December, 



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THE G A R D E X M A G A Z I N E 



177 



This is Christmas 

 Month 



Does this startle you or have 

 you realized the silent and rapid 

 approach of the most joyous 

 time of the year? 



The Christmas spirit is won- 

 derful — everybody wants to 

 give a present to someone — then 

 someone else; these beneficiaries 

 grow in numbers until incomes 

 are sorely strained and a halt is 

 called for self-preservation. 



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Belgians Are Starving 



"He Gives Twice Who Gives Quickly" 



MILLIONS of Belgians face starvation. They will perish if 

 succor does not come at once. Their plight is desperate. 

 It cries out as imperiously as the wireless S. O. S. from a 

 sinking ship. And this call is being heeded. Fast ships bearing 

 food have been rushed to the rescue. But more must follow. 



Cable Answers S. O. S. 



This Belgian Relief Committee cabled 

 #50,000 from big, generous America to 

 Ambassador Page, to use for buying food 

 in England to hurry to Belgium as first 

 aid, and #20,000 was cabled to United 

 States Minister Brand Whitlock, in Brus- 

 sels, and used in the same way. In Brus- 

 sels alone one hundred soup kitchens 

 are feeding 100,000 hungry people. The 

 daily cable dispatches, in unbiased news 

 reports, are giving a continuous account 

 of the appalling disaster and desolation. 



Succor From America 



In America how different the picture. 

 This magazine will reach its readers just 

 about Thanksgiving time. We have had 

 bountiful harvests and despite rather 

 dull times we have great surpluses of 

 food and money. So 40 national mag- 

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 issues this appeal to their millions of 

 readers to succor the starving Belgians. 

 Divide your Christmas plenty with them. 

 Be sure that the gift will be "twice 

 blessed." 



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1 To relieve immediate distress of Belgian refugees and the hundreds of thous- 

 ands of destitute women and children and other non-combatants in Belgium. 



2 To rehabilitate as soon as practicable the poor Belgian peasant and working 

 classes by helping them get roofs over their heads and tools to work with. 



BELGIAN RELIEF COMMITTEE 



IO Bridge Street, New York 



Rev. J. F. STILLEMANS, President. 



ROBERT W. DEFOREST, Chairman of Executive Committee. 

 EMANUEL HAVENITH, Belgian Minister to the United States. 

 PIERRE MALI, Consul -General at Netv York. 



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 ALFRED T. WHITE 



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