New-York tribune., 1922-10-20
Draw Out Thy Soul to the Hungry,
and Satisfy the Afflicted"

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open wide with help Perhaps you will feel moment
OF shudderng pity for those shrveled souls if be
any such this land Of plenty who revei in abundance
and refuse to share it, whom the Master said Woe
unto you that full! for ye shall hunger Woe unto
you that laugh now for ye shall weep" And then YOU
will seize gladly upon that other divine word of the
christ and send the with your speedy gifts
TO comfort and save and your gifts will make good the
message: Blessed we that hunger now; for ye
shall be filled Blessed ye that weep now; for ye
shall Taught"
The Literary Digest well knows your good works:
1T well knows that treless and always ready to
save and to comfort You will respond instantly
to this call. What The Digest has done while waiting
to tell the facts has been done in faith in you
and IN your overwhelming response. The great ship
Confarf has discharged it's load of food starving
tugltlves have already the bread baked from the
Hour in that It is who did this because wen
on September 25t committee of the Near East Relief
the Y. M G. A. and the Y w. G. A. called upon The
Literary Digest to help in this awful emergency and no
funds were then available, discounted our faith in
and borrowed the $4,000 and bought the entire
food cargo of the Clonarf We told the committee to
keep buying other shiploads of food until the pitifu
need satisfied "IIe gives twice who gives uuckv
and we confidently depending upon you make this
act your own by great outpourng of gifts pay for
this first cargo of food and follow it with Others We
appeal to all the churches America that have been the
repositories OF the sacred ideals of naon appeal
to the thinking and working classes of our 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, He has given you
happy homes and laughing children, He has been
merciful 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 it's contribution of $4,000 to help
feed these starving fugtves And now we urge all who
read these words to send perfect of checks to
provide food and shelter and medical for the half
million sufferers in this awful inferno of the Near East
They never repay you-those homeless ones
those tortured women and pitiful children You will
them face face nor look into their ewes
shining with grattude-never? Yes perhaps you will.
repay for it 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 Fl. Hays Chairman the following
representatives Of eight national organizations who will
cooperate in this great work Of relief DR. John Mott
of the Y. M C. A.; Mrs John French, Of the Y W. c. A.
James A. Faherty, Of the Knights of Colunbus Felix
Warburg Of the Jewish Joint Distribution Committees
DR.. Robert 3. Speer, Of the Federal Council Of the
Churches Of Christ in Amerca DR. James L. Barton of
the Near East Relief; Herbert Hoover of the American
Relief Administrations; Judge John Barton Payne of
the American Red Cross; and r. ]. Cuddihy Of The
Literary Digest.