The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-11


America is compelled TO feed rs long
as Armenia is compelled to bleed
..
This is the cry of hope and despair
that will be taken up in all parts of
Kansas within the next few days 1t Is
a cry of despair from Armenia and
other suffering peopl$ of the Near
East and the cry of 'hohe as n re-
sponse from the well-fed and generous
people of this state-as we'll as thru
out the United States.
Kansas must send 100 carloads of
corn and wheat. Kansas also must
orphans at a cost of $50 a year for
each orphan. 81
The organization in this state is be-
ing directed by William A Biby,
famed for his wonderful results in the
many war drives in Topeka and his
more recent public campaigns in CALI
fornia E
Director Biby has collected around
him the leading influential farm or
carnations of the state. Every county
viii be cemented into concentrated ac-s
ton. Thousands of the veteran war
workers of the last few years will flock
under the Near East banner. The re-
lief will be in the nature OF a war
chest" collection for the thousands
of starving peoples-Christian men,
II.
Agricultural Committee. =
The agricultural committee of the
state organization is meeting in To-
peka today perfecting plans for the
movement. The Kansas Near East
committee is headed by:
DR.. Stephen S. Estey, Topeka. chair
man.
Phil Eastman. Topeka, secretary. <
William A. Biby, director. 8
S. E. Cobb. Topeka, treasurer x
e. F. Strain, Topeka, transporta-
ton director.
The agricultural committee follows:s
j. c. Mohler. secretary of the state
board of agriculture, chairman.
Farmers Union of Kansas, Dan
Thurston. Saiina, secretary. *
Kansas State Farm Bureau, Ralph
Snyder. Oskaloosa. president and c. r.
Weeks. Manhattan, secretary
Kansas State Grange, B. Needham :
Lane, master. re
Kansas Equity Association, A. CAT
terman. Kinsley, president.
Kansas Farmers Cooperative Grain
Dealers Association. r. Z. Lawrence,
Hutchinson, secretary.
Kansas Grain Dealers Association, ,
E. j. Smiley, Topeka, secretary -
Derby Grain company. Fred Derby.
Topeka. president.
Capper Farm Press, Floyd Nichols.
Topeka, editor.
The organizations mentioned above,
including the geners- Kansas Near
East Relief, has requested that the
members ftheir respective organiza-
tions thruout the sta'e get in touch
Immediately with the local members
of the organizations and make known ,
the amount of grain that will be
donated. Should there be no repre-
sentative the committee has asked that
a group oroaniZe and with the ele-
vators and the newspape.. editors ar
range to gather one or more cars of
grain to be shipped to the mills for
preparation.
The grain will be converted into
meal. flour. hominy. and syrup. After
the grain is collected community
the state office in the Central National
bank building. Topeka, is to be noti-
fled. The grain then w. be picked
up and sent to the Aunt Jemima mills
of St Joseph. Mo. where loading. mill :
ing, sacking. and reshipping will be
done.
All Grain to Go Direct. =
Corn and wheat. when milled, will
be packed in 10-pound cloth sacks and
will be labelled "The Gift of Kansas
Farmers to the Near East" Every
car of grain will be inspected In the
regular manner followed in commer-
ciai shipments. Certificates of weights
and inspections will be recorded.
Hominy and other by-products will
be sold at the best market price and
the money reinvested in grain products
the conversion Of the grain into food:
stuffs and trankportation to the final
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