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Show $3 (:i months support) are so- , llcited, as well as the pledges of ?30.50 u year. A yearly pledge enables en-ables one to select aa one's protege a special boy or girl from the organization's organi-zation's lists oT children. Mrs. Walter Wal-ter S. J3rewstor of Chicago has been appointed chairman of a special campaign cam-paign to secure these ten-cents-a-day adoptions and is making an earnest appeal from the campaign office, Room 635. 410 S. Mlchign Ave., Chicago. ttt Ol'll DEAD HEKOES Memorials in cold stone with their allegorical figures are not enough to perpetuate 4he memory of our dead who lie in France. At least that is the belief of the citizens or Clarinda, Iowa, who on Memorial day contributed contrib-uted a fund toward a living monument. monu-ment. Twenty-one French war orphans or-phans make up that living monument, monu-ment, one fatherless child for every Clarinda boy who gave his life for the cause of humanity. The public spirited men and women of that town will care for these little French orphans 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 Marshal Joffre is head, to care for the little French children left fatherless through the havoc of war. There are 60,000 French war orphans or-phans still unplaced on the list of the American organization. Three dollars dol-lars a month, or ten cents a day, will support one of these children. The Clarinda citizens have paid for each child "adopted" $36.60 for a year's support, with the Intention of repeating the sum annually until the child is capable of caring for itself. This small sum supplements an equal amount paid annually by the French government 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 orphans, and "The Fatheress Children of France," recognizing that these little lit-tle victims of the war should be the wards of a world made safe through their fathers' sacrifice, undertook, early in the war, to furnish godmothers god-mothers and godfathers for these children American godparents who would contribute ten cents a day toward to-ward their support that they might remain with their mothers instead of being placed in institutions, and who would, besides this, write to the little ones to whom they had become benefactors. Donations of any sum from a dime (one day's support) to |