Show rnST BE AIDED OR 1 THEY WILL STARVE I An Appeal for the DrouthStrick en Nebraskans THOUSANDS ARE INMOST IN-MOST DIRE DISTRESS JUBLIO WORK SUGGESTED AS A POSSIBLE SOLUTION Simply a Recurrence ol Periodical Troubles That Have Effected Tic Tiranlcn Ever Since She Was Made a StnteA Mighty Good Section ot America to Remain Away JVrom Omaha Neb Aug GTl1e appeal for the droughtstricken portions of Nebraska Ne-braska signed by a committee claiming to represent large interests today was Bent to the governor It recites that the committee has just I returned from an extensive visit through the section through which the hot winds destroyed crops 4 The committee explains that it has reason rea-son to believe from what it has been tcld that thousands of families will pither starve immigrate or be fed b charity unless the people as a whole provide for them The committee suggests as a solution pf the problem that a special session of Lie legislature be called immediately to devise de-vise a state system of Irrigation and that those in the drought districts be given employment in the ditches The committee locates most of the distress dis-tress west of Grand Island to Holdrone Governor Crounse is at present oi t of the state The impression is that the crop failures are not complete and with economy little lit-tle actual suffering will result without State aid I The locality in which the drought was most severe has been troubled ieriodl t tally since Nebraska has been a Mate L4 4t It includes several counties in which I the soil is so sandy that it reqilres at least onethird more rain fall cc water than any other farming land inthe adjacent ad-jacent counties 1 |