The Washington herald., 1921-07-31
BINCHAMTON BOYS
ASSIST EUROPEANS
Raise Funds to Feed Starving
Brothers in European
Countries.

When the millions of children
were starving in Europe and Mr..
Hoover made his appeal for $4,000
900. before the grown-ups did any
thing in Binghamton, n. Y, Judge
Willis Brown, knowing what a lot
of regular Achievement First Ameri-
can Boys lived there. some 1000 of
them. suggested to Mr.. Hoover that
these Binghamton boys could show
what boys could do for boys.
A mass meeting was held, COM
posed of about 1000 boys. Boys ran
it. Judge Brown gave a talk and
told the boys some of the facts abou,
starving boys of Europe.
The boys decided that each boy In
Binghamton should at least feed one
boy in Europe for one month. That
would cost 81. So they started out
to feed 1000 boys in Europe for one
month.
Lays Plea Before Rotarinns-
IF you saw a kid that was starv-
Ing and he asked you for something
to eat. would you turn him down."
was one query.
III you knew a kid was starving.
would you turn him down just be-
cause you could not see him." was
another.
NO. No. No. OF course we
wouldn't" cried a lot of men.
Everett Lee, the chief of the Bing-
hamton First American Boys. asked
these questions of the members of
the Rotary Club.
The men proceeded to show they
wouldn't let any boy starve. and Ev-
erett came from the meeting with
s666.75.
The boys waited on the mayor and
requested that he set aside one day
to be called First American Day.
On this day the boys were to see
portunity to give 81 and hang in the
window a card which read:
One Boy Saved"
Boys Handle Campaign.
The boys handled the entire cam
paign. Boys spoke in churches and
devised many schemes for raising
and earning money.
The boys of the parochial schools
gathered junk for the day and turn
ed in 800. Self-denial boxes were
used, and the girls were enlisted to
follow up certain houses where boys
had been unsuccessful.
1t seemed that every house had a
'One Child Saved" card in the win
dow.
The high school in Binghamton
consists of 1905 students. These
concluded to actually give by sacri-
ficing something and not to solicit
from others. Thus was S1.205 raised
in ten minutes.
Five boys, headed by Everett Lee,
who is Is. and the oldest boy of the
group, took the train for New York.
where they. acting as a committee
for the First Americans, delivered
to Mr.. Hoover personally the relief
fund they secured in Binghamton.
1t was $500 instead of $4,000.
school Children Contribute.
Everett Lee spoke in one of the
New York schools, and after his ad-
dress the pupils. to the number of
1900, pledged 81 each, or $1,000, that
day.
The grown-ups are proud OF the
First American Boys of Bingham
ton. There was no committee So
liciting people on the streets, in
stores and Offices. 1t was simply
done, and more than expected the
city would give, for. like most cities
the people were weary with drives
for various charities.
But the boys proved they could be
a factor in the city.
Boys can. do anything; that Is
boys who can do worth while things.
get them together in one solid move
ment.
They will make all-Americans OF
every man and woman in the land
When We turn 100000 Firs;
Americans loose on any one big
proposition, well, it just happens.
Hurrah for the First Americans
of Binghamtoni