Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-11-13
'I'hIe Slaughter Of the Innocents

their bodies. They must have clothes. Each outfit
consists of one pair of warm wooden stockings, one pair
OF boots and a little overcoat. This one meal a day,
and these boots, stockings, and little coats can be sup
piled only if we give them. If we do,not, the slaughter
OF. the innocents by cold and starvation will be appall-
ing.
Among the more than two million men and women
who will read this page there is not one-there can not
be a single one-whoset heart will not respond gladly
and eagerly to the challenge of this great need. We
are asked, you with us, to cooperate with Mr.. Hoover
in raising twenty-three million dollars to feed and
clothe these children and save them from death this
winter. 1t can be done. 1t shall be done! THE
DIGEST knows its readers and the deep
earnestness, the quick sympathy, the great-hearted
generosity they always show when any real human need
calls to them. You have never been called upon in
vain. W are counting on you now with a great CON
ffdence. We know, also, how truly you represent the
american spirit, which beats in the hearts of a hundred
and three millions more in this big land of plenty, a
spirit which leaps ready at every such call, and is never
weary in well-doing. We are not a hermit nation,
isolated from the world, when suffering and want cry
out to us from anywhere under the sun. A great, a
beautiful, and Notwithstanding hope supports these
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in the far places of the earth, where famine stalks, one
alone is synonymous with rescue and hope-and that
name is America.
The small individual unit of ten dollars win pro-
vide the coat and boots and stockings and one meal a
day for one child this winter. We urge our readers,
we urge every one whose eyes are on these words-to
give quickly as many of these units as possible, to buy
for themselves that precious and priceless thing, the
life Of a little child-as many of them as they can, and
every one will be a shining star in an eternal crown. tt
was the Divine Love of little children, who came to
earth9as a little child, and who reigns now as the King
of Glory, who said, "Inasrnuch as ye have done it unto
one Of the least of these, We have done it unto me- He
does not forget, nor fail to reward.
So deeply do we ourselves feel the urgency of this
great need, knowing all the facts, that we should feel.a
heavy burden of guilt if we did not go beyond anything
we have felt possible heretofore in order to save these
innocent children from suffering and death. There
fore, THE LITERARY DIGEST will start this fund
with the sum Of $4,000 to feed and clothe twenty-five
hundred little boys and girls this winter. What an in
~spiration it will be to all of us-what an inspiration and
example to many thousands who may be uncertain how
much to give-if in the very. first week there shall be.
great shower of checks for $1,000, for $1,000, for
$4,000, as well as a deluge of smaller amounts, to send
the fIndsrollng on towarAthe necessary twenty-three
millions Let US all see again what the fathers heart is
ike in this great rich land of America. Let us have
again a wondrous- revelation Of the heart Ct American
1.otl1erhood. Let US have a great outporring of love
and i.clpfulness in the name of Him who said, Feed ms ms
lambs! y
for all Americans
part Of the United States, Mr.: Harding turned
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