The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-03-14
CLUB TO WORK FOR the:
RELIEF OF BELGIUM
Aim to Raise $1,250,000 per Month
for the Support Of Suffer-
ing Children.

The Rocky Mountain Club, "the
oasis where the West meets the
East" which recently deferred the
project to erect a million dollar
clubhouse, in order that it's ener-
gies might be concentrated on the
Relief of the children of Belgium,
now facing starvation, have amour
ced it's arrangements for pressing
the Rocky Mountain Club-Hoover
Fund on nationwide scale.
1t is ready to carry forward from
the Atlantic to the Pacific and even
to far off Alaska, the work of send
ing as nearly as possible one and a
quarter million dollars month for
the babies of Belgium. 1t is a game
in which there is no limit, and if the
goal may be surpassed there will
still be need for every dollar that
the Club may be able to forward to
the Belgium Relief Commission.
An Executive Committee has been
formed with Colonel Theodore Roose-
welt as Honorary Chairman, Mr.. Ed
ward H. Clark as Chairman, and MIR.
William B. Thompson as Treasurer.
In order to broaden the 'drive" that
the Club is making against supine-
ness and Indifference, an organiza-
tion by states has been created, so
that checks may be made payable to
State Chairman, or to Mr.. Thompson,
the central treasurer, at the Clubs
Headquarters, No. IS West 44th St.,
New York City, as the donors may
elect.
A complete list of StateChairman
who will organize Relief Committees
n the various western states will be
published within short time. The
>portant announcement which the
Tub makes now is the membership
# the Executive Committee, which
will serve tirelessy in pressing re-
eff work.
A brief outline of the circumstan-
es, which brought into the work OF
international charity these builders
# the new West-the railroad pio-
GERS, the miners, the tunnelers of
ountains, and the spanners of de-
ts-is fitting to accompany the
tatement of the working purpose of
!: Club.
1t no doubt astonished everyone
cad the figures given by Mr.. Her.
'ert Hoover, to the Rocky Mountain
,lub few days ago, to know that
If the $250,00O,O00 which had been
xpended in the relief of Belgium,
,oss than 100000 had been contri-
>uted by the people of the United
states. Members of the Club asked
themselves, Has this great country
which heretofore has led the world
it's liberality in relieving suffering,
Undergone some strange moral de-
generation or submergence? The
impression had been widespread that
this country had been leading the
work Of relief across the seas,
whereas by virtue of Americans hav-
ing been selected by neutrals and be-
MIGRANTS alike to distribute the sue
cor, it was actually strutting in
borrowed plumage. When Belgian
children, as Mr.. Hoover stated to
the Rocky Mountain Club, lisped the
Star Spangled Banner in French, the
Americans were ashamed. For every
$3.50 of relief distributed less than
SO came from "the land of the free
and the home Of the brave"
Your correspondent has talked
with the leading members of the
Belgian Relief Commission, and with
most of the Governors of the Rocky
| Mountain Club who are cooperating
with them, and found them dwelling
upon one particular thing. This was
that since the United States had
been selected as a sort of Trustee
for the relief of Belgium, and since
many thousand Americans have been
working in that country for the pur.
pose of distributing the relief, it
really appears the duty of Ameri.
cans to bring forward this country
as factor in contributing as well