The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-25
$50 Children
GUen Joy in
Clothing DriUe
THERE'S a light a-shining to-


Il day.
1t shines by day and by night.
1t will keep a-shining for the
next year.
It's light with heart, a soul,
and the warmth of humanity.
It's light O. love, of making
ragged lads and lasSies comfort
able in new garb.
It's the light that says Merry
Christmas" to you and "a Happy
New Year" today.
It's the light that burns for you
who have gone down into Pow
erty Valley and left the shine of
Bethlehem's star to rest among
the unfortunates of 1881.
And it's the same light that has
blazed for a month in this city
of ours, and in that month
through the Clothe-a -Child-for-
Christmas campaign of The In
dianapolis Times-made $50 boys
and girls of school age safe from
cold, illness and grief of depriva-
ton.
I ODGES, Sororities, fraterni-
IL ties, single men and single
women, married couples, business
firms and neighborhood groups
brought the total to $50 children
clothed in a year that finds de
preston" on every lip.
The campaign had more in
dividual donors than the drive of
1880.
The white -collared" worker
the man with a job and even a
sliced salary-was responsible for
the campaigns success as much
as any other factor. =
He dug deep in his pockets to
give youth a chance to find a
warmer path in life.
City bowlers-with a score of
tWenty-Seven children clothed
played Abou Ben Adhem on the
list of donors. The Universal
Club, with twelve children clothed,
ranked second and took the pole
position for individual organiza-
tions in clothing children.
A S for honorable mention-a
"a weak method of giving
laurels-the following groups and
individuals deserve thanks" from
the city'S INDECENT as well as The
Times: American legion Month
ly, six children5 Sigma Alpha
Iota sorority, eight children; Mr..
and Mrs. William D. Vogel, five
children; Lincoln Office of Indiana
Bell Telephone Company, seven
children; Indiana Farm Bureau,
Inc, six children; Columbia Con-
serve ompany, five children.
And as the campaign reached
its climax On Thursday afternoon,
a great big heart widened and,
without asking "how many to go
to make $50, just closed the cam
paign by taking enough children
to make that number.
The Great Big Heart incor-
porated other hearts in the form
of employees of the Office of
Sheriff Buck Sumner.
'We'll take ten children" they
said, as they closed the campaign
with $50 children.
A FORTUNATELY $4,000 was
IA expended in the campaign.
Many groups and individuals of
the 1880 campaign cared for their
children of 1880 instead of seek
ing new names from the list of
1881.
1t is estimated that approx
mately $50 children received
warm clothing through the years
drive.
Relief agencies of the Com
munity Fund and the social Serv-
ice department of the Indianap-
oils public schools will be able to
spread their relief budgets over
a wider area, due to the CHEEKY
giving of the Clothe-a-Child men
and women.
The agencies and the Christmas
Clearing House co-operated in
investigating the need of children
in the campaign.
The agencies thank you, Clothe-
a-Child folk. The indianapolis
Times thanks you. The children
why - they - they've eady
thanked you by word and act.
And as it's Christmas day and
you've all that you wished for,
there's nothing we can wish you
except that-well, we wish that
the light that shines today may
always shine in your heart.