El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-01-08
AMIGO L|STO" FINDS MANY IN
NEED Of AID Or They STARVE
Families of Many Mexicans Once Well to Do and Promi-
nent in Juarez and the State Of Chihuahua Reduced
to Nothing; They viii Never Ask For Assist
ance; Let's Havea ''Po und Party for Them.

Schwartz is chairman, includes also
Mrs. Alberto MaderO, Mrs. Dr. NJ P.
Schuster. Mrs. MelchiOr CalderOn, and
Mrs. Y. Del Campo. Arrangements have
been made to visit personally every case
reported for relief, and to supply food
and clothing for immediate needs.
Contributions Needed.
HaymOn Krupp has sent two dozen
pairs of blankets, two dozen quilts,
eight dozen pairs of stockings, and zoo
yards. of flannel. The Globe mills sends
800 pounds of COrnmeaL The Western
grocery sends 900 pounds of flour.
Contributions of any sum or any guam
tity of food or clothing will be CRATE
fully received at the headquarters in
the Popular store, or money may be
sent to The Herald to be turned over to
the committee.
Let's Have n s.POund Party"
Let very individual in Ell PasO WhG
is able, give at least one pound of food.
buy it at the stores or take it off the
pantry shelf. Any kind of food will be
welcome. Money spent for food viii be
spent largely for beans, flour, etc, to
make it 20 far, but there should be
potatoes, apples, vegetables sugar,
meats. cheese, rice, condensed milk,
anything that starving people can eat.
And clothing is needed, and bedding.
Get out the old clothing and send it in
bundles to the Popular store, marked
Amigo ListO." It will be well dis
tributed, where it viii not collect dust
or moths. Bedding, and unmade ma
terials Of all sorts. will be welcome.
Baby clothes. children's shoes and hats,
anything that will defy the chill.
Wood and cOal-especially wood
are needed. If you have nothing else,
send magazines and books; they will
be read and then maybe burned for
fuel. but they viii be doing some
Because You Do Not Know.
You haven't helped so far because
you haven't known; that is the only
reason you have not done something.
Read this:
All in one small house, three fam
lilies with 10 children; two of the
mothers are widows, one father is i'll
and out of work; two OF the three
families are of refugees from Mexico,
the other lost the head of the family
some years ago by insanity and death.
In this house there is no furniture
of any sort-nOt even a stove or bed
All sleep on the floor, some without
anything between them and the bare
ground. Many OF the children are
nearly naked. Some rice. beans, flour,
and coffee were left here, but there is
urgent need for clothing and bedding,
for a stove and fuel
Another, the sister of a general Off
Ger of the old Diaz army, whose name
is weu known to Ell PasOans: here
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very sick, all starving.
Urgent Cases.
Another. q family until a few years
ago prominent in Juarez affairs, known
and loved by all old time FL PasOans;
two little boys taken out of school to go
to work i'm a local stOre-the only
means Of support other children and
the family in dire need.
Another family; seven children, no
man or grown boy in family, not an
ounce of food in the house.
Another little hut, with two families
and II children, two or three working
for next to nothing. several very sick.
Another, the family of former very
prominent resident of Chihuahua. Sick
ness and starvation. Not one word of
complaint, no request for assistance,
but death actually staring them in the
face.
None of Them Paupers.
The Herald happens to know that
among the families now in urgent need
Of elemental assistance with food.
clothing, and fuel, are the families of
former welltOdO rauchman, bankers,
merchants. civil and military officials
in chihuahua, Juarez, Torreon' and
many other parts of northern Mexico.
The people whom Amigo ListO' is pre-
pairing to assist are not in any sense
beggars or paupers; they are people
like ourselves, but who have been un-
fortunate, and who refuse to make their
out and helped past this hard period.
They will. in time resume their old
lives. Many of them have-or had
good homes in Mexico to which they are
not allowed to return. Their businesses
and possessions are ruined or cOnfis-
Gated They will not ask for help. But
Amigo Listo' win find them and help
them.
VIII You Help:
VIII YOU help Amigo Listo'?
Send pound, OF more,sof something
fit for food, to the Popular store to-
day. marked Amigo Listo." Send all
the clothing and bedding you can
spare, for infants. children, or adults.
Merchants can well afford to give lib
orally in goods or in money, for they
are only returning tiny part of what
they have received from these people
during the revolutionary period.
Send in names of any people in FL
Paso whom you know to be in need
oc direct aid. Amigo Listo" will visit
them and help them. But remember
that Amigo Listo' depends on public
contributions for its own support. Do
a little. though ever so little. Send
one pound of food, today, to the Popu-