The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-11-30
Committees Of Men and
Women Will Take Up
Task Today
GOOD CONTRIBUTIONS
ALREADY ON HAND
Statement Issued By State Commit
tee Calls Attention to Urgency
of Needs In the Stricken
Country

At wei ATTENDED meeting of the
central soliciting committee of the
mems division of the jefferson conn
ty Belgian relief committee held YES
terday afternoon at the Y. M. G. A..
building subcommittee were appoint-
ed to canvass the city this morning.
The first named on each committee
Is the chairman. The committees will
assemble at a place named by the
chairman and take up the work. Thev
will solicit checks and contributions
OF food and clothing. Checks will be
made payable to William d. Jelks.
treasurer. They will take memoranda
OIL each donation as to whether the
contribution will be delivered at the
receiving warehouse. 1928 Third ave-
nue., north. or whether it Is desired
to have them called for.
This morning at 1880 o'clock the
women's committee will commence a
canvass of the residential sections OF
the city at the blowing of the whistles
at the various Industrial plants and
by the locomotives of the city. The
committee and assignments of the
workers have been published.
The mems committee and assign
Inents are as follows:
First National bank building. John
London, Chester G. Bandman, E. d.
Smith.
Brown Marx building, James Bow
ron. M P. Phillips.
Empire and American Trust build
ings. John p. Tillman, w. d. Jelks.
j. w. Mcqueen, John L. Kaul
City hall, George B. Ward
Woodward and jefferson County
bank buildings. John Ellis. ]. G. It'd
we'll
Chamber of Commerce building, L. X.
Plosser
Courthouse. Title Guarantee and Far
ley buildings. Sydney j. Bowie, felix's
Cabaniss. George Tarrant.
Morris avenue (wholesale trade and
packing houses), NJ. A. Wyatt. B. f.
Tyler, w. M. Cosby Oscar Turner
FRS tavenue. east and west of Tween
tieth street, II. E. Steiner, ice Saks,
1. C. Beatty, Jr.
Second avenue. east and west OF
Twentieth street, ]. e. Shelby, Greg
cry Johnson. A. M. Taylor.
Third avenue, east and west of
Twentieth street, J. II. finder, John
Yeatman. w. S. Parks, George Nc
Cleary.
Twentieth street, north and south,
including Birmingham Trust and Saw
ings bank, Traders National bank and
Commercial bank, Oscar Underwood,
Jr, Robert Thach. Jr., Joseph p.
Mudd.
Nineteenth street north from First
r bon
ger.
Twenty-first street, Walter Phillips
and Leo K. Steiner.
Members of the ladies' committee last
night requested all those who could
ring bell or blow whistle join in the
chorus for three minutes at 1899
o'clock this morning. This method has
been agreed upon for reminding citi-
zens of the hour for beginning the
canvass.
Statement Issued
The following statement was made
by the committee
"Whoever and whatever brought on
the great war, at least Belgium is in
nocent; she merely lay in the path of
the gods of war and they have made
q desolation and ruin Of that fair
country. From peace and plenty and
health and strength, this innocent land
has been made one of desolation and
hunger and sickness and want and
death
1.-THE father lying by the roadside,
wounded and dying, with his possessions
in ashes and his family scattered, may
reasonably ask. What have l done to
merit this? The mother, with husband
dead, with home and possessions gone
and children scattered, may we'll wonder.
What have 1 done and the child, father
killed, and mother, too, perhaps, and no
home, wandering alone out into the storm
swept land, if it is old enough to think
at all, may well inquire, What have I
done. The father the mother and the
child have not done anything. They
merely lived and labored and were happy
lin the path
"God Almighty sometimes allows his
lightnings and his winds to play about
and around the home, destroying life and
property. for reasons of his own. We do
not complain at that, though we do not
understand we would like to know why.
but we are not permitted now to know.
The gods of war. with shot and shell and
torch make of happy homes blackened
ruins; converted happy families into
widely separated and grieving parts, their
hearts bleeding and their bodies perishing
for lack of the simplest food. The call
for sympathy is as appealing as any ever
heard, and more SO perhaps because we
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