The Arizona copper camp., 1917-05-05

ed upon us with their suggestions but
you are the first one to ask for our
spiritual aid. Please tell me your plans
Of what you wish to do in america
"I told the Pope that if every Catholic
child in America could collect and do
nate cents a day to the succor of the
suffering children, the Commission
could provide supplementary meal
consisting of a biscuit made with lard
or fat. This biscuit, little as it seems
to us in America, makes it possible for
every child to have a meal every day,
and would prevent their physical de-
generation and would in a measure
fortify them against cold and disease.
After listening with great attention
to what 1 had to say, the Pope said:
eve will write an apostolic letter
to Cardinal Gibbons and request him
to write to every archbishop and bish-
op in America and have them instruct
all their priests to organize the children
in their schools to work together for
the relief of the helpless little ones in
France and Belgium. AS foundation
of the fund I will send 10000 lire to
Cardinal Gibbons-this will be an earn
est of our intentions. I will also
promise the apostolic benediction to
all those who take part in this great
charity, irrespective of their religion"
America has been regarded by the
world as the savior of Belgium This,
Mr.. Baker asserts. was because, we
were so crazy to have the world know
that Americans could make sacrifices
and were not simply money grubbers,
as the people of Europe believe US
to be-
when we went to Belgium we pro-
claimed that we would take care of the
Belgians, and now we can no longer
keep up this pretense. We have given
them $S,OO0 OOO-we who are the veal
thiest and most prosperous nation in
the world-we who have only peace
and can devote our energies to manu-
featuring other things than munitions.
Compare what we have done with
what England and France are doing
both these countries, which are fight
ing for their very existence. The En-
glish Government is giving Belgium
100000 a month, while France is
giving $4,O00,0O0, making a total of
$9,000,000. In addition the people of
subscribing 100000 each month. Prac-
tical1y every cent of this money is
spent in this country for food and
clothing for the Belgian and French
sufferers
s'The Belgian government at Havre
sends these checks to the Commission
because we are the only ones who can
get the food through the blockade. 1t
costs between $10,OOO,OOO and $11,OOO,-
600 month to feed the 10000, 900 men,
women and children of France and Bel
gium. We must get another $1,000, 900
month from somewhere to carry on
the work and feed everybody. At the
present time 100000 of these 10000
600 are only given a hunk of bread and
a bowl of broth each day.
"The men and women do not feel the
privation SO much, as they are strong,
and some Of them can get an addition
al meal now and then; but the chill
dren are getting weak and sickly, and
the supplementary meal of a biscuit
with lard would sustain their strength
and save from early graves.
eff the people of the United States
will only think of those 1,25O,00O chill
dren who are slowly starving to death,
and will give us but little of their
plenty Sand prosperity, we can take
care of them. If the people here will
only help us we can take care of the
sufferers, particularly the children in
all the overrun countries. Literary
Digest.
This is the cause for which Ray
came to the front and did her bit. One
thousand dollars will be sent from
here to those little ones