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Show OUR WEALTH IS TO SAVE THE STARVING. Our hats off to John D Rockefeller, Jr , and ihe men of the Rockefeller Foundation who have resolved to save the starving people of Belgium even j to the extent of spending millions of dollars This determination appeals to us with greater force than any act of men of wealth of which we have knowledge. Information Is to the effect that hundreds of thousands of women and children and old men are on the verge of stanation, and one of our consular officers reports that many will die of hunger before aid can reach them W hat an awful condition I Why if one little child should go to bed hungry in Ogden. and that face wore to become known to any one of one thousand well-to-do men in this community, there would be nothing noth-ing left undone until that child had been properly succored and restored to a rightful participation in lifo's bounty, and yet there are a million little boys and girls. and their mothers, tod, in that war-swept region along the Scheldt, and Metise and Yser. who are today pinched, with hunger and who will die, if America does not hold out a helping hand. If Is the noblest work John i Rockefeller, Jr., has undertaken and. whatever have been his shortcomings, shortcom-ings, we can overlook them, if he carries car-ries out this great philanthropy In the name of the American people. oo |