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EVENING LEDGEB PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1915.
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From Midnight to Midnight Will Be Philadelphia's
Self -Sacrifice Day
Not one moment is to be lost out of the 24 hours of the Abraham
Lincoln Anniversary, set aside as' a day on which Philadelphia opens up
her campaign
To Raise $100,000 at Once
for the Unemployed
The Headquarters in the Lincoln Building
Will Open at 12 o 'Clock Tonight
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From that moment until midnight again the work will go on
without check or one moment's delay. The Emergency Aid Committee,
backed by all thejiewspapers of this city, calls upon the people to come
forward during these twenty-four hours and make this day a great one
in the history of Philadelphia.
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The Appeal is Urgent, Most Urgent, Excusing None
Everybody Who Can Possibly Help Must Do So
More than 100,000 people are out of work not unworthy idlers, not the lazy,
not the inefficient, but the strong, upstanding toilers of the city who must have help
to support their families simply because they cannot find work to do.
Of the unemployed many thousands are already destitute. Some of them have
eked out a slender support upon their rainy day savings. Others have been precari
ously carried along upon such funds as have been at the disposal of the Emergency
Aid Committee.
But now the rainy day savings are gone, and the funds at the disposal of the
Committee 'exhausted
But the Unemployed Workers Must Live, Their
Children Must Be Fed, Their Families
Must Be Sheltered
Thorough and searching investigation has been made by the volunteer workers
of the Committee into the conditions in the homes of the unemployed in all parts of
the city. -
A situation is revealed that is terrible and monstrous.
The number of people who have not enough to eat is appalling.
The suffering of little children from the lack of food, from the lack of clothes,
and from the lack of warmth, is dreadful and unspeakable.
Terrible facts! Facts unkindly and uncompromising as sledge hammer blows
but facts, nevertheless, a going to show that
We Have Beached An Hour When Philadelphia
is Facing a Calamity and Dishonor
It will only take a little from everyone to bridge over the crisis to help the
working people to get employment by which they may maintain themselves (which
they would very much prefer), or to give them assistance until such employment can
be had and. so stop the vacating of houses for non-payment of rent, lessen the sickness,
that so surely follows destitution, and'take away the woe from the face of the mother,
unable to feed her children.
Who Can Befuse to Help When So Many
Must Have Help Quick and Sure
Let every family in the city have one member appointed today to collect the
- family's "SELF-SACRIFICE fund, and give jt to the unemployed tomorrow.
The price of a 10c cigar will more than pay for a quart of milk -a quart of milk
will keep a baby alive and happy for a day. Where is the smoker of cigars who can't
give up at leastone of them for a day? v
A Where is the little school-girl who can't give up one day's allowance and so
provide food for some other little girl who can't go to school becausevdestitution has
made her ill?
Where is the dainty lady who can't give up a taxi fare or the price of her
flowers for a day and do without, when she knows that this sum that seems so small
to her is big enough to buy a dinner for a family that would have to go to bed without
it otherwise? l
Who Will Come Forward and Help Until
the Peril Passes By ?
Money is needed to save families many are being turned out of their homes;
money is needed to supply food for thousands and thousands and thousands who .are
hungry; money is needed to buy shoes and clothes and even to repair old clothes and
shoes that have been given and so make them wearable; money is needed to take the
sick off their beds and set them on their feet; money is needed to save a city from dire
calamity! ;
It is the Supreme Call of the Hour
In the Name of Humanity
The men, women and children of the ranks of the unemployed who are suffering,
are exactly like the rest of us who have never felt the pangs of hunger, nor the pinch
of destitution.
They have the same aptitude for sorrow. They have the same capacity for pain,
the same horrors of hunger and desolate illness that every one of us has. They are
experiencing these agonies and sorrows, while those of us, whose salaries and 'incomes
still go on, can only contemplate them.
They are unable to help themselves, and there is no one to help -them -save the
people of Philadelphia. J
Our sympathies are great and largeand fine but sympathies must lead to some
thing to do any good.
To make a self-sacrifice and give up something and help the unemployed right
now, is a duty inexcusable by any of us. ' ;
It Is Money! Money! Money!
That Is Needed Now! N
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Leave your contribution, whether a few -coppers or a check for
thousands, at the Headquarters of the Committee in the Lincoln Building,
Broad Street and South Penn Square; leave it at any daily newspaper
office; put it in any one of the cash bowls set out by the Committee in
different parts of the city, or send a check made out . to the Emergency
Aid Committee.
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Mrs. rA. 7. Cassatt
Mrs. J. Willis Martin
Mrs, Cornelius Stevenson
Mrs. J, Norman Jackson
Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury
ikfrx. Francis D Patterson
Mrs. Barclay H. Warbur'ton
Mrs. George Q. Horwitz
Mrs. John C, Groome
Mrs. Eli Kirk Price
Mrs. Edward K Rowland v
Mrs. Rqe'd "A. Morgan
Mrs. Edward Browning
Mrs.sJF. Howard Pancoast
Mrs. G. G. Meade Large
Mrs. Rodman E. Qriscom
Mrs. P. Meyer Mrs. 'Jajnes P. McNtcftol
Miss Eleanor Baker Mrs. W. W. Porter
Mrs, Henry Brinto&.Goxe Mrs, J. Howard Rhoades.
Miss Rebecca jtSgElliot Mrs, Thomas Robins
fylrs. William tyWMcGawlev Mrs. Charles Williams
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