From: Karamurat, Dobrudscha
8 December 1921
Very Honored Mr. Editor!
I beg your pardon for writing so little, but as you can see I am really not a good writer. However, I have to send my thanks to my brother-in-law M. Ruscheinsky in Shaw, Oregon for the newspaper which I received as a present from him. I also had personally written to him, but since I am not getting a reply, I have to assume that my lines never got to him. Herewith once more, send best of thanks to you dear brother-in-law!
The harvest was meager. You could say that we barely broke even with the amount that we had seeded. We had rain in May and then again in the middle of July. Now in November it did rain for 14 days. Following that we seeded some wheat. We couldn’t seed too much anymore, because soon after the rain, frost and snow did arrive.
With one item we people from Karamurat won; namely, we have so much wine that it is sufficient.
We in the Dobrudscha received a war compensation of about 30,000 horses, oxen and cows. Now everyone has to have an identity card from the government to cover everything that one had lost during the war. Said and done! I too got on the way and traveled 70 kilometers in order to state and validate my claim. But instead of getting compensated for my losses, I got kicked in the rear and pushed in the back and I had to resume my return pilgrimage of 70 kilometers without having accomplished anything. That is the reward that one bestows onto the Germans.
Recently, I had read a report by Ignatz Bobolofski, who is a native of Malcoci, about how things went with the distribution of goods by the Red Cross. I have to acknowledge that he is correct. It happened to be the same here. There was nothing available for the Germans. We wish that we could have 200 to 300 American dollars here. Every dollar has a value of 130 lei. With that I could buy horses and a wagon.
In closing, I wish all friends and acquaintances blessed Christmas holidays.
Respectfully,
Philipp Wagner