New Britain herald., 1919-12-19
FOR THE, CHILDREN OF OTHER
 LANDS.

Tn the Christmas season, when the thoughts of all are upon charity and good will to fellow men and when most adults are carrying in their minds the picture of a little one, of their own, or one near to them, when happiness and good-cheer is at it's height how many will stop to consider the children of other lands and the misfortunes that have come upon them? To whom will another mental picture of the starvation and misery of devastated Europe rise in it's con- plete ugliness and horror? Does lack Of imagination prohibit realization of the condition of youngsters in wal swept lands? It probably does, else there would be a vaster answer to the appeals for relief that are going up from various sources ill an effort to make easier the lot of the afflicted youth far removed from our vision. Humanity regards lightly the misfor- tunes that it cannot see, does not plc- ture the misery of others afar. It is charitable as rule, but has to see to believe and be sufficiently touched.
 Let Us consider for a moment the conditions in Armenia as they have been described in a letter sent out by the National Executive Committee Of Near East Relief. Let us mentally tn which it is working, following the let ter for an aid to our. imagination. It is a bleak Armenian roadway paved with the bones of humanity for many, many miles, humanity which has starved in it's tracks and remained where it fell to return to the dust from which it came. A starving mother, thin, clad in rags and crazed with despair hangs over the body of her expiring infant. already a shriveled wizened skeleton though H still has the power to gasp for lung full or the harsh and bitter air. It is dying, cold Wearily, with no backward glance, with no cry of despair from a heart which has become too utterly overburdened for such manifestations, the mother again picks up her joruney along the road which has no end, which has no hope excepting that it will, before long, offer a spot in which the mother may lay herself h last She is travelling where there are two hundred and fifty thousand children wandering about, fatherlcss, motherless, comfortless and starving. It is nothing to her. she has lost her own; parentless children are too com mon a sight in this land for lament, the struggle for. existence too severe to allow for impeding ones course with infants. They must go as went hers. It is all one in the end
 Your own. reader, are with you, or where you know they are safe at least so We sincerely hope. You have un
 make them happy and comfortable during the holidays. the picture of an- other unfortunate must be vivid in deed to persuade you that you should give for one whom you have never seen and whom you will probably never be given an opportunity to see. Nevertheless the cause it just, the need is great. There are several or ganizations which are striving to bet ter the lot of the children abroad, which would be glad to get any contri- buttons which you might make. Ar state through the office at Hartford, Post Office box 1342. Meigs H. Wha- ples is State Treasurer Local relief for children in Lille, France, is being undertaken by the Yale University Press which will forward the money to the University of Lille for use in support of Free Milk distribution station, for the Children's hospital and for the Medical school. Money should be sent to the University Press, care of the Yale Station, New Haven
 It is truly said that charity should begin at home, but, when our home is taken care of there is an opportunity in foreign relief for vast good.