The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-02-05
County Allotted
Eighty Children
FATHERLESS CHILDREN MUST
BE FIN ANCIALLY ADOPTED
BY AMERICA.
COUNTY DRIVE BEGINS
DIR. e. C. HORN is COUNTY LEA.
DER; MRS. WELDON LOCAL
LEADER

An international organization enti-
tied The Fatherless Children of France
has been Incorporated with American
Headquarters at 665 Fifth Avenue,
New York, and French Headquarters
at 10 rue de Grenelle, Paris, General
! Joffre, President. It's immediate OBJ
ject is to provide for the maintenance
of 100000 French orphans for one
year at cost of $1,000 per year per
child. Each child financially adopted
is first to be certified to by the French
Government that the father was
child is under the mothers care and
in need.
Each person or organization here a.
dopting a child is given the child's
name and address SO that commune
cations can be sent to and received
from the child; the money is paid in
quarterly to the local treasurer in each
) village and township, who forwards
it to the Redwood County chairman,
DR.. E. G.. Horn, who turns it over to
the county treasurer. He in turn for
wards tho money quarterly to the Ma
tional Headquarters, New York, which
deposits it with j. P. Morgan & Co.
for transfer by cable to the French
National Headquarters, and from Pa
ris it is sent out to the mothers by
Post Office cheques, and all is under
the audit and supervision Of the
French Government. W
Local committees are being fol ned
in each village and township thai will
reach the public, parochial, private
and Sunday schools, the Red Cross,
lodges and all who may be interested
in helping to save the children of
France from starvation. Millions of
the fathers of France have been slain,
nearly million, it is estimated. were
either killed or wounded in one battle,
the long siege of Verdun, and it is now
seen that Frances perpetuity is i'm
possible if the children, now helpless,
are not provided at least the pittance
of ten cents day until France is en-
abled to find her bearings and make
provisions for her helpless, starving
boys andgirls. Mrs. w. G. Weldon is
the Redwood Falls chairman and her
district has an allotment of twelve.
Here is sample appeal from an
innocent child out of the ruins of Yer
dun: g ] am hungry and cold, and
my mother has very hard time since
papa was killed at Verdun Before
the war we lived in a little cottage,
and papa was home every day to din
ner, but now the place is all blown up
where we lived so happy, and mama
just cried when she took me to the
place where we thought our house was,
and we couldn't find any thing. Will
some kind American adopt me as papa
died to save me and you, and mama
says he would be SO glad to know
/ had enough to eat and wear"
Other counties in the state are do
ing their parts in helping the father
less children of France, and it is GER
tain that Redwood county will not turn
a deaf ear to this international appeal
of the children Instead of the mini
mum allotment of eighty financial adj
options at $3.50 each this rich coun-
ty ought to make it at least one hum
dred Assurances are given that ev-
cry penny of the $3.50 reaches the
child in France as the overhead ex-
penses are provided for by those who
add so cents extra to cover expenses
of administration.