El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-12-28
If You Can Spare 1t.

TITHEN the little fellows who sell The Herald on the
w seetsead about the need of the children in Europe
and Of the $4,000 gift by Gen Mills to the fund they said
with accord and from full hearts: "Geel7
Then they Clipped in with pennies and two pennies and
nekes until they had S192 in the hat and the 81 %
was sent to C n Basset Treasurer with the request that
/ It be added TO the children's fund.
It act entirely spontaneous and voluntary. No
body much mentioned It to them They sensed the
great need felt the impulse to help and they gave
limit Of their ability, for to some even penny means
/ deprivation.
If every person in El Paso were to give as much as 2ss
the $4,000 quota Of this city would be raised But not
every person viii give 25c Some have already given $500
each $780, $780, and large number have given from 81 to
SO Yet the fund IS long way from being completes
indeed It is hardly half IN sight yet.
It is easy for folks say, Let others give who
better afford II But that not the question There must
be as many as 5000 individuals e Paso who can give
from 81 SO this fund IF people would only stop and
think minute how carelessy they dribble away
much larger than this for things that give them psma
usnt satisfaction and that certainly not necessary
health, comfort happiness, they would willingly divert
few dollars to the fund for feeding the s5ooooo children
OF Europe who are still entirely dependent on American aid
for merely keeping the spark Of life in their bodies
Herbert Hoover has explained that the fund raised
America VIII all be used for this purpose only. He tells
how the people Of an those countries officially and IN
officially, have cooperatsd, how 10000 Europeans de-
voting their services without pay to the actual work Of
only 90 Americans constitute the entire employed force Of
organizers over that vast area
Re has made it clear that there is not only
head TO pay out Of this fund waste diversion OF
money bit that the contrary the people and the govern
mens Of the countries are to contribute s. for
every 81 America puts up.
It is necessary to carry these millions boys and
girls until the nex harvest. Only meal day served
and that only to the most desperately in need boy
girl must Re actually at the point Of starvation obtain
feeding card for there not enough to 90 around the
great crty are turned away adults It is pful
that this must be, but surely cannot let the cry Of the
stricken and helpless victims Of conditions with which they
had nothing to do 90 unheeded in the midst Of abun-
dance and prosperity that contrast sharply with Europes
distress
Nobody is asked give anything who cannot spare it.
But let each take thought to whether spare
it not, for such Every SO given VIII
the life Of child until SUMNER There are 1900
relief agencies operating, including not only food stations
but hospitals, Clinics and asylus, all dependent Amer
ican funds and American organization and Management Do
not think Of $40 going into the general pot but think
Of It as actually saving child from death
As Hoover says, Can you not take invisible guest
into your home until harvest? It is not much to ask
Germany sees more than ray Of light in America She
sees prospective eonmissary.
The police might cal everybody up each morning and
ask him he intends to commit any crime during the day
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The straight and narrow way seems 20 be widening
What's come Of the short line that was to connect Ei
Paso with Roswell? This is the third time It has been
mislaid.
The minds the standard Of the man.