The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-11-11
RAISING FUND FOR
FATHERLESS BABES
Send Comfort and Cheer
to Little Orphans
of France
A STEADY DO

Several thousand big-eyed, lone
some little Riddles 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 organization in
France, of which Marshal Joffre is
the head, has created a special cam
paign committee, with Mrs. Walter
s. Brewster Of Chicago as chairman,
and is initiating drives in all part of
the country.
At Galveston, Tex, a fund of over
$500 was realized thru prize pack
age day, when each box of the mex
pensive CONNECTION sold on the streets
by pretty young girls contained a |
coupon emitting the purchaser to
some specific article donated by the |
merchants Of the town. The price |
fixed on these packages realized a !
profit of almost rs per cent, for the |
little children of France. In Chicago |
a vanity fete is being given, with the
cooperation Of the makers of gowns,
society women agreeing to appear |
as mannequins. A fund of $4,000 |
is expected to be realized from this, |
while similar affair is announced to |
be held in Washington and an Armis- |
tice ball in Boston. At Muskogee, |
Okla. the local committee secured |
checking privileges at the October |
state fair, and realized a consider |
able sum from this source and the |
sale of postcards. A street dance |
at Macomb, ILL.,, was productive of |
good returns; a tag day at Des
Moines, Iowa, brought in 1926, a |
garden fete in Los Angeles, almost
$4,000 and one in Cincinnati $780,
625.07, while in many other COM
munities the motto is mo drive, but a |
steady do"
still 10000 wistful little fatherless
children not yet provided for, to
whom American aid had been prom
ised before the armistice. Only 10 |
cents day, added to the tiny pen
sion the French government has been
able to grant orphans of the war, will
PROVIDE Tor one Sucn child.
IF every American mother who
tucks her child safely into Bed at
night" says Mrs. Brewster, who re-
turned from France but short time
ago, could see some Of the children
l saw, there would not be any trouble
about taking care of all our charges.
"One little girl of ten was scarcely +
larger than a child of four. She had
just been returned from Germany;
she could not talk; she could stand
when someone held her hand, but
she could not walk. Another little
girl of fourteen had worked in the
fields for three years for the Boches,
from sun up until sun down, flogged
when she Jagged in her work from
weakness, and when these fioggings
were so severe that she could not
go to the fields the following day,
she was fined two days pay-for,
nominally, she was supposed to be H
paid 10 cents day, while as a mat
ter of fact, thru the system of fines, II
she never received anything and had i
been imprisoned finally for failure
to pay her fines. II
I'm another place, where the
mother as we'll as the father had
succumbed to the war, little girl
of eight was operating a loom. Her
little legs were too short to reach
the treadles so her six-year old
brother knelt on the floor and worked
them with his hands. We must re-
store to these children their belief in
a providence which watches over and
cares for them, comforts their y
bruised hearts and assures them that q
there is still love in the world. And
it is not from fetes and tag-days that |
our biggest help comes, but from the
individual man or woman whose r
heart is stirred by the story of some 7
little child and who is willing to give !
not only the necessary 10 cents a 1
day but his or her friendship as we'll I
To such donor, a special child is Y
assigned, with whom he or she is
put in direct touch by correspond r
ence. Every cent contributed goes c
to the children; the small expenses
of the work are borne by generous t
friends
Mrs. Brewster will be glad to mail a
a booklet of translated letters from d
little French children to any who r
will inclose to her, at room 92S, 419
S. Michigan Ave-, Chicago, a stamped {
self-addressed envelope of business t
size. F