New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
$4,000 W Wonen
asst To-day to
Aid Starving
Many to Omit One Meal
While Others Will Limit
Themselves to Hoover
Menu to Swell Fund
Clubs to Play Big Part
Life Saving Stations
Throughout the City Will
Receive the Contributions

Fifty thousand women will fast to-
day for the benefit Of the children Of
Eastern Europe who are being saved
from starvation by the European Re-
lief Council, Of which Herbert Hoover
is chairman. Many members of the
Women's Emergency Committee have
pledged themselves to omit one meal,
while others will limit themselves to
the Hoover menu" of bread and cocoa.
Ten United States army recruiting
huts have been transformed into life
saving stations for the day and will
stand on prominent corners IN order
that it may be convenient for persons
to contribute the amount OF their
"self-denial meal" to the fund.
In the large women's clubs a Hoover
meal will be served for 81. The cost
of the meal Of bread, stew and cocoa
is estimated at 25 cent, and the differ
ence will be contributed to the fund.
Will Serve Hoover Menu
The Colony Club, the -Women's City
Club and the Cosmopolitan Club will
serve the Hoover menu at lunch. and
the Women's University Club at dinner
time. In addition, the Women Speak
ers' Bureau, Of which Mrs. John 7.
Pratt is chairman, has made arrange
ments to send speakers to every i'm
portant gathering of women in the
hotels and lecture halls, pleading with
the audiences to practice self-denial
for one meal and contribute the amount
saved to the relief fund.
Borough President Henry Curran
will open the first life saving station
at the SubTreasury Building at noon.
At the Public Library the speakers will
be Miss Fanny Hurst, Miss Carroll Nc
Comus of miss Lulu Bett," who will
''whistle for dollars" and other
actresses who acquired the art Of Fifth
Avenue speaking during the war. Mem
bers Of the Emergency Canteen Outfit
of the American Red Cross. in uniform
will collect money from the crowds, and
pour it into the huge coffee kettles,
which are relics Of the war.
The life e-saving stations will be
located at Madison Square Park, in
charge of The Bryn Mawr Club; Murray
Street and Broadway, Overseas League
OF the Red Cross; Thirty-fourth Street
and Seventh Avenue, Red Cross Emer-
gency Canteen Service; Sixth Avenue
and Forty-second Street, Junior
League; Fourteenth Street and Fourth
Avenue, Young Mems Christian Asso-
ciation; Broadway and Seventy-secon
Street, the League of Women Voters;
City Hall Park, Women's City Club
and Columbus Circle, the League of
Women Voters.
TRADE Groups Pledge Aid
Leaders Of the ninety-two trade
groups Of the industrial division of the
New York State organization OF the
Hoover European Relief Council yes.
terday at a luncheon in the Bankers
Club unanimously pledged their con.
tinued cooperation with Mr.. Hoover ir
the task of raising this states quota
of the S33 100000 fund sought A. c
! Bedford, chairman Of the New Yorl
State executive committee who pre-
sided, said to date these trade group:
had obtained $157,341.38. and that the
total thus far subscribed in the state
since the drive was begun on Octobe,
% was now about $2,00O,000. 1t is de.
sired to raise $3,50O,000 as this states
quota.
"From returns being received from
over the country" said Mr.. Bedford
New York is ahead. Let us see to it
that New York keeps ahead"
Darwin P. Kingsley, chairman of the
life insurance group, reported contri-
buttons totalling $40 900, and said the
1900 employees of the home Office of
the New York Life Insurance Company
had volunteered to go without lunch
to-day in order to give to the fund.