The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-30
Belgium Relief Met With En-.
thusiasm Over State.
SEVERAL CAR LOADS 4 DAY
Every "a Hours Kansas Sends
Flour to New York.
Pledge Of 100000 Barrels WIN
Be Carried Out to Dot.

1t is hoped by the central committee
Of the Kansas Belgium Relief fund that
by the end Of this week practically all
Of $4,000 barrels of flour for the first
cargo to be consigned at New York for
Belgium will either have reached New
York or have been started on its way
to that city.
1t IL expected that not day will pass
this week on which at least several
car loads Of flour will not leave Kansas
for New York. Organisations in prac-
tfcally every county Of the state are
doing good work and the stage has been
reached in the campaign where results
are seen.
But the good work must continue.
Kansas has pledged 100000 barrels OF
flour to the cause. 1t il expected that
the second $4,000 barrel cargo will b
dispatched from New York by the lat-
ter part OF December to relieve the
starving Belgians. who have been made
the goat in the present war. An has
been previously announced the first
consignment will be taken across the
Atlantic on a kansas ship" and .
Kansas nan who speaks French flu-
emily will accompany the cargo.
The contributions from Kansas will b.
but drop in a bucket as compared
with the requirements Of the 7,O00, 90
Beigians for the winter. But fortu-
nately Kansas is not the only placa
where relief funds are being raised.
At a. meeting Of prominent MasonD
from all over the country in Cincinnati
a movement nationwide in its scope,
was launched to obtain funds for aid
to the war sufferers in Europe. Forty
six Of the forty-nine grand commando
ers of the country expressed their ap-.
proval Of the plan, while the other
m 20 ho IVA nj hcN ~
from
It is estimated thai theDe are l.ssoyooo
Masons In the United States and Il II
hoped to- securer At least ono dollar from
each Of them.
The relief VIII not be confined to
given to all the suffering az tar a.
practicable.
Letter to Hodges.
George H. Hodges governor of Kansas.
has received a letter from E. Havenith,
minister for Belgium at Washington, d. c.
expressing his appreciation OF the Belgian
relief fund in Kansas.
The letter reads:
IT have learned with great pleasure Of
your generous initiative in starting q state
wide movement In Kansas to save the
people Of my country from starvation.
| thank you most sincerely on behalf OF
work for the destitute women. children
and other non-combatants Of Belgium.
Il shall be greatly obliged IL you viii
the progress 81 this n11nai,itarian hum iI % worf IN n
your state SO that l may inform hia
majesty the king
Ready for Shipment
More than thirty carloads Of flour are
now ready for shipment. according to the
statement today of Charles Dillon. secro-
tary OF the Kansas Belgian relief fund.
Wichita Is ready to ship four or five car.
loads as soon as instructions are received.
Shawnee county has sufficient money to
purchase four or five carloads. LAwrence
Is preparing to send four cars. Hutchin-
son three, Lyon county three and the
state at large fifteen or more. These are
expected to be dispatched this week.
Sterling started car Of flour Saturday.
Anthony has a car ready. Cimarron hS0
one car and another coming.
More than $1,000 in cash was received
this morning at the central Office. Thlo
is a record for a half day.
No Duty ON Flour.
Word has been received from Londou
by committees engaged In Belgium relfef
work that Germany has given Its positive
assurance that flour sent from the United
States to Belgium will not be molested by
the Germans.