Putnam patriot., 1919-05-30
CHILDREN'S TIN BOX FUND
Direct Ministration to Suffering Chil'
 dren In Many Countries

The Children's Tin Box Fund has
 branches in both Putnam and Pom
 fret. In Putnam the fund is under
 the care and direction of the Putnam
 Girls club; in Pomfret the two di-
 rectors are Miss Mary McKeon and
 E.. M. Boult The boxes for the col
 lecting of your small change for this, one of the best works of the war, are, in Pomfret at Leon Allard's store, at Pomfret Center station, and at the Abingdon postoffice and general store. Contributions everywhere have been far less than would have been the case if the work of the society was better understood. The following It gives but briefly and coldly the facts of the splendid aid the society
 has given to the most helpless of all wars victims, the children. It is giy- en here in the hope that it will call the interested attention of you, and you, citizens of Putnam and of Pom fret, to one more avenue through which your aid may reach and help the pitiful suffering you are apt to forget now that wars daily features are past.
 The Fatherless Children of France urge us to continue our work, and we receive grateful letters from French mothers and children. Wesare caring for a large number of these little ones.
 The Belgian Children's Milk Fund tells us that in 25 years Belgium can not be restored, and that the Chil- dren's Tin Box Fund has sent their organization the largest sum it has received.
 The news from Poland is sorrow ful in the extreme. There are wan derers by thousands trying to return to their homes. Thousands and thou sands of children without clothing, warmth or food, starving and dying women and children deliriously cry l ing for bread"
 At the Serbian Air Fund they tell us that innumerable little ones have only newspapers or sacking to cover them, and that they are suffering des- perately from malnutrition. A letter from the East written to cue of our state chairmen by her son, who is working among the destitute there, brings the news that conditions in Armenia and Syria are still horri- ble beyond expression. Boys and girls, alone, starving, half naked, dr 1 bought for 60 cents.
 From Italy comes the children's cry for milk and bread. We are send ! ing them many cans of dry milk. The reserved 10 per cent about 1 which the committee decides each month, has helped Serbian orphan age in France, the children in Ar menia and Syria; the children in Bel | gium the orphans of French artists | the little victims in Halifax; the chil- dren cared for by the Fund for De vastated France, and by the LaFay- cite Fund.
 | After November 2nd next, when the association will have completed three years of active and fruitful existence, it is proposed to call in these boxes, and to leave the work of the associa- tion to be done through the channel of Mir. Hoover's centralized canteens | for the feeding of 100000 children in Europe, which will soon be in effect i've operation. The Children's Tin
 Box organization will not, however, disintegrate even then, but will re- main intact as an emergency aid so- ciety ready to put out boxes for a
 short period at the call of suffering | children in a sudden crisis Tn our own | ar another country.