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A new book recalls the aid a New Hope woman gave
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By WILLIAM M. DWYER
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a It was the Winter of 1921-22, and here she
-was—Miss Beulah Hurley of New Hope, Pa.—in the
_ snowbound farm village of Sorochinskoye, situated

20 degrees and had been known to reach 67 degrees ~

below zero. The village was in the heart of the

_ coldest part of European Russia. SS Be
And the post-war famine was approaching its :

worst stage. The granaries were empty. The rainfall
had been meager. Men, women and children in

_ ragged clothing came and went in search of food. —

This is how it would be described in a book to be
published almost 40 years later: |

‘Not a day passed that bodies did not fall in the 7

streets. Some people had dug their own graves in
the fall, knowing they would not live out the winter.
One parent had shown his children how to take him

to the graveyard and cover over his body when the

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time came. True, the government had sent potatoes”

and herring, but these had been eaten long ago.

Now people ate dogs, cats, horses, weeds—anything.

They made bread from grass flour. They boiled |

harness leather for broth. Some ate hemp straw and

went insane, smashing furniture and crockery until

they fell into a trance. : ; |
‘And... people had eaten other people. Some fed

on bodies already dead. Others had murdered for

food and sold human flesh in the form of sausages.

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_ Beulah Hurley Waring. . . New Hope to Volga Valley.

war ended, the AFSC took up the fight against a
different war—against famine, depression, igno-
rance. In ‘Some Form of Peace,’’ author Weisbord
tells seven stories of extraordinary and largely

unsung efforts by AFSC members.
__ The story of Beulah Hurley of New Hope and her

experiences in -Sorochinskoye, Samara Province,
December 1921 to September 1922, typifies the
dedicated service of the altruistic activists described

Beulah Hurley grew up on the family farm, a fairly
large one, located on Creamery Road in rural New.
Hope, Pa. (She still lives there). During World War
I, she recalls in the book, a minor incident got her to
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Sorochinskoye, the adopted home of Miss Beulah into him for wasting food when there were little
Hurley of New Hope, during that deadly winter of children starving in Belgium. He just looked down at
1921-22. Miss Waring and two others from the her and said, ‘Well now, and how in hell would I get
American Friends Service Committee had come it to ‘em?’ I thought, that’s exactly the world’s
there to set up a warehouse, an office and relief problem. Any of us would give a meal or share all
center for the feeding of more than 100 villages our meals if we knew how to get it to the people who
under the Friends’ jurisdiction. : need it."” ee ee
| The story of that mission is told in a book by oe ‘And here she was, a few years later on a long
Marvin R. Weisbord, ‘'Some Form of Peace: True toad that would eventually lead to the famine-
Stories of the American Friends Service Committee —_ stricken valley of the Volga. Born in 1886, she was
at Home and Abroad." Published a few months ago -—35 and not yet married when she went to Russia. _
oe by Viking Press, it is a collection of stories of - (She married P. Alston Waring in 1928 when she
Quakers involved in humanitarian AFSC projects. was in her early 40s. They have four children, 14 ,
: The Friends’ Service Committee (AFSC) was grandchildren and one great-grandchild and live in
WRIGHT DACRON formed at the time of America’s entry into World a contemporary house which overlooks the old
AND COTTON POPLIN War I by a group of Quakers who could not in family farm. =
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| College in Newark. The Hurley family had mean-
_ while joined the local Quaker Meeting.

On a weekend trip home, Beulah heard a spoaksi ;

at Meeting describe the newly formed American

Friends Service Committee. Volunteers were needed

in France. Hard work, but travel and adventure...
By the Spring of 1918 Beulah was helping to feed

war victims in Paris cellars. Then on to Germany to

do relief work, and eventually to Russia.

“VM JUST HOMESICK for a little peace and quiet
with you both, "' she wrote her parents. ‘I belong at
home to do my share of the grubbing at foundations
there rather than patching up damages here indefi-
nitely.’’ But: ‘Now along comes Anna Haines, who
tells me that from now until July is the time that
means the saving or the death of thousands of
innocent Russian farmers and their families.’’

For the first two months in Russia, Beulah and
another woman, Miriam West, alone carried the
entire burden of responsibility for relief of 200,000

starving peasants. Murray Kenworthy, head of the _
mission, was stricken with typhus shortly after the.

unit arrived in Sorochinskoye. A
As Weisbord reports, the two women “nursed
Kenworthy, ran the warehouse, wrote out feeding

lists, supervised...a staff of a dozen Russians and

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paneer to cope with unending entreaties for

food. .
The ‘first time Beulah saw a man dying from

hunger fall into a snowdrift, she recalled, her

‘impulse was to go to him, take him home, feed
him.’’ A Russian staff member took her arm.
“There's nothing you can do at that stage,’’ he said
‘‘Without a hospital and expert care you
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One day Miss West saw a dog trot down the street
with a dead child in its mouth. Beulah, walking to
the warehouse early in the morning, stumbled over
the bodies of a family of four, starved to death during
the night. On Christmas Day, 1921, she noted in her
journal, 15 corpses were picked off the ‘Streets, and
27 a day later.

