From The Indianapolis News, Monday, April 12, 1915: Charles W. Fairbanks has accepted the presidency of the Belgian Relief Fund of Indiana which has just been organized. The group has the approval and was organized under the patronage of Emmanuel Havenith, Belgian minister to the United States. The purpose of the organization will be to collect money to buy flour and foodstuffs for the aid of the suffering people of Belgium. All the flour and other articles will be bought from Indiana firms and it is the intention of the officials to make the organization strictly Hoosier. The money collected will be forwarded to Minister Havenith at Washington and the goods will be shipped to Belgium through New York under the colors of the Belgian relief fund flag insuring safe transportation to their destination.