The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-11-28
APPEAL To STATE
FOR ORPHANS AID
EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD
EXPECTED TO TAKE A
PART.
GIVE PLAN WIDE BllCITY
GIVE PLAN WIDE PUBLICITY
zone Day For The Orphans" Move
ment Expected To Be Great
Success.

The North Carolina Orphan Asso-
citation is calling upon every man,
woman and child in the state to con-
/ tribute on or near Thanksgiving Day
one days income to the orphanage of
his or her choice. The publicity COM
mittee composed of M L. Shipman,
James R. Young, and Hight c. Moore,
is making an earnest appeal for or
phan aid in this way. letter has
been issued by the commission read
ing as follows:
The North Carolina Orphan Associ-
alton again calls upon every man, wo-
man and child in the State to con-
tribute on or near Thanksgiv Day
! at last one days income to the or
phanage of his or her choice
A year ago this appeal was issued
for the first time. The response was
/! gratifying, not only because Of the I'M
! precedented gifts made to the various
orphanages, but also because it re-
vealed the tender and practical sym
pathy which our people feel toward
! thethOusands Of our fatherless chill
dren.
In order that more adequate equip
ment and support may be provided, the
"One-Day-For-The-O Orphans" Movement
was started calling upon all our people
/ to add to the stream of regular con-
tributions special Thanksgiving offer
ing equal to days income This is
reasonable request, for any one can
share with the orphans the earnings
OF one day out of three hundred and
! s1xty-flve. It is practicable, for rich
] and poor alike can participate in it. It
enl1sts our people of all creeds and
classes in beautiful cooperation for
the support of needed civic and
Christian philanthropy
| we, therefore, make our appeal to
The prince of business to give out of
his abundance the actual or estimated
income of day
The landlord and money lender to
give one days rent of his houses and
lands, or one days interest on his
money.
The professional man to give one
Gays earnings, specifying the day or
taxing the average day.
The salaried worker to give his or
her salary for day.
| The laborer with only pickup jobs to
devote some special day to this cause.
The good housewife with her in
genuity and devotion to set apart the
| work of day.
i Inc boys and girls with no regular
income to get job after school hours
| or on some Saturday and give the pro-
| ceeds to the orphans.
IN snort, everybody, old and young,
rich and poor, learned and illiterate.
to join in this holy movement and thus
! TO visit the fatherless in their afflic-
titon."
To this end we call upon the editors
| or our papers, daily and weekly, secu-
lar and religious, to give the widest
possible publicity to this movement
which is philanthropic in purpose and
statewide in extent; we call upon all
church leaders of all denominations
including pastors, Sunday school SUPER
lntehdents, Womens workers, and 9th
ers OF influence to urge in their respec-
tive congregations the giving ola davis
income to their respective ornhanaee.
we call upon the officers of the va
r1ous orders to bring this movement
to the attention of each man in their
membership and enlist him in thi.
extra offerings; we call upon teachers
doctors, lawyers. merchants, manufac-
turers and all others with local fol
lowing and influence to induce their
TRENDS to unite with them in givino
at next Thanksgiving a DAYS work
or wages to the needy orphans of
North Carolina.
here, then, is our appeal: Make
Your oi1er1ng on or about Thanksgiving
LAY: MAKE 1t on the basis of your
e earning capacity for single day
nlofe' II you Will; less if you can do
~ pe''ef' Make It through your