Feeding the Hungry, P. C. Hiebert, 1929

o the thou- sands; and as the time approached when no more applica- tions could be sent, there were so many requests that they sometimes worked from five o’clock in the morning until two o’clock at night. On March 15, 1923, when the last applications for food-drafts were accepted, he was kept very busy all day. After all was completed and no more could be written, Bro. Evert transmitted the money and the last of the $89,000.00 worth of applications to the First National Bank with these striking words, “I have written the last food draft application. MY WORK IS DONE.” That very night he took sick with the influenza. He grew rapidly weaker, losing consciousness the next day, and in another day or two, that heroic soul who had so long inhabited what was only a wreck of a body, took flight. Bro. Evert was called home to his reward. In the Name of Christ he had spent his last energy to feed and clothe the brethren. We literally have an example of a life worn out in the service of others. May the man, who under an almost impossible handicap rose to the 292 FEEDING THE HUNGRY heights of heroism, rest in peace. He shall not soon be forgotten. Services of Other Agencies. Other centers where food and clothing applications were filled out in large numbers are the following: The home of M. B. Fast, Reedley, Cal., rendered service in this work to the extent of $10,480.00; in the office of C. F. Classen, Newton, Kans., Treasurer of the Emergency Relief Commission of the General Conference, applications totaling $39,940.00 were filled out and forwarded to the American Relief Commis- sion of New York; a fourth center of food draft activity was located at the Mennonite Publishing House at Scott- dale, Pa., where Rev. H. H. Neufeld, editor of the ‘“Rundschau” filled out and forwarded a very large num- ber of food-draft applications. Work of a similar nature on a smaller scale was done at a number of other places, for which I do not have statistics, but according to the estimate of some A.R.A. officials, the total runs well over $200,000.00. ‘TE6T t9q0}9Q *puno13 oy, uo S[BrIoqgo JUOMIMAIAOS YL YyAOA. UOranaqysuodaa Jo suluedo [wroyo oy} st sty, ‘OUTBAN(L “YSMOTPUBXETY TvaN SuTRaado SMO[C UBAMW ILM sxojovay, SNODOVULT NOSAMOM ATT OLINONNGY NVORTISIVY MODERN AND PRIMITIVE MODES OF FARMING An Ameriean Fordson tree'or in repair, and an improvised vehicle with the family cow hitched to it. A TIARVESTING SCEN Cutting A, M. R. barley with American machinery. The returns from the crop were used the next year to feed the starving. A RUSSIAN HARVEST SCENE Note the want of machinery and the abundance of labor. AN UP-TO-DATE TITRESHING MACHINE used in tke good old times before the war. Machine is run by a four-horse gas engine. PRIMITIVE GRAIN THRESHING A complete thresher outfit, such as was quite common in Russia. READY FOR THE FIELD A typieal outfit to haul feed in Rus RECONSTRUCTION WORK