The Sentinel, v.047 no. 12, 1922

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DR. LEE K. FRANKEL TALKS
An Interview with A. H. Fromenson
When I finally got to Dr. Lee K.
Frankel in his luxuriously appointed
office, in the Metropolitan Life Insur-ance
company, I missed that poise,
that remarkable self-control that is so
characteristic of him. Getting to see
him was no easy matter. He had just
returned from Europe whither he had
gone as the head of the commission
appointed by Mr. Louis Marshall, pres-ident
of the American Jewish Relief
Committee, to act as the "eyes" of the
Jews of America and see how our
people abroad were faring. He had
been away since June 29, and he was
working at top speed to catch up with
some of the most important matters
that demanded his attention as vice-president
of the Metropolitan. And
though we had fixed a time that seemed
convenient to him, there were so many
officials of the company clamoring for
"just one minute" that, unlike his
usual method, he had to ask me to
wait a little longer.
But the knowledge that I was wait-ing
to talk to him and what we were
to talk about brought back to his mind,
in vivid fashion, many of the things
he had seen. And, as I found out very
shortly, it was this that' so depressed
this man who during the course of the
DR. LEE K. FRANKEL
last quarter century has seen human
misery in its many and most tragic
forms-the sick, the maimed, the halt,
the blind, the handicapped, the wid-owed,
the orphaned.
I could not help expressing my sur-prise.
"Never, in all my experience, have
I seen anything like this," he ejaculat-ed.
"I have never seen such misery,
I have never seen such poverty, I have
never seen such suffering.
"Let me give you one picture," he
went on.
"At Rovno the Polish authorities
have set up a detention pen into which
are herded the thousands upon thou-sands
of repatriates-those indescrib-able
unfortunates who fled from war
and pogrom and who are now making
their way homeward after undergoing
God only knows what misery, what
tortures of hunger, cold and disease
during the intervening years. A strong
stockade has been erected so that none
may escape before they have been in-spected
and passed. A bridge leads
across the stockade to the feeding
station, where these unfortunates get
a hunk of black-bread and something
called 'soup.'
"An old man was being led across
that bridge by a girl, apparently his
daughter. Bent with age, and sham-bling
in gait, there was something
about that unkempt, hoary head that
conveyed the impression that once, in
those happy days before 1914, that
old man had been 'somebody'-a mer-chant,
or a rabbi perhaps. Now-he
was going across that bridge for a
hunk of black-bread, for a bowl of
'something called soup'-and all he
wore to cover his nakedness was an
overcoat. Nothing else, except some
straw wrapped about his feet.
Fourteen in One Room.
"And here is another picture: I had
gone to see how things were going
with some of the orphans who are the
wards of the Joint Distribution Com-mittee.
Thanks to the splendid gen-erosity
of the Jews of this country.
"When we talk of caring for orphans
in Europe, we don't mean by this that
we are taking care of the particular
child alone. It means, in a very large
number of cases, that by the money
we are giving for that orphan, we are
making it possible not only for it, but
for its widowed mother to live better
than they could without our help.
"This was one of those cases. We
found this orphan and her mother in
fair comfort-that is, they lived
decently in one room. But from the
adjoining room came three other
widows, who were not yet receiving
support. Three families-fourteen
persons in all-in one room. I hate
to think of this picture-I hate to
think of the sort of life they have to
live-if you can call that living," Dr.
Frankel ejaculated.
"And that brings me to what I con-sider
the most important, the most
pressing of all problems still confront-ing
us in our efforts to aid our people
in Europe," went on this great social
expert.
"It is the problem of the orphans.
I don't know how many orphans there
are in the Ukraine. We were under
the impression that there were 300,000
there. But Morris Wolf and Dr. Milton
Rosenau, who went there as members
of the commission estimate the number
at 600,000.
"But that isn't all of the Russian
story," Dr. Frankel remarked. "You
can get some slight idea of it when
you recall that on August 1, 1,000,000
children and 800,000 adults were be-ing
fed in the kitchens operated jointly
by the Joint Distribution Committee
and the American Relief Administra-tion.
They would have died otherwise.
Col. Grove was not exaggerating when
he said that if it were not for the
funds supplied by the Jews of this
country at least one-tenth, and pos-sibly
more, of all the Jews in the
Ukraine would have perished. And
there are about 3,000,000 Jews in that
country.
"Conditions there are almost beyond
human conception in their horror.
Concentration camps filled with sick
and dying refugees; children dying of
typhus and dysentery in institutions,
other children by the thousands wan-dering
the streets and roads with none
to care for them; whole communities
decimated by disease, by hunger, by
cold, men and women dying in the
trains they hoped would carry them to
some place where they could get some
food-Oh, it is dreadful. And we, the
Jews of America ought to thank God
that it is our blessed privilege to do
what we are doing-and more-to re-lieve
that terrible situation."
A Word About the Commission.
I have given so far, some of the
"high spots" of the story that Dr.
Frankel has brought back with him
from Europe-a story that gains
tremendously in its significance from
the very fact that he tells it.
It was an extremely fortunate thing
for all Jewry that it was possible for
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