El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-05
Drive To Aid French War Orphans
Gives Every Promise of Big Success

! %WE are delighted" said Myru
w Coblentz. chairman OF the e
Paso branch Of the Fatherless Children
Of France. with the progress our
Christmas drive is making. Every
where the workers are meeting with
an enthusiasm equal to their own. be-
cause these little children who have
lost their afthers in the war make a
universal and human appeal. The
school children especially are making
an eager response and all want to DO
their share.
The poorer children, who haven't
50 many nickels TO spare. VIII be al
lowed to sell French orphan Christmas
seals and postcards. Thus all VIII be
able 10 do their part"
Mrs. +. B. Homan. chairman Of Sun
/ day schools. has appointed subchair-
man in every SUNDAY school IN Fl
Paso- Mrs. Homan says the workers
Z OF her committee are agreed that IL
will be easy for all the Sunday schools
to adopt at least one orphan
The fact that We are allowed TO
make easy payments" said Mrs. HO-
man. "Of SO a month viii make il pos
sible for every Sunday school in the
city to take care of at least one or
ance viii in all probability adopt more
than one"
Mrs. charles B. Stevens. chairman
of churches, has requested every min
lister in FL Paso to devote a few mo-
ments to speaking on French orphans
next Sunday.
Mrs. Dan White reported that her
committee had distributed the French
orphan boxes TO st. Joseph's and St
Mary's academys. After the work
ers had bought their badges there
were only four left The children
started bidding on them One little
BOY bid 81 for a badge It was award
ed him at the regular price. 10 cents,
the remaining 90 cents being put in
the box for his contribution TO the or
phans- Mrs White reported that Rev
Fr. Upton had adopted two French
orphans through her committee.
Mrs. julius krakauer reported that
she and Mrs. Field had visited five
banks in the city. They secured The
adoption Of one orphan by George
Flory.
Mrs. W. H. Aldridge has appointed
one OF the school children at Lamar.
Howard BeuteI. as subchairman.
Howard has chosen as his assistants
among the children Ada McCracken.
Elizabeth Hudspeth. Estella Delgado.
Eva Belle Quad. Donald Peery. Rich
ard Cook and Ruth Osborne.
Mrs. II. H Hendrick, chairman OF
Villas school. reported that when she
arrived at the school she found that
three OF the boxes had already been
put up and contributions in them. In
fact" said Mrs. Hendrick, 7 found so
much foreknOwledge and sympathy
for the cause. that for the first time in
my life ! found 1t easy TO make a
speech. The principal said that in
their response in this work the chill
dren displayed the intensive sympa-
thy Of kind for kind"
Mrs. Howard Waldron reported that
Miss Dorothy Waldron sold IS badges
at the high school in less than an
hour Mrs. Charles = Hirsch, chair
man or the business district origin
ated the idea of selling the medallion
badges to the workers as well as the
public for 10 cents apiece The plan
has met with such success that Mr.
COblentz has wired to headquarters
in New York for 5000 badges for FL
Paso. BY Christmas" said Mrs.
Hirschs We want to have every patri-
otto man, woman and child in Fl Paso
wearing a French orphan badge We
expect to adopt one orphan from this
fund"
The committees follow:
Chairmen OF drive. Mrs r J. Tighe
and Mrs. Herbert D. Field
Churches Mrs Charles
B Stevens; committee. Mrs. ". n.
Howe. Mrs. F. ". Seward, Mrs. J. I.
Ely. Mrs. c. H. Campbell. Mrs. Carl
Lee Smith.
Sunday schools-Chairman. Mrs. r.
B. Homan; committee, Central Baptist.
Mrs. T. ". I.anier: First Baptist, Dean
Howard Taylor; Highland Park Bap-
rists II L Griffith: Catholic Sunday
schools, Mrs. W. G. Roe: First Chris |
tan. Mrs. r. B Homan; Christian Sci /
snce church. Mrs. Richard Warren: I
Congregational church. Mrs G. F. |
Hawks: Church Of Christ. Montana. I
Mrs. A F. Kerr; St. Clements church. I
Mrs. ! f. Bowen; Asbury Methodist i
,hurch. P. J. Blanchard: Trinity Meth