The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-01-17
BUREAU HEAD OFFERS
CORN FROM FARMERS
TO STARVING EUROPE

CHICAGO, Jan. 1.-THE 1,500,00'
farmers in the thirJy-seven states wht
are members of the American Farm
Bureau federation have authorized me
as their president, to offer enough
grown corn to feed the starving mill
ions of Europe, China, Armenia ant
other famine countries" said Presiden'
J. r. Howard of the American Farm
bureau, speaking before the members
of the Illinois Agricultural association
recently at the Hotel LaSalle. His
remarks threw the meeting into a sur
prised turmoil of cheering.
This is offered out of the great
hearts of the American food growers
he continued, ION condition that the re
mainder of the nations population, the
jewellers in the cities, towns and vii
lagos provide the transportation of the
foodstuff to the famine scourged PEG
Piles of the other countries"
There is enough corn in the United
States today for which there is no mar
ket," Mr.. Howard continued, ito save
the lives of thousands and thousands
of these people in the old world. Amer.
lea can win their everlasting gratitude
by this movement.
THE farmers will bring their offer.
IhSo ~ thCAI polhlS vi SulpucuI. II
will come in voluntary gifts of from
five bushels to 5000 bushels. Numer-
Gus big farmers in the great corn belt
have assured me that their offerings
would be as high as 5000 bushels
America has had harvested her great.
est corn crop in history; it is of the
finest quality. l have had hundreds of
letters from farmers proposing this
very idea. They have come from wide
ly diversified points, so that the sug.
gestion has come really from the asso-
citation and not from it's officials.
Must Not Sell Corn.
There is just one condition in addi-
tion to the transportation proposition
that the farmers must insist upon
That is that we will not permit the
corn to be collected and sold and the
money applied to relief purposes
IF the farmers of this nation in
their present impoverished condition
can afford to give their limit in food,
then the nonproducers of the nation
can afford to give to their limit in
money to provide transportation to the
famine areas"
No sooner had President Howard
placed the suggestion before the as
sembly than Robert N. Clarke of
ollolSuuTSI, d chairman or the grain
marketing committee mounted the
platform and said God has been good
to ue, We have plenty and more. Let
us market our surplus in the Relief
and take our pay in love-" Faster
than the secretary could take the list.
Whiteside county lead, followed by 81
| others pledging from one to five car
loads each giving a total of 43 car
loads-70,0 900 bushels. President How
ard Leonard then read kilograms from
Indiana, Missouri and Ohio pledging
those states to cooperate fully. 1t is
now up to Hoover and the Chinese
people.
The counties contributing carloads
of corn was as follows: Adams, five
cars, Henderson. Whiteside, Macon
Sangamon, Woodford, Carroll. Shelby
LaSalle, Vermilion, McDonough, Chris
| tan, Iroquois. three cars; Mercer
kankakee, Knox, Rock Island. DeKalb,
Livingston, two cars; Marshall, Edgar
| Champaign, Greene, Hancock, Mason
Peoria Lee, Will, Ford, Lake. Taze
well. Cook. Henry. Mclean. Moultrie
Putnam, Morgan, Fulton. one car.