The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1915-04-01
WHAT WILL YOU DO TO HELP?

WHAT WILL YOU DO TO HELP?
A great, good ship, freighted with
most precious cargo--foods and sweets
and messages Of loving sympathy
Is to sail as soon as possible as an
Easter gift TO Princess Marie Jose, the
nine year-old daughter Of King Albert
ard Queen Elizabeth, for the hundreds
Of thousands of her little countrymen.
the boys and girls OF Belgium, who are
suffering from cold and hunger and
'oueliness
You can help to save from starvation,
aud death, those across the sea, who
only few months ago we're, like you,
happy in their homes. and schools, at
their work and play.
What more besutifnl service, express
sive OF the Easter spirit, can there be !
Everyone can help. at least n little.
And ifeveryone does the most possible,
even II II seems TO be little, the Easter
Argosy will be richer than any the
world has ever known. You can help
buy the precious cargo.
The Easter Argosy will mean life
aud hope
Winter and famine and loneliness are
wearing away the health and spirits of
the children and mothers in the dark
ened land They have little warmth,
little to eat
They stand in the bread-lines for the
daily bit of food Sometimes there is,
besides bread, little soup or some
beans
S,antily clad they stand in the snow
and slush and wind-l 100000 without
a penny in the world, homeless, desti-
tute.
They thousands Of them-hud-
died in ruined houses and churches aud
barns, or in refugee camps or Tents
waiting. waiting-for the next day and
the next loaf OF bread. No work Nc
play
The fathers and brothers do not come
back from the war. Perhaps they will
not-so many are killed. Hundreds OF
the children lost their mothers week,
ago, in the hurried flight from the
burning and ruined cities and towns
They may be orphans. No one knows
And there are more than 30, 600 babiei
in Belgium to-day, born since the wal
began--born amid ruins, in fields, II
charred cottages, in crumbled chapels
They, and their mothers, need mill
and good food. There ia none owe
there for them, except what genefou
people have sent. And that is nearly
gone. Some more is on the way. Bu
it is far from enough.
II stood one morning at the bacl
door of an army cook-camp watching
group OF Belgian women grubbnj
through the trash-heap. An thes,
women carried babies in their arms.
"'What are they doing9' asked
Sergeant.
Scraping our condemned mill
cans Its the only way to get mill
for their babies. have seen then
run their iiugers around the inside o
a can which looked as bright rs nev
coin and. hold them in the babies
months to suck.
More food must he provided at one,
hundreds of tons OF it---or Thousands
lof children aud babies and mother
will die before summer comes.
1 The Easter ArgosY must sail--witl
It's precious cargo which must meal
life
send giits of money.
We eappeal to all who have the gener
ous impulses of youth, aud sympath,
for those whose misery is almost unen
durable, to send whatever they can
Ii only ten cents. send il now.
or send % cents, or one dollars, or
hundred, or thousand But send /
at once, before it is too late, Literal
y il case Of life or death.
Cut out the coupons printed FIJI
them in and send your Easter gift anC
message day IL possible,
URon your action depends the lif'
OF some little child, or mother
Many have wanted to help the Bel
gian children, but have not known jus
how They will he glad TO hear Of tn
"Ship OF Life aud Love"
Young folks-you who. read thi :
tell, aud re-tell, the story Of the Easter
! Arel,sv. Tell All your schoolmate