| Show HUGE TASK IN DROUGHT AID MET BY RED GROSS CROSS relief given to distressed helps in meeting serious situation chalman chairman fayne says the year ot of the great drought to 11 these past twelve or more months will be ba known to future generations wrought great damage to millions not alone did the crops which were burned in the fields in twenty thres three states esp in the summer of 1930 deprive several million persons person of food but the drought disaster continued in the summer of 1931 in the northwestern states and also brought other minor catastrophes in its wake such as tor for est eat fires ares and the grasshopper plague mure mors than a year has elapsed since the american Amerl can red cross launched in august 1930 its first moves for or relief relict of at the it drought farmers tar mers and in that time more than persons were given tood food clothing mod lal it aid shelter or other type ol of assistance si at no period during this year were there fewer ewer than parsons boing being aided and at the peri peak ol at the relief work on og march 1 last pore than persons persona were being helped today still till As ai a result of the drought the red cross is giving ex bended relief in parts of north dakota WasU washington logton and montana where re euries ot of bUDd hundreds reds of cf families were wiped out past sum nir r when a boac and more sevire severe spell of dry weather was wai prolonged in that region this ahls drought relief ted the greatest grai taxi task that has vr over been undertaken der taken vj by the red cross as a peace time activity tb tho mississippi valley flood ot of 1927 while mors morn spectacular and calling tor for relief relict ot of a costilow cos type because homes and possessions posses stone were wept swept away affected hardly one fourth the number of people who suffered buffered because of the drought la in addition to the broad program ot at drought relief still being carried on OB john barton payne chairman of the american red bed cross bas given ake following suggestion to chapter chairman in regard to unemployment relief where there Is suffering and want from any aej cause and the fundamental local needs are not being met chapters Chapt tra may participate in the community plans for meeting the need 11 some borne type of general family relief whether tor for the drought the unemployed or the tha war veteran and his family were carried on by more than rod cross chapters last year judge payne said the drought relief work of 1010 tl ill he b added the relief now BOW bet belaf extended following last summers drought la in montana and north Da dakota kotAL the be asit stance which is in being given to ox pion men and their families and the part which hewl hundred chapters aro are locally jn their communities relief measures ur art activities of the red gross cross national and lacal which have met mat and aro are meeting soua al the so sect oua atus needs of the present situation |
