Show A DOLLAR H IY R A 1 I Indianapolis News r ws The papers have printed many details of oC th the awful famine in parts of or the tha Chinese empire em em- pire The need n of or help h has ben been urged r repeatedly but hut tho ho response has not been what It ought to hr be hr We e do donot donot not want to lO make n appeals for tor that reason perhaps It is just as well wr to io tal take Ih the particulars for granted because the thC simplest t lit literal cora I statement must sound Round Hk like an nn attempt to work the I on feelings This I is Indicated b by the heading ch given n to this article It Is used In a dispatch from Shanghai as the statement of Gf til time the re relief relief relief re- re lief committee Altogether half holC a million rm dollars have been received from Crom foreign sources Including this hits country's country's coun coun- try's contribution to meet tho colossal 1 needs l It will require to tide th the stricken famine districts over o from now till the last of June It were In order to recall how hm China tins has been the plunder land of or tho the forI foreigner foreigner for for- eigner I ever cr since Ince be he Ien learned ned that tho time Chinese f were not warlike and aUll to I say O. O that lint now Indeed could th this th d civilized and Christian nations nation of oC tho the earth oarth 1 find an opportunity to make some som return for their spoliation But Dut this too loo ma may be bo passed o over or r It Is best hest for far Ol us of oC America to look Jook at home and amI picture picture pic plc- ture turo oUr ourselves f a as we are arc tola today enjoying prosperity without without with with- out a parallel The er cry com comes s up rip from roam the South for or I Instance that thai there thel are railroad h building projects project factories fac fac- factories tories torl- t cl fields Is lying idle J for lack Jack of oC labor All 11 over O tho the country countr Indeed from Crom ocean to ocean two jobs johs are 11 hunting hunting hunting hunt hunt- ing one man mane We e have hn recently had In our own city an nil example of oC the money ready to be given Cn for good ends We Ve 0 are as a 3 nallon nation nC nearer China Chinn than an any other and considering the time Pacific ocean and our Int Interests therein we WI know that our OUI future must lid largely there Now ow what I Is the Christian Uan dut duty duly of or this teat great anti and pre prosperous people We Wo could If Ir we would rate ml ten tn million dollars for fur China and amid I never never r know It It We nn fin asked to raise In the thc next three thre weeks reeks I LH Let t c-t us look 1001 across our om western ocean an awl and f see a ft 1 helpless o f overgrown r rown outworn outworn outworn out out- worn land where persons are lying dying dally from starvation and then look at home at our own Inn land l. l not morel merely b smiling with plenty limit but blessed with Unprecedented dented prosperity anti anil ask ourselves what our duly ditty I Is I |