Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-04-13
COMMITTEE WILL CANVASS
uouEs FRIDAY TO RAISE
FUND FOR SUFFERERS.
ONE DOLLAR WILL SAVE
HUMAN LIFE; WORTH GIVING?
F,ooss That Devastated Lands Of Peas
ant. Leaves People Without Food or
Means-Sixty Dying Daily in Towns
Size of MarshsiItown Send
Money Monday.

At A meeting Of business men OF the
city, and representatives OF the
churches, held Wednesday afternoon
at the Offices Of the Letts-F1etcher
COMPANY, a committee was chosen to
make a canvass Of the city on Friday,
Tor the purpose Of raising funds TO help
the fanine-stricken Chinese. W. T.
Smith was chosen chairman OF the
committee.
The movement originated at meet
ing Of the church brotherhoods OF the
city. when they were entertained last
week bv the Baptist Brotherhood. as
;one OF the affairs Of dedication week.
Dollar viii Save Human Life.
A single dollar will save human
life In China, and what Marshalltown
will be able TO do in the way OF pre-
serving the existence of the starving
lcelestials depends upon how hberaily
the people contribute to the fund next
Friday. Every dollar will feed one per-
SON until June l, when the next harvest
will be ready. and the people VIII nave
something with which to feed them
solve. The committee that will walt
mon the people believes that if dol
Lar viii save a human life it is worth
giving, and each block in the city will
he visited in an effort to gather as
large a fund as possible.
Money viii Be Sent to Red Cross.
The American Red Cross Society has
heen DESIGNATED as the distributing
agency to handle the fund raised here,
and the money will be sent on Monday
to the Red Cross headquarters at New
YORK 1t is expected that all who can
viii rive the committee the money, but
those who find 1t more convenient TO
s,lbscrize to the fund will be asked TO
make their payments by Monday even
, inp so that all the money may be sent
Monday night. The money that Is not
,,aid into the committees hands may
the left at Mcbride & Wills and B. A.
:N6or-an,s stores, where It will be col
Elected.
On Sunday tho churches Of the city
swiu take special collections for the re-
iaief Of the famine sufferers.
Many Dying Daily.
THOUSANDS Of popIe are dying daily
"A China as a result OF the plague and
rthe famine. Some localities are douoiy
afflicted, and are in the plague zone as
well as the famine district. In towns
the size OF Narsnalltown there are on
an average OF sixty deaths daily. Some
: o. rne smaller villages have been com
pletsly depopulated by the famine and
plague
The canine is due to the fact that
the AGRICULTURAL lands were overlooked
by high water. destroying completely
all the crops that were depended upon
for food supplies for the present season.
The new harvest will not be ready un-
til about June I. and 1t Is TO save the
people that would die between now and
the time Of the new harvest that the
movement has been started locally to
provide assistance. The movement to
klIeip the sufferers IS national in its
scope, and similar subscriptions are be-
Ing taken thruout the United States.
EAIl Of the leading religious pubIica-
ttions Of the country are gathering
funds by subscription, and some Of the
papers have provided relief ships that
have sailed from New York laden with
flour and other supplies. The Ameri-
can missionaries IN China are seeing
ito the distribution OF the supplies