The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-28
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ing popuIace, as It Is impossible to get
work. At Bergen-Op-Zoom there are
5000 refugees living In tents. Most Of
the tents shelter two families. With
the ground like a Quagmire, and the
cold almost unbearable, the refugees
sit huddled around a small fire by day
and sleep on straw at night.
"One tent contained two men. their
wives and couple Of children" said
the report. "One, Of the women was
expected to become mother in two
or three days"
Approximately 5000 has been raised
Few districts that have not been heard
from, and when the residence districts
were canvassed Wednesday, ne cam
paign wac made in the business district.
Business men wishing to contribute
may send their checks to J. Will Kelley,
secretary of the Commercial club.
Stubbs' Prediction.
w. r. Stubbs. chairman of the
Kansas Belgium Relief fund expressed
the belief this afternoon that fifty
Thousand barrels Of flour for hungry
Belgium will go from well fed Kansas
as a gift by December 10.
His prediction IL based on the fact
that thirty cars have gone forward
within the week or are ready to go.
and further, that almost all of the one
hundred and five counties are thor
oughly organized and actively at work.
Even in the thinly populated sections
he appeal for help has been generous
~ answered.
The counties aving large towns or
cities within their boundaries are
producing enough flour to make up
for the railrOadless districts where lit
tie could be expected in the first part
of the campaign. ns,l.
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cars of flour to the Belgians. Craw-
ford county is down for five cars: OF
tawa county for three: Usage county,
four; Reno. three Douglas, four; Sa-
line. two; Osborne, two: Republic,
two; johnson. two; and SO on down
the list.
This means that the counties men
toned have actually shipped the flour
or have the money with which to buy
1T. and the story is only one-quarter
told. Some of the counties have just
begun work. Others were against the
'whirlwind'' idea because it was real
lied that Kansas cannet stop its gem
erosity at $4,000 barrels. The winter
Ia coming on and Belgium will need
food. Fifty thousand barrels of flour,
to a barrel, would not last very long
when several million hungry people
begin to use it-and men grow hungry
awfully fast in midwinter.
The Best Publicity.
All sorts of schemes are being used
to get money but leading them all ia
the old reliable home paper. Through
out the state the touching appeal for
food has been printed and reprinted
by the county editors, always the
strongest force in a community. In
one county where only one man offer
ed a contribution the weekly paper
ran q front page editorial in which
the editor trimmed the Community
thoroughly and finished by saying it
was cloves labor lost" to print the
state committees appeal in such a
place, not to mention the waste of ink
and paper. Within three days that
town and county was as busy as any
of its size in Kansas. But not many
editors in small places have the nerve
to say precisely what they think. This
editor knew his people were prosper
GUS and needed only to be awakened.
Churches and Clubs Help.
The churches everywhere are help
ing valiantly. The women's clubs, the
picture shows labor organizations and
the lodges are giving freely. In To-
peka numerous unemployed men and
women have offered their services free
to the state committee as clerks or
stenographers SO that the expense of
the operation might be reduced. One
or two football games are being ar
/
picture shows are to be organized to
give one days receipts. Women are
sewing and cooking. Men are talking
The men, it seems, usually do talk
while the women cook, but this talk
ing is an organized series Of lectures
or appeals by men who are stump
ing the state for the Be1gians.
Stubhs Is Enthusiastic.
J. X. CoddiNg, Prof. II. p. Cady of
Lawrence. Robert Stone Of Topeka.
C. w. Trickett ana J. e. KeplinKer OF
Kansas City, Kan, these. ana a half
dozen others are on little tours laid
out by Chairman Stubs, and they are
talking to crowded houses and getting
the money. kansas will send 50, 900
barrels of hour to Belgium by Deem
Der 1O-and q whole lot afterward.' -
says Ex-Governor Stubbs. Don't
worry about Kansas. We grew the
wheat. Well give the -FOUR
Loading Flour Today.
Cars are being loaded with flour to-
day at Lincoln. Mcpherson. Russell.
Wamego. Beloit, Bellevflle, and other
points. Shipping instructions have
been given In each case. Anthony
sent q car this week.
J.. L. Brady OF Lawrence will be
the main speaker at q big Sunday
. mass meeting at Paola.
TRADE STILL LAGS.