The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-11-26
PAGE TEN


National Womens Democratic League and
leader In the work of providing Fairgrounds
for the poor children.
Have you eaten good breakfast and are you
now on your way down to your office?
Or did you buy paper with your last cent to
scan the HELP WANTED columns for a chance
to find work?
Are you of the fortunate employed or one
of the unfortunate UNEMPLOYED?
The war news spreads the front pages
exciting the sympathetic to further giving!
You and l know that there is battle being
fercely fought here in New York City-a battle
against hunger and Want-the enemy has lined
off certain zones and thousands are falling daily
Thirty-one hundred girls have just been laid
Off by one firm in the Bronx. One of the big
conservative dry goods houses, for the first time
in its long history, has discharged over a hundred
employees Other hundreds of store employees
out of work. Ten thousand longshoremen, averg-
ing wage $1.50 day, have been laid off, and
soon the Dock Department will cut down
penses. 1t will affect 1000 clerks and day la
borers The story Of the Wall Street clerks is now
an old one-hundreds have spent their small
savings while eagerly awaiting the opening of the
Stock Exchange.
The Result.
Ten thousand families a month being
eVicted.
One hundred thousand children are going to
school each morning hungry.
Tens of thousands Of men are reading the help
wanted columns.
Thousands of women are giving their last crust
to loved ones.
On the Other Hand
President Wilson feels for the Belgans
quote Washington dispatch:
president Wilson today spoke sympathetically
to his callers Of movements on foot in various
parts of the country to welcome to the United
States the citizens Of Belgium thrown out Of
employment at home by the The President
explained, however, that the law forbidding the
admission Of INDECENT aliens who might become
a public charge might possibly be relaxed in
gard to the Begians"
100000 War CONSTITUTIONS.
Turn from the war and Geographic news to the
social page.
Fund for the relief of the destitute in
Belgium is now $482, 800.22
Red Cross Fund in N. Y. now amounts
TO 35O,96O.8O
War Children's Christmas Fund yes
terday acknowledged 446.00
Committee of Mercy yesterday
celVed. 1,295.OO
The American part of the Prince Of
Wales Fund now amounts to $3.50. 74,338.08
The Dollar Christmas Fund for home
less Belgians exceeds -. 100000
Thus you easily add over 100000 ac-
counted for by only four committees, and
days receipts of $1,7OO for two more. Proba-
bly, this represents half of the moneys already
collected as New York City's contribution to the
And what does East Side receive?
1t was some comfort to find tucked away in a
the following announcement. | looked
for apology on the editorial page.
"The dues of the members of the Society for
the Prevention of Useless Giving ten cents.
This year the members are donating their. dues
to the of the unemployed. These thous-
ands of dimes will be given to the Vacation Com
mttee and will go directly to the workers out of
work"
Fancy, 10000 dimes 81 ,OOO-to be divided
among our unemployed millions! We do believe
in charity at home!
Think it out for yourself God help you if you
out of work in New York!
Also listen to what Judge Hartman Of the
Eastside Municipal Court has to say: