Feeding the Hungry, P. C. Hiebert, 1929

t be handed out as numbered serially. 3. For the sick and children others may get clothes. 4. In every case things gotten must be taken for the respective age as long as there are any. 5. The “Credit Slips” are issued and signed in ink by the village committee, and handed out on the day of distribution. They bear the Number, Name, Age, and Credit Units due as shown in the Credit Column. No clothes can be gotten without a credit slip. 6. On the back of the credit slip write the items you need most in the order most needed. No one may put down an article valued at more than 5 Units if he has two or more such articles; nor is it permitted to write the same article twice. (Exceptions, things that go in pairs or sets.) At the end of the distribution it may be necessary to make exceptions. 7. The A.M.R. Unit List shall be hung up so that those entitled may see what is on hand and the value of each article. (So as to be able to note down the things needed on the back of their credit slips.) 8. The Credit Slip is then handed to the clerk, who takes the unit value on the back of the slip as it appears on the article. But the clerk shall not give any more units than his credit slip calls for, and clothes must be given and taken by serial number. 9. The recipient then signs the credit slip and gives it to the committee secretary as a receipt. After the secretary has compared the credit slip with the statistical list and has there checked goods given, the recipient leaves the room with his clothes. 10. No goods shall be handed out without receipt. 11. The committee is not allowed to exchange things. With consent of the village committee recipients may CLOTHING DISTRIBUTION IN RUSSIA ZnS afterwards exchange things to fit among themselves; but no donated clothes are to be sold. Remnants. The village committees shall distribute any remain- ing clothes to the most needy in their village within two weeks, taking receipt therefore. Reports. 1. Every A.M.R. committee that distributes clothes shall immediately after such work is completed make a full report on all clothes and remnants distributed. The statistical list shall be sent along as part of this report. 2. All receipts shall be pinned together and kept by the volost committee for the A.M.R. (Here I might add an Office Rule; All information, data, statistics, etc., gath- ered by the A.M.R. by letter or employees, is private property of the A.M.R. hence none of it shall be given out to any one without special order to do so.) Mistakes. If a committee is convinced that any one has reported falsely or that there is a mistake, then the credit slip is to be withheld until the matter can be corrected. Any mistake we may have made will gladly be corrected. These gifts are accompanied by thousands of sincere good wishes from across the water; may they be a boon to many here and a pleasing echo to the Father of us all, is th