Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-01-29
EUROPEAN RELIEF
Ohio Co-operates With American Re-
lief Commission To Send Food To
Seven Million Starving Belgians-
Fulton County Will Help-Meeting
Tuesday Evening February End at
Z p. m. Council Chamber.

Belgium wants food. She wants
it on a scale, with an urgency, and
with an intensity which the imagina-
ton can hardly conceive. Even when
aided by the vivid, yet strictly bust
ness-like reports furnished by the
commission for relief in Belgium, we
find it difficult to grasp what the sit
uation really is.
1t is the civil population of Belgium
which suffers famine and is threaten
ed by absolute starvation. And their
number amounts to some seven mil
lion souls.
Belgium can grow nothing, make
nothing, buy nothing, sell nothing.
Consequently, she can eat nothing and
must dle-unless somebody comes to
the rescue.
The foregoing words of Anthony
Hope give a partial view of the awful
conditions which appeal to the humanl-
ty to say nothing of the Christianity
of the people of America.
This appeal is not in vain. The
American people are responding Inc
American Relief Commission at New
York is a consolidation of three or
ganizations and through this organiza
clothing contributed in America are
sent direct to the Commission For
Relief in Belgium. The Rockefeller
Foundation is back of this New York
organization to the extent of paying
all transportation charges from the
giver in America to the needy recipi
ents in Europe.
On January 4th in Columbus, The
Ohio Commission for the Relief of
European War Sufferers was organic
ed with the following officers:
Officers-President, E. D. Libbey,
Toledo, Ohio; Treasurer, E. R. Sharp,
Columbus, Ohio; Secretary, o. K.
Shimansky, Columbus, Ohio.
Honorary Advisory Committee
Hon. Myron T. Herrick, Cleveland,
Ohio; Brand Whitlock, American
Minister to Belgium; Hon. Frank B.
Willis, Governor of Ohio.
! Executive Committee-Col. J. G.
Battelle, Chairman, Columbus, Ohio;
E. R. Sharp, Columbus, Ohio; O. K.
Shimansky, Columbus, Ohio; L. J.
Taber, Barnesville, Ohio; Prof. J. L.
Borgehoff, Cleveland, Ohio; F. A. Der
thrick, Mantua, Ohio; Samuel Scovil,
Cleveland, Ohio; A. H. Kelsey, New
ark, Ohio; George E. Hardy, Toledo.
Ohio.
/ Women's Auxiliary-Mrs, w. O.
Thompson, President. Columbus, Ohio.
This Commission is auxiliary to the
New York organization and the same
conditions in regard to Transports
tion of supplies will prevail in Ohio
All donations of supplies will be car
r1a "a in 10 4ho
recipients in Belgium. The work OF
the Ohio Commission will be carried
on by the Ohio State Board of Com
merce which is furnishing printed
nsster, furnishing field workers and
conducting voluminous correspondence
without cost to the commission OF
I taking one penny from what is con
tributed for the relief of the stricken
sufferers in Europe. All money re
ceived by the Ohio Commission will
be expended in the purchase of sucE
supplies as are needed in Belgium ant
such purchases will be made in Ohio
4 The Commission plans to organize al
auxiliary in every county in the state
up to Saturday night, last, twenty
l five counties had been so organized
This week Mr.. o. Shimansky one O
the field secretaries of the Ohio Stat
Board of Commerce, who has been as
signed to thiss work, has been in Wau
seon and Bryan making the prelimin
ary arrangements for the organization
;of the counties of Fulton and Viii
, liams. Presidents of the county or
CARNATIONS who will thereby becom
, vice president of the Ohio Commissio,
have been chosen in both counties
E In Fulton county, C. J. Biery has bee
r chosen president and Mrs. C. H. Jor
4 dan president of the Womans Auxiliar
;. Twenty representative men from tn
' various sections of the county hav
+ been selected to cooperate in seein
that every person in Fulton count
has an opportunity to help in savin