Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1914-11-20
HELP THE FUND FOR
HOMELESS BELCIANS
MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS AT
LOCAL BANKS.
Your Efforts Can Help to Avert
the Agony of Suffering which
Confronts Helpless BeIgians
during the Coming Winter:

Says President Wilson in his
Thanksgiving proclamation ut
has been vouchsafed to US to remain
at peace, with honor, and in some
part to succor the suffering and supply
the needs of those who are in want. I"
Subscription lists for the "Dollar
Christmas Fund for Homeless Bel
gians" have been placed in the three
local banks, and already the people of
Morris are responding generously to
the call to relieve the suffering of
non-combatants in Belgium, the aged,
the sick, the homeless, the women
and children, the innocent sufferers
from cruel war.
Henry Clews, the noted New York
banker, has taken charge of the col
lection of this fund, and says in his
appeal:-
"The Dollar Christmas Fund in
behalf of which appeal as Treasurer
is cause which should find a warm
response in the hearts of all Americans
doubly blessed in their isolation and
detachment from the vortex of horrors
and bloodshed and agony of the bat.
tlefelds in Europe. 1t is an effort
organized with the approval and sup.
port of some of our most respected
and representative citizens to capit-
alize portion of our Christmas boun-
ty and good will in behalf of the most
afflicted and destitute of Belgium S
stricken population. This Dollar
Christmas Fund appeals to one and
all irrespective of creed or race and
more especially to those who have moi
yet contributed TO any existing fund.
1 1t is in complete sympathy with
every other appeal IN behalf of Bel.
gian refugees and differs from other
appeals only in the sense that the
total sum received will be forwarded
as a special Christmas contribution
from the people of this country tC
the destitute people of Belgium, al
expression of sympathy with sorrow
from one people to another and 1
tangible proof that Christmas gooC
will even in these days of strife ant
bloodshed has not disappeared from
the earth.
"It is estimated that close upol
two million people with breaking
hearts have fed from their countr,
leaving shattered homes and hopes be
hind. The fight of the innocent, th
unfortunate, the women and children
the aged and the helpless, from thei
Fatherland presents one of the mos
agonizing and appalling pictures O
human misery in the annals of histor
ancient or modern. Tens of thou
sands have already found home i
England, other thousands are in Hol
land and still other unnumbered thou
sands are wandering in France. Th
record of misery complied from i'm
perfect statistical information is stil
far from complete but it may be sal
: Win oO0OluS0 GAuLu tAob uCopILS al
governmental assistance and privat
charity in Europe there are still man
thousands of families in actual want
And the number tends rather to in
crease than diminish. 1t is for thes
distressed ones we make special ar
> peal to one and all to send a dollar
more if you can-as a special Christ
a mas gift from America. Such a gil
: will surely be remembered by th
benefciarles long after the war ha
ceased and no mans Thanksgiving {
8 Christmas day will be the less happ
because in some cases the gift ma
entail some measure Of personal sacri
c.