The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-08-15
STATE AND NATIONAL
GOVERNMENTS JOIN IN
LOCAL DROUGHT AID
Governors and Representatives
Hurry Home to Begin Work
in Relieving Distress

Washington, Aug. 15.-(F-The
newly worked out plan for relieving
,uffering and loss brought on by dry
weather was today in process of oper-
alton.
The stupendous task Of building
up a network Of state and county re-
lief organizations to tide drought
striker families over the winter. save
livestock and prevent. the spread Of
disease, today vas under way.
Governors and representatives of
the Is states most seriously affected
BY the prolonged dry weather headed
homeward to carry out the program
agreed upon yesterday at President
Hoover's conference. In each state
where conditions warrant a drought
relief committee will be set up, headed
BY a leading citizen and including u
state agricultural official, banker, Red
Cross representative, tailroad repre-
sentative and farmers.
This committee Is to create in each
affected county q group OF similar
composition. The county units will
receive applications for relief, sup
plying locally all possible, passing the
ethers on to the state grol.rS.
Many Agencies United
Relief needs reaching beyond state
resources will in turn be passed on to
> federal committee set up by the
president, comprising representatives
Of the department OF agriculture, the
farm and farm loan boards, Red
Cross, American Railway association
and Public Health service.
This group will work with the state
committees also in providing credit
for purchasing feed and seed, moving
livestock to paSturage and other large
scale tasks. Guarding burnan suffer-
ing, the Red Cross rll set up its own
committees in each county, with the
chairmen Of each represented OH the
county relief committees. The Red
Cross has already allocated s., 1000, 900
for this work, pending determination
Of the actual need.
AS q further measure, states which
have surplus feed, such as Iowa, Ne
braska, and Kansas, are to set up
groups to cooperate with the relief
committees of states with surplus
livestock bringing the two together.
To Consolidate Relief
Meanwhile. the department of agri-
culture was assigned to study possible
employment aids by advancing this
fall next years state road allotme2tS
in the drought areas.
Today q conference between Presi-
dent Hoover and the heads of the
federal agricultural and finance
agencies vas to consolidate the gov
ernment's program in the relief move.
Yesterday Secretary Hyde placed
before the governors a bundle of
sheets analyzing by counties the re-
ports OF his departments agents from
10 states. They showed q total OF
more than 287 900 families to supply
eed to their livestock.
In the agents reports on conditions
larnage estimates of 60, 70, 80 and 80
Der cent ran all through, with the 100
mark of total destruction occurring
all too frequently.
Many agents reported exhaustion of
the county finances and some told of
conditions approaching panic. In
poorer counties of some states thiev-
ing Of food by tenant farm families
was mentioned.
Kentucky and Arkansas showed
worst conditions, with Missouri, West
Virginia and Mississippi showing COM