The Topeka state journal., 1921-10-29
union GOES TO AID
Farmers of Kansas Assist the
Starving in Armenia.
Appeal for Wheat and Corn by
President McAuIiffe.
HELP FARMERS ACROSS SEAS
Idea Born Out of a Desire To
Be of Service to All.
Look After Interests of Agricul-
turists of Bible Land.

The Farmers Union is to aid the
starving in Armenia.
Maurice McAuliffe, 10 a l / y
known agricultural leader. chairman
of the national board of the Farmers
union and president of the Kansas
union. one of the largest and Oldest
agricultural organizations in America,
issues an appeal for wheat and corn.
That the Farmers union of Kansas
has more of mission than simply
looking after the well being of its own
members is shown in dhe appeal just
made by it's president. for wheat and
corn and flour for the starving farm
ers in Armenia and the Bible land.
official paper this week.
Born out of a desire to be of service
to the agricultural classes and hu-
manity in general. this great organiza-
tion has grown by leaps and bounds,
In seeking to benefit the farmers.
financially and otherwise, it benefits
everybody, for the well being of the
people of the world depends upon the
we'll being of the farmers.
The Farmers union has thus dem
onstrated that it has a heart and a
soul.
1t is managed by men whose hearts
beat in unison with the best interests
of the farmers.
Its president a farmer himself used
to the vicissitudes of the people of the
soil, is in sympathy with all great
movements for the betterment of man
kind and the saving of human beings
| from starvation.
His appeal will not fall on deaf ears.
mill 6Ad -, +f,ak
will add glory to the organization.
| The McAuliffe Appeal.
President McAuIiffe's appeal reads
"To&he members of the Farmers union
! The farmers of a nation are starving. Their
wives and children are starving. Not Kan
sas Farmers to be sure, but farmers Just
the same. farmers in Armenia and the
/ Bible land. Wars and pestilence are wip-
| ing them out. Famine is stalking among
| five times as many people as live in Kan
sas and over an area much larger
Those farmers and their wives and chill
/ dren are entitled to live, just as much az
would be helping us. Only corn and wheat
and flour can save them and it must Ct
forward in large quantities, and at once
I fully realize that the farmers of Kan
sas have been hard hit by low prices OF
struggle to overcome the disaster that be
fell us. But human kindness shines tbs
| brightest in adyersity. We have corn anC
wheat, more than We can eat, and more
than we can get a living price for. Bu
we can ship some of it to our starving
neighbors the farms across the sea. A
ear of wheat or corn will sustain thou
sand starving farmers, their wives chill
dren a month. What locality or local farm
| organization in Kansas would not cheer
! fully join hands to save thousand human
souls?
AN urgent appeal for the relief of these
starving farmers comes from President
Harding, from Senator Arthur Capper
chairman of the agricultural committee OF
the Near East Relief. and from Governor
| Henry J. Allen, state chairman. But
stronger than all these. as strong as they
| itself.
"I trust that our people, with hearts
| full of sympathy, will band together in
each locality and assemble carNof wheat
or corn as their contribution for the re
| lief of those starving farmers.
| (Signed) MAURICE McAULIFFE."