The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-06
REMEDY is SIMPLE READY FOR MONEY
Executive Branch of Local Famine
Fund Committee Is In Read
mess to Act.
Contributions Will Be Received
Messages from Famine-Strick-
EN- Countries Soon.

The executive branch of the local ia
Inlne-1und committee met at 4:30 p. m.
o-day Inc branch, is hourly expecting
from Sweden and Finland cable messages
STATING the precise needs of the famine
sufferers. While waiting for these. mes
sages contributions will be received and
available informa ton will be given out by
Local Secretary Harry S. Swensen at the
reHeI 1und headquarters, IL Third
street N.
| with the additional members named
yesterday the executive committee now
consists of r. B. Walker, chairman; c.
a. Smith. vice chairman; w. H. Dun
woody, L. S. Donaldson, T.. j. Phelps. F.
2. Murphy. F. B. Wells, George II. Part
ridge, f. w. Lyman, S. G. Robinson, w.
J. Dean, Stephen Palmer, j. A. Peterson,
| N. Q: Werner, w. H. Eustis and w. D.
Washburn, Jr.
/ Cha1rmen of subcommittee will be:
George H. Partridge, Wholesale commit
tee: W. J. Dean. AGRICULTURAL committee;
L. S. Donaldson, retail; E. J. Phelps. bank
| ing; w. II. Dunwoody, grain; S. c. Robin
son, manufacturing; S. r. Palmer, bank
/ ing; c. A. Smith, lumber.
The state committee, with headquarters
at the capitol. st. Paul, will soon be ac-
tive. j. F. Jacobson of Lac qu Parle
appointed on this committee. is now ill
He has secured as substitute Andrew
Johnson of Madison. p. M: Zakariason
| will take the place of John T. Frater Of
Brainerd, who is unable to serve.
. The state committee will probably adopt
for general circulation the appeal to the
i public soon to be issued by the press
branch of the Hennepin county committee.
The central committee that is, the ex-
ecutive members Of the state committee,
have issued the following instructions to
county chairmen: srE,sss -a
sufferers in Sweden and Norway and Finland ma!
pEing g19d results, Ws recemmend, as near al
the following plan: Notify TWO active and pub
licspirited citizens in each township that yo'
have appointed them BY authority from the
a house. toulouse canvass and solicit aid, cithe
In wheat or each
money. All money should be sent to YOU With :,
the local papers One man ougit e BE- appointee
in each village. and in cities one.il each ward
In case you do not care to handle the money
designate a local bank to receive and remit tn,
contributions to Treasurer N. .. Werner, Swed
ish. Anerican National bank. Minneapolis, VIII,
And you may also publish his receipt to you, 81
that your people may know that the money ha
package of letters that can be filed in by 20,
and sent to the parties that you appoint as col
in the famine stricken countries will also be sen
to YOU and to the local papers
to L. o. Thorpe Capitol t ST. Paul. Minn sen
rpstng that Will at nG actively
may be at least partly relieved. remain
yours truly, N. Q. WERNER,
T L. 9. THORPE. -
e Central Committee.
t The Svenska Amerikanska Posten whcl
e has already sent to the famine sufferer
c drafts for $5,012. has received more thai
81 1000 in contributions since last Tues
La r Id iatO If II
# Poster, has arranged with Manager Theo
:. dore Hays of the Bijou theater that SO pc
D cent Of one weeks receipts at the Bijor
2 except FOR the Sunday performances, sha
; be added to the Poster fund. Theate
tickets will be sold by the local freme
j. and policemen.
: Twenty dollars was collected Tuesda
is evening for the famine fund by the Chris
= tan Endeavor society of Trinity Luthera
J. church.
of Suffering In Finland.
20 The famine in Finland is much NOR
u formidable than in Sweden. OF the i'm
g poverished Swedes. 100000 must be re
IL lieved. This is the recent estimate of
re newspaper correspondent who has trs
At versed all parts of the afflicted province
Of and who has conferred with. the Swedis
s. officials supervising the relief work. Bl
Mt in Finland, according to official report
c. transmitted through the Finnish Centr'
IN Relief Committee of America, the famir
Va sufferers number 400 900. Four person
J. in other words, may perish from starvs
~ ton in Finland to one person so endar
- gered in Sweden.
70 The last and great famine decimated tt
90 Films in the winter Of 1858. The sho
% summer of 1867 was alternate food ar
a frost. The winter brought famine, thu
traditional spectre of the arctic wood
~. ~. Hundreds of thousands lived or tried
lis live in Finland upon bread made of birt
a bark pine bark. roots, straw or. hay. Dy
~ EMERY and typhoid fever soon reinforce
II starvation. Smallpox attacked the su
vivors Thirty and forty bodies were oft
toIburied in one grave. In population
Ter less than 1000, 900 the deaths number
On more than 100000.
OF After thirty five years the despairil
Finn now lies down again upon his stow
lot bed and tiTntens daily. notch by note
me the hunger belt that stayed the angul
las of his parents.
iic SIX Million Needed.
Ia Not only is hunger come again to Fl
IN land but it's companions of the dread1
m past. dysentery and typhoid fever. Ply
= clans and nurses are being hurried to
distant parishes. sse%
The pecuniary relief absolutely d
manded by the Firms IS estlmated
nothing less than $4,000, 900. This is
the assumption that 50 a month will
III needed to keep each sufferer alive ui
next August. when another harvest mi
perhaps, be gathered.
The starving population is practica
-; without resources Of it's own. The peo
~ ~, are unable to save anything from tn
81 81, meagre harvest. But for the tar that tt
i 20 make each winter to defray part of tn
~ - living expenses and their heavy taxes
iao northern Firms would long ago. have p
ha ished. Yet every pine tree must be cul
ne ne during four long years to prepare it
'hs tar making. One hundred young tn
So are required to produce a single; Narrel
- tar These barrels must be transport
self ~ uuas 20 1nn - enn niles snveT fna y,
ny ny rapids and fearsome whirlpools, to I
~, ,I city of Uleaborg. where each barrel
- tar is sold at last for IS.
18th
oti- ys CoNsIDERATE.
de- Heitere Welt.
ND Dentist latter pulling three sound teeth
-. mistake Never mind. III get the right