Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-10-20

dollar per $4,000 of farm value was
fair proportional figure upon which
to base the various county quotas
throughout the State; and on this basis
the board, operating through the farm
organizations. will so TO the farmers
for Michigan's share in the grain gift.
Mr.. Waterbury and Mr.. Lord gave
assurance that the farm journals OF
the State viii heartily endorse and
support the grain appeal, and both
were of opinion that the full amount
required for the States quota will be
forthcoming
Letter to Farmers.
At meeting of the executive com
mittee held Immediately after adj
journment of the board the following
letter was made public:
ITO the Farmers Of Michigan
From the Emergency Grain Board,
in meeting assembled on Watkins
Farms, Manchester:
with children dying in their moth
ers arms OF starvation; with cholera
and typhus spreading; with the pop
ulation perishing in such numbers
that in the larger cities wagons twice
daily remove the corpses from the
streets: with knowledge that food
must be procured, transported and
carried into the interior before these
dread conditions can be overcome, the
Executive Officers Of Near East Re-
lief recognize the absolute need for
an immediate campaign for grain for
she lands Of the Near East.
These men, who at their own ex-
pense had gone into this region Of
misery and death to verify the reports
of their field workers and to procure
facts upon which to base the next
years relief program, realized that
not half the story had been told. I'm
hesitatingly they issued the order for
a Nationwide grain appeal.
THE wall of the starving people of
Armenia and its neighboring lands
has been heard throughout America.
An organization-in Michigan the
Emergency Grain Board-has been
created TO bring the appeal for these
people, of whom eighty-fve per cent
are farmers, TO the farmers of our
own state.
In Deaths Shadow.
This year, today, you yourselves
suffer the effects OF short crops. But
over there The only harvest those
unhappy people have had in more
than five years has been the daily
harvest Of the dead; picked up in the
streets; by the chill waysdes OF the
wild Georgian Mountain; in the de-
solated farm valleys of Armenia; on
the scorched floor of a desert whose
only shadow Of refuge for them has
been the shadow of the wing Of
Death.
1--WE have been. chosen to present
to you their plight. and being of YOU
we do not hesitate. We know that
you Will sacrifice, that they may live
THE need which America is c....cd
upon to meet is for 100000 bushels
Of corn and wheat. Michigan's allot-
ted share is 100000 bushels.
The records in the Michigan Office
Of Near East Relief disclose many
individual contributions by farmers.
But this is the first time in Michigan
the call has been sent forth to farm
ers as a producing class.
I'VE recognize that you may not be
in a position where you can contribute
s47
fer to make a contribution of money;
or you may desire to contribute bar
ley or rye or beans. The choice of
your gift rests with YOU Our thought
is simply this:
Every farmer in the State should
contribute to the success of this ap.
peal in behalf of these starving PEG
ple-our allies in the World War, the
oldest race of Christians.
One Dollar in $4,000.
"The distribution of Michigan's
county quotas is fair. 1t represents
q contribution equal to one dollar in
every $4,000 of farm value.
This appeal, to be of any benefit
in the present Crlsls, must be met be-
fore November l, 1921, in order that
Inc grain may be milled, transported
across the seas, and delivered into
the interior before the SHOWS of early
winter block the roads in Armenia
and the Near East This is an oppor-
tunity for life-saving service which
may present itself but once.
"BUT CNCE-I shall pass through
this world but once. Any good there
fore that | can do, or any kindness
that | can show to any human being,
let me do it now. Let me not defer
or neglect it shall not pass this
way again.
Faithfully and confidently yours,
(Signed)
EMERGENCY GRAIN BOARD,
NEAR EAST RELIEF,
HERMAN ii. HALLIDAY,