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Show JAPANESE SENDS A CHECK -ST0 BUY TOYS FOR KIDDIES Little Brown Man in Idaho Evidences His Big Heartedness by Sending Five Dollars to Good Fellow TO JOIN THE ORDER OF GOOD FELLOWS Order of Good .Fellows Salt Lake City, I In eat No j , street I wish to take care of children I prefer them in tne jt part of the city Please send me a list of names Ienclose stamped and addressed envelope (feigned) ! f I HIS talk about war with Ja I pan is all rid culous re I marked faood Fellow yester day afternoon when a report er of The Tr bune dropped m for h s daily chal But the reporter couldn t understand lust what the possib lit es of war with Japan had to do w th mak ing merry Chr stmases for poor k d d es Whatdeyumeanf Just this Good lei low reeled and he handed the reporter a check for $3 which vas attached to the follow ingletter The Order of Good Fellows Salt Lake City Dear S r I send the money check to you to by toys to send the poor family s child I can t get p o money order at this place so I payed the money to Mr and he give me the check Please vou go t the Bank and get the money if you need my s gne send back it, and I put on Bigne for you From yours very truly I K SUYEHtRO, Phoenix Jdaho . I put signed on check Don t Need to Worry There you are Now do you see what I m talking about? If that is the k nd of fellows that are coming over here Ifom the land of cherry blossoms' I guess we don t need to worry do wet R ght-o agreed the reporter And Good Fellow said to be sure and mention in todav s paper that K Sgye hiro was an honored member of the Order of Good Fellows that h s check would be used to make tome family of yo ngsters happy Another Gooi Fellow he didn t want his name mentioned called up yesterda and placed a ton of coal at the disposal of the order to give to the neeJv All n all t was a happy dav at the headquarters of the order The girls of the V W C A Ten nis clul were also enrolled yesterda as men her of the Order of Good Fel 1 lows In a letter to Good Fellow they informed h m that they would provide a Christmas tree cloth ng and toys for twelve 1 ttle children who live on the weBt side Good Fellow Pleased tyl am glad the g rls told me about that because we m ght have reports oh these ch ldren from other sources said Good Fellow and not know ng they were taken care of m ght have piovided for them through others i w sh that any other people who may ha e plans to look after certain chil dren would let us know who they are to prevent dupl cation of our work It would help us Lnfortunately several letters came in yesterday s ma I tell ng of poor ch 1 dren but neglecting to give their names and m some cases the r ad dresses Some of these letters came from the poor people themselves and unless they can be located some way or another may be d sappo nted It is absolutely necessary jn writing to Good Fellow to give the family name the names and ages of the children and the correct addresses Good Fellow had a special telephone put m the office yesterday to handle the increasing number of calls and to give qu ck service to his off ce The number is Wasatch 1494 So hereafter those who have occas on to call up the Order of Good Fellows can get the of fice quickly bv calling that number Time Growing Short The time is growing short and there is plentv of vork remaining to be done More Good Fellows are needed. ind by the way sa d Good Fel low Just because we were delighted to get that check from the Japanese boy up in Idaho is no indication that we want checks from bait Lake people Here we need their personal help The aim of the order is to put people in touch w th poor children not to collect funds for them From out of town people peo-ple of course we are glad to get money if thev feel inclined to help but we expect ''alt lake folks to go out and make the kids happy themselves Thev m ss half the ioy of giving if thev don t do that |