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Show GERMANS UNAGLE TO BtlYCLOTUES Poor People in Need, Swiss Mission President Declares. Tltat people In Germany are suffering suffer-ing for tftfl want of clothing was the message sent to the presidency of the L, D- 8. church by Angus J. Cannon, president of t.'.r Sw'isn miton. who rv-centlv rv-centlv made a trjp Into Germany. President Pres-ident Cannon naui in his letter that he found branches of the I IV S. church still In existence, pi describing conditions condi-tions as he found tnam, he wrote: "In many parts of Germany the latter-day Saints, like others, are hard up for clothing, cloth-ing, shoes, woolens, underwear and outer clothing of ail kinds. The Latter-day Saints in Swltxerland are helping what they can, but that Is not much. It would be indeed a blessing if the people at home would gather up their old ttilrfks and send them to us direct to Hamburg. "They need warm things this minute- the children and the parents, for noth- ing much las .en oougnt turina. tne last five years. Now onlv those who have plenty of money can buy ne tilings. A former editor of the Stern told me last week that he must work half a month to earn enough to buy him a pair of good shoes. And It Is so o'd in Germany Ger-many and will be colder. Thfre Is no coal and but little wood. I dread to think how !t will le with our poor people this winter. It seems awful that we should have so much and they so little, with their pitiful mtions of wood, and food supplies. I fear that even our people will grow bitter. The situation Is In-: In-: deed serious. It 1 not as so many papers pa-pers report. I 'ui eight weeks among the people. ''People isiting ilermaiiy have as a rule money and they can put up at hotela, where their wants are supplied, and they j learn but Hltle of the real condition of I the people: but let them go out In the fields where women and children were working on their knees cold, stormy dava .In the potato fields, digging up potatoes that they might be allowed a few more pounds than their rations call for, and , then they should follow the gray-haired women end the young children from the I fields to the trains on their way home , and see them carrying a man's load on their tracks and fighting their wy Into the overcrowded fourth-class roaches and thankful. Indeed, if they could find a j place to stand without their packs." |