Herbert Hoover. our President. for disbursement. and instantly he assumed worldnoticing proportions as "the man who fed starving Europe." The late official reports received at the Washington headquarters of the American Red Cross suffice to impress deeper upon the hearts and minds of our people the suffering. endured by thousands of helpless and all but hopeless men. women. and children as famine stalks undefied through piti-. lessly parched areas. To the Congress of the United States these terrorstricken people have turned their gaunt faces in the despairing hope that they may be saved. even at this late hour. from a fate which the Government has averted in foreign lands. We are told in news dispatches that starving refugees are fleeing from wrecked farms in the 21 drought States. The Washington Star a few days ago carried an Associated Press story from Marvell. Ark.. from which I quote: "A drought sufferers family gets out of what.the Red Cross gives him. but we are thankful to get that. because it keeps us from starving." said Jacob Miller. a colored tenant farmer and lifelong resident of the community. "About all it does is to keep us alive. though." Millers case is typical of that of most of the tenant farmers of this and other counties. whites and colored alike.
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