The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-18

Supreme Effort for s,0oo Dafs
rels of Flour in Shawnee.
Mass Meeting q Connerclal
Club Saturday
ne Tells Of THEIR SEFHne
Cablegram to Topeka HeaA-
quarters From London. s
Millions Are Homeless, Thous
sands Are Dying. "a

cablegram was received today at
the Kansas Belgian relief headquarters
in the Commerce building from Her
bert Hoover of the American Belgian
Relief commission in London in which
is set forth graphically the extreme
suffering in Belgium and the need Of
immediate relief. 1t read:
millions of helpless homeless wo-
men. children and old people scarcely
existing on present starvation rations.
America il their only hope Of relief.
Every American would help IL terrible
conditions were known.
Every barrel of flour will save q
human life. Every days delay means
death to starving population. All
provisions will be distributed under
the directions OF the American Conn
mittee Belgian relief. No doubt that
gil relief will reach the Belgians with
opt confiscation.. This is the most
tragic calamity. perhaps. the = world
,, has ever faced.
Thousands Are Dying.
Great catastrophes of the past pale
into insignificsnce compared with It.
Imagine the growing cold. the hum
cry thousands with scarcely enough
food TO sustain life and, the thousands
scsSsy scetSey = a+d ssi psasss &
| KlnsSs;; fhe isGdflSs vvksst stats
| should be In the front rsnk.i Flour a
fthe Grief sneeo Pleuoa.&u au yoo Gan.
to make your People understand mat
while they eat their well prepared
meals thousands Of women and chill
dren whose husbands and fathers have
been killed or are at the front. are
starving. No other nation has been.
hot ffop p<a6 mr. hos om =
center of this awful conflict"
n A Rush At Office.
Three telephones were scarcely suf-
ficient today to care for the county
organization work now going on
throughout the state in corporations
with the Kansas Belgian Relief Fund
in the Commercial club rooms.
Speakers have been assigned to
many of the larger towns and citiea
for Thursday. Friday. Saturday and
Sunday. Meetings are to be held In
those places on those dates and con-
tributions for the starving Belgians
will be solicited. The indications are
that the first and largest contribu-
tfOns, the carload and half carload
lots will be heard from then.
Many committee chairmen IN small
towns telephOned that they will send
checks by the end, Of the week. u
to this time the money received haD
not been thought necessary to publish
the list OF those who have been first
but this list will be published within
a few days. The entire state Is a0.
lively at work and the real strength
OF Kansas generosity will be general
when reports begin to arrive next
week.
Many persons in Topeka. without
being solicited have visited the re-
| lief headquarters and have left their
checks or their money Q be applied
to the fund. All this money has been
| turned over to the Shawnee county
organization SO that proper credit
may be given Topeka and its county.
| All these names will appear in the
state Journal in a few days.
Letter From Robert Stone.
Chairman w. r. Stubbs received .
letter from Robert Stone today In
which Mr.. Stone insists that the Bel.
gfan relief work should not consist
merely Of big squirt at this time. He
urges that the good work be continued
as long as there IL necessity for aid IN
| Belgium.
The following is taken from the LETT
| ter:
"The splendid response Of Kansas and.
| for that matter, Of the whole United
fC0nfi0 u6.d on Pare TWovl