The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-12-13
THE FATHERLESS
CHILDREN OF FRANCE

, erleSS cnlluTeli VI fAoiiSS AAeS
ORGANIZED in America, and all the
people of the United States are be-
ing asked to support the project. Abb
beville County is under the direction
of Mrs. M. T. Coleman, Chairman,
and any one interested in adopting
a French orphan should communi-
: 5ate with her. ! ,.,
"The manhood or France is dying
20 defeat militarism. On the battle
field is buried the splendid promise
of her young sons. If the old France,
forced into this conflict and spend
ing every ounce of energy and man.
hood in the struggle, is to give birth
to new France, worthy inheritor of
her splendid achievements, her child
rem must be reared into young gen.
Grafton of strength and promise.
No greater work can be done for
France than to give these children
the chance of which their fathers
death has deprived them. Their
plight is an emergency which must
be met Immediately, for neglect dur
ing one or two years of the physical,
mental and moral welfare :. Of the
child cannot be repaired later.
America fought for Liberty iinj
IT'S and France gave us her help.
Today France and America are fight
ing side by side for this same great
/ principle. -
/ Our American army will support
the army of France to. the last man.
! Will the civilian population of Am
: erica stand likewise shoulder to
= shoulder with the civilian population
!, of France, whose courage has been
' our inspiration? Liberty cannot sur
}, vive unless France survives. France
J, cannot survive unless her children
: survive. ..... - ..'
4 s 10 keeps child day-in its
: mothers home.
r $500 keeps child 1 month-in
it's mothers home. :. =.
d $36.5O keeps 4 child year-in: its
s mothers home. .: = Z. = :
L It is the unbroken and unbreak-
{ able rule of the Society that not one
cent of the money subscribed for
1 the support of orphans shall be used
for expenses of local committees, Of
: the National Executive Committee
: Office in America, or of the Paris
Committee in France. All expenses
Z of the Society are met either from
voluntary donations made for that
purpose, or from dues for member
ship in the Society, or from inter
!. est on bank balances. e.,
), The work is carried on through To-
cal committees, each Of which is pro-
vided with a list of French children.
To every subscriber who pledges the
care of an orphan for one year,. is
given the name and address of the
= particular child to whom his money
will 60. Payments may be made
quarterly or monthly by arrange
ment with the local committees. As
1 the children on our lists are adopted,
: their names with those of their adop-
, tors are returned to our French Com
mittee. Money subscribed in Ameri-
ca is sent to the mother or guardian
# the child in quarterly payments
on postal money orders bearing the
l name and address of the American
: donor.
With every quarterly allowance is
sent letter from the Paris Bureau
explaining the friendship of Amreica
md instructing the child or it's mo-
ther to write a letter of ackuowl-
edgment to the American benefac-
t tor.
Through this personal touch we
. are building up between the two
= peoples a lastingiaud fhnbreakable
friendship.
1t is the policy of the Organiza-
ION to keep the children in their
cE7n homes to be brought up by their
mothers in the religion of the fam
} lily. Every child who has lost a ia
: Their as a result of the war, who is