Malvern daily record., 1918-03-15
RED CROSS TO
 AID BELCIUMS
Will Devote Week of March IS to 9, to Collections of Articles. Through out the U. s. Local Chapter Will Do Its Part.


 The Commission of Relief in Bell gium in connection with it's relief work in occupied territory of France and Belgium, has asked the Red Cross to collect for it, a certain amount of used and surplus clothing through out the United States. They have agreed to do so, and in order that this work may not become regular ac- tivity of the Red Cross or be pre- cedent for a continual collection of such articles, the week from March 18th to March 25th only, will be de- voted to this purpose.
 The campaign will cause little in- terruption in the regular work of the 1 Chapter as the mechanical details have been reduced to minimum, and | the expense involved is small. Each Chapter organize for the work as in it's own judgement will best meet To- cal conditions.
 To the Red CroSS. An Appeal on Behalf of the Com mission for Relief in Belgium. Your spare clothing for the suffer ing people of Belgium and Northern France under the occupation of the enemy.
 These Allies of ours behind the German lines-therick as well as the poor-with their native stocks of raw materials long since exhausted, and no commercial imports since the first devastation of their country need and need promptly-this relief in their destitution. The quantity of materials which we have been per mitted to import for manufacture in- to clothing in these parts of Belgium and France, has never been suffici- ent. Even the well-to-do are short of necessities; the poor are in dire need AS the world is short of so many things 1t is short of clothing, of raw materials. We cannot purchase what is needed; we must put our spare garments to the service of the world,-a measure of pure eeonom- ! ies, conservation, and patriotism. One-third of every shipment will go to the people of the north of France, down close behind the Ger man lines; two thirds will go to Bel gium.
 The Commission for relief has the ships-you have the clothing. In these vessels carrying cargoes of grain and other foodstuffs to the Bel gians and the French in the territory occupied by the Germans, there is room for all the clothing you can give. The Commission for Relief has safe conduct passes for it's ships, and the absolute assurance through it's own representatives in Brussels, that the clothing will be delievered only to those for whom it is intend ed. The Germans have never at any time seized the personal apparel of individuals.
 1 Before the exhaustion of supplies prospective mothers were given lay ettes-little bundles containing all the warm clean garments and various supplies so necessary to the babies with winch to clothe and pro- vide for the new arrivals into the world Of late, these women have been turned away by the thousands from the empty storehouses of the committees, and other kinds of cloth are needed, from which to make these things. On your generosity alone rests the responsibility for these young lives.
 Last year in Belgium one paid $7.00 to have pair of shoes resoled. The Commission for Relief was sol ing them with sections of discarded material stamped out to fit the vari- ous sizes; tens of thousands of pairs of these cut-soles were thus produc- ed. We must have shoes, and we must have scrap leather with which