Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-04-07
STARVATION Within
THREE OR four WEEKS
If Food Shipments to Belgium
Should StOp---Belgian Flag Day.
SATURDAY APRIL s.
Ladies Distributing Flags to neIu
Starving Belgians--- -Belgium's Needs
Emphasizes Our Own Need for
Preparedness.

Starvation stares Belgium i'm the face
within three or four weeks If food
shipments should be slow. All mem
bers OF the D. A. r. everywhere have
been appealed TO to help the cause.
The local Regent. Mrs d N. Garri-
son, has received the following to-
gether with one hundred tags. repre-
senting the Belgian flags. to be worn
on Saturday. April s:
The amount TO be asked for each far
Is not less than Seven Cents.
Seven cents is the cost of food for
one destitute person in Belgium for
one day.
The flags should be offered in all
public places, such as prominent
streets. railway stations, entrances to
buildings, etc, and, if necessary. from
house TO house
It is requested in presenting the lag
that all people be asked to wear it.
no only en- Saturday, the Sth. but sun
day, he 9th. with request for prayers
for these unfortunate people
Should you be discouraged remem
Der that ten million flags are being lis
tributed today throughout our great
country; ard. therefore. only one per
son in ten can possibly have the priv
ilege OF wearing one of them
Remember. also, that many persons
viii wish to take home flags 10 their
children or to send one TO friend.
Therefore, some may wish for more
than one flag.
II any flags remain. il is hoped that
these vii be offered TO people on their
way to church on Sunday morning
the 9th Of April
The total amount collected in ex-
change for the flags should be turned
over Immediately TO the member of the
d. A. r. from whom the flags were
obtained
The food and clothing for the 1000
600 civil population in occupied Bel
gium and Northern France through the
&C. r. b." THE Commission for Relief
in Belgium) Three million of these
people are entirely or partly depend
ent upon charity The need of help
win continue until the war is over.
There is no other channel by which
help can be sent to these stricken peo-
pie, and except tor the &C r. b" they
must perish
The amount received by the &c r.
B." is to be used for both fool and
clothing IT is estimated that approx
imatelsS 9OO00.000 people in America
have done nothing for the war suf-
ferers They have made no sacrifices.
We are prosperous and happy it is
Our country's great opportunity to
demonstrate not only its patriotism, but
It's high ideals and il is your opportu-
nity TO take some small part in allie
Waiting the suffering that the war has
brought to these helpless. innocent and
defenseless people.
These circular letters. together with
the tags. were sent ont by Mrs. Daisy
Allen Storey. President General of the
National Society ID. A. r. Belgium's
need empho osizcs the United States own
need for preparedness. Mrs. Garri-
son. the Regent of the Peggy Stewart
Tea Party Chapter, u. A. r., this city
yesterday received a telegram from
Mrs Storey as follows
Let us Justify QueenElizabeth'
MESSAGE. We must not fail Bel
gium. now the only foreign cOun-
try where our flag is reverenCed
Think of their needs. Giving days
Of labor is so little Your help is
vital for success.
DAISY ALLEN STOREY"
There Will be wholesale starvation
within three or four weeks if the i'm
portation OF food into Belgium were
stopped The needs are imperative.
| Give. I'm Gods name. and GIVE New!
The tag 10 be worn Saturday and
| Sunday is a small cardboard repre-
| senting the Belgian colors, black. yell
| low and red, with a picture of Prince
| Albert in the centre.and a small Amer
| lean flag beneath On the reverse side
is Let as Highly Resolve that this
| People Shall Not Perish from the
| Earth"
Tags may be secured of Mrs Garri-
son FOR seven cents each. ansi seven
| cents viii feed aReleian for one day,