The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-04-09
Taken by the Helms News Service

Out of a drought that afflicted
about one-fourth of the countries
of the entire United States, James
L. Fieser, Red Cross vice chair
man, sees new community citi-
zenship rising. "By thousands,
people have been forced by cir
cumstances to be civic leaders," he
said. "Out of this team work will
come a study in understanding
that will carry on for years to
come
In charge of domestic opera
ton Mr.. Fieser has just completed
$500 mile journey inspection of
Texas, Oklahoma, the Mississippi
Delta country, Louisiana, Tennes-
see and Kentucky. Everywhere,
he said, he met with a morale re-
markable and in vivid contrast to
the spirit abroad in the land on
his previous visit early in Febru-
airy. Recent rains have given pro.
mise of crops to come, Red Cross
seeds already have grown turnips,
onions and radishes for Mississi-
ppi and Texas, and half the fami-
lies whose entire subsistence was
coming from the Red Cross on
March l, have reestablished credit
through farm loans, the informed
late credit corporation or normal
channels.
The people in the drought area
of the country have been we'll
cared for by the American Red
Cross, Representative Frank Cla-
que of Minnesota declared, on his
return from visit to hardest hit
sections of Arkansas. Mr.. Claque
said that he found no one in want
of food, that conditions were i'm
proving and that the school chill
dren were in better condition,
many of them, than they had ever
been before. The Department of
Agriculture, he said, is granting
loans to the people in this area
within for or five days after the
applications have been approved
by local boards of application.
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Every time a Democratic or Re-
publican leader boards train
with plans to make one or more
speeches in any part of the coun-
try outside of Washington, the
shout goes up that the national
campaign is under way. AS a
matter of fact, the campaign to
elect a Democratic President in
1882 started as soon as the Demo-
Gratis could get their wind after
what happened in 1928, and the
campaign to re-elect President
Hoover has been under way since
before that. The latest speaking
tour to be announced is that of
Jouett Shouse, chairman of the
Democratic National Committees
Executive Committee. Mr.. Shouse
is to invade old Republican strong
holds in the West-Iowa, where
he is to speak at Des Moines, and
California where he speaks in Los
Angeles, and then in Washing
ton, where he will be heard in Sc
attic.
The Republicans are not leaving
the field entirely to Democratic
spell binders. President Hoover
himself, is to make eight or nine
speeches within comparatively
short time. While they will not
be political speeches as such, new
ertheless, they will give to the
country the views of the Chief
Executive on important subjects
and will be widely published.
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The armed services of the Uni
ted States and private agencies
rushed every aid for the survivors
of the Nicaraguan earthquake by
sea and air. The Red Cross NOV
ed into action here through ap-
pointment of coordinating COM
mittee, while -four warships were
enroute with supplies and person
mel to aid in evacuation or rehabil-
itation.