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Show LIVING MONUMENTS flXDEAD HjEROES American Branch of Committee on Fatherless Children of France Adopt Novel Method. Memorials in cold stone with their allegorical figures are not enough to perpetuate the memory of our dead who lie in France. At least that is the belief of the citizens of Clarinda, Iowa, who on Memorial Day contributed con-tributed a fund toward a living monument. mon-ument. Twenty-one French war or- phans make up that living monument, one fatherless child for every Clar- Inda boy who "gave his Tlfe' fbr the I cause of humanity. The public spirited spir-ited men and women of that town will care for these little French or-phene or-phene with this fund, paying for their , support through the American branch of The Fatherless Children of France, an organization co-operating with a similar one of which Marsal Jotf re is ln-ad. to care for the little French children left fatherless through the havoc of war. There are tiO.000 French war orphans or-phans still unplaced on the list of the American organization. Three dollars a month, or ten cents a day, will sup port one of these children. The Clar inda citizens have paid for euch child "adopted" $:!. fiO for a year's support, with the intention of repeating the sum annually until the child is capable capa-ble of caring for itself. This small sum supplements an equal amount paid annually by the French Govern-, Govern-, ment to each war orphan and, tiny though it is, provides for the child's support. In its reconstruction work, France has wisely centered its greatest efforts ef-forts on the care of its war orphan-, and "The Fatherless Children of France," recognizing that these little victims of the war should be the wards of a world made safe through their father's sacrifice, undertook, early in the war, to furnish godmothers god-mothers and god-fathers for these children American god-parents who would contribute ten cents a day toward to-ward their support that they might remain with their mothers instead cf being placed in institutions, and who Would, besides this, write to the little ones to whom they had become ben efactom. Donations if any sum from a dime la day's support) to $:i.0(l (a month's support) are solicited, as well as the pledges of $:ili.r,(l a year. A year I j pledge enablei one to select as one's protege a special lxy or girl from the organization's list of I hil-dren hil-dren Mrs. Walter S. Brewster of Chicago das been appointed chairman of a special campaign to seen it- these le:i-ieiits-a-day adoptions, and ' is making Ml earnest appeal from the campaign office, Room (i.'i.r, 410 s. Michigan Ave., Chicago. |