Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-04-01 | Page 48 | Invites Funds for Belgian Children

INVITES FUNDS FOR BELGIAN CHILDREN Smelting Company Asks Employees to ContriDute to Belief Work. The United States Smelting company has invited its employees in city otticc, mines, mills and smelters to subscribe to the Rocky Mountain-Hoover fund for the relief of Belgian children. This fund will be distributed ,by Chairman Hoover, a well-known mining engineer, and the treasurer is William B. Thompson Thomp-son of Kew York. Subscriptions may be handed in to mine, mill, smelter or city office and acknowledgments of re-, ceipts will be made direct to individuals individ-uals by the treasurer of the fund in New York. This action is taken in response to the appeal of -Chairman Hoover, Treasurer Treas-urer Thompson, Theodore Eoosevelt and the Rocky Mountain club of New York, of which John Hays Hammond is president. presi-dent. Mr. Hoover, who has had charge of American relief work in Belgium, explains ex-plains the need of a large fund to preserve pre-serve children from slow starvation. It is said that $10 will furnish one meal per dav for thirty davs to one Belgian tuild. The Rocky Mountain club appeals directly di-rectly f.o mine and smelter employees and the public who have participated in incomes due directly to prices made possible pos-sible by war conditions. If others wish to contribute through the Salt Lake of-I of-I fices of the company they may do so hv sending remittance to room 911, Kewhouse building.