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Show Farm Leaders Laud Red Cross in Urging Support in Campaign Paying tribute to the Red Cross as a "good neighbor," Clinton P. Anderson, secretary of agriculture, has urged rural America to support the 1947 fund campaign. "It is a neighbor who works for a better local community and, at the same time, for a better world community," Anderson declared? "Rural people are grateful to the Rd Cross. Rural America knows the value of good neighbors and gets real satisfaction from cooperating coopera-ting with them." Two other farm leaders, A. S. Goss, master of National Grange, and Edward A. O'Neal, president of American Farm Bureau federation, federa-tion, also endorsed the current drive. Goss characterized the Red Cross service as "Indispensable," pointing point-ing out that "throughout a large part of the world the suffering and need arising from war are almost as great as during the days of conflict." con-flict." "The great work of the American Red Cross, whose principal objective objec-tive Is the alleviation of human misery, has become legendary," O'Neal asserted In his tribute. "No matter how great the need," he continued, con-tinued, "it has always been able to accomplish its mission of mercy because be-cause of the generosity of the American Amer-ican public." |