Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-11
ATLANTA|S ASKED
To PLAY SANTA
T0POOR TOTS
Empty Stocking Fund Offers
Opportunity to Make Some
Little Heart Happy.
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rich. but the great majority who are
just comfortable" are urged to give as
literally as they can to the Empty
Stocking fund, and to remember that
''he who gives quickly gives double" Ii
| is true that there have been frequent
appeals for other worthy causes, that
the demands of Christmas time are
heavy, but surely there can be no cause
50 worthy Of need as this no movement
which can give so much happiness at
so little cost, as this appeal to fill the
stockings Of the children of the poor,
to give them one red letter day in their
black calendar of poverty and need.
The list of subscriptions published
TO-DAY shows how the Atlantans who are
constantly called upon for gifts to va
rious causes have contributed literally
to the Empty Stocking fund Many OF
these arc men whose annual outlay in
charity and public movements reaches
tremendous sums. Yet not one Of them
| hesitated when asked to add gift to
the children's fund, not one but ex-
| pressed his or her pleasure in contrib
uting to the little folks.
Children learn to believe in Santa
| Claus as they believe In Christ; to have
faith in the universal charity Of the
! jolly old saint, even as they have faith
in the universal love of the Saviour.
Fill These Empty Stockings.
! The Sunday school teaches Of the
one; the stories mother used to tell and
the chatter Of the children in the street
! bring visions Of the other. How is it
possible Tor tiny Mamie Of the mill ser
| tlement, or little Tom, across the tracks,
| to understand a patron saint of charity
who loves only the children of the rich,
who gives only to those who have
everything already?
1t is to help the children Of the well
to-do to reach these children of the
needy that The Georgian today opens
its annual Empty Stocking Fund. 1t
| will receive all gifts, from u penny to
any larger sum, which those who can
afford may feel inclined to give.
| 1t does not ask any man to offer more
than he can spare; it does not urge any
child to give UP his own happy day to
make a day happy for others.
! But The Georgian knows that there
lis not Il child in Atlanta who could look
out on Christmas morning from his
coy home and his array of gifts into
| the cherries ROOM where another child
| Is sobbing with an empty stocking in
his hand, and not cry out for the privl-
! lege Of dividing his Christmas happi-
ness with his little brother whom Santa
Claus forgot.
Just Give What You Can.
| The Georgian's fund need not grow
! into the thousands of dollars to be sue
cessful It's main intention is not to
furnish food and fuel and clothing for
needed in many homes. The charities
will do the best they can to provide
! these necessities
The Empty Stocking Fund is princi-
pally the little fellows whose Christ
mas would be CHASTITY travesty of the
day without it. 1t will play Santa
Claus to as many boys and girls as it
can find; carry a day of happiness into
as many homes as the pubic's gifts
provide for
1t does not ask large contributions
from few philanthropists. But II
would like to have a little gift from
every child in Atlanta to whom an I'M
failing Santa Claus has come each
Christmas, who is willing to divide his
holiday happiness with some other child
| to whom Santa Claus might be proved
saint only for the rich.