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For God's Sake Send Food rore Than Heard to illion'of Philadelphia's People Are Yet to Be He the Relief Ship "Thelma" Waits y a Cargo of Food to the Starving Belgians Wh These million people of Philadelphia are men, women and children this moment thankfully going- about their accustomed pursuits in a land of peace, and plenty, all with homes and food and clothing, and knowing that they are before long going to have a Thanksgiving for these things. More than five million men, women and children, JUST LIKE OURS have been turned out of their homes or left desolate in stricken Belgium, and are without food or without shelter, or without sufficient clothing to protect them from the rigors of a winter already terrible in that country. The work that Philadelphia has already done toward relieving this piteous-suffering is magnificent. A big business man standing in the head quarters in the Lincoln Building yesterday said: "I thank God I have lived long enough to see this, my own city, open up her heart and show how real and true and generous she is. I thank God I have lived to see it." It Is Magnificent But It Is Not Enough! The record will never be cleared, and the full duty will never be done until ABSOLUTELY EVERYBODY IN PHILADELPHIA, without the exception of a single man, woman or child, has made some sacrifice and has given something. No one can be excused so long as there is a child crying for food. No one can be excused so long as a shelterless woman drags her weary way in search of help. No one can be excused so long as aged men go homeless and shiver ing in the blasts of Winter. No one can be excused so long as the "Thelma" waits at her dock for her cargo. Headquarters at Broad Street and South Penn Square Will Be Open All Day Today and Late Tonight Come in early on your way to work and leave your contribution. Come in late after attending the theatre; you will find the helping staff alert and busy. ; , Come in at any time, see what your brother Philadelphians are doing, and see what is expected of you. . Qiye 5 cents itwill buy four pounds of salt, and salt is a necessity. Give. 10 cents it will more than4pay for a can of condensed milk for a starving baby. Give a dollar it will buy twenty, pounds of rice. Give $6.40 it will buy a barrel of flour. Give anything you like in the way of food; give an order on your grocer only be sure that no one in Philadelphia "passes by on the other side." . . . Philadelphia Will Always Be Proud of This You Will Like to Remember That You Had a Share In It jTen, and twenty, and thirty, and forty, and fifty, and a hundred years from now people will talk about how wonderfully Philadelphia rose up in the might of her whole-heartedness, and instantly answered with good cheer the heartrending cry of the stricken people. It will be a great thing to remember then that we had a share in the making of that kind of history. Now is the opportunity for every one of us to have a share. People Outside of the City Want to Give and the Pennsylvania Railroad will bring their offerings in free. Such things intended for the Relief Ship "Thelma" must be food supplies of im perishable nature in the original packings if possible. They must be de livered to a PennsylvaniaRailroad Freight Station, and consigned to Mr. Paul Hagemans, Belgian Consul at Philadelphia, and plainly marked "For the Relief of the Belgium Sufferers" and also plainly marked "For Ex port." ' - i ' