Feeding the Hungry, P. C. Hiebert, 1929

the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1904 and graduated in 1907. He has prac- ticed Law in Philadelphia from 1907 to date. He has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Bluffton Col- lege and of Perkiomen School for a number of years. He was appointed by the Supreme Court of Penn. in 1925 an Examiner of the State Board of Law Examiners of Penn- sylvania, which Board has jurisdiction over the admission of all candidates for the bar in the State. He is a member of the Emergency Relief Commis- 386 FEEDING THE HUNGRY sion of the General Conference of the Mennonite Church of North America and also a member of the Committee on Doctrine and Conduct of said Conference. Mr. Kratz has very efficiently served in the Executive Committee of the Mennonite Central Committee through the entire period of its activity. A PERSONAL TESTIMONY It is hardly possible for one who was so remote from the actual scene of the work to point to any particular thrilling experience in connection with it. It was a continual source of pleasure and gratifica- tion, however, to find our people so generous in their response and to be associated with a group of men who proved themselves so willing and so capable in dealing with a great problem. Not only the knowledge of what it meant to our suffering Brethren, but also the better appreciation of the strength and spirit of Mennonites as a body, which I got from it, and the personal friendships which grew out of it, have made the work of the Mennonite Central Com- mittee more than worth while to me. M.A Kratz. Orie O. Miller, born at Middlebury, Indiana, July 7, 1892. ‘Teacher in public schools and business department of Goshen College. After graduating from Goshen Col- lege in 1915 he was connected with the Miller-Hess Shoe Co. of Akron, Pa. In 1918 he went with one of the first N.E.R. groups to Beirut, Syria. After a year of valuable experience with the N.E.R. he returned to America, short- ly before the organization of the Mennonite Central Com- mittee. He was chosen director of the first Unit, which was sent to Constantinople, on September 1, 1920 to find a way to get into Russia and help our people there. PERSONNEL OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE 387 With Clayton Kratz he actually entered Russia, got in touch with the Mennonites there and made arrangements to do relief work. The overthrow of the Wrangel gov- ernment preventing the carrying out of these arrange- ments, he returned to Constantinople and organized relief activities among the Russian refugees who flooded that city. The direction of this work was then turned over to B. F. Stoltzfus in the spring of 1921. Mr. Miller then returned to his home at Akron, Pa., and again took up his business of manufacturing and selling shoes. He con- tinued to give considerable time to the work of the Men- nonite Central Committee. A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE Orie Miller Every Relief worker has indelibly impres