Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1914 — $1,000,000 SPENTMANY MORE TO GO [ARTICLE]

$1,000,000 SPENTMANY MORE TO GO

Rockefeller Foundation Already Has Supplied Belgians With 4,000 Tons es Food. New York, Dec. 6.—The Rockefeller Foundation already has spent about $1,000,000 for the relief of the starving population of Belgium. The foundation further is “ready to spend millions of dollars if necessary in this direction ” This statement was authorized by John D. Rockefeller, as president of the Foundation. t&e 5 relief work in Belgium the statement says further: ‘The Foundation has thus far dispatched one ship load of food, 4,000 tons, to Belgium, which already has been received and distributed; it is now loading a second ship in New York harbor, Which will carry 6,500 tons and has purchased for-delivery at Philadelphia to a third ship 280,000 bushels of wheat These three ship loads represent an expenditure of about $1,000,000. It has also sent a commission to Europe to -advise as to how and where further relief to non-combatants may be most effectively provided, and is ready to spend millions of dollars if -necessary, in this direction.” N The Foundation has also given $45,000 to New York poor.