ahead. Tie “ling Ligh ‘Unit ia. au the ri wed to
buy | ord é ae ae on 1000 horees fron vhberia and Turkestan. I
days aso, wood tough Little
and hcp aiakine i $8C 00 aplece aa the vovVernment gives free
a te a We have twas for lese than 100 ihe fa yet, but nope for
more in time for opring ploughing. ©

| The tracters we plan te place next year in nome é or 6
20 pin farn e¢hools, @t¢e, ao these mae: Boa eee,

ra ee standing idle and have usually ma iat
and day sinks about July lat and ave ba nm and nine to al eut
4 00 deciatines ef rye beside nes as power for thre shin, a

for the add of ‘Cnildar. n‘e Homes and okt ale ‘whieh need can tkne
ued aid ae foo, clothing ete. — we visited @ Ked army farm the >
other day to see how tractors éet om in purely Ruesian handa. We
found huge oid ey Mogule at work « 3 of anes there had been
near £0 but enly 9 would really work and they had pleu but
sa ay and the | Rags @ asked Lf we could get him some Th
Red Awmy will gladly pay for them. Now here is a apo rting ohanee
| a ioe Friends oar A blo ai army to conetructive pursuits. Why
not get them and specifiy wo many guna buried for each tractor

@uppliedt | : |

‘Phe medical department has been buay with distribution
of the noes and o ther riedieal supplies and the prevention of
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| /eroLera. #@ emnly hope ae mud ray
aign against typhue. he @v wamktan of goap, bedding, .
othing ete., now arriving give us hope in tiis line, for why
gave from starving to let disease claim than? Medi¢ines,
Gass ok ee soap and adequate me eee 717? are nos unless

; Planning and gets ig mater! | |
Work isa tremendous task for an agricultural community 4
terbut it is worth enormous efforts ines This is, or wae
the granery of Surope and the wrld needs these workers and
Kee oe that feod. Only one tenth ef this rich land is new under
aD. ‘tivation as against two shixés in vinloumenA tim fit

| On these regonetructive plans @ 1 bi \@
unit with the Dritish Friends whe have been feeding ‘the reat
of the Oyezd nearly twice the size of ours in area and popu-
lation. The Riga agreement whies forced our separa tion in te
# Unite last autumn, no longer binds uae in pe iy Waye i am
Vary sorry as the AeReAs are a splendid group te work with
and in the actual work of the field were entirelyxgenerous and
Capable support to us. Taken on the whele,kowever, we are
@iad ae this returns te use a freedon we felt eught hever to
move Oe t eqn from us because of the way it oo and
hampe in these eritical nan the of autumn preparae
jen. “These ars details, however, - Russia needs the friende
dy Band of ail of us and the more closely we work with all the
‘elief Unita, the more aid are we to Museia and each

mging inte the winter











































“y this pause, before plun

+ hope to make my get-away next week «

. Lready tak Vor my Work and £ am enly ead that it ia

not in better ordorior hits kt whl soon improve under hig

have bean powelvle. Net with a ligt art, t
has Dean my heme and aay Job 0 many months

oo _ aret yet. Seeing you ali

engation and will ine: ‘1a 80 iri sine ae we ‘come oe te pay

| inte New York Harbour. Two years Without setting foot on

the eo il eof an } igdish speaking eeuntry Li & Long time « hope

it won't go te my iead too badly, or to my tongues —

early meeting, there!



















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(jd) Beulah Ae Hurley.







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