The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-02-11
SUGGESTS RAISING
FUND OF 50 MILLIONS
Thinks Men Who Make Money Out Of
Munitions Should Aid in Repairing
Ravages Of War; Europe Would
Welcome Move
BY CHARLES p. STEWART.

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Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
THE HAGUE, Jan. 2O.--(By Mail.)
Judge Ben Lindsey OF Denver has
split off from what is left of the Ford
party to start a war relief campaign
OF his own. The judge went into de-
tail about the plan today. Originally
It was Mrs. Lindsey's idea but the
Judge has made it also his and they
Will push it together. The Lindseys'
proposition is to find homes for war
orphans.
incidentally they hope to find an
opportunity to develop movement to-
ward ending the war itself. Quite
frankly, they came with the Ford
party mainly in the hope that associa.
tion with Ford would give them an op-
portunity to interest the automobile
maker in their enterprise.
"The end of She Napoleonic wars
found countless thousands Of orphans
in institutions, says the Judge.
doomed to grow up without home
influence, alone In the world, often
ill-treated and unaer circumstances
genrally which could not but dwarf
development and embitter their Iives.
The present war is so much greater
that the situation must be still worse
unless remedial steps are taken or
: huge scale.
Already it is terrible. The stories
have heard are almost beyond be-
lief, yet most of them undoubtedly are
true. AS l have not Jet been able to
verify individual cases am not ready
to give them out, but my first work
will be to compile long list Of their,
fully authenticated, as proof of the
necessity for vast home-finding cam
paign."
The Lindseys will seek funds wher-
ever they are to be had, but it is to
American munition makers, as the
wars chief beneficiaries, that they
look for their biggest contributions
81 have never agreed" says the
Judge, with those who think our
munition makers have done wrong.
It's my view that so long as there was
a war. they had a right to sell their
product to anyone who wanted IT,
However, l do feel sure under the ciI-
cumstances that they will De glad to
give freely to help the orphans the
war has made
Fifty million dollars is the sum
Judge Lindsey suggests tentatively
as an adequate fund for the home
finding plan.
Probably it will take two or three
years" he admits, ito raise so much,
but it ought to be possible to raise
enough for a start on a large scale
within. say. six months. Naturally
our work will lead us into relafionr
with the belligerent governments ana
think it more than likely we may
thus find an opportunity to make
peace suggestions. 1t must be taken
into consideration that we will engage
in a concrete good work, which the
government unquestionably will ap'
preciate. so we shall not be on the
same footing as the present expedl-
tion.
"Clearly, too, it is a move the war
ring countries must welcome, for with
the terrible burden of taxation they
will have to bear after the war 1t will
be impossible for them to do much
relief work of their own"
"The beIligerents would never cor
sent TO the transfer of large numbers
Of their children to other lands, nor
would it be for the good Of the chill
dren or of the world at large Where
nossible the aim must be to help war
widows keep their children together
For little ones who have lost Doth
fathers and mothers, homes must De
found in other families. There viii
have to be close supervision, that we
/ 80. r4e GRO well cared