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EVENING LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1916.
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7w s fie Call for Philadelphia's $100,000 Self Sacrifice I
Day for the Unemployed
By the Emergency Aid Committee and the Newspapers of Philadelphia ,
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More than' 100.00Q of the steady, hard-working, self-supporting people of
the city of Philadelphia are now out of work and in need either of immediate
work by which they may maintain themselves, or of assistance until such work
can be obtained.
Most of these have been out of work for months and their rainy day sav
ings are exhausted.
, They must have help now or in a little while they will be walking the
streets by thousands and tens of thousands, lacking food, lacking shelter, lack
ing sufficient clothing for themselves and their children.
Through the co-operation of the Emergency Aid Committee, of the news
papers of Philadelphia, and of Evangelist "Billy Sunday," a campaign has been
undertaken to designate
Next Friday, Lincoln's Birthday,
As "Self Sacrifice Day"
Contributions are called for to be made on that day at the Lincoln Build
ing, headquarters of Emergency Aid Committee, Broad street and South Penn
Square; at any daily newspaper office in Philadelphia, or at the Tabernacle
(where collection for the benefit of the unemployed will be taken up at the
Thursday afternoon and Friday night services) and
It Is Proposed to Raise $100,000
Let it be known at once that this is not an appeal to any ordinary feeling of charity.
Year in and year out nearly every one in Philadelphia, except the very poor, gives
something toward charity as one of the minor duties of life.
That is ordinary charity and it takes care of ordinary conditions.
But We Have Right Now a Time of
Emergency and a Prospect of Calamity
, It is a situation extraordinary in all its aspects. It can be dealt with, but can be
dealt with only by the actual, instant, earnest co-operation of all of us who are fellow
citizens of the unemployed.
IT IS A FACT that not hundreds bu thousands and tens of thousands of men in
Philadelphia are vainly going about every day from morning till night, looking for work.
IT IS A FACT that hundreds of these men come every day to the headquarters of
the Committee, half-starved and desperate, asking, pleading, praying for work "because the
little children are crying."
IT IS A FACT that investigations have shown that in the enormous majority of
cases the appeals made by these men are true appeals; and that the men are not "profession
als," not "bums," not idle frauds. They are citizens of Philadelphia fellow citizens of
every one of us, but temporarily "knocked out of the game" and with a right to ask all
of us who are more fortunate those of us who haven't been knocked out to stand by them
till they can get work again.
IT IS A FACT that even more deserving women than men are calling for help and
have the more need of it.
IT IS A FACT that babies are suffering in Philadelphia for lack of sufficient food
a fact that strong men must this moment look squarely in the face yet 56c a week for
milk will keep a baby going.
' IT IS A FACT that there are hundreds and hundreds, and even thousands of families
of worthy people here in this city who haven't enough to eat, who haven't enough to wear,
who haven't enough to keep them warm, and who haven't enough to pay the rent, and they
are cowering there in their desolate homes wondering what on earth is going to become of
them Yet $3 a week will feed a family of four. Three dollars and sixty cents more will
buy half a ton of coal to keep the fire going. Eight dollars will pay for groceries and coal
and rent and all. Who will give $8 to lift a whole family out of starvation and desperation
and keep it going for a week?
Mrs. A J. Cassatt
Mrs. J. Wtllis Martin
Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson
Mrs. J. Norman Jackson
Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury
' Mrs. Barclay H. JVarburton
Mrs. George Q. Horwttz
Mrs. John C. Groome
This Great Man's Birthday is the Day Set Aside
for Philadelphia's $100,000 "Self Sacrifice
Day" Next Friday, February 12
rho Are These People? They Are the '
Working People the Backbone
of Philadelphia
They are men, women and children who have the highest right in the world to call
for the help of every one of us.
They only want help temporarily; they can stand up for themselves as soon as they
can get work again.
But Now They Must Have Help and No
One is Excusable Until They Get It
Who is going to help ?
"Billy" Sunday will help. He is going to devote two sermons to this high cause
tomorrow afternoon and Friday night and if you are at the Tabernacle at cither of these
services, put your contribution for the unemployed in the collection plate it will come to
the right place.
The newspapers will help. Just as they did on the famous occasion of the Belgian
relief ships last November, so they have thrown-their columns open to this advertising and
to print the names of the contributors.
And all the people of Philadelphia who are not out of work will help so that the
United States and all the world can see that Philadelphia can take care of her own, can
feed her hungry, clothe her naked and shelter her homeless that Philadelphia can gather
up her strength, gird up her loins, and go forth and forward strong, powerful, confident
and unconquerable in time of depression as at all times.
Friday Will Be the Day for the Money
Let the matter be discussed now today in every family ; let it be found out how
much each member of the family can give by self-sacrifice, by denial of something, or'
simply as a gift without denial, as you please. We already know of one man who intended
to buy a new automobile, but now he is going to keep the old one and help along this $100,000
fund instead.
The money is wanted on Friday. Leave it at the Lincoln Building, Headquarters
of the Emergency Aid Committee; or leave it at the office of any daily newspaper: or put it
in "Billy" Sunday's collection plate when he preaches on this subject, or send a check
made out to the Emergency Aid Committee. ,
Mrs. Eli Kirk Price
Mrs. Edward K. Rowland
Mrs. Reed A. Morgan
Mrs. Edward Browning
Mrs. W. Howard Pancoast
Mrs. G. G. Meade Large
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