Show RED CROSS A AIDS I 1 D S DRO DROUGHT 1 SUFFERERS EkERS with expenditures in the drought stricken districts reaching the sum cumo ol 01 at noon january 15 ah and d demands demanda tor for help mounting hourly the american red cross is redoubling its ita efforts in 1 the he fl relief fund campaign in which illch chap aiters are mobilized pitiful stories of suffering and want are related by red cross workers particularly in arli arkansas ansas and kentucky in a single red cross chapters drought area in kentucky there are children in desperate need of everything from food to clothing health officers of kentucky re report port another county with normally school children of whom only forty are now in school and only three of whom had had lunches on the day of the health officers visit red cross workers found that some families had derived the bulk of their tood food from digging any edible roots and cooking them or eating them raw one family usually in livable condition was found existing in a cave because the drought had driven them from their farm and possessions many who are applying tor for help axe are of a class who have never askenas asked assistance si from anyone before the workers state and some will not ask now despite their need and must musi be offered help which they cannot supply themselves from lee county arkansas comes the report verified by red 0 cross ross headquarters in st louis that 41 per cent of the population is facing actual starvation if the red cross does not supply them with food one farmer died before red hed cross aid could reach him ho he had been thinking ot of ask 11 laii n tor for food for his family but pride held him back and he be thought he rould watt wait a little longer when the cited ed cross worker called on his fatally insisting consisting ot of a widow an eleven year old d son eon and a married daughter with aft children the baby four months ta was found sleeping under a pile rt t old coats in n a chair drawn up beo 0 re an open tire fire the few sticks of kofl burning on the hearth hobarth furnished the 6 heat ot of frame y for two rooms a balk ck with cracks in the siding wide wid att t to admit it a finzer relief bet worker from this district 1 l J CA C ol 01 A i A reports the red cross has always been a welcome friend to these sections eions the people remember when the levees broke and high water covered many fertile square miles but there was something dramatic arresting in such a catastrophe one faced danger and survived it Is different to sit huddled around a little stove in vc a lonely farmhouse and face starvation without work plantation owner crop sharer tenant have all su suffered offered form the same bame climatic conditions and economic depression and the sustaining systems of the past have all broken down more afore families each day give up in despair from the point of view of those who are trying to help the drought sufferers the lob job has baa none of the adventure of other types of disaster it la Is a drab affair oye oile worker says filled with long hours the day an and night calling upon those who havo have applied for aid and hunting out those who are in dire need but reluctant ti to ask help it Is a stupendous task to administer relief to approximately half the population in an area of square miles will roar es cs to aid ad red cross in drought relief campaign stating that his heart heart had been very deeply touched on his recent visit to his native state Ol oklahoma dahoma b by the plight of his old neighbors will vill rogers has offered hl his q services to the red cross in raising funds tor for the rhe drought sufferers all the money J 1 raise for relief will be spent through gli the red cro cross 8 a rogers said why theres no other organization in the world that can reach these people but the red cross it la Is reported that rogers plans a tour of Ok oklahoma labo arkansas ark ansas and texas giving the proceeds of hig enter tain ments to drought relief he may also visit louesta louisiana and Misais mississippi |