Farm Bureau Spokesman ©fundy Center, Iowa
FEB 1 4 1943
"Christian Christmas European Relief Drive Collects Quarter Million Dollars
'Fund Turned Over To Five -Kellef ^Agencies
I The (owfl farm Bureau this week brought Ms "Chrfetian Christmas" European Relief drpc to a climax when it turned over the equivalent of ap-| proximately 40 carloads of food to five foreign relief agencies.
Cash collected by and through county Farm Bureau units, with the cooperation of all churches, amounts to approximately a quarter million dollars. Of this amount. $237,500 was handed 'over lo the relief agencies this week by D. B. Groves, Iowa Farm Bureau I treasurer.
Chairman of the Farm Bureau's relief committee. Martin Lauterbach of Al-den, reported a total collection of approximately $250,000 in cash and about 15 tons of clothing. Not all of the cash has been turned in to the state Farm Bureau office as yet. and the clothing [has already been turned over to the Church of the Brethren and the Church World Service.
Checks Distributed
Receiving checks from the Farm Bu-Ireau this week were: American Friends Service committee, $40,000; CARE. $19.-500; Church World Service. $78,000; Lutheran World Relief, $70,000; and the Catholic War Relief Service, $30,000. | The total amount of money collected was distributed to the various church I agencies in accordance with designations which were made for the relief I drive by ihe donors. I All of the churches which cooperated i with the Farm Bureau in the drive have indicated that they will spend the money for food commodities, to be added to the Abraham Lincoln train which is scheduled to cross Iowa Feb. 12 and 13.
Thus, all of the money collected through the Farm Bureau will be used to buy food for the Lincoln train. However, county Farm Bureau units will not stage additional drives for further donations for the train.
.More Money to Come The remainder of the money. Which is expected to come in within the next 10 days, will be turned over to the agencies designated in the same proportion ;is was used this week.
In addition to the cash that has been donated, two county Farm Bureaus will donate carloads of food, Sac county has collected the equivalent of a carload of dried milk, which will be sent out from the Lytton creamery this spring. Crawford county has collected the equivalent of a carload of pancake flour, manufactured in the county seat. Dcni-son, which will probably be added to the Lincoln Friendship train.
The church agencies have indicated that they will use the money that has been donated to buy wheat, dried milk 'and prepared cereal.
To collect the food that has already been purchased and also to gather additional quantities of relief goods, three trains will be used for the Abraham Lincoln project.
Three Trains Across Slate The Burlington, which crosses southern Iowa, will make stops at Crcston, Ottumwa and Burlington. The Rock Island will stop at Atlantic, Des Moines. Iowa City and Davenport- The Milwaukee, crossing northern Iowa, will stop 'at Spencer, Algona and Mason City.
Also contributing to Lincoln's birth-Lday train will be hundreds of school jdhjldren in the state. Ralph Delk. state director for Church World Service, .who (^heading up the train for Iowa, reports several hundred dollars collected already and more coming in daily. The school drive is being con-'ducted through the classrooms with the cooperation of county and town superintendents of schools and the teachers. Each child is asked to give 15 cents, the equivalent of a can of milk for a "little neighbor" in a foreign land.
