This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...The Dollar Christmas Fund, organised by Mr. Henry Clews, has collected during the month of December of each year, particularly at Christmastide, money which now amounts to $95,300. Finally, special mention must be made of the brilliant success of the Literary Digest Fund for the children of Belgium, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...The Dollar Christmas Fund, organised by Mr. Henry Clews, has collected during the month of December of each year, particularly at Christmastide, money which now amounts to $95,300. Finally, special mention must be made of the brilliant success of the Literary Digest Fund for the children of Belgium, which, under the active direction of Mr. R. J. Cuddihy, has collected from all over the country, in sums from pennies to thousands of dollars, more than half a million dollars, now being expended for the maintenance of the weak and destitute children of the "little land of sorrows." Besides all these and other organised collections of funds, the Commission has received many single private gifts of large size, notably one of $210,000, another of $200,000, several of $100,000, and many of more than $10,000. But the great majority of the gifts made to the Commission through State committees or through special fund organisations, or directly to the New York office, have been in small sums coming from millions of individuals. And it is a beautiful thing that it has been so. It would be interesting indeed to know just how many of the 105,000,000 inhabitants of the United States have contributed personally to Belgian relief. We can never know this with any approach to accuracy, but we do know enough to say that the givers number several millions. Thousands of incidents, pathetic, inspiriting, noble, connected with the giving, clamour for the telling. A number of little girls in a charity home in Cooperstown, N. Y., sent $1 each month. These little girls are rewarded by a few pennies for any particular excellence in their tasks, making beds, sweeping, etc., and for months they gave enough pennies earned in this way to send this dollar for...
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Fair. x, 219 p. Includes illustrations. Name of previous owner present. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Spine torn at bottom and worn at top. Some edge soiling. The Commission for the Relief of Belgium was one of the first, and greatest, humanitarian assistance efforts initiated during war.
