Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-10-20
FT-GNAIN Plea
launched FROM
historic FARM
EMERGENCY BOARD ORGANIZES
AT HOME or WHITNEY WAT.
kINs I'M JACKSON COUNTY;
ISSUES NEAR EAST APPEAL.
100000 BUSHELS REQUIRED
TO RESCUE DYING CRILDREN


OF an American relief organization.
farm-one of the oldest and finest in
'Michigan-served as the nicotine
place recently of a Statewide group
assembled to appeal to their follow
farmers as class to contribute OF
their grain against want in q 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
a campaign among the farmers
OF the State for 200 GOO bushels Of
grain, or its equivalent to be sent as
Michigan's share OF Americas gilt of
100000 bushels, now bsins collected.
TO Armenia, Syria, Assyria and ad.
jacent lands of Asia Minor. Resultant
of starvation and exposure there,
cholera and typhus have broken ont
and thousands OF orphaned children
and destitute adults are dying in the
streets and by the roadsides.
Governor Phones Beard.
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 J. Splane,
State Director, letter backing the
campaign.
Former Lieutenant Governor Iuron
ID. Dickinson, chairman OF the State
organization, presided as temporary
chairman, and these officers wero4
elected for the board: Chairman, Her
man II. Halliday Of Lansing Com
missioner OF Agriculture; vice.chair
man. Professor David Friday, presh
dent-elect. Of Michigan Agricultural
College; secretary, j.. Whitney Wat-
kins OF Manchester; executive com.
mittee-Mr Halliday; Professor Fri
day and Mir Watkins Other mem-
bers Of the Emergency Grain Board
are: James Nicol OF South Haven
president Of the Michigan Farm BIZ
reau; Grant Slocum OF Detroit presi-
dent of The Cleaners; A. D. Cook Of
Owosso, master OF the State Grange,
/. 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 oil the
MICHIGAN Bean Jobbers Association;
former State Senator Charles j.
Scully Of Almont: A. Edward IIen-
den of Adrian, farmer, and Alfred All
len, president OF the Michigan Asso-
citation of Farmers Clubs.
Under Historic Roof.
In welcoming his guests Mr. Wat.
kins spoke feelingly OF the pride he
as a farmer took In having the first
meeting az such an organization as
the Emorgoncv Grain BOARD on the
farm which his grandfather, coming
here from New Hampshire in le5-'
had selected, and unlcr the roof
which for ca continuous years had
sheltered his parcnts-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" NIT Mat-
kins concluded. Sin the response the
farmers Of 2ncliean VIII make 10 th-a
humane appeal for food ios - t-rFins
Christian people across the seas VINO
are tilers OF the soil too. for l know
the homely. kindly sympathetic spirit
70 help which is 60 be found every
where in the iarmhous1s or lnls
state"
AIR Dickinson spoke briefly Of his
complete confidence that the farmers
ms a>class viii ensure the success oil
the campaign for grain.
Divine blessing on the appeal was
invoked by the Rev. i. H. H1elster
of cleveland, a Near East field work
or recently returned from Asia Minor
Halliday: up to Us"
chairman Halliday expressed vigor
ouslv the sentiment: This undertake
,rc of mercy. here dedicated In this
historic farmhouse where sympathy
Gov suffering has abode through the
generations. we must push forward
and show that Michigan farms are
60 10 do their full share in the
national undertaking..
Dtrector spllane outlined briefly
Tho immediate need for 100000
bushels of grain from America
100 nOo bushels from Michigan.
Former Senator Scully lkened
America in this undertaking to the
"ysbite ship OF mercy"-the hospital
sbin-which follows the fighting feet.
Ie reminded the farmers Of thc state
that the charge often IS heard against
them in the cities that they In their
organizations never have put any
hing big across because they never
hang together" and he said this was
an uneauailed opportunity Cor them
TO disprove that charge by joining
- o,roea ti.a farms" and cooper