The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-06-09
|ORPHANS NEED
HELP IN FRANCE
Chairman War Relief Service Com
mittee, d. A. R. Sends Out An
Urgent Appeal.

Chakchiuma Chapter, Daughters o
the American Revolution"
Below is printed excerpts Of a letter
/, your Regent, have today received
from Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, Chair
man, War Relief Service COMMITTEES
N. s. D. A.. R.. Its call comes 81
loud and clear, its appeal for service
SO eloquent, / cannot forego the wisl
to send it to press, that no D. A. r
may fail to receive its message.
The Letter.
My Dear Madam Regent:
We have requested Madame Jusser
and, wife of the French Ambassador
to ask for US a list with age, name
and address, Of 1000 of the orphan
children Of France. This has beer
sent to your committee on War Re
lief Service, in the hope Of actively
interesting the D. A. R. in these strick'
en- ones.
No need to paint in vivid colors this
picture of frances need Of help fol
her orphan children. No need with
eloquence of tongue or pen to echo
the cry of these children of France
The government of France has pro-
claimed them it's wards, but has beer
unable, on account of its pressing mil.
itary demands, to make adequate ap-
preparations for their relief. The
fathers of these children have fallen
in the trenches, or at the front, moved
down in charges unparalleled in the
annals of war for bravery and hero
ism. The valor which hurled back the
legions of Germany-en route to Paris
for the conquest of France and Eng
land-and incidentally for the military
domination Of the world-our own
country a shining marks immortal.
Future ages will write the Had Of the
Marne and of Flanders. The chivalry
of France, springing to arms, dying,
gasping in agony from poisoned gases,
burnt with liquid fire, slaughtered by
every inhuman method the savagery
of the breast, reinforced by the devil
ish ingenuity of man, could invent and
infict.
Washington said of Yorktown and
CORVALLIS, "Our gratitude to France
is most unalterable." This we can
never forget. But, Daughters Of the
American Revolution, do we realize
that today we 1--WE IN, even greater
debt to France? Glorious, unconquer-
able France! Bled to the white in
this death grapple, fighting OUR bat
tie for human freedom, for democracy,
for civilization itself! France, bled
to the white that no hostile army
may fight its victorious way to Amer
lea, make our children orphans, de-
vastate GU rhomes, deport u sons,
husbands and fathers as slaves, and
our women as helpless victims of a
fate worse than death. Daughters of
the American Revolution, if we have
not yet walked up to the seriousness,
to the dire possibilities Of this hideous
drama, let us wake up before it is too
late!
Your War Relief Service Committee
cries out to every Daughter Of the
American Revolution, to register for
some service to her country in this
hour of portent.
We have sent you partially listed
suggestions for this service. But ev-
cry woman knows her own heart,
knows her own possibilities. Her most
effective means Of service may not
have been catalogued on this list.
Please supplement this list of suggest
ed activities yourself, and report to
your Committee some definite service
you will render, that we may have
definite information as to the dis
tinctive work this organization a be
counted on to do.
am a pacifst by nature and from
principle. For three years u Presl-
dent strove to keep us out of war. l
am not Of those who believe in wal as
"a means of progress, or that blood
drenched b~attlefelds and barren grain
| fields are for the good of the people.
But we are in this fight now to a
finish. This war must be WON in or
der that wal may never again raise
its hellish head on earth; that never
again can the mailed fist Of militarism
be thrust in the face Of weak nations;
that never again shall the booted heel
Of military despotism stamp out free
institutions.
What distinctive part are we, the
Daughters Of the American Reyolu-
ton, to play in this, the greatest, sad
dest drama ever enacted in the his
tory Of the world? We may not be
called to the trenches, or to the firing
line, or even to munitions factories,
but we can exert a moral and spiritual
influence, a sentiment in favor OF
righteousness, Of justice, and OF sacri-
flee If need be, nor potent than any
calculable material service we may be
called on to render.
The Liberty Loan Bonds offer an OPP
~portunity for immediate and invaluable
service. The most immediate and
pressing patriotic duty during the
next few weeks is the sale Of Liberty
Bonds.
This il q %peremptory practical call
upon our patriotism. 1t is the acid
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