Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-12-03
PRACTICE CHARITY AT HOME.

Before Worrying Over the Cry of Bel
gians, Look After NeighbOrs.
Eliza A. Wians Mcbride writing in
the New Castle Herald of P~ennsylva-
mia with reference to the cry of relief
for the Belgians sensibly invites the
people to look after the many needs
nearer home and in many instances
the lack of comforts among their
neighbors in the following style:
"ChRrity Begins at Home"
The above is an axiom that deserves
attention in these %troublous days
abroad. We would encourage all
charities for the stricken victims in
foreign lands, under certain condl-
tons.
But we must remember the poor and
stricken in our ~ownu1Mnds as well. We
respect the appeals UWarious organ
izations and individuals raising money
end collecting clothing for he victims
OF organized murder abroad; but we
in plore them at the same time to re-
member the victims of hard times, and
nationalized rum at home.
It is dreadful to think of the poor
foreign mother whose mother is VIC
tim of the unholy wal and whose
children are suffering in consequence.
But it is also dreadful to read of the
American mother whose husband is d
victim of legalized rum, and she sees
her children suffer because she has no
food to give them, and in her crazed
despair, she ends her own life, and her
| children are sent to an institution as
paupers.
- - 4ho roicor0h 1n victims
of war is too horrible to contemplate;
| and even the least reyengeful OF on
lockers hope that those responsible
will suffer and not the innocent.
Help the Belgians, help the French,
| the Germans, the English, the Rus
| SLAMS, help everybody that needs help;
| everybody abroad that deserves help
| but lust make sure that you are not
overlooking somebody next door, less
romantic, but just as needy, and be-
fore you send your last toy, your last
| stocking to the European child whose
father has been murdered by war;
i make sure that there is not next doc
tn Won some poor child whose Christ
mas will be dismal, because your
ewes of pity are able to see three thou
sand miles across the sea-, and are I'M
able to see three hundred feet at
home.
IF ron calls to America from
i7anths of distress for food for its
81 rying: for soothing lotions and
HANDBAGS for it's wounded let America
anneaI to Europe against it's slaughter
end manning; against the destruction
of the homes of it's people, and the
people themselves; against It's making
widows and orphans; against It's max
ing of famine and pestllence; again
lis drowning civilization in RED de-
Iuges from the carnage of battlenelds.
Shall Europe remain p1t1less and
rot he reminded that it is so! SnaIl
E11rone be greeted with open armed
b1ossings. in all it's appeal and moi
he told that humanity's mand Is
that # cease it's awful work? Snail
E,,rone be told in response TO the
nood if creates, to go on with lts
sIonobter. and America will a the
Wounds If makes? Shall America en-
60 info q tacit agreement with Iu-
rone To repair the ruin to its peoples
while it goes on piling horror upon
borror2 And shall America s1mpl9
rest with bestowal of mercyful gLts
to warning nations: or shall they DC
accompanied with a demand TOT an1
formation as to how long hey expec,
- on ON making the wounds thai
America is expected to heal?
In time contributions to Europe toI
relief on account of the a wan De
Gin to take on the aspect of enoour-
cement to continue the war 1nde-
-
To convince n thinking person o.
Tho needs at home, they have nut &c
boar the recital of woes, by some
in5;oa Who the day before Thanksg1V-
leu went to the chip of a family cor
ais+;ne Of parents. and six worse tnan
sn1nIess children, to learn thai rlgn'
- ms city are cases of such extreme