The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-07
AID famine FUND
Appeal Made for Relief Work
in China.
Already $4,000 Has Been
CabIed to- District.

BY DIR. CHARLES NJ. SHELDON. 3
Owing in great part to the publicity
given the appeal for the China Famine
Fund made thru the columns of The
State Journal, money is pouring into
New York to the Christian Herald for
this fund. Already $4,000 has been
cabled the famine district where it is
being used to save life. The following
from one of our correspondents shows
the terrible condition confronting
10000, 900 men, women and children.
President Appoints Committee.
"Hwai An-100 families" he says,
80 more have died of cholera and
hunger. Eight families eating chaff.
remains of cotton-seed after oil
pres~ed out. and leaves. Eat a meal
of thin watery Iporridge with few
DIS o. gram, but mainly leaves and
sort of roll of k'ang and cotton-seed.
a black-brown. soggy, and sour mass
looking like mud pail and acrid of
smell. This is, near cotton growing
region so people are selling their
clothes in the market towns the profit
sustaining them in the meanwhile but
leaving them no clothes for winter.
Many have left Kao vi on the railway
bound north. Don't know how many
Have sold no children but all their
animals. Now is the time for sowing
winter wheat but most have eaten the
seed, and none have animals for SOW
ing"
OF the next town he writes:
Ching Tsing-One-third of the peo-
pie have left. Four or six are known
to have buried youngest children alive
because unable to feed them Crop
has been a failure in preceding years.
Five years we have had nothing to
eat one old man said.
TIA Ying Shang-Cholera has been
so bad that eight coffin shops have
been unable to meet the demand and
corpses are buried in mats and left on
ground outside villages. Three we'll
to-do farmers are the only ones not
eating wild green's
Eat Leaves From Trees.
lyon Chia-At entrance of village
at dusk came to the small roadside
shrine in front of which two elders
of the village eating evening bowl, a
cup of about one-tenth kaoling and
the rest leaves No crop whatever
west at price about five times more
than normal year. 1 asked: Have
people here any food?' Said none
How do they live?' One old man
pointed to house opposite to us on the
| cart road. There Que man had died
THAT afternoon. few houses to the
right the father had gone in search of
work, the mother had died five days
before, and there were let two chill
dren, IL and Is years. Neighbors were
l6lpiHS lil6Hl " prepare the f6dV6S
and roots they gathered. At entrance
to village 1 saw several trees stripped
clean of leaves as in early winter
On account of the gigantic proper
tons of this human tragedy, President
| Wilson is appointing a national COM
mittee to organize the entire charita-
BILE and religious force of the United
| States.
L want to express my thankseto the
people of Kansas who have already
responded to the remarkable appeal
sent out by The State Journal a few
| days ago, and ask if it is not possible
| for every family in Kansas which has
had such a blessing in harvests of
| food to send a Christmas gift of mon
ey to this fund.
Think of what Christmas would be
to you and your children if there was
not a erumb of food or an ounce of
fuel in your home. Forty million peo-
pie face that fact. 1t will be the hap
piest Christmas Kansas people ever
had if they will remember these peo-
pie who have never known what
Christmas means.
| Every dollar given will be cabled
over to be used at once to buy food
and fuel. Please send your Christmas
gift to the China Famine Fund, Chris
tan Herald, Bible House, New York
| City