Show I AFFAIRS AT SCONELD I It comes to us from many sources that affairs are iita very bad shape at I Scofiold that many of the people left I desolate there by the loss of their breadwinners sit dazed and helpless with their little children around them and that they are swiftly eating up through the company store the funds raised for them by charity that the < funds arc deposited with the store and people are drawing supplies against that fund that before long that will be gone app then they will an things arc going become a State charge Agatnvihey arc held there In a spot where nothing can be obtained from the soil everything has to be bought from the store The contributions from tuft farming regions have stopped and it can be seen at a glance that as I things are tending will hot be long until the funds are exhausted and the poor people will be as much in need of help as they were the morning after the catastrophe We understand that the company has offered as final settlement to each widow 300 but that Is conditioned upon I c I on all accepting I when the rule is I that there will always be a few kickers j kick-ers against any proposition no matter J what Ttfow it seems to usrthat n new committee com-mittee should bc appointed to work with the present committee with a specific purpose of carrying out two or three things First to Induce those peo ply to accept the S500 Second to provide vide for sending away all such as are dOihg nothing and are unable tq do Inn I-nn thing there Nearly all have relatives rela-tives in countries where food prows and where In a farming country they could get something tg do To all such I the entire pro rata of their part of the fund should be given them with the 300 provided they agree to go Something Some-thing of that kind will have to be done or the State will have on hand bj the lime the autumn comes a whole village tme lage of helpless and destitute women and children to provide for Their keeping is costing twice as much where they are as it would In some productive produc-tive valley and it seems wicked to leave l them where they are every day I drawing hearer and nearer to abject pauperism I The excitement of the catastrophe has passed but the sorrow and destitution I remain and the n o of advice and that I executive ability which can transfer those people to some place where they can begin to help themselves Will not the men who were active In the Sea field relief fund try now to help those people to change their residences I f |