The Washington times., 1925-12-14
WEEK LEFT FOR
GOOD FELLOWS

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1ome Friday a week. it win be
Christmas!
Come today week.. you win be
/, heels over head. getting ready Tor
,your immediate happiness and that
OF those closest to you!
That leaves yci just one week
10 ioin the hundreds OF your fell
low townsmen who have volun-
teered in the last fortnight to
spread a bit Of Christmas happiness
here and there among the poor OF
Washington.
you will not look upon this annual
GOOD FELLOW campaign as too
much Of a duty-although At ls
really that.
IT hopes you win see that a privi-
leee is being offered you--the privi-
iege of walking yourself into some
destitute home and, with your own
hands. leaving some form Of cheer;
be 1t a flew clothes, used or other
wise. q basket Of groceries, q small
amount of cash to help along in
the eternal rent problem or some
TOYS or other CHI istmas happiness.
The approaching days, the week
before Christmas, the days imme-
diately before yea to become SO
enwrapped In good cheer for your
own dear ones, II the opportunity
you should take to demonstrate
that you are q good fellow.
And as to this GOOD FELLOW
business. why. YOU can write your
own ticket.
You can help fourteen.year-o old
how to get an overcoat.
You can outfit a couple OF little
girls in shoes and stockings.
You can get q quarter OF e ton
OF coal or coke or several bundles
% wood for mother who Is try
inc TO keep her brood warm.
Three young men, newcomers 10
the, town. want work. One Is q
nainter. one an auto mechanic and
the other clerk. Perhaps you
KNOW where you can place one or
al Of them.
And there are the run-of- the-m1ne
cases. BY this we mean the hum
dre5a Of appeals which come into
this office for identically the same
articles-food clothing and q Christ
mas dinner.
n doesn't seem possible that
thousands Of Washingtonians VINO
win sit down to a sumptuous meal
on Christmas day can DO 50 KNOW
ing. that, with q little effort on
their part In the meantime, they
could assure dozens and dozens OF
noor families OF this same prospect.
AS we say, this may, be e duty
.-but it should also be q privilege;
It an depends on how you are go
ing to look at it.
You may argue and quibble. You
NAV console yourself with the
f11o1Ipht that the score OF welfare
ORGANIZATIONS OF Washington 20
vhich Won have contributed viii
nut food In every unfortunate house
hold In washington between now
and Christmas morning, but you, are
s.alf wei" IL that Is your excuse
Those organisations viii reach
thousands Of humble Washington
homes. it is true. They do that
every wear. But owing to the re-
moteness of many cases, they also
miss many. and It is this latter
elaas OF homes which cant pc
reached except through the me-
dunn of q daily newspaper tnat
GOOD FELLOWS of Washington
are reaching.
You read today. and you read
last week. and you VIII read to-
morrow, Of the GOOD FELLOW
campaign undertaken by The Wash
ington Times. But the poor and
needy seem to read Of this &C
tivity in greater numbers than do
those who are able TO help the poor
and needy.
At least the files of The Wash
ington Times GOOD FELLOW De-
partment indicates right now that
there are two poor families in
washington for every family that
has shown an inclination to help it.
And that is a situation that I'VE
are asking the public to clear UP
in the next ten days. Let us not
have a single destitute family I'M
cared for on our files by 6 o'clock
on the night of December %.
Then we can all go home to our
own Christmases, feeling that we
deserve the happiness that awaits
Us there. Phone the GOOD FELL
Low Editor now and ask for q
destitute family TO adopt" Or
fill in the GOOD FELLOW coupon.