Feeding the Hungry, P. C. Hiebert, 1929

293 bodies. GROUP OF NATIVE WORKERS—BERDJANSK These show plainly the swelling of the famished body which foretells an early death. SKIN, BONES AND DESPAIR Tortures of hunger are report- ed to have induced him to slay and devour his four year old brother. A NEGLECTED HOMELESS WAIF On the shores of the Volga River. — NONITE CHILDREN SAVED BY A. M. R. KITCHENS Two of the tiniest Mennonite maids at the American kitehen at Ein- lage. "MH WN “V 94} Fo s3g13 aqd ysnory} “qyZusxys pu’ yyprory 0} YOU JYPSNoIg puv poJ d10M YYQ IOAO eazy] UNWOS NGAWOLIM TIVOIdaAL V *W9q} 0} GUIOD SBI, eJI[ WO asve] Meu B pus dumnjd uMoiZ savy syoeqo Tey, “JoWYsIq BainqueiQ oy} UI 18 dsoq I, N@UCGTIHNO GLINONNAW FO d10ud V ‘aANJoId Joy SulyR} UBoTeUly 4} IO} ysaq Joy 3B Ivedde 0} st os ‘SMOIT “OPULP JO YIVIIM B YIM pauMoIo wseq sey puNoaZ10y aq) ut [IIS on QNQOS NGWOLIM NVINIVUMOD A KITCHEN FEEDING SCENE This kitchen was located in the Trans-Volga district. It excelled most others in orderliness and cleanliness. NATIVE BASHKIRS These were fed by the American Mennonite Relief. TRANSPORTING THE AMERICAN FOOD This was quite a problem in the districts that were more distant from the railroad. The villagers were required to do this gratis in the interest of those who had no horses. A TYPICAL BASHKIR FAMILY "The home is seen in the kackground. This family at the time of our visit was living on greens and field mice. i A STREET BARBER SHOP Refugees being relieved of hair, filth, and vermin. REFUGEES ON THE FLIGHT They or no one else knew where they were going. All they sought was a place where they could get “Chleb” (bread). AT A MEDICAL DISPENSARY Waiting for their turn to obtain medicines, especially quinine, at the Dispensary Klubnikowa, Orenburg. RUSSIAN REFUGEE TOURISTS A caravan coming from Siberia and looking for a place where they may find a means of sustaining life. Large numbers of these caravans came to the Samara District in 1923. A WIDOW AND CHILDREN Her home is seen in the background. The straw from the thatched roof was used to feed the cow. With the spring rains the skeleton of a building collapsed. ROADS IN RUSSIA ey, ee - These conditions added to the aeons of ie Relief Organizations in making delivery with trucks. VIZUALIZING FAMINE CONDITIONS 225 have come to suffer with the suffering and weep with the weeping. Teach us then also to have new hope, and faith and love with the believing, the hopeful and the loving! We cannot do so any more! All our strength, our energy and our reserve of ideals are completely exhausted. What is left? An indescribable misery, as the sands of the sea, utter impotence and despair, every type of human weakness, including wickedness, but also a little faith, gold, as seven times purified by fire. Such there remains a little—here and there:....We are sick, very sick....in the great Russian hospital, and in part have rea