Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-12
HERALD'S FUND is NEARING THE
USAND=DoLLAR MARK
He Who Gives Early Gives DoubIy, as
Celebration Committees Must
Know Extent and Scope
of Bounty
NEW CASH SUBSCRIPTIONS

r. y. Moore ......:................. 80
Miss Frances stoclkley .............. 20
VIII Kennedy ........., ,.,,,..,,...... 10
Crescent Bay WOman's club Ocean
Parl) ................. #............ 800
frank Walker Observation-Disclosures. 200
South Coast Civic league Ocean
ParI6) .................. ......... $50
Cash ............ ............. 100
John T. HorsIey, santa Ana..,...... 100
John AlthOuse, U. 5. hotel. ......... 300
Total for yesterday ...........s $685.
Previously reported .......,... S9O9.S0
Grand total TO date ........... S966.i5
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mrs. V. H. Raleigh. books and games.
Friends toys and 9landkerchiefs.
\ friend, canned goods.
What will you do to make a child
happy this Christmas?
Not a little child who has everything
it needs and many of the things it
simply cries for, but a child of the
poor with no other prospect for even
the smallest bit of Christmas cheer
than that which your dollar may
give it.
There are hundreds of such children
in Los Angeles, as there are i'm other
large cities-types of distress one
meets Wth-and many more this year
because of the recent depression which
happily is fading away.
If you will become one of those who
contribute to The Herald's Christmas
fund you will make your own Christ
mas happier in having the assurance
that somewhere a mother is blessing
you for saving her child from passing
the day fogotten, hungry and cheer
less
Not Charity
The work is not charity. 1t is I
simply the expression of gracious hos |
pitality on the part of more well to do |
people of Los Angeles and vicinity to |
their fellow townsmen who are less |
well off i'm worlds goods. They are |
simply sharing their prosperity with |
those upon whom fortune has not |
smiled so warmly.
The Herald win give this big cele-
bration Christmas afternoon at the Y.
NJ. c. A. building and at Simpson au-
dtorium.
While The Herald is raising its fund
for Christmas the Associated Charities
through President Fl. w Frank has
made its annual appeal for contribu-
tiOns.
1t is the appeal that is made in all
large cities for a class of persons who
through various eXigencies find them
selves in need of help in midwinter.
In its circulars the society says:
Another Appeal
DAY after day we hear 1.-THE story
we are going to tell you-you who are
working steadily year in and year out,
straining brain and brawn in an effort
to hold back a similar fate from your
own dear loved ones.
Hundreds of men and women are
driven to us from one cause or an
other-a lack of employment sickness,
Observation-Disclosures over which some
times they have no control. Men, old
and enfeebed in mind and body, come !
like children asking to be cared for;
men, young, asking for work; women,
widows, the only support of a little '
family, looking to us for food, clothing
and rent; and then, the pity of it, these
mere remnants of humanity driven
here by the great white scour9e, plead !
ing with us for help in the fight /
against the fate that has overtaken
them. f
"All this is our work, the work of t
the Associated Charities. Their neces- c
stiles are our necessities; they must
be recognized.
1.-THE helping hand we must extend. {
Peace and Good viii Time
"The part we wish especially to draw
to your attention is this: Christmas is g
here-that time of year when peace I
and good will to man. fill the hearts of
all, the season wheh childish hearts I
swell with expectation. when mothers {
smile and dream of the pleasures in a
store for loved ones; or, on the other i
hand, weep and are sad when thinking
only of the disappointments in store i.
for their little ones 1t is for these c
less fortunate ones that we send forth
the call for assistance. that assistance n
that we may be enabled to brighten u
their homes and make glad their
hearts. viii you join us? S
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto a
one of the least of these, ye have done
It unto me-
1--WE need your help"
Bartenders' union local No. 2S4, in d
sending a check for $40 to the fund, st
wrote as follows: 81
"Bartenders local union No. 2S4 do
lated $40 to the fund The Herald is v
getting together. Hoping our mite will "
lep to expand the Wristbands of +
few little ones, we remain with best il
wishes for your success,
"F. CASTLE.
Financial Secretary"
Following are few of yesterdays CT
etters from the mail bag of the Santa e,
Claus editor of The Herald: te
MotherIess for Three Years %
Santa Clause department: We have three chill ct
ren in care and board. very poor children. CT
heir mother is dead for three years and their
ather Is a poor man. He is hardly able to in
ay part of The expenses for his beloved chill
ren, so when we read the very kind offer you ps
lade in The Herald we ask you very kindly to By
resent these children something they need
The oldest boy needs suit for school, with m
tockings and Shoes and he would like small in
xpress wagon. The next child, a girl Of 8, to
ttends school and needs shoes and stockings pc
nd a school dress. She would like to have
oil and buggy. The youngest, girl of g. is &C
atisted with anything in toys. They all send P'
ind Santa Claus, wishing Gods blessing in
iaking all the children happy on Christmas in
ay MRS J.t guardian, Trinity street. az
Mamma Needs Blankets