Feeding the Hungry, P. C. Hiebert, 1929

eld be under the charge of one Director, who shall be appointed or his appointment approved by the Executive Committee. He is to be the medium of all official relations between the unit and the Mennonite Central Committee, and authorized to act for the Committee on the field. He assigns personnel, is responsi- ble for the adoption of any field policies of work, selects and 56 FEEDING THE HUNGRY recommends to the Committee for appointment any new personnel, who may be procured on the field. 2. That the unit be empowered to purchase any neces- sary equipment for the conduct of the work, but that any purchase of this nature be fully reported to the Committee, at the end of each month, and that a full inventory of equip- merit at hand be taken and reported each six months. 3. That the unit use its best judgment in making grants of money or supplies to any other relief organization in a cooperative way. 4. That orphanage work may be opened on the field if such seems needed and advisable, but definite plans should be submitted to the Committee for its approval as early as possible. 5. That monthly reports be made to the Committee of all work done, including statistics of needy helped, etc. Further it was agreed that official information should be forwarded regularly to each official organ of the several bodies cooperating, and to each member of the committee. And finally it was resolved that D. M. Hofer, Vernon Smucker and the Secretary-Treasurer act as the above authorized publicity committee. It was next agreed by mutual consent of the members present that they give their time and their services free of charge to the Relief-work, but that the actual expenses of the Mennonite Central Com- mittee, and its meetings be paid out of the relief-funds and charged up as such. Thus the Mennonite Central Committee was launched on its line of duty, and has consistently followed this plan of work through the years of its service, in the spirit of harmony and unity. Hereafter we shall only briefly touch upon the regular work of the Committee since this part is taken care of in the other chapters, and only those things which have an important bearing upon the policies will be treated more fully. At our meeting at Scottdale, Pa., Dec. 30th we heard brief reports of the work that had been attempted in Russia, but which had experienced a severe setback through the violent revolution which gave the “Reds” complete THE MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE 57 control of South Russia. Our workers were forced to withdraw and retire to Constantinople, to which place their activities were limited for almost two years. A feeling of grief and concern overcame the committee at the information that Clayton Kratz, who had entered Russia with Orie Miller, and stayed there in the hope that all would soon be settled again so that they could proceed with the work, had been taken captive, and with that had disappeared. S