If someone did you a very great favor or showed you a kind- 
ness, you would wish to repay it. 
You would, in fact, feel ill at ease until such time that you 
could clear your conscience in the matter. Thus do we react 
when we feel that we are under strong moral obligation to a 
friend. 
You may have inherited this debt—it may have been handed 
down to you by your grandparents or other ancestors, but you 
will look upon the obligation as a purely personal one, such is 
the high moral sense possessed by all good Americans. 
In the year of 1812, we had one of the most difficult wars 
in our history. Famine and disease spread over our land. Our 
people were hungry, sick and poorly clad. It was a dark hour 
in our history; but just when it appeared the blackest some- 
thing happened to cause the skies to clear: 
THE SYMPATHETIC AND BIG-HEARTED DUTCH PEOPLE 
CAME TO OUR RESCUE. THEY SENT SUPPLIES IN ABUN- 
DANCE. FOOD, CLOTHING AND MEDICINE CAME FROM 
THE MAGNIFICENT HOLLANDERS. GREAT WAS THEIR 
INTEREST IN SAVING THOUSANDS OF LIVES OF OUR 
CHILDREN THAT THIS NATION MIGHT SURVIVE AND 
PROSPER. 
Although the United States has aided most all other nations 
of the world at one time or another, this wonderful gesture of 
the Dutch is one of the few instances where another nation 
has aided us, 
The people of Holland have been singularly free from wars, 
They enjoyed one of the longest reigns of peace of any nation 
on earth. They neither needed or sought any help from any 
source because they had prospered. 
You know the remainder of the story: their cities and towns 
have been burned and looted, their very clothes have been taken 
away from them by the enemy, parents have been forced into 
slave labor. Vulgar Nazi heels have tramped over and flooded 
much of the rich and fertile soil, laying waste to food crops and 
meadows, ever unmindful of the beauty beneath their feet. 
Thousands of Dutch children, men and women, are facing 
Westward, looking to the United States and YOU. Shivering 
and sick, the very bones of their under-nourished bodies show 
through their rags as they hold extended arms to you. 
| know that you will heed their appeal and do something 
about it this very day. It is our chance to repay our debt to 
the Dutch—to pay off our old obligation to them which has 
stood for 133 years. 
Clothes, and more clothes, are needed. Send all clothes you 
do not need. Send all you can spare for grown-ups as well as 
children. Coats, sweaters, warm underwear, towels, sheets, 
washcloths, etc. Soap is also urgently needed to replace the 
mixture of sand and clay that now is being used to wash with. 
Appeal to your Garden Club. Urge members to make a specific 
contribution to the men, women and children who work in the 
bulb fields. Mark the bundle carefully, telling which Garden 
Club it is from. It will mean much to them to know Gardeners 
over here have not forgotten them. Send your bundle to Amer- 
ican Relief for Holland, Inc., 1 East 40th Street, New York City, 
a send notice of shipment to us at Wayside Gardens, Mentor, 
io. 
Thank you, 
THE WAYSIDE GARDENS CO, 
J. J. Grullemans, President 

