Arizona republican., 1919-02-12
FATHER[ESSFRENCH
 CHILDREN |S NEXT
 CAMPAIGN CONCERN

Phoenicians are shortly to have an other opportunity to help along a great war cause that is being taken up by the people of the United States, when Lieutenant Robert Renard of the French mission to America comes to this city in the near future. Lieuten- ant Renard will probably be here to- morrow, February 1S and 14, and will deliver two lectures on behalf of the tatherless children of France cam paign.
 That was the information conveyed in a recent letter from L. N. Bruns wig. chairman of the Pacific Coast di- vision of the campaigns national or ganization. Lieutenant Remarks vsit will very likely be the first step to- ward organizing a local committee for the campaign. which is designed to provide for the French orphans whose fathers have given their lives in the fight against Germany. The organiza tion for the cause is international, with Marshal Joffte of France as it's presi- dent. and includes in its American executive committee some of the best known men of the nation.
 Lieutenant Renard in his brief visit will undoubtedly give great momentum to the Arizona cam paign to provide funds for the French orphans. A million and a half French soldiers killed in action and a million crippled for life. is the toll that France has paid to stay Germany in it's march against civilization. Approximately two million and more families are thus dependent on outside help in France and on the children of these families depends in great measure the future of the little country which probably saved the civilized world.
 It is to save these millions of French children and to secure for them homes with their own mothers that the fath- erless children of France movement was launched in 1915 It has bee, steadily growing, and since the ending of fighting has become more general than ever. Its aim is to find some American to take the position of don or to one or more French orphans. The organization has adopted the policy of maintaining the French chil- dren in their own homes, 10 be brought ! up by their mothers in the religion i of their fathers. and of establishing | such personal relations between the donor" and the child that the Ameri- can giver may not onl'- be assured that l his money reaches the proper destina- ] tion. but also may correspond with the child or it's mother
 The amount asked in the campaign is insignificant The organization has found that ten cents given by an American man or woman will keep a French orphan one day in it's mother nome. Three dollars keeps a child for a month. and s36.50 will keep a child a full year. Any person who ssb- scribes s36.50 to the cause will receive on request the name and address oi the orphan assigned to him by the or ganiZation, and the child will receive the name and address of it's donor"
 lt is the firm rule of the organization that none of the money subscribed tC it's cause be used for defraying tho expenses of the society. but that tn,
 full amount be paid to the child Al
 expenses of the organization are pai6
 from private donations for that pur.
 pose.
 Subscribers to the camDaign are as .sured that their money will serve it:
 full purpose by the character of tn,
 committees in charge. and also by tn
 establishing of personal correspond
 ence between donor and French chilc
 which will insure notification if thu
 child's remittance is not received. I'm
 government postal orders bv means o which the payments are made il