The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-10-21

hand will be open wide 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
revel in abundance and refuse to share 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 the
with your speedy gifts to comfort and save and your
gifts will make good the message: BLESSED are We
that hunger for We shall be filled Blessed We
that weep now; for we shall taught"
The Literary Digest we'll knows your good works:
1t well knows that you tireess 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 in your overwhelming response. The great ship
Contarf has discharged it's load Of food and the starry
ing fugitves have already eaten the bread baked from
the flour in that cargo 1t is you who did this, because
when, September 25th 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, we discounted our
faith in you and borrowed the $4,000 and bought the
entire food cargo of the Clontarf We told the commit
tee to keep buying other shpoads of food until the
pitiful need satisfied Gle gives twice who gives
quickly" and we confidently depending upon you
to make this act your by great outpourng 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
nation; we appeal to the thinking and working classes
ons that have for their object the safeguarding of hui
man rights and human lives AS God has blessed you,
as He has given you happy homes and laughing chill
dren 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 its contribution Of $4,000 to
help feed these starving fugtives. And urge
all who read these words to send perfect storm of
checks to provide food and shelter and medical
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 pitiul children You will
them face to face look into their eyes
shining with gratudenever? Yes, perhaps you will.
But the blessed Christ bids you give, and He will
repay, for it He who said $40 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 Especial Com
mittee, with Will H. Hays chairman. the following
representatives Of eight national organizations who
will cooperate in this great work of relief DIR. John
H. Mott, of the Y. NJ. c. A.; Mrs John French of the
Y. W. C. A. James \. Flaherty, of the Knights of Co
lmbus; Felix Warburg, of the Jewish Joint Dstribu-
ton Committee; DIR. Robert t. Speer of the Federal
Council of the Churches of Christ in Americas DIR.
James H. Barton, Of the Near East Relief; Herbert
Hoover, of the American Relief Administration; Judge
John Barton Payne, of the American Red Cross; and
II, j. Cuddihv, of The Literary Digest