Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-03-23
Chapman's
WILL MAKE a SFECIAL
SHOWING OF
CHILDREN'S HATS
Tuesday the 9th.
ANOTHER SHIPMENT
OF KNOX AND FISKE
HATS RECEIVED TODAY

read this letter and not be stirred.
1t is at once q vivid picture and a
burning appeal. The Rocky Mountain
club, of which John Hays Hammond
is president, has 1900 members
mainly westerners or former west
erners. 1t started its relief plan about
month ago 1T dinner given in
honor of Herbert Hoover, who headed
the relief work in Belgium. The club
had planned to build $1,000, 900
home. After listening to Hoover, it
laid aside the clubhouse plan and
decided to devote all its energies to
Belgian relief About $188,000 in cash
has already been contributed by the
club, altho it has not yet completed
it's organization for the collection of
of money Here is Theodore Roose-
velt's letter:
To My Fellow Members Of The
Rocky Mountain Club And The Men
And Women OF The West:
1t is the literal truth rarely since
so menaced as today in Belgium.
side of this question:, or tell how
go hungry and are threatened with
it to say that Belgium today stands
bodily life and it's soul.
But what of US? What of our soul
if, like the Lcvite and the Priest, we
eyes? The natio that turns deaf
70 4ta - &c
people, including 1,250,000 children,
born of want and hunger are spread
ing with dreadful rapidity among
these 1,250,000 children of Belgium.
Shall we look idly on while these
children die?
torn England and France have given
cared within her own borders for
The rest of the world has spent 250,-
tributed only S9,00O,000. Is this
done our duty? We say with un-
been "kept out of war" We chucklc
worth of products to Europe.
Are our souls rotted?
Can we see only the dollar sign in
the sky?
What of our souls if we continue
deaf tothe crying need of a gallant
nation threatened with extinction thru
the loss of it's first born? Can any
man of high generous nature, hav-
ing been told the fact, continue to be
Indifferent?
The west has done much, but it
has not done enough. I appeal to
the men of the west, to follow the
Rocky Mountain club. / appeal to
the women of the west to take the
thought of wrecked and tormented
Belgium to their hearts.
should like to see every school
house in the west a collection agency
for the Rocky Mountain Club Hoov-
er fund.
l should like to see every Sunday
school interested.
/ should like to know that every
pupil in the west was ringing with
the story.
l should like to see in every city
and village a central agency colec-
tin and forwarding relief to MIR.
William B. Thompson, the trea surer
of the fund, IS w. 44th-st.
l should like to see on every cattle
range a Rocky Mountain club fund.
! should like to know that every
mining superintendent had addressed
his men, telling them the story and
asking them to contribute each pay
day regular sum, following the ex-
ample of the miners in South Africa,
who art giving 10 per cent of their
wages.
l should like to see every news
paper open it's columns to the cause
I should like to see every social
gathering wind UP with Belgian col
lection.
I should like to see the west on
fire over Belgium's wrongs and
Belgium's needs.
l cannot say more. I should be
ashamed to say less.
PEI CIhN REJJEE CON;nIccTON