Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-12-05 | Page 1 | To the Good Fellow of Salt Lake

To the Good Fellows of Salt Lake i T AST CKrf stmas and New Years eve you and I went out for a ffooJ time and spent "rrom j S JLJ tcn t0 two Kundrcd dollars. Last Christmas morning hundreds of children awoke to. an I empty stocking the hitter pain of disappointment that Santa CI aus had forg'otten them. Perhaps J it wasn t our fault. We had provided, for our own; we had also reflected in a passing way ) S on those lc-3 fortunate than our own, hut they seemed far off, and we didn t know where to ? S find them. Perhaps in the hundred and one things we had to do some of us didn t think of ) that heart-sorrow of the child over the empty stocking. ( ? Now, old man, here s a chance. I have tried it for the last five years. Just send your I name to the Order of Good Fellows, Salt Lake City, state atout how many children you I v are willing to protect against grief over that empty stocking, enclose a two-cent stamp, and .) ( you will he furnished with the names, a dd resses, sex, and age of that many children. It is i I then up to you. You do the rest. Select your own present, spend fifty cents or fifty dol- j larj, and ssnd or take your gifts to those children on Christmas eve. You spend not a cent s I more than you want to pay, every cent goes just where you want it to go. S Neither you nor I get anything out of this except the feeling that you have saved some I chill from sorrow on Christmas morning. If that is not enough for you, then you have wasted ) ) timc in reading, this it is not intended for you; hut for the good fellows of Salt Lake. ? Perhaps a twenty-five cent doll, or a ten-cent tin toy wouldn t mean much to the, ( children you know, hut to the child who would find them in the otherwise empty' stocking ( they mean much, the difference between utter disappointment and the joy that Santa Glaus did not forget them. S ! Here is where you and I come in. The charitable organizations attend to the bread- and ! ! meat, the clothes, the necessaries. You and the rest of the good fellows furnish the toys, the ! ' nuts, the candies, the child's real Christmas. i I GOOD FELLOW lJ