The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-12-19
AN EXTRA GUEST
FOR CHRISTMAS
(By Alice Manning Dickey)


To the following deserving appeal
the Era hopes there will be many
responses from those who read it
Shall we not out of our abundance
with the unfortunate children of
France? 1t is not too late-it is
never too late to do good.
Holly in the window, turkey in the
oven, presents weighing down the
glittering' tree, Christmas cheer in
the air.
Can't you make room for one more
guest in your Christmas heart-espe-
cially if it happens to be little child
whose eyes are big and lonesome, and
whose little body. looks as if it had
been hungry for good long time?
For just 10 cents you can feed the
hungry stomach for such child on
Christmas Day. For $500 you can
care for it for the whole of the
Christmas month. And if you can dig
down in your Christmas pocket-book
and pull out $3.50 all in one lump,
you can be godparent to a little boy
or girl for a whoe year. being put
in touch with it through correspond
ence.
do you think about a little ten-year-
old boy who for three years worked
every day from sunup to shutdown,
saving up branches of trees for fuel?
He must support one crippled leg
with a huge stone while he worked.
One end of huge cross-cut saw was
pressed against his tiny chest, the
other braced against the ground, as
with outstretched arms he drew to-
ward him the branches which were
to make fuel and earn 40 cents a
week for himself and an old grand
father.
Or how about little six year-old
girl who, when the Germans carried
away every boy baby from her town,
was thrown to the pavement by
burly German when she proved to be
a girl? She is permanently crippled.
Her mother was taken away by the
Germans her father was killed in
the war.
These are just two of the 100000
French orphans of the war. They are
being taken care of now, but thou
sands of others are without help or
friendship. All are fatherless, many
have lost their mothers, either taken
away by the Germans or dead from
exposure. privations. or in the bonn
bardments. The Fatherless Children
of France, an American organization
cooperating with a similar one in
France of which Marshal Joffre is
the head, is trying to furnish Amer
lean aid to the extent of ten cents
day per child, to add to the. tiny
pension the French Government has
been able to gram orphans of the
war Every cent contributed for a
child goes directly to it. Not one
penny is used either in this country
or in France for any other purpose;
the expenses of the work are borne
by generous friends.
Can't you add one of these children
to your Christmas list? Not only the
money but your friendship will mean
to such a child a new belief in the
Providence of God, new love and
thankfulness, and will help to wipe
out the memories of horror and suf-
fering and the unthinkable atrocities
which these children have witnessed.
To become a "godparent' to a child
or to make. a Christmas donation,
write to Mrs. Walter S. Brewster,
Chairman of the Special Campaign
Committee of this organization, who
will mail booklet of translated let
tiers from some of the little children
already helped, to anyone who will
send a stamped, self addressed en-
ve;or of business size to her at
Room 92S, 40 S. Michigan, Ave,
Chicago. Illinois.
FROM CARRlZZO N. M.