Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-29

IOunu tnht tne Emergency Alu WIN Hmu
and ready to give me another chance.
Among my Christmas mail found the fol-
lowing:
THE f'NrHeEsfr ssf soAs,g sAs,g * PENNSYLVANIA r.
YOUR CHRISTMAS rs OVER
TsaS cna ~ .S Hf Fave no s'S co had no no
SBsSAT. bESEapER 90. and fsstsh II on tho
"CAidrer Of Europc's Chrstmos Tree
toNLY CONTRIBUTIONS OF MONEY!
went round to 22l South Eighteenth
street to ask about the Christmas Tree for
the Children Of Europe,
This is what found 1T IN hoped every
bill futtering from =" Every twig! Think
of Il.
II. like me. you have not invested--or
invested too little-in Mr.. Toover's great
fund for making children strong, now is
your chance TO get In on the ground floor"
and be an investor. a promoter and a capi.
talist In q perfectly sure thing
Why should We invest. you and I?
because
They need it:
They are children who need il;
They are hungry children who need It;
children who need Il:
Mr.. Hoover and others whom we trust told
us last year, which was why we have known
too long that there are hungry children who
need IL:
We. the richest people in the world. were
told by Mr.. Hoover and others that we could
trust last year, so that we have known too
long that there are hungry children that
Thinking of ourselves as generous and
liking N he ga alled arfh a1naa
the richest people In the world. were told
BY Mr.. Hoover and others last year, so that
We have known too long that there are
hungry children that need It;
Somehow we have. thought of our own
well-fed children and what we could give
them In the way Of luxuries and We have
put away from our thoughts the need Of
other children for actual food. hoping 1t
was not true that they were starving, hoping
some one else would take pity on them. all
the while thinking Of ourselves as generous
and liking to be called generous, neverthe-
less we, the richest people in the world,
were informed by Mr.. Hoover last year.
go that We have known too long that there
are hungry children who need the money
that we have to invest.
IN FACT, the reason for giving grows and
L grows on one, and IL one has given the
reason for giving more until enough is given
grows on one
Coming down through the state on a train
today. every village and town I looked out
on from the car windows had a community
tree with star on the topmost twig.
Whether people went TO church or not. or
were Christians or not. or whatever blend
; ol |nrisians h; tney "ersi !hey Were ceieorn
Ing W the oirth OF the uhiid o., OF an the world.
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p'rI oe'ausr iie n'eu. ,,,
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VET here is strange thing iiumaniv
speaking, it was His love Of children and
their answering love and admiration for Him
that brought about His death.
When He made His triumphal entry into
Jerusalem II was the children running before
and following after Him, the children that
strewed His way with palms and cried
hoSannas that greeted Him as King. And
because He refused to rrbukc them and
would not let them be punished for their
enthusiasm: bee; use, in fact. he accepted
their homage and publicly justified them,
His enemies were given the handle they