The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-21

TWO more days of the $4,000 War
Relief campaign with less than s2o,-
| 900 to raise
II the people of Richmond take
advantage of the opportunity and
privilege offered TO them; If they
! remember in their hearts the blessings
| they are enjoying; If they try to real
p, ixe tho frightful suffering and priva-
| ton in the war-stricken zones on
| Europe the money will be easily and
| quickly raised.
| The fifteen campaign committees
will begin today the fifth lap of the
six-day race. The committees have
met with generous responses in many
\ quarters, but the records of the War
| Relief Association shows that only
| thfrty-three people in Richmond have
given $500 donations.
! Officers of the association believe
| that there are more than thirty-three
400 men In Richmond. Today and
| tomorrow the committees will find
| them. and when the committees re-
port at luncheon today IL Is not un-
| likely that so many will have been
| found that the total sum collected
will be considerably increased.
| Henry W. Anderson. president of
the War Relief sociatfon, yesterday
received the following ca.blegrarn from
the American War Relief Clearing
House of Paris:
I'VE are ofrcialiy Informed OF the
expected repatriation of over 10000
children, women and old men-civil-
ian prisoners being returned by Ger
| many. or this humber 5000 are in
sane and 5000 have tuberculosis Con-
ditions appalling. Can you help? Our
stock OF clothing entirely exhausted. :"
| The men upon whom MOST or thu
| children and women depended are in
battle or have been killed. and IL these
destitute families are not helped now
| they will die during the winter. Out
| Of the awful ruins which no one VIII
has looked on can forget poured hun
dreds Of little children Some were
| picked up In cellars OF wrecked
houses: some were living on ofral In
| bomb-swept streets, others we're gath
| cred In from abandoned farms. from
burning villages, from the burning
| trenches, and trainload after train
load of them went streaming into
Paris
| 1t ia to save the lives of such peo-
pie that the war relief fund IS being
collected, and to further the work
! each member of the campaign COM
mittees here has been empowered TO
associate with himself during the rest
of the week an outside man to assist
in the general canvass of the city.
At the meeting of the committees
yesterday afternoon Rabbi T. N.
| Caiisch make stirring plea for the
relief OF sufferers in Europe. DIR.
fSCaffsch said:
| DIR. Calisch Voices Appeal.
II feel very happy TO be here. but
I confess that i have been somewhat
In q ouandary as to exactly what to
| say. 1t seems to me that you have
been talked to this week by those who
| know more of the conditions abroad
than I do. having actually seen them
also such a thorough understanding
of the undertaking you have begun
and ! know are going to carry to a
most successful conclusion.
LakeWfee you have ouch efficient
methoo1 and you are all of you your
selves such units OF efficiency that I
doubt very much III anything can
| say would help. None the less 1t Is
| possible / may be able to present to
YOU a new angle OF this work which
might stir to greater efforts, Tho ap-
peal OF the work. the cali that comes
to as ont OF the depths OF misery unto
our own hearts and touches our SYM
| pathy, 1t seems to me. is reinforced by
another thought and by another APP
peal that ehould come close to us as
American citizens
IT do not mean exactly that we are
\ At peace with the world: do not
mean exactly that we should consider
our relationship to the warning coun-
<r4es; whether we agree or not with
the action. or what some might call
klmAct1on. Of our government In pro-
Etsottng our commercial or trade rights
On the one side and our human
)rigAks ON the other sadA: irrespective
t0f wAae may Be our convictions or oar
tOpsntc0g rsgardfnv ths stand our gov
f4Ezmnent has tnar9n, the appeal comes
THAI America has risen to an emer-
eemay In the present instance that
Twin a6d another star Of glory unto
/ hoe NanDezs
Turn 10 Us For Ala.
sAmsricA has. irrespective OF her
twoaath, her resources or her territory.
% written heself upon tho pages o,
hiptoy that the whole world inst1nc-
tively turns to her for help. Tho very
those who look for Hight. for liberty.
for help, for the recognition Of hui
man rights. We realize that America
has done wonderful work In many
ways. Not merely In tho example Of
tt Democratic government. not mere
" In the work that 1t has done in fts
own wars In that when the necessary
fighting was over 1t quietly laid down
fttD arms without rAncor. without Bit
81Sneso and without hatred and picked
mp the implements Of tts trades and
proceeded upon its way.
That II left Cuba unto tn own re-
sources. that It cleaned up Cuba and
made II to be q hvahle, habitabie
place: not merely tho Panama Canal