The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-11-28
WANTED A FA
Several thousand big

Several thousand big lonesome
little kiddies in France. whose fathers
lie beneath the closely set wooden
crosses which mark the fields and
highways, would begin to take heart
again could they realize the big wave
Of practical sympathy for them which
is being set in motion in this country.
The Fatherless Children OF France,
an American organization co-operat-
ing with similar Marshal Joffre is
thehead, has created a special camp
align committee, with Mrs. Walter 8.
Brewster of Chicago as chairman,
and is initiating drives in all parts of
the country.
AT Galveston, Texas, fund of over
$500 was realized through a prize
package day, when each box of the
inexpensive CONNECTION sold on the
streets by pretty young girls contain
ed coupon emitting the purchaser to
specific article donated by the mer-
chants of the town. The price fixed
on these packages realized a profit
of almost rs per cent, for the little
cooperation of the makers of gowns
society women agreeing to appear as
mannequnis. A fund of $4,000 is ex-
pected to be realized from this, while
/ similar affair is announced to be
acid in Washington and an ARMS
Oklahoma, the local committee Sc
cured checking privileges at the
October State Fair, and realized
sum from this source and
the sale of postcards. A street dance
at Macomb, Illinois, was productive of
good returns; tag day at Des Moines
Iowa, brought in $3.2S5, a Garden Fete
in Los Angeles, almost $4,000 and one
IN Cincinnati $36,625.07, while in many
other communities the motto is mo
irive, but a steady do.
Yet with all this help there are still
10000 wistful little fatherless children
lot yet provided for, to whom Ameri- |
IAN aid had been promised before the |
Only ten cents day, add |
ID to the tiny pension the French Gov
,rnment has been able to grant or .
,hants of the war, will provide for one !
UGH child.
IF every American mother who
ucks her child safely into bed at
light" says Mrs. Brewster, who re-
urned from France but a short time
go, could see some of the children
saw, there would not be any trouble
bout taking care of all our charges
"One little girl of ten was scarcely
arger than child of four. She had
lst been returned from Germany;
he could not talk; she could stand
hen someone held her hand, but she
ould not walk. Another little girl
fourteen had worked in the fields 6
>r three years for the Boches, from l
In up until shutdown, flogged when 5
he Jagged in her work from weak
ess, and when these floggings were |
, severe that she could not go to the
slds the following day, she was fin s
two days pay-for, nominally, she g
as supposed to be paid ten cents a /
iy, while as matter of fact, through
e systems of fines, she never re- 7
lived anything and had been i'm t
'isoned finally for failure to pay her
les. a
"In another place, where the mother s
we'll as the father had succumbed
e war, little girl of eight was OPP g
ating loom. Her little legs were e
o short to reach the treadles, so her b
x-year old brother knelt on the floor
ID worked them with his hands We u
ust restore to these children their Il
lief in Providence which watches b
er and cares for them, comforts 81
cir bruised hearts and assure them p
at therer is still love in the world.
Id it is not from fetes and tag-days ST
at our biggest help comes, but from II
e individual man or woman whose 81
art is tsirred by the story Of some
tie child and who is willing to give a
t only the necessary ten cents a
y but his or her friendship as we'll. te
such donor, special child is d.
such a donor, a special child is m
signed, with whom he or she is put
direct touch by correspondence. b
cry cent contributed goes to the W
ldren; the small expenses of the th
rk are borne BY generous friends"
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