Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1921-09-01
RELIEF MUST soon COME

The challenge has come to Kansas
VIII she~s supply her quota of food for
the starving women and children in
the Near East or will she fail to do
her share among the states of the
union That is the question in NUT
she'll It IS up to the people to say
And the story must be told within
the next sixty days
Kansas has never failed yet to an
swer the cry of starving humanity.
She has always contributed generous
" to all famine funds. But she is now
facing her real test. That she will do
less than her sister states in the
gigantic movement to save human
souls is unthinkable-
The appeal for food from the Rus
sian Causcasus, Armenia and the
Bible Lands should have special sig
nifcance in Kansas. 1t is the farm
ing classes who are starving in the
Near East. Kansas is largely a state
of farmers And Kansas farmers
should not let single neighbor farm
err starve- After all the Near East
farmers are neighbors of Kansas
farmers They are no further away
than were the pioneers of Western
Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado forty
years ago A train load of food can
be sent from Topeka to Armenia to-
day quicker than it could be sent to
Denver a half century ago.
Plans have been perfected whereby
all the corn and wheat donated by
American farmers will be converted
into foodstuffs, assembled and shipped
to the Near East without the deduc-
ton of one cent from the value of the
original contribution of grain, and
thus save the starving women and
children of that stricken country. A
few months ago the American farm
ers pledged 5000, 900 bushels of corn
and wheat to this cause, but for lack
of adequate organization only one
fifth of this amount could be handled.
| Now the organization has been per-
| fected to the ninutest detail and all
grain contributed can be moved to the
starvation center in record time.
This is no new drive. 1t is a con-
| tinuation of the drive of last spring.
The national, state and local commit
| tees who are giving their time to this
| great humanitarian undertaking hope
to have the remainder of the five mil
lion bushels of grain contributed ano
on the way by November The grair
collection is to be taken in Septem
Der and October. Local committee:
i
to help in the work. The local miller.
and elevator men will all act as re
ceiving agents in handling the grain
The grain collection is in charge O
the Agricultural Advisory Comnitte
of the Near East Relief. United State
Senator, Arthur Capper, is Chairman
of this committee
The Agricultural Division for Kan
sas, under whose personal supervisio
| the grain collection is to be taken
composed of: Hon. Henry J. AIer
governor of Kansas; J. c. Moh1e1
secretary, State Board of Agriculture
Dan Thurston, secretary of Farmer
Union of Kansas, and others.
The members of both the nationz
and state committees, who are mar
aging the grain collection, represer
large and active agricultural, con
mercial and governm mental element
Under their leadership there shoul
be an unusually liberal and gener:
responce to their call for cooperate
from the farmers of the state, indi'
idually and through their local far
organizations.
Headquarters are maintained by I'll
Near East Relief State Agricu1tur
Committee at Room 316, Central N:
ftiona1 Bank Building, Topeka, Kans.
to which address all interested cit
zens are urged to call or write
once
Reduced rates and special TRAN
viii be run from many parts of tt
State to the Kansas State Fair
Hutchinson, September II to %
elusive. This is the 21st annual Sta
Fair and there will be wonderf
. program of educational and entertai