Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-25

with help. Perhaps you will feel moment of shuddering
pity for those shriveled souls, if there be any such in this
land of plenty, who revelin abundance ts1 and refuse to share r
it, to whom the Master said, Woe unto you that are FULL
for we 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 across the sea
with your speedy gifts to comfort and save, and your gifts
will make good the message: Blessed are We that hunger
now; for ye shall be filled. Blessed are We that weep now;
for We shall laugh!'
The Literary Digest we'll knows your good works; it
we'll knows that you are tireless and always ready to save
and to comfort. You will now respond instantly to this
call. What The Digest has done while waiting to tell you
the facts has been done IN utter faith IN you and III your
overwhelming response. The great ship Contarf has dis
~chargedi its load of food, and the starving f~ugitives have al
ready eaten the bread baked from the flour In that cargo.
1t is you who did this, because when, on September 18th.
a committee of the Near East Relief, the Y. M. G. A. and
the Y. w c. A. called upon The Literary Digest to help
in this awful emergency, and no funds were then available,
we discounted our faith in you and borrowed the S 1000
and bought the entire food cargo of the Clontarf. We told
the committee to keep on buying other shiploads of food
until the pitiful need was satisfied. He gives twice who
gives quickly and we are confidently depending upon
you to make this act your own by a great outpouring Of
gifts to pay for this first cargo of food and to follow it with
others. We appeal to all the churches in America that
have been the repositories of the sacred ideals OF our ma
ton; we 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, as He has given
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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 own contribution of $4,000 to help feed
these starving fugitives. And now we urge all who read
these words to send a perfect storm Of checks to provide
food, and shelter, and medical care 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 pitiful children. You will never see
them face to face. nor look into their eyes shining with
gr~atitude-nevere 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 ye shall be the
Children of the Highest
President Harding has appointed as a Special Commit
tee, with Will RI. Hays as Chairman, the following repre-
sentatives of eight national organizations who will coop
crate in this great work Of relief: Dr.. John r. Mott, of
the Y. M. c. A; Mrs. John French, of the 7. w c. A.;
James A. Flaherty, of the Knights Of Columbus; Felix
Warburg, of the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee;
DR.. Robert f. Speer, of the Federal Council of the
Churches of Christ in America; DR.. James L. Barton, Of
Near East Relief; Herbert Hoover, of the American Relief
Administration; Judge John Barton Payne, of the Amer
can Red Cross; and F. J. Cuddihy, of The Literary Digest.