Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-11-30 | Page 1 | Good Fellow Issues His Annual Greeting

Good Fellow Issues His Annual Greeting i TO THE GOOD FELLOWS OF SALT LAKE I mLESS rfstinaa and Hew Year's eve, you ajid I went out for a good j! S !Sl0 from 10 to S200. Last Ohxistmas morning more than 2000 ;! S H, ! r1611 aWoke t0 a wnpty stocking tho bitter pain of disappoint- ;! S' w i ?at ta laiJ6e had for8tteri them. Perhaps it wasn't our fault. ;! S we Had provided for our own. We had also reflected In a passing way on I tnose less fortunate than our own, but they seemed far off and wo didn't ' V7hro to find them. Perhaps In the hundred and ono things we !; bad to. do, Borne of ub didn't think of that heart-sorrow of the child !; over the empty stocking. Now, old man, here's your chance. I have tried it for the last five i: years. Just send your name to the Order of Good Follows, Salt Lake, i state how many children you are willing to protect against grief over !' ttat empty Btocklng, inclose a two-cent stamp and you will bo furnished j 5 Uie names, addresses, sex and age of that many children. It is then !; np to you. You do tho rest. Select your own presents, spend 50 cents or j j S50 and take or send your gifts to those children on Christmas eve. You J i spend not a cent more than you wish to pay every cent goes just -whero j; ; you want it to go. Neither you nor I get anything out of this, except tho ;! j feeling that we have Baved some child from sorrow on Christmas morning. ' ; Perhaps a 25-cent dolL or a 10-cent tin toy wouldn't mean much to ;! tho children you know, but to the child who would find them in the oth- ;i jj erwise empty stocking, they mean mucli tlie difference between utter dis- jl appointment and tho Joy that Santa Olaus did not forgot them. Hero is ;! whero you and I come in. Tho charitable organizations attend to tho bread l ; and meat, the clothes and necessities. You and tne rest of the "Good Fel- !' ;! lows" furnish the toys, tho nuts, tho candles and the child's real Ohri3t- !; ;! mas. (Signed) GOOD FELLOW. '