The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1921-09-30
FT-GRAIN plea
LAUNCHED FROM
HISTORIC FARM
EMERGENCY BOARD ORGANIZES
AT HOME OF WHITNEY WAT.
kiNs IN JACKSON COUNTY;
ISSUES NEAR EAST APPEAL.
100000 BUSHELS REQUIRED
TO RESCUE DYING CHILDREN

For the first time in the annals
of an American relief organization, q
farm-one of the oldest and finest In
Michigan-served as the meeting
place recently Of Statewide group
assembled to appeal to their fellow
farmers as class to contribute OF
their grain against want in foreign
land.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Whitney Watkins.
of Watkins Farms, In Jackson
County, were luncheon hosts to
the Emergency Grain Board of the
Michigan Committee Of Near East
Relief, and Immediately after lunch
con the board formally organized
itself and named an executive
committee to launch and manage
campaign among the farmers
of the State for 100000 bushels Of
grain, or its equivalent. to be sent as
Michigan's share of Americas gift Of
5000, 900 bushels, now being collected,
TO Armenia, Syria, Assyria and ad-
jacent lands of Asia Minor. Resultant
of starvation and exposure there,
cholera and typhus have broken out,
and thousands of orphaned children
and destitute adults are dying in the
streets and by the roadsides.
Governor Phones Board.
Kept by official business from at
tending the meeting as honorary
chairman of the Near East Commit
tee, Governor Groesbeck telephoned
his regret from Lansing to Watkins
Farms, and sent to James ]. Spillane,
State Director. letter backing the
campaign.
Former Lieutenant Governor Luren
D. Dickinson, chairman Of the State
organization, presided as temporary
chairman, and these officers were
elected for the board: Chairman, Her
man H. Halliday Of Lansing, Com
missioner of Agriculture; vice-chair-
man, Professor David Friday, presi-
dent-elect of Michigan Agricultural
College; secretary, l.. Whitney Wat
kins Of Manchester; executive COM
mittee-Mr. Halliday, Professor Fri
day and Mr.. Watkins. Others mem
bers OF the Emergency Grain Board
are: James Nicol Of South Haven,
president of the Michigan Farm Blu
reau; Grant Slocum of Detroit, presi-
dent OF The Cleaners; A. B. Cook Of
Owosso, master Of the State Grange;
l. r. Waterbury of Detroit, manager
of the Michigan Farmer; Forrest
Lord of Mt. Clemens, editor Of the
Michigan Business Farmer; Frank B.
Drees Of Lansing. secretary Of the
Michigan Bean Jobbers Association:
former State Senator Charles B.
Scully of Almont, A. Edward Hen
den OF Adrian, farmer, and Alfred AL
] len, president of the Michigan Assoc
citation of Farmers Clubs.
Under Historic Roof.
] In welcoming his guests Mr.. Wat
! kins spoke feelingly OF the pride he
as farmer took In having the first
meeting of such an organization as
the Emergency Grain Board on the
farm which his grandfather. coming
here from New Hampshire In 1882,
had selected, and under the roof
which for "a continuous years had
sheltered his parents--the home to
which the fourth generation, three
! sons. will return as farmers when
they have finished their college terms.
II have the utmost faith" Mr.. Wat
' kins concluded, Gin the response the
! farmers of Michigan will make to this
| humane appeal for food for a starving
Christian people across the seas who
are tillers of the soil too, for know
the homely. kindly, sympathetic spirit
| to help which Is to be found every
where in the farmhouses of this
State"
Mr.. Dickinson spoke briefly Of his
complete confidence that the farmers
as q class will ensure the success of
the campaign for grain.
Divine blessing on the appeal was
invoked by the Rev. e. H. Huelster
of Cleveland, a Near East field work
or recently returned from Asia Minor.
Halliday: "up to U.s."
Chairman Halliday expressed vigor.
ously the sentiment: "This undertak.
ing OF mercy, here dedicated in this
historic farmhouse where sympathy
for suffering has abode through the
generations, we must push forward
and show that Michigan farms are
prepared to dc their full share In the
national undertaking"
| Director Spillane outlined briefly
the immediate need for 5000, 900
bushels of grain from America
100000 bushels from Michigan.
i Former Senator Scully likened
America in this undertaking to the
white ship OF mercy"-the hospital
ship which follows the fighting fleet
He reminded the farmers OF the Stats
that the charge often II heard against
i them In the cities that they in theil
organizations never have put any
thing big across becauao they never
hang togsthsr." and ks said this VA
an unsqualled opportunity for them
to disprovs that charge by "joinina
hands across ths .fasms" and cooper
ating with ths yssm Bureau, Tie Btat<
Grange, The 0lsanerus the fArm clull