The Washington times., 1922-10-20

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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 ye shall weep" And then you
will seize gladly upon that other divine word Of the
Christ and send it the sea with your speedy
gifts to comfort and save and your gifts will make
good the message: BLESSED are ye that hunger now;
for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now
for ye shall laugh!'
The Literary Digest we'll knows your good works:
it we'll knows that you are treess and always ready
to save and to comfort. You will now respond in
stantly to this call What The Digest has done while
waiting to tell you the facts has been done in utter
great ship Contrf has discharged its load of food
and the starving fugitives have already eaten the
bread baked from the flour in that cargo It is you
who did this because when, on September 25th, Q
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, discounted faith in you and
borrowed the $176000 and bought the entire food
cargo of the Contarf We told the committee to keep
on buying other shpoads of food until the pitful need
was satisfied. "He gives twice who gives quickly"
and we are confidently depending upon you to make
this act your own by great outpouring of gifts to
others. We appeal to all the churches in America
that have been the repositories of the sacred ideals
of our nation; appeal to the thinking and work.
ing 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 you happy
homes and laughing children, as He has been merci-
full 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 now we
urge all who read these words to send 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 look into their eyes
shining with grattude-never? Yes, perhaps you
lui 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
Committee, with Will H. Hays as Chairman, the fol-
lowing representatives of eight national organiza
tions 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 Distribution Committee; DR.. Robert E.
Speer, of the Federal Council of the Churches of
Christ of America; DR.. James L. Barton of the Near
East Relief; Herbert Hoover, of the American Relief
Administration. .T1doe John Rartop Pavpa IF tho