EVENING
GER-PHILADELPHIA, M Off DAY, HOvMlBEB dTToI.
I, 4 4 " '
K' if -... , v, . m at , .ii rrMlkM,-'ft-Hn m .,.. m m -n t
I J Philadelphia Says : " We Have Just Begun to Give " j
V, ' ' i 1
I r' Swift and generous comes the response to the call for food for
I stricken Flanders.
- I 1
" & H It makes us all proud we are Philadelphians let us be prouder still.
; S m
) JH n Already tons of food and large sums of money to buy food have
L- -1 m keen contributed, but there must be
I I More! More MORE!
Ml
7"-
!
(
TVh
day,
.Ann
vara
ibt tereat
B thit
K5 portar
-v Ifn f1r
K Jinck't
g. words
M Fleldlr
P in the
hog a
! Jr '
Wolvr
vnls,
Broq.
undo
dictij
." 1cv
i?. ''Af
odds
V.. & it
f cluald
j team
1 ner. '
Black
fled i
the. t
; . flnat ,
. apt t
', by an;
, that :
howli
for k
The Norwegian steamship "Thelma," under charter by a citizen of
Philadelphia, is lying at Pier 16, S. Wharves, Delaware River, waiting for
a cargo of food.
Each day she waits hundreds more will die in Belgium for want of
food.
mm
tho
The agonies and destitution already resulting from the war in
Europe have become an enormity in the face of civilization.
There is nothing in the whole world's history in the least measure to
compare to it.
It is a new revelation of world disaster; such a thing as there is no
precedent for.
No prophecy ever contemplated the remotest degree of its horrors.
No language has words to describe it. There never was such a thing.
There never was belief in or expectaion of such a thing. It is unutterable.
The newspapers of Philadelphia have responded to a call to give
their help toward the preservation of the light of civilization. in the world,
and have volunteered to do the work of filling the relief ship.
This is Not Our War, But a Starving
Child Is Any Man's Problem
Millard K. Shaler, the American who visited Brussels on behalf of
the American Commission for the Relief of Belgium, cabled from London:
"These afflicted people the Belgians) constantly express
their undying gratitude for American help. Without America they
feel they would be crushed out of existence by famine and war"
Without America They Would Die But
With Our Help They Shall Not
We shall not mince words for fear of giving offense. This is no time
for strenuous solicitation, but it is time for thoughtful consideration.
In the name of humanity the Belgians have a rigjit to the aid of all
Christian peoples.
The newspapers of Philadelphia. have taken charge of the work of
filling the relief ship with food.
The Special Headquarters in the Lincoln
Building, Broad Street and South Penn
Square, Will Be Open Late Tonight
In- the headquarters will be sh own samples of the kinds of food that
it is possible for the ship to carry, and information will be given as to how.
this food can be bought.
The Philadelphia National Bank has charge of the Relief Fund.
Make checks payable to the Philadelphia National Bank for the Thelma
Fund.
The whole American body of humanity seems ready to MAKE AC
TUAL SACRIFICE to save the other half of the world from the effects of
a disaster unspeakable.
Men, women and children who are suffering now in Europe are
EXACTLY LIKE GUR OWN MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN here
at home.
They have the same aptitude for sorrow; they have the same capacity
for pain, the same horrors of hunger and shelterless destitution that every
one of us has.
They are experiencing the agonies and sorrows, while we can only
contemplate them.
They are unable to help themselves. THERE IS NO ONE TO HELP
THEM SAVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Sympathies have nothing to do with it. It is a duty unescapable by
any of us.
It Is the Supreme Call in the Hour of the
Great Crisis of Civilization
Five cents will pay for a meal for a hungry woman and child. There
is not a little boy or a little girl in Philadelphia who can't give five cents.
$6.40 will buy a barrel of flour that will save a family from starva
tion. Remember that every day hundreds are dying. Who in Philadelphia
will give $6.40 to buy a barrel of flour to save some of these lives?
$3 will buy fifty pounds of beans. Whowill give this little amount,
and be recompensed by the consciousness of offering relieved and lives
saved and civilization redeemed?
Buying in quantities may make these prces less and that will mean
we can buy all the more.
If you cannot give without making sane sacrifice, MAKE THAT
SACRIFICE. f ' '
Special Suggestion!
A considerable number of people have stopped at headquarters to
ask if they could be permitted to send whatever articles they could find in
the grocery stores where they usually buy t'eir own supplies. The 'answer
is that no one is shut off from giving any ood that is put up in proper
form to go on shipboard, and that will rt spoil. Let your grocer or
storekeeper deliver the goods at headquartrs if you can arrange it as
time is a factor. If you have no way to delipr, telephone Filbert 2456, and
the goods, if in the city, will be sent for.
Huh
.ana
Gyrus H. K. Curtis . . . Public Ledger
Cyrus H. K Curtis . . Evening Ledger
Benjamin G. Wells . Philadelphia Press
John J. Collier . , Evening Telegraph
M. R Hanson . . . Philadehia Record
James Elverson,Jr. . Philadephia Inquirer
E.A. Van Valfcenburg . Jprth American &
W. L. McLean . . kening Bulletin 4
A
4
im
n , ' TzJ ""feU, 4 J,. .!... i.A, - -, f P- frrW t -iTMtM4