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Show lorS ii Sanpete To Send llelieff To Belgium A Car of Flour from North Sanpete for Stricken Belgiums At a recent meeting of the Mount Pleasant City Council the matter of sending relief to Belgium was discussed. dis-cussed. As a result a resolution was passed heartily favoring the move and the following conrinittee was appointed ap-pointed to devise plans and means of securing assistance: P. M. Nielsen, J. W. Anderson, W. W. McKirahan, II. C. Jacobs, A. E. Mcintosh, Andrew Larsen and H. LeRoy Nielsen. At a special meeting of the above named committee P. M. Nielsen was made permanent chairman and H. LeRoy Nielsen secretary. This committee after carefully considering con-sidering the matter has proposed that NORTH SANPETE (The Granary of Utah) secure a car of flour to be sent to Belgium. After conferring with the Mayors of the larger towns and .the Bishops in the .smaller towns they all favor the proposition and will take the matter under advisement with their councils at once. The committee tentatively agreed on ih3 following apportionment of the car: Mount Pleasant 10 tons Moroni 5 tons Spring City 4 tons Fountain Green 3 tons Wales 1 ton Chester . 1 ton Milburn ton Indianola ton Total 30 tons It is the sincere desire of the committee com-mittee that the people of North Sanpete San-pete respond generously to this appeal. ap-peal. Freight will be paid on the car so all the people of North Sanpete San-pete will have to do is to secure the flour. Immediate assistance is needed for a "million and a half Belgiums who are entirely destitute. Shall we who are living in comparative luxury be found wanting when so many people are starving? Remember the words of St. Paul, "And now Abideth Faith, Hope and Charity, these three but the Greatest is Charity." ' " The General committee has selected select-ed the following four men who will be the official solicitors for Mount Pleasant and vicinity: A. C. Wall, John Gunderson, Chas. Oldham and L. P. Nelson. These men will make a house to house canvas of the town in the near future. Be prepared with a generous gift. If you have wheat at the mill just have so many bushels transferred to the U 3l;,'ium Jtclief committee. According to a telegram received re-ceived by Gov. Willjam Spry, 1,400,000 Belgians are absolutely absolut-ely destitute and in need" of immediate im-mediate assistance. The dispatch dis-patch announces that arrangements arrange-ments have been made whereby where-by non-perishable foodstuffs and clothing may be sent to the sufferers suf-ferers without cost to the sender. send-er. The telegram in full follows: fol-lows: "Gov. William Spry, Salt Lake City, Utah. "The commission for relief in Belgium desires you to aid in making public the fact that now anyone may forward foodstuff food-stuff for relief in Belguim without with-out cost of transportation to the sender. The postollice department depart-ment and the express companies are aiding in this work. May we not depend, tho.efore, upon you to issue at once the following follow-ing statment to the press of your state? " 'The commission for the relief re-lief in Belgium, the officially, designated sole agency through which food and supplies may be brought into Belgium, has just concluded arrangements with the postoffice department and express ex-press companies whereby anyone in 'America may forward foodstuff food-stuff for relief in Belgium by parcel post or express without cost of transportation to the sender. The supplies needed are non-perishable food.it u if.-,, also new blanets and new clothing. On account of the parcel post law, parcel post packages cannot be sent C. O. D. By following the instructions of the depart- i ment however, the sender may, if lie wishes, have his postage refunded re-funded and a similar refund will he made on all packages sent by the following express compan- ies: The Adams Express com-' com-' pany, the American Express company, the Wells Fargo Express Ex-press company, the Great Northern North-ern Express, the Southern Express Ex-press company, and 'the Northern North-ern Express company. The response re-sponse of America to the appeal of Belguim has been gratifying but the task of provisioning 6,-000,000 6,-000,000 people, 1,400.000 of whom are absolutely destitute requires the dispatch of a shipload ship-load of food every other day and the maintaing of a transport line comprising 30 steamers. State relief organizations should be put on a permanent basis for continued effort until summer if not longer. Detailed instructions instruc-tions for sending packages and for obtaining money are in the hands of the state committee representing the commission for relief in Belgium. They have also been posted by permission of Postmaster General Burleson throughout the United States. Similar instructions have been placed in the offices of 35,000 express companies. This infor mation may also be had by addressing ad-dressing the commission for relief re-lief in Belgium, 71 Broadway, New York City.' "In addition to giving this information in-formation to the press, will jUJ please convey, it to the leading chambers of commerce and the various committees working in your state for relief in Belgium? (Signed) "LINDEN W. BATES, "Vice Chairman of Commission for Relief in Belgium, 71 Broadway, Broad-way, New York City." |