New Britain herald., 1929-12-21
CHILDREN HELP IN
 WORLD FRIENDSHIP
Goodwill Gifts Go From New
 Britain to Philippine Islands

We Who Desire Peace Must Write it in the Hearts of Children" IS the motto of the committee on World Friendship Among Children which is promoting the third pro- jcct in world friendship now being carried throughout the United States and in which this city is CO., operating. This project is designed to cultivate und 7rstanding and good will between the children of the United States and those in the Philippine Islands. by means of 'frlendShip treasure chests which will De sent from children and young people in the United States to be distributed to the school children of the Philippine Islands on the Philip pine national holiday commemorate ing the death of Dr. Jose RiZal, the Philippine patriot who gave his life to win freedom for his people.
 The friendship treasure chests are made of metal so as to be inn previous to white ants which arc found i'll tn" Philippines These chests arc cGWpped with brass handles and with lock and key, and delightfully."- Autographed in II col OTIS showing old maps Of the world, with pictures of Washington and Iiizal of Columbus and Magellan, of the Watchful s@a-scrpent and the whale. and Old Boreas and Father Neptune controlling the winds and waves.
 Each chest will carry with it q general letter of greeting to the boys and girls of the Philippines intro ducing the senders of the chests to the Filipino children who will re- ceive them. In addition there will be personal letters of greeting with q good will message from children in this country who send the chests, together with gifts which the chil- dren of the United States send to the children over there. These gifts include pencils and pencil box, mar hles. sssors. sewing kit. drawing sets, balls, tiny dolls, handkerchiefs ivory soap models. magnets, games and similar articles which delight the hearts of children the world around. Tn addition there are arti- cles which children can make. such as scrap-boolls. sewing bags, puzzle pictures and post card albums.
 Each chest, moreover. is 10 have one or more books in English. story books, books of poetry, bi- osraphy, fairy tales and information. The sending of these books is con- aiderod an important part of the project, and is expected to meet a real need of the Filipino children who learn English in their schools. There are very few public libraries in the Philippines and the books which accompany these treasure chests will furnish reading material to thousands of children A care fully selected lis. of books suitable for sending to the Filipino children has been prepared by Miss Clara Whitehjll Hunt, superintendent of the childrcn's department of the Brooklyn public library, and books are selected from this list
 One of the fundamental needs of the present time is 10 get the people of the world to think Of each other in terms of fliendliness and CO., operation, the "Jnoral disarmament" of which President Hoover speaks.
 The sending of friendship treasure chests is the third good will pro- ject for building up friendship among children of various lands. The first was the sending of 12.739 dolls, messengers of friendship from the children of the United States to the children Of Japan in 1927, a lflendShlp gesture of far-rCachino significance in offsetting the bitter feeling which many Japanese felt toward the United States because of the unnecessarily harsh treatment Japan received at the hands of the thltcd States congress in the Jap