Polish orphans in Mexico

By HENRY C. FLYNN LEON, GUANAJUATO, MEXICO.
At the Colonia Santa Rosa, the Polish war refugee camp that has been established just outside this picturesque Mexican city, there are 726 children; 284 of them are orphans and few of the remainder know anything of the fate of one or other of theii parents. But much has been accomplished for the rehabilitation of these children in the several months they have been at the camp. Their spiritual and mental vigour is greatly improved; there is evidence of a buoyancy 01 spirit that was utterly lacking when they arrived.
Among the refugees are also some 700 adults. The visitor to the camp cannot but be impressed also by the fine physical appearance of the adults The refugee camp at Leon is a project of the American and Polish Governrnents. They are being assisted in providing a well-run programme by the Polish War Relief and by War Relief Services, both of which participate in the National War Fund in the U.S.
WELFARE CENTRE A welfare centre has been establisned at the colony where regular programmes of music, lectures, arts %id crafts, and patriotic exercises are conducted. Boy Scout and Girl Guide Troops have also been formed among the children, and out of their ranks will come the leaders of to-morrow.
In order to equip the refugees, particularly the youth and the interned among the adults of the colony, for their future life work, a broad progrannie of vocational training; including courses in sewing, typewriting, shoemaking, dental mechanics, automotive rnrechanics, silversmithing and dramatics has been developed.
The rector of the colony—there arc three priests and Masses are celebrated daily—is the Rev. Leonard Kaszynski. In addition to his pastoral duties, Fr. Kaszynski is engaged in teaching the claw in dental mechanics to 51 refu