There were long sledge rides to distribution

centers, endless waits for food shipments. There was
trouble with Russian red tape, and at times, even

opposition from Russian authorities.
Beulah stayed on through it all, even after being

stricken with typhus. At one point her associate,

Miriam West, wrote to Beulah's parents: ‘‘Beulah is
really not able to write a letter today although I think
that in three or four days she may do so. This is the
llth sey and yesterday her fever ae a to go

BUT IN A SHORT TIME Beulah was back at work,

distributing corn, clothing, seeds, keeping —

pleading for food deliveries. ..

In September 1922, after nine months in the
famine area, she boarded the Tashkent Express,
bound for Moscow, and, eventually, that farm near
New Hope, Pa. She had taken part in an effort that at
the peak of the famine had fed about 160, 000

Russians.

Despite obstacles that included interference from
the Russian government, the Service Committee

continued to give direct relief to the Russians
through 1925. :

As her train crept through the valley of Volga,
Beulah wrote a final letter home: ‘‘Just. now the





THE WARINGS—Beulah Hurley Waring with her
husband, P. Alston Waring, a native of Savannah,
Georgia, who, some four decades ago, came to the
New Hope area to help his wife-to-be in establishing a

cooperative farm. A conservationist and farmer, Mr.

Waring is also an occasional author; with Walter Teller
he wrote ‘‘Roots in the Earth,” a ‘boak — by
Harper in 1943.

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into the rigors of winter, better for perhaps half the
people, the rest possibly worse since all surplus
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winter.

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fter 50 Years,

homas Malloy
eturns To Art

By ANNETTE HEUSER

Staff Writer

As a child in South Carolina, Thomas
Malloy drew impressions on sandy sur- >

faces and hoped the wind wouldn't
blow them away.

Now, 50 years later, he has returned
to art, and his water colors of Trenton
and its trees, now on display at the
Trenton Public Library, still have the
fleeting grace. of pictures drawn in
sand.

Malloy has been active in “Methodist
church work in the city most of his life.

It took the loving encouragement of his.

wife—he got married three years
ago—to make him channel his energy
back into art work, which until then

had been mostly limited to a few

sketches drawn during church meet-

ings.

‘People say it's too bad I wasted so _

----L tina hafara T ant to the creative

worked as a lay assistant to the pastor
of Asbury Methodist Church. He has

taught Sunday school, chaired meet-

ings, visited the sick, given counsel and ,

comfort where there was a need.

The Malloys’ home at 88 Spring
Street reflects a certain harmony in
their life style. The atmosphere is effort-

lessly quiet; a vase of pussywillows is
pushed against the copper-colored >

wall; there is soft classical music on the

radio, art books to browse in, and

Malloy water colors on the walls.
‘His grandmother wanted him to be
a preacher,’’ Dorothy Malloy explained
quietly while her husband was out of
the room. ‘‘It wasn't quite the thirg to
be an artist. I have encouraged him
because I think it is more fulfilling to
“- than organized religion.’’ ,
. Malloy, a nurse at ‘the. New







“Clinton Avenue Bridge,” one of the water on by Thomas Malloy on
Eavley at the Trenton Public eee |

cal Trenton scene: a slightly melan-

choly city-scape, with only bushes and
signs to add color. :

“View Across a Vacant Lot,"’ is ina
gayer mood. The golden dome of the

‘state house tops a scene of stooping

dwellings, surrounded by the blue-

green foliage of late summer. |
Malloy's trees breathe with ade

and light.

I could do justice to it."’ :
He is now taking courses in water
color at the Art Students’ League in

New York, every Saturday. During the

-work,"’ he says.

‘I think a tree is a most
fascinating creation,’’ he says, ‘Il wish

hours after work. 7

From 7 to 3:30, he mans a sealing

machine at the end of the production

line at Trenton Folding Box Company.
‘I look out the window while I

‘I love to watch the

__ light changing on the sky in the morn-

ing, the turbulence heralding a storm,
the shifting of the clouds. And some-
times I give impromptu concerts."’

In his water colors, the sky is impor-

tant: birds circle it above the Broad

Street Bank Building, and lemon yel-—
low rays illuminate it in a - sunset
ature |