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Show FRENCH ORPHANS TO ii fiif may Salt Lake Committee Redoubling Re-doubling Efforts to Provide Fund for Children. As Christmas approaches the Salt Lake committee of the fatherless children chil-dren of Franco organization is redoubling re-doubling i t.s efforts to secure subscriptions subscrip-tions for the movement in order thai the little Frem-h unfortunates shall receive a.4-' a Christmas jft the assurance assur-ance that their wants are to be supplied by som i; kind-hearted American. I;, is the aim of the committee To sec uro as many subscribers to , the movement as possible by Decern ber 2' ( and then to telegraph the total amount of money pledged to the headquarters of t he organizat ion in France. To accomplish accom-plish t his pu rpohi com in it tees a re now being- organized to make a thorough canvass of the city and secure support to The movement. ph . A special effort- is being made to daiu the difference in the purpose this work and that of the Red Cross m its work among the children of France. The lied Cross is confining its efforts to those children who are being sent into Fra n co by the derma us from the French territory now under German control. They are child ren who have no homes and many of them have no hareuts. The Fatherless Children of France society, however, is taking care of those children win) are still with their mothers , but who have lost their fathers in battle. The scheme of the movement is to keep the children with heir mothers and to preserve t he French homos ratber than to collect the children and put them into institutions. The movement in France is headed by .Marshal Joffro. ft is the onlv organization organ-ization to which lie has permitted his name to be allied. There are now more than 2U0.000 children in urgent need of support which this movement is designed to ra ise. The Salt Lake committee has as its chairman Mrs. .1. B. YVhitchill of SM57 First avenue. She reports a generous response to the appeal during the past two weeks, as thirty-five m;w patrons have been secured during that time. "In a sense, we are asking Americans Amer-icans who can afford it to adopt these little French unfortunates," said Mrs. Whitehill. y ''The children remain in their homes, but the receive a regular allowance from their American benefactors which amounts to :lM..Hi a year, or 10 cents a dav. The children are given the name and address of their benefactor nii'j are encouraged to write him. Many pathetic responses and expressions expres-sions of gratitude ha ve been received by those who have already engaged in the work. "The so'-ietv has been the means- of keeping together thousands of homes, ; N but tltere is still an immense amount W of work to be done. This is just one A more phase of the debt we owe France or the gallant ficht she is making in f .ur behalf, and I am sure that Salt Uilte citizens will realize its importance and come forward generously.'" |