Show HELP rah NI the american red cross has been named by president coolidge to re ceide funds tor for japanese relief all plans for the nation wide campaign to raise 5 for this purpose have been approved by the president and it ia up to the big hearted amen ameri can people to respond freely and quickly to this cry in behalf of a stricken nation of friendly people to read the harrowing accounts coming from the stricken country makes one feel sick to the heart one cannot realize what it means the calamity is so great as to be al most beyond comprehension it Is one of the greatest calamities in the world s history if not the very great est and each fresh account adds to the horror of it all beginning at noon last saturday with a series of earthquakes which razed practically the whole of tokio and large sections of yokohama Yoko homa and other cities in the vicinity the dis aster was continued by fires which consumed everything nearly tidal waves maves followed engulfing and wash ing into the sea hundreds of build lags ings then came a typhoon adding a final and tragic touch to the awful series of calamities late wires from baska state that more than two millions of people in tokio are without food shelter or clothes and other millions in the oth er cities and districts affected four hundred thousand houses were de strayed in tokio alone the dead are estimated at exceeding the japanese government estimates that it will take 5 to get things in shape again the whole thing is so great as to be ap paling water supplies have been destroyed and there is no food unless help comes to the stricken people quickly many thousands will perish so miser ably that it were better they bad had per dished when the places were stricken by quake and fire will we permit them to die dieb the answer of america will be no not give what you can freely and DO IT AT ONCE |