The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-01
REFUGEE MEAL
FOR AMERICANS
Whole Country Asked to Adopt
0rphanage Menu for lust
One Sunday Dinner.
RELIEF HAS SAVED MILLION
People of All Nations viii Fieurative-
ly Gather Around Same Table as
Practical Sign of Sympathy With
Near East Sufferers.
RELIEF HAS SAVED MILLION

How many comfortably fed, clothed
and housed Americans will sit down
to a Sunday dinner of rice, corr grits
and soup-typical orphan fare-on
December 2, as a practical test of the
golden rule?
The question is asked today by
Charles V. Vickrey, general secretary
of Near East Relief, who is in charge
of the plans for the general obserF-
ance throughout the United States Of
Golden Rule Sunday" In an inter
view, Mr.. Vickrey said:
"If American people will renounce
for M meal the food they are accus-
toned to eat, and contribute the diff
ference in cost to the support of starv-
ing children in the near east, the stu
alton in Greece, Armenia and Pales-
tine will become infinitely more real
to them.
II have recently returned from sew
eral months in those countries. Ameri-
ca is a name to conjure with there.
Bitter reproaches are heard against
nearly every other country, but none
against US. That is because people
realize that Americans have gone to
them with a helping hand and a
square deal. rather than with the
mailed fist.
America could we'll have afforded
to have spent every penny of her re-
lief funds as a long-sighted. c%old-blood-
ed business proposition. The good
will that has resulted from relief
work in the near east is Of incalcul-
able value. When these orphans we
are caring for today grow to man
hood, they will become the leaders Of
their nations and their eyes will turn
toward America.
Eat least a million persons in the
near east would not be alive today had
it not been for American aid. Even
today, 100000 persons are being cared
for day to day by the Near East Re-
lief, mostly women and children who
would probably perish in a few days
or weeks if the work ceased.
"Our workers are now concentrat-
ing not only on the physical care of
our $4,000 orphans. but on their in
dustrial training as well. At the age
Of 16, when an orphan leaves our
care, he is equipped to enter some
nsefuI trade or business. In Narazeth
there are boys working in u carpen-
ter shop a few feet from the spot
where Christ toiied. In Macedonia,
hundreds of Greek ORPHANS are learn
ing farming in the atmosphere where
Paul spent many years in establishing
the first European churches.
Five dollars a month provides food
and physical necessities for IN Or
phan, and 500 a year provides for his
education as well. The observance
of Golden Rule Sunday by a mil
lion American families will provide
enough funds for thousands Of orphans,
When people break bread together,
they become friends. On this Inter
national Golden Rule Sunday people
of all nations fguratiyely will gather
around the same table. partaking Of
the same food representing the menu
which the unfortunate children Of the
near east hope, by the benevolence of
the West, to eat 365 days in the year.
But even this simple menu the or
phans cannot have unless the rest OF
the world practices the Go'd0n Rule"