The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1920-06-03
JUDGE Y. G. BANKS
IS MADE CHAIRMAN
PROMINENT OIL MAN HEADS A
$5cO,CC0 CRUSADE FOR Ex.
PANS!CN OF METHODIST
ORPHANAGE.
KALI OF THE KIDDlES' HEARD
Movement To Give Homo To 360
Louisiana Orphans Strikes
Response.

shreveport, May 24.-Recognizine
the paramount importance of building
citlzens for tomorrow and the CRYING
heed OF providing a permanent home
Tor 800 orphans in the state, judge ".
". BANKS, OF the Potter Palmer TINS,
VII ana Gas Division of SArevep, r:
mas accepted the position of executI. ,
CHAIRMAN OF the state for the half mi,
non collar expansion camraign r.,
pelhg launched for the Ruston Nell :
dist orphanage.
Judge Banks, before removing her
from Eastland, Texas, had charee
various war drives, all OF viii. :,
reached their goal.
During the coming week JUDI
banks will name the members of t.e
various committees to handle t.
campaign and will coordinate all OF
MS forces In order that the grsa
campaign for helpless. homeless or.
pnana may be put under way by the
first week in June,
Inc preliminary work of the cr.,-
SADIE II already bearing fruit and in
terest 10 being awakened all over tie
state.
Campaign Director Nickerson stat
hS yesterday that the outlook mazda
safe the prediction that the result #
the orphanage crusade would mark 2
new milestone in philanthropic WORK
NJ, l~Jx
rounded himself with a force of actiy.
and experienced campaigners all over
tho state and no stone Is being left ~
turned to make the crusade one of to
brightest epochs in the history of bs-
nevolent effort.
The city and country press are re-
spending to the appeal Of the home
less Riddles and locally and editorialy
are giving the crusade unqualified SUI
port
During the week past the Saengc-
Amusement Company through Maaa-
ger Richards put its influence benin
the movement ard offered free C.,
charge to advertise the half-milliol
dollar campaign on the screen &C
every one Of their theaters in IL,
state. This will be OF immense vaiu.
to the campaign.
One OF the latest to volunteer his
time and talent to the great move for
the uplift of helpless kiddies is Guy
Empey. the noted war author, seen.
ario writer and motion picture produc-
q. Mr.. Empey will shortly announce
. program of publicity.
The Methodist Church will throw
all Of its strength to the crusade and
this together with the effort now be-
ing made and in the process of making
on the part OF friendly citizens, spells
victory and 4 permanent home for $50
Louisiana orphans.
Save child while he is a Child,
and you have saved a soul for tinn
and eternity. Where could there lie
an Investment with a larger returne
st. James says he shall hide a nulti-
:ude OF sins" Can anyone imagine
what saved life amounts to-? The
lin, debauchery, crime, and the fright
ul train of evils that attend the life
II sinner, with all the heart-ache,
'ain and misery that follows suon
ives. Surely participation in such
work is the highest employment in
which human being cen engage
subscribe to the Louisiana Methodist
)rphanage Expansion Fund.
Four hundred little hands sre be-
eeching you.
a visit to the Ruston Methodist Or
manage is a revelation. an inspiration
nd benediction and it's memory will
We In your hearts forever. Sheltered,
afe, happy, growing up to useful man
cod and wo.nanhood. saved to the
tate and to the Nation-the orphan
ill not be forgotten in this. an hour
I need, neither by the people Of this
tate. whose wards they are, nor by
linn who, watching over Israel, SUM
ers, not, nor sleeps"
Be Daddy Longlegs TO an orphan
hid.