The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-11-24
NEAR EAST RELIEF GRAIN CAM
PAIGH

ization of business men voted to send
a check for S,O00-suficient to
purchase $4,000 bushels of corn-to
Near East Relief for use in succoring
starving women and children in the
Russian Caucasus and Armenia,
where famine has gripped the entire
population. A check for this amount
has been received from the Chambers
burg Club and Immediately will be
used for relief work.
The Federation of Churches of
Franklin county, in which Chambers
burg is situated, is preparing to
launch campaign to raise $4,000
for the same purpose.
All over the country organizations
are getting behind this mercy move
ment in ever increasing numbers and
are joining with American farmers
in bringing relief, especially to Ar
nenia, whihc is nation whose pop
ulatlon largely is engaged in agricul-
tural pursuits.
10000
Scottish Rite Masons of the South
ern jurisdiction of the United States
have contributed $4,000 to Near
East Relief for use in succoring the
starving peoples in Southern Russia,
Armenia and the Holy Lands. This
is the equivalent of 10000 bushels
of corn at the present. market price and
will save the lives of many thousands
of children. One half of the gift,
$4,000, has been paid and the re-
ma inder viii be handed to Near East
Relief next year. Masons in other
Jurisdictions are expected to contri-
butte as literally to this cause.
10000
On millions of acres in the Middle
West thousands of men, these frosty
mornings, are husking a bumper crop
of n. Into cribs and granaries it
is - placed, or heaped in big piles
on the ground. Not much of this corn
c 5e-ng slod because the price is
too low and there is an oversupply in
tn country.
20 nd IS LARGELY limited. Corn
is not known widely abroad and little
is eaten there. Thta is one thing the
m with the market. With no ex-
port outlet and an oversupply on
h he price has dropped to level
which leaves no profit for the pro-
Queer.
Corn is selling for % cents bushel
or less. 1t would seem that Amer
lean farmers now have an opportunity
of cIealng a foreign demand for this
product. The opportunity lies in the
appeal for food from the Near East
an Southern Russia. Thousands
there are in need of food. They will
eat corn and grow fond of it. When
tn. > awe recovered from their pres
Ell --glc situation and are again
self sustaining, these peoples still will
W. corn. They then will have
money to pay for it.
American farmers, who contribute
to me Near East Relief corn pool, 1eeI
IA certain that their generosity of
tOu-y viii be rewarded IN patronage
tomorrow; that the peoples they be-
friend now soon will repay them by
creating a new market for their corn,
q .A4rket that probably will absorb
mucn of the annual surplus, thereby
ste4dy.ng the market and tending to
increase the price.
IN this process of lettering their
market for corn farmers of tn United
States can be the saviors of thousands
of boys and girls, who, without this
aid, are destined to perish from starv-
atom this winter.
10000
Members of the Catholic churches
of New York, touched by the distress
and suffering in the Russian Causasus
and Armenia, having contributed the
equivalent of 10000 bushels of corn
to Near East Relief for the relief of
the starving peoples overseas.
The contribution was sent through
Archbishop Patrick J. Hayes and &C
eompanying it was a letter in which
the Archbishop heartily approved of
the work Of this great organization.
His letter reads:
al enclose check for $4,000 from
the Catholic Charities of the Arch
diocese of New York for the appeal
ing Christian work of your committee.
1 am shocked to learn how terrifying
are the present conditions in the Near
East, especially in Armenia. A stpO
must be put by the Christian world
to this reign of massacre, famine, dis
ease, and horrors of every description
All must help
al commend most earnestly the ap-