Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-10-20
''Draw Out Thy Soul to the Hum
and Satisfy the Afflicted"


revel in abundance and refuse to share IT, to whom the
Master said, Woe unto you that full for ye shall
hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for we shall
weep" And then you will seize gladly upon that other
divine word of the Christ and send it the
with your speedy gifts comfort and save and your
gifts will make good the message: BLESSED ye that
hunger now; for ye shall be filed Blessed ye that
weep now for ye shall taught"
The Literary Digest well knows your good works;
it well knows that you tireess and always ready
to save and to comfort. You will now respond in
stantly to this CALL What The Digest has done while
waiting tell you the facts has been done in utter
faith in you and in your overwhelming response The
great ship Clontarf has discharged its load of food
and the starving ugitves have already the bread
baked from the flour in that cargo. It is you who did
this, because when September 25th committee of
the Near East Relief the Y NJ c. A. and the Y. w. c. A.
called The Literary Digest help in this awful
emergency and funds then available, dis
counted faith in you and borrowed the $4,000 and
bought the entire food cargo of the Clonta We told
the committee to keep buying other shploads of
food until the ptiful need was satisfied. HE gives
twice who gives quickly" and confidently de-
pending upon you to make this your by great
oupourng of gifts to pay for this first cargo of food
and to follow it with Others We appeal to all the
cnurcneS III America tat nave been the repositories
of the sacred ideals of nation; we appeal to the
thinking and working classes of broad land to all
the institutions and organizations that have for their
object the safeguarding of human rights and human
lives. AS God has blessed you as He has given you
happy homes and laughing children, He has been
naercful to you have mercy upon these His people.
The Literary Digest standing shoulder to shoulder
and heart to heart with you in this urgent task will
start the fund with its contribution of $4,000 to
help feed these starving fugitives And we urge
all who read these words to send perfect storm of
for the half million sufferers in this awful inferno of
the Near East.
They can never repay you-those homeless ones
those tortured women and pitful children You will
them face to face look into their eyes
shining with gratitude-never? Yes, perhaps you will
But now the blessed Christ bids you give and He will
repay for it was He who said DO good and lend hoping
for nothing again, and your reward shall be great and
We shall be the Children of the Highest"
President Harding has appointed as Special Com
mittee with Will H. Hays as Chairman the following
representatives of eight national organizations who
will cooperate in this great work of relief: Dr. John
r. Mott, of the Y M. c. A.; Mrs. John French, of the
Y w. c. A.; James A. Flaherty, of the Knights of
Columbus Felix Warburg, of the Jewish Joint Dstri-
button Committee; Dr. Robert E. Speer of the Federal
Council OF the Churches of Christ in America; Dr.
James l.. Barton, of the Near East Relief; Herbert
Hoover, of the American Relief Administration; Judge
John Barton Payne, of the American Red Cross: and
r. J. Cuddhy, of The Literary Digest