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Show PITIFUL PLEAS PILL HAIL OF . 'GOOD FELLOW' But Five More Days Remain to Join Order of "Kris Kringles"; Many Families to Be Cared For. WOMAN AMAZED BY SCENES OF POVERTY Letters Tell Story of Needs of Children; Names and Addresses Ad-dresses Ready; Telephone Good Fellow Today. There are just fivo more days remaining remain-ing to ,-join tho Order of Good Fellows, counting today. The chief ruler will shut his desk next Wednesday evening, Christmas eve. So you haven't much timo left if you plan to become a member mem-ber of tho order. Many aro joining duily, but there are still more children to be cared for, and perhaps unless you join today thoy may havo a Christmas without Santa Claus. Call up Wasatch 3131 right now, tell Good Fellow you want to join that's all there is to do. Tell Good Fellow how many childreu you want to be Santa Claus for. lie will give you thc names and j'ou must do thc rest. The Order of Good Fellows has only one purpose to make poor children happy on Christmas morning. There aro no dues, you don't givo anyone monoy, and no one need know who you aro. You simply buy presents for tho number of children you can care 'for, one or a dozen. Appalled by Poverty. "I was appalled by tho poverty and sadness which I saw today," said one prominent woman last night after she had spent the day on a mission for the ordor. "Never did I realize what a splendid thing it is to be a Good Fellow. Fel-low. When I saw some of those women and realized how little Christmas cheer would come to them were it not for the Good Fellows, it just brought tears to my eyes. I wish I could caro for all of them myself. If people who have not become Good Follows yet could see tho eagerness in the faces of those children whon thoy aro promised that Good Follow is going to send Santa Claus to them, tho chief ruler would havo had his liBts exhausted long bo-fore bo-fore now;'-' And thus the story goes with all who start out to play Good Follow. N"eod-lfisn N"eod-lfisn to Hav the first to ioin th order this year were the ones who played Santa Claus last year. Happy Christmas. "I never spent such a happy Christmas Christ-mas as the last one," said one charter member of the order of last yoar. "The mental picturo of tho joy I brought to one littlo home and its fivo children just filled mo to' the bursting point with real Christmas spirit such as I had novor known before. You bet I am going go-ing to bo Santa Claus again noxt week. I wouldn't miss the opportunity. If Good Fellow wasn't on tho job this year I'd havo gono out and hunted up somo needy children myself," The mail man brought a stack of Christmas lcttors to Good Follow again yesterday, Good Fellow gots all that corao to tho locnl postoffice. Of courao, some of thenv aro from children whoso wishes aro commands to their admiring and prosperous parents. But Good Follow Fol-low looks into each case and separates the needy onos from those written by well-to-do children, who just want Co writo to Santa Clau3. Ask for Clothes. One must admit that when Bmall childron will write to Good Foilow and ask not for toys, but for clothing, underwear, under-wear, shoos, rubbora and the like, that thoy aro ucody. Hero is a letter that Good Fellow got vestcrday. Salt Lako City. Dec. IS. 1913, Dear Mr. Good Fellow I thought I would writo to you necmiso my papa 1b dead and I am unaWe to cot nothing noth-ing for Christmas, would you plouse sond mo tomo under wear and h pair of shoos No. 2J. a pair of rubbers I need them, and a dress because I have no nice dress, I nm 12 years old and if you havo any old coat would you send mo one? MIRINDA . I Then IMIrinda wroto tho followinir let-I let-I tor for hor small sister; I Dear Mr. Good Fellow I havo a I little Blntcr who can not writo for 1 hcraolf bo I havo to writo for her. She Is 6 years old. Sho wiahen somo un-derwoar un-derwoar and a. drcHH and stockings No. 7 and some candy and nuta and a dolt and bussy. Hor namo Is VIOLET . There ts a little brother In tho family, too. Ho Buys: Dear Mr. Good Fellow I thought I would write to you. My pupa la dead ho I am not able to get anything. any-thing. Plenso sond mo koiuo umlor-wcar umlor-wcar and a buU, stockings no, S. JT (Continued on Pago Pour.) PITIFUL PLEAS FILL 'GOOD FELLOW 111 (Continued from Pago Ono.) you can spare any toys please send me some. I am 10 years old and please send mo a sleigh. HENItY . Three little children, 6, 10 and 12 year3 of ago and all of them begging first for underwear to keep their chilled little bodies warm. Then the younger two ask for toys "If you can spare them." They live In a little homo In ono of tho poorer neighborhoods of the city. Good Fellow can tell you where It is if you call Wasatch Wa-satch 1131. Tho addresses he didn't give, because ho doesn't want too many people going around thero when tboro are other children who are just as needy. Ho wants to know just who is cared for and who Isn't. Tho letters given are only examples of many that have come in. There are scores of children whose papae, and often mammas, too. arc dead. And, there arc many more whose mammas are. perhaps, confined to bed, while papa is hunting for work. Their stockings will be empty If you don't get In and help Good Fellow. Ho needs your help. Ho is determined that every poor child he knows of is going go-ing to be remembered by Santa Claus. Ho urges, you to help him succeed in his purpose. He doesn't ask you to send him money. He doesn't ask you to take food or coal to these families. Other associations attend at-tend to that. All he wants you to do Is to bo Santa Claus for a few llttlo tots, any number you feel able to care for. Call him today at Wasatch 1131 and tell him what you'll do. Or If you don't want to telephone cut out tho application blank that accompanies this article and mall it at once to Good Fellow. Either way will do, but tho. time Is getting short. Tou must act quickly. |
