Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1917 — HEADS BELGIAN RELIEF [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HEADS BELGIAN RELIEF

Jonkheer Charles Ruys de Beerenbrock, a noted Dutchman, has been appointed as head of the Belgian relief commission, succeeding Herbert Hoover, America’s food chief. The Jonkheer is a Roman Catholic deputy for’a Limburg constituency and a son of the queen's commission for that province. -He is an expert social worker and has given much assistance to Belgian refugees. Hoover built a complete organization for the Belgian relief work hind it is running sd smoothly that the Jonkheer will have little trouble id continuing the great machinery for the distribution of food and clothing for the needy in Belgium.