The Owosso times., 1920-12-24
100000 LIVES IS
MICHIGAN QUOTA
OF HOOVER FUND
"sAvE A LIFE" CERTIFICATES TO
BE SOLD IN EVERY COUNTY
IN STATE.
$40 WILL KEEP ONE CHILD
TIL NEXT HARVEST TIME
schsoi Children To Mako Offering For
Starving Tots In Central and
Eastern Europe.


S.Se>. ~ starving children In Eastern
sad Centrai Europe may not drown
ne symSAony Of Americas Christ
mas carsis and their dying mock
Chrfstisaity celebration OF the birth
OF Ono who came to save the world,
the state committee of the European
Relief Council is issuing Save a Life
Certificates. and urging every family
In the state to provide a place at its
Christmas table for as many little in.
visible guests as It can afford.
Save a Life" certificates are to be
sold in three denominations. A ten
dollar certificate will provide a place
at the table for little starving child
and keep him until next harvest, pro-
viding one warm meal day. and the
necessary clothing and medical atten-
ton. A flve-dclla- certificate will
keep him for five months, and a one
dollar certificate for one n onth.
State Quota 100000 Lives.
These certificates will be sold
throughout the state with Michigan's
quota Of 100000 lives, or $1,000 900, as
the objective Detroit Is estimated to
be responsible for $4,000 lives, leav-
ing the rest of the state to save $4,000.
The organization through the coun-
ties Is composed largely of the same
personnel which worked so success
fully in the wartime campaigns, and
the response has been so enth Isiastic
that in many instances the chairmen
have wired David A. Brown, general
director Of the campaign, that they
expected to reach their quota before
the end Of the week. In several cases,
the remainder of the war funds were
turned over to the state committee of
the Hoover fund and the necessity Of
campaign was done away with.
Menominee had her $4,000 quota be-
fore the campaign started officially.
The school children throughout the
European children on the last day Of
school before Christmas according to
directions being sent out by Thomas
Johnson, state superintendent of pub
lie instruction. Seven cents will buy
a meal and the pennies of the Michi-
gan children will save hundreds of
lives before August, 1921,
With the approval of the church
heads the pupils of the parochial
schools will also make their contribu-
tions before the closing for Christmas.
Hoover Sure of Success.
Herbert Hoover, national chairman,
is so confident that Americans great
and small will hold out a helping
hand, that he has ordered food supplies
on credit that the shipping may not
be interrupted. Should there be
lapse in the forwarding of supplies,
hundreds Of thousands of children who
have no other food than the meal at
the feeding station would! die. Should
the arm of America be shortened by
selfishness or Indifference cata-
unrivaled in the history of the
world would fall upon Europe.
Mayor James Couzens, of Detroit,
State Chairman of the Hoover Cam.
paign, Is confident that Michigan will
respond to this appeal in the same
spirit she has met every worthy re-
quest for aid in the past.
Michigan has never failed in great
he said. "She will not
fail now, when the lives of $500, 900
are at stake"
Organizations United.
Eight of the largest charitable or.
ganizations in America. the American
Relief Administration, the American
Red Cross, the American Friends Ser
vice Committee, the Federal Council |
Of the Churches of Christ in America,
the Jewish Joint Distribution Commit
tee, the Knights Of Columbus, the Y.
NJ. G. A. and Y. w. G. A. have united |
TOR this emergency to form the Euro
,ean Relief Council.