The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-21
BELGIAN RELIEF FUND
rom Pase one.l
Flour Is Wanted.

but the great necessity and tine urgeni
appeal from all concerned Is Tor wnea'
flour. Great danger IL threatened. TO
avoid it you must get flour TO the Pe"-
Die and get it at once.
All flour must be packed III gooo
strong. cotton sacks of ~ POUNDS
weight. The American ambassador
and the American minister both say
that what is most needed is wheat
flour Any wholesome flour VIII 90.
it does not need to be the nignes,;
grade Peas, beans and rye flour VIII
he also most acceptable.
Subscribe yourself and get your
friends, Eeighbors and fellow citi-
zens to express their sympathy Tor
she destitute Belgians in flour, not IN
words.
Don't wait for some one to call Tor
your help. Be q leader yoursen. oet
busy Kansas towns may not nase
the actual wheat or flour, SO mucn IN
demand. but they certalnly nave "a ;.
dollars that are the equivalent OF
bushel of wheat and they should De
gathered together and invested In
-four, SO that the starving Beigians
would not have to wait for the Wheat
tn he ground.
Sa-e the Boys and Girls.
Kansas can relieve the starving lit
tie bows and girls, the homeless ana
bereaved mothers, the helpless aseu
Of Belgium this coming winter anu
never feel it. These poor non-coih-
batants are no more to blame TOT me
calamity that has come upon them
than Won would be if tornado should
TODAY sweep the map ard denude your
county of It's rich fields and orcnarus.
A we would that others should 40
INTO MS in face OF calamity, let US
do unto the poor, starving beis,ans'
whose homes are in ruins ana Whose
fields are laid waste as cohseque ny.
~ the awful war now raging IN Eu-
cope.
r. NV anv chance you haven't been
.~eadinp the papers carefully in the
tast two or three weeks II may pe
hat YOU don't know precisely how 10
60 i'm your earnest desire to help the
Belgians. In nearly every town IN tne
state where the trains stop regularly
some good fellow or some big hearted
woman has started relief cofnE1it-
zee or is willing to help you organize
one. Cali up your editor and ask MIN
about it. He knows. If you aren
lucky enough to have an edltor m
your town call UP the postmaster ana
get him to assemble the people IN the
.argest available building.
If you live in a really small town
sail I'D the newspaper or postmaster
or some preacher in the nearest large
place and ask for advice. II you pre-
fer to be your own chairman ana Keep
the credit for good works in your own
town call up Topeka. The teiephone
service is free. w. r. Stubbs is CHAIR
man and Charles Dillon, secretary Oh
the executive committee of the Kan
sas Be relief fund.
Work Has Grown.
Because Of the growth of the work OF
the central committee 1t was neces-
sarv to move the headquarters from
the Commerce building to the seventh
floor of the Mills building. Communl-
cations should be addressed to the Kan
sas Belgium Relief Fund. Mills build
ing. Topeka. ~
This move to larger quarters means
that the committee knows that the re-
lief for the Belgian sufferers is to be
no brief burst of generosity. OF course
everyone wishes to get into the first
wagon, but the Belgians Will be hun
cry many day between now ano
spring and Kansas will have to help to
feed them. BY December almost ev-
cry one of the $500 counties in the
United States will be busy. thousands
of families will cut their customary
Christmas spree to One-haf its usual
proportions and give the other half te
their hungry brethren across the sea
Hundreds. perhaps thousands in Kan
sas will do this And why shouldn't
they do it? How will man feel-pro-
vitied his heart is not in his stomach
when he swallows his turkey an6
cranberry Thanksgiving day or Christ
mas and remembers that just across
the Atlantic seven million people
women and children and men too ole
to fight-are starving. sleeping in
ruined homes or on the highways, ir
the cold-and dying? How will thu
The best food? How will he feel wher
he spends enough money for his Christ
mas cigars to feed starving family
for a month?
"The situation in Belgium" says Jar
Wis E. Bell of New York, who helped
in the first food distribution in Bel
esium, lis simply beyond belief. 1t il
unbelievable that war ever produced
such a complete and tragic paralysi
as We saw in many parts of Belgium
1t cannot be attributed to lack of cour
age on the part of the civilian popu
lation or to the inhumanity of the con
Querer 1t is simply war up-to-date
civilized Christian war.
1.-THE American relief steamer Coblan
carrying more than 1000 tons Of food
stuffs arrived at Rotterdam from Lon
don at o'clock Sunday morning. TIL
Dutch government, with great kind
ness, made an exception to the rigi
rule against working on Sunday. Til
labor unions made equal concession.
WITH Tie result tHdC on MONDAY morn
ing eight barges towed by four expires
tugs, left Rotterdam en- route for Brus
sells with relief supplies.
ON each barge was a large printe
notice. certifying that the cargo ha
been sent by the American commissfo
IN care of the American minister {
Belgium. On the door of the CAPTAIN
cabin in each barge was a copy of Ger
eral Won der Goltz's proclamation II
structing all German officials to civ
safe conduct and assistance to II
american relief cargo. General va
der Goltz is German military goyernt
Of Belgium.
The crews of the barges and tus
We're Dutch. and each man CARRIE
with no little pride, an order for sa,
conduct from the German authorize
permitting him to go to Brussels IN
return unmolested to Holland,
followed this odd fotilla
mercy as it threaded it's way from G,