Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-12-20
Col. ". P. 1uitIe Gives
$1,000 for Relief Of
Starving Belqlans
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and dramatic appeal to the heart that
it has, j think, led many who never
before formed the habit of giving tc
give to the war sufferers.
'''This act has led them to think OF
the sufferers at home. And thus /
think our list of subscribers is being
increased rather than diminished by
all the appeals for Red Cross work
and relief in Belgium"
Children in Caves.
A recent letter from Belgium con.
tains this:
1--WE saw children half wild and
more than half famished living in
holes and caverns among the ruined
houses, stealing out to search for re
fuse food and boiling back into their
holes like frightened rabbits OF our
approach" .
Does this make catch your breath?
Facts:
About 1900 Chicagoans give $25 or
more to United Charities.
About 10000 C%hicagoans pay pri.
vate auto license.
About 700 Chicagoans have sub
scribed S. a month for relief in Bel.
GUM. 81. r.t.
A Decent cigar. unsmOked will keep
a child from starvation for twenty
four hours. 1t smokes about twenty,
four minutes. 5
A -I.cent cigar unsmoked will feed
a little Belgian child for forty.eight
hours-perhaps keep the kiddie alive.
If "nursed" carefully the cigar may
smoke forty-eight minutes.
An ice cream soda saved by a child
may mean a Belgian child's life saved.
But the soda contains little nutriment.
Pie A Days Ration.
Give up your pie at lunch. You will
have less to digest, and a Belgian
woman a days ration.
Walk tc your worl; and back and
visualize a you 60 what the 10 cents
saved means to others. Your own
health viii be improved, but don't,
think too much about that.
As for. an orchid-worn on the
breast to freeze as you pay visits-l
don't b lieve that can be done this
winter by any kind and imaginative
woman.
And tc you very rich men. You like
the game. You like the power. You
like to increase your capital. 1t may
be your right in ordinary years, but
not this year. 1t would not be ode.
cent" Give away your entire surplus
income. Then think about it. That
will be your privilege and your ample,
reward. rv
The Belgian relief committee of
Chicago does not ask you to take from
home charities.
Says Give All, Surplus.
But it asks you to remember that
this is a year of great catastrophe in
the worlds history and that "it's only
decent to give away all your surplus
income!" Arthur T. Adds, 90
Chairman Belgium Food Relief Com.
mittee!
The American committee in Bel,
GUM is doing its uttermost to- help
the people made homeless and desti.
tute by the war.
w. J. Chalmers, ~ West Adams
street, Chicago, is treasurer S'of the
Belgian food relief committee of Chi.
cago. All funds recei"ed by him are.
into food, which is forward.
ed free of cost and distributed through
the American committee in Belgium. /,
Great Need Of eandages.
More details of the terrible need of
help among the wounded of all the
armies in Europe are contained in a
second letter from Miss Emily Austin,
a graduate of Johns Hopkins Hospital,
now nursing in the American Ambu.
lance Hospital at Neuilly-sur;Seine.
She writes an intimate personal letter
to Mrs. John w. Scott. Extracts from
the letter are given:
l am boxed up in IN empty room TO-.
day with a mailman from Algeria. M,
two rooms are in charge of my auxil.
larry, a little English woman. Th
poor Algerian vas badly wounded in
the knee, and it has effected his mind
temporarily, we hope.
Yesterday they opened up the third
floor wards for c~onvalescents and !
lost sight of my patients. They went
hobbling upstairs on crutches and
sticks, carrying their little treasures
in colored handkerchiefs, looking for,
all the world like pilgrims going to
shrine.
My Singalese marched along in a
stately way, clad in pajamas and bath
robe, with two leather bags slung over
his shoulders and a fez on his head.
Bandages an absorbent cotton are
running very short, We can use any
quantity of gauze for the wounds.