Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-16
APPEAL FOR FUNDS
TO HELP BELG|ANS
King AIbert's Minister to
United States Heads Re-
lief Committee.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
ON STARVATION VERGE
Statement to American People Calls
Attention to Widespread Desola-
ton as Result of War.

Il Widespread appeal to the people of
the United States to contribute to a
fund for the relief of the suffering Bel
glan women and children and other
non-combatants, who have been made
homeless and destitute by the invasion
OF their country, Is made today by a
| central committee of which Cardinal
Gibbons is honorary president
This committee is headed by En-
| manuel Havenith. the minister from
Belgium, and its membership CON-
prises:
Mr.. and Mrs. Larz Anderson, Mrs
William Corcoran Eustis, Mrs. Charles
| NJ. F'loulke, Nine. Emmanuel Havenith,
Mr.. and Mrs. N. Monroe Hopkins, Mrs
Anna Campbell McFee, Theodore Mar
burg. Mrs. Frank B. Mitchell, Miss
Josephine Patten, Mrs. William Slater
and James Gustavus Whitley, secre-
tary general.
subcommittee are being formed
wherever possible in the United States.
All checks and money orders are to be
drawn to the order of the Belgian min
| lister, and addressed to the Belgian
legation. 2O11 Massachusetts avenue
| northwest.
America has responded very gener-
| ously to the call of my countrymen,"
| SAID MT. ftaVenlCn To-Day, ana 1 1eel
very grateful for the contributions
/ which have already poured in unsolicit-
| ed Before our committee was organ
lied $4,000 had been sent to the lega-
ton" The minister had many letters
telling him children had given up
Christmas presents in order to send the
money to Belgium.
Mr.. Havenith said the funds collected
probably would be used among refu-
gees in Belgium itself. although those
in Holland also needed aid He is en-
deavoring to arrange through the
State Department for the delivery of
supplies for citizens at Brussels.
Form of the Appeal.
In it's appeal the committee says:
THE suffering of Belgian women and
children and other non-combatants,
who have been made homeless and des-
titute by the invasion of their coun-
try. has aroused the generous syspathy
of the American people.
"a large part of Belgium has been
devastated. Prosperous towns have
been destroyed. Peaceful villages have
been laid waste. Thousands of people
have nothing in the world left, no
money, no clothes, no chance of earn
ing a living of any sort while the in
vasion lasts, not roof over their heads
and no food.
donations intended for the Belgian
ReQ cross SnOulQ De specially So ueSiE-
mated. otherwise all contributions will
be used for the women, children and
other non-com batants.
"Antwerp, once the rich metropolis
of Belgium. has now fallen in the
hands of the Germans. A large part of
the city has been destroyed by the
bombardment and the inhabitants have
shared the fate of their fellow country
men who have been Impoverished ana
ruined by the invasion of Belgium.
Mt
| cold weather has already begun in Bel
gium-and the lack of food and cloth
| ing is every day more intensely felt
| All contributions received will be for
warded abroad Immediately to his ex-
cellency the Belgian minister of foreign
affairs, so that the suffering of some at
least may be relieved at once
| Draft Goes to Dinard.
Efforts headed by Mrs. Leigh Carlyle
Palmer, wife of Lieut.. Commander
Palmer, U. S. n. to help the thousands
of starving Belgian women and chill
dren at Dinard, France. have borne
| fruit in the form of a draft sent to
Dinard today through a local bank,
The draft, which is the first, 1T is hoped,
of a series of contributions. is the gift
| of Mrs. Wilbert Smith, wife of Lieut..
Commander Smith, U. s. N. Some other
contributions have been promised, Mrs.
Palmer said today at her home, in the
Dresden, but the sum of these does not
at all approach the amount which Is
needed to keep the helpless refugees at
Dinard from actually starving to death.
Mrs Palmer is appealing primarily to
those residents of Washington and
other American cities who have visit
ed Dinard.
'If those of US who have stayed at
this Brittany sea bathing resort said
Mrs Palmer, will only send little of
the money we waste thoughtlessly for
nobody's good it will now save hun
dreds of women and little ones from
desperate hunger. l was there when
the war broke out, and before l could
get away the wretched creatures were
Coming in. Their distress was heart
rending. Do you know what people
are like, to look at, when they are
hungry"
HERE FROM WAR ZONE