The Mankato free press., 1923-11-30
HANG Up GOLDEN
RULE on SUNDAY
sFhen kssp II IN Place Rest
OF Your Eife

! u VOW EH0
'tgkP THOSE IN NEED
srhese Rsopse Of the Near EAst Call
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In accprdaaee with proclamstious
OF Pfsssdant Calvin Coolidge. Gov
eEns PTeas. and Mayor W. A. Beach.
Akankato Will observe Golden Rule
Sunday" December 2. This Is in
support OF the near east relief.
On Sunday. December 2. all fami-
lies in Mankato are requested to sit
down to a simple dinner not unlike
that served to orphans in the near
least every day. The difference IN
S6st OF such q simple meal and the
lotfe usaaily eaten on Sunday IN the
several Homes of the city, 1t Is re-
quested be given toward the Near
East relief.
With the President OF the United
States and the governor Of Mime
sofa, Mayor w. A. Beach or Mankato
has endorsed the movement and has
issued the following proclamation:
The president OF the United
States and the Governor OF Min
nesota have endorsed the work
OF the Near East Relief by ap-
moving the idea OF having q
"Goldeh Rule Sunday" on De-
cember 2.
On that day, in the spirit Of
Selfeacrihce, we are invited TO
Join the families Of this country,
and fourteen other countries, In
sitting down to a simple dinner,
not unlike that served to the
orphans IN the near east every
day.
The difference between the
price of such simple meal and
the cost OF our usual Sunday
dinner, we are asked TO forward
to State Headquarters OF the
Near East Relief.
am, therefore, lending my
endorsement to the proposal OF
Golden Rule Sunday" on De-
cember Q, and ask the people OF
| Mankato 10 contribute in q sub
staDtial way toward making the
day a financial success.
Thus shall we practice the
Golden Rule, NIL many empty
plates and do aur part toward
keeping these wards Of America
alive and happy another year.
w. A Beach Mayor OF
Mankato.
Other Officials In Line
Mayors In several of the other cities
OF Minnesota have issued like proc
lamations after endorsing the plan
Of observing December z, as an In
ternational Golden Rule Sunday"
Governor Preus has decided that he
will strictly adhere to the rules OF
that Sunday, by making his dinner
that day beans, hominy and stew,
and will set the example OF giving
the difference in price to the fund
for the Near East relief He re-
quests that each family in the state
do likewise, and this will in long
way help toward the relief Of thous-
ands of starving orphans, who are
now In care OF near east relief as
soeiations. .-
'I am heartily in sympathy with
the movement" said Mayor Beach
in a statement to The Free Press
today, "and Sunday, December 2,
will be observed as Golden Rule
Sunday in my home on that day"
Jacob David, for fifteen years su-
perintendent Of the mission school
for boys in Urumia, who spoke be,
fore the Mankato Kiwanis club
Monday on the topic OF the Near
East relief, is in the city working
up interest 81 the proposition. He
was from 1890, to 1921 'superinten-
dent Of the refugee school and the
Near East orphanage in TaoriZ.
Said BY Moraenthau .
Henry Morgenthau, American am.
bassador to Turkey during the
World war, has the following to say
in regard to the necessity of Near
East relief
For the sake OF our own souls.
We cannot profess to believe in the
Golden Rule and stand idly by while
innocent children die. We cannot
plead that we are bled white while
continuing to spend literally billions
Of dollars upon luxuries. No Ameri-
can can appreciate the incredible
wealth Of our nation and the price,
ship until he has walked among the
dead and the dying in the refugee
camps in the lands of stalking death.
For the sake of the orphans in
the Near East. While endeavoring
to save ourselves and our children
spiritually, we must also save the
children in the Near East physically
else all Of our religious creeds and
golden r1i1es arp hollow mnckarv
Without our aid they perish"