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Show GOOD WORKS. Quite recently Herbert C. Hoover, chairman of tho Belgian relief committee, commit-tee, stated that it would be necessary to raise $150,000,000 in the United States to tide the starving Belgians over for another year, and a short time ago Pope Benedict appealed to the Catholics of this country to aid the Belgians. In response. re-sponse. Cardinal Gibbons has forwarded contributions to the amount of $10,000 to the American relief commission in London- with the promise of $-10,000 within tho next few weeks. Contributions Contribu-tions are pouring into this fund from all over the Vnited States. On the same day that the Catholic-gift Catholic-gift to the Belgians went forward the American Society for the Relief of French War Orphans sent 1,000.000 francs to President Poincare to provide for children of members of the Legion of Honor who have been killed in the war. Only a short time ago the American Ameri-can society cabled 500,000 francs for the immediate relief of the French orphans. or-phans. The Jews of the Vnited States aro gathering a big fund for the relief of members of their race in both Europe Eu-rope and Asia who have been reduced to penury by the war. The Poles are aiding their fellows in the war zone and there are any number of subscriptions, largo and small, being sent over the Atlauti-' in the name of humanity. Whatever the warring Europeans may think regarding President Wilson's latest attempt to bring peace to the world, there can be no doubt regarding their appreciation or the efforts being made by the citizens of the United States to mitigate the horrors of war so far as possible and prove their faith ny their work's. When Ambassador Gerard recently returned to Berlin, he carried a relief fund with him and it goes without saying say-ing that vhen peace comes and the blockade is raised great sums of money will be sent to Germany from the United States. Dark as the outlook is at the present time, there is some Christian charity left in the world. Perhaps not all of the appeals for aid can be met by the people of this country, coun-try, but doubtless many more millions will be subscribed. When it is all over history will award the p a 1 ni to those who have been instrumental in saving human life rather than to the victors on the blood -red field of battle. |