French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-11-21
ORPHAN ASSOCIATION MAKES
ANNUAL APPEAL FOR Help b
ON THANKSGIVING DAY,

ON THANKSGIVING DAY.
For the past several years the neo-
pie of North Carolina have been fol.
lowing a beautiful and noble cusio,.
of signalling Thanksgiving Day Ly.
special donations to the support of tn,
several orphanages of the State. The
Orphan Association, composed of ol.f-
GERS and representatives of these bene-
VIOLENT institutions, has a standing
committee of publicity to bring this
matter before the people of the State
each year at Thanksgiving. Since the
custom was begun and regularly OBJ
served the responses have shown a
steady increase. But for this dona-
ton many of u orphanages would
have been sOrely handicapped bv he
continuous rise in prices of all neces-
stiles employed in the maintenance of
these essential institutions to the eco
nOmic life of the commonwealth. This
wear the increase has been greater
than ever and III Orphanages appear
to the people with additional urgency.
At this period of their greatest need
our orphanage superintendent con-
nuenIIy nope II a Lne D~lg-hearted peo-
pie of the State will come to the res
cue. Each and every person, who can
possibly make such a contribution, is
asked to contribute the amount of one
days income to the Orphanage of his
choice. This appeal is in the interest
of no particular O~rphanage. 1t is TO
all persons of all creeds, denomina-
tons, ana beIiefS. The call of the
helpless child makes us all one, what
ever our other differences may be. No
humane person con turn a deaf ear to
the needs OF helpless childhood. There
1so~@-@I 49,
Orphanages in North Carolina for the
care and training of white children.
In these are more than two thousand
little tots bereft of parents and the
comforts of home, who must be pre-
pared for future citizenship. These
institutions are under various denOm1-
national or fraternal management,
but all of them engaged in a great and
necessary work for the fatherIeSs mes.
To relieve the stress of the times,
each person in the State is asked to
make a special Thanksgiving offering,
equal TO one days income, to some II
of these institutions. The offering
may be made through the regular
channels, in special collections, OF d.
rect to the superintendent OF these
homes. Each n should make his
contribution to the institution wIlh
WHICH, 1S may W AOo wv oOSO
ciated.
This year the publicity committee
is asked to make the call a very earn
est one. The need is great. No mat
ter what the other great calls upon
us are. or have been, This one cannot
must not be neglected. Regardless
of its own burdens this year, America
is the one country most greatly bless
ed. \ great and prosperous and
Christian people will not neglect.
While we are in the war and giving
our blood cheeTfully for peace and
righteousness, we will not and cannot
suner from the war as u noble
and accomplishing allies nave suffer-
ed. for four years, and as the helpless
and devasted peoples of Europe have
suuered. In this we should find great
cause for an earnest Thanksgiving
this wear. Let US signal our gratitude
10 God that our country has been so
protected thai we have u children
with us and that they have not been
crushed beneath the bloody raVages
OF war.
In every church, in every Sunday
school, in every place where men gath
er on or about Thanksgiving Day, and
in private, and upon b streets, IT.
the shops, and in the stores, let this
Manufacturing be taken for Gods help
less little ones.
There have been so many calls for
various purposes this year that our
orphan homes are in grave danger OF
beng overlooked unless special ef-
forts shall he made to direct the atten-
ton of charitably inclined people to
their needs. The demands of these in
situations were never so great as they
are today. Let everyone express their
sympathy and affection for the States
unfortunate little children in acts
not empty WOrdS-On or about Thanks
giving Day. One days earnings out OF
three hundred and sixty-fve is the
amount each one is asked to cOntri-
butte. The committee calls upon men
and women in every walk of life to
pass the word along. Let committees
be selected by church, fraternaI, anG
community organizations everywhere
TO ErlnS The hCGuS o. 81" OrilILI.2.
Cnli&re1 rIglt hole 10 the ptCp.C
F0C, aIteT all, il is personal effort"
tina h"ing results. - is that whicL
would make the approaching Thanks
giving the greatest ever" to the tatn-
erless and mOtherless children OF
North Carolina.
N. L. Shipman, J. r. Young, i. D.
Berry, Livingston Johnson, L. S.
Massey, w. F. Evans, r. F. Beaaley,
Publicity Committee.
Raleight, n. c., Oct. 81, 1918.
O~rphanages Affiliated With Orphan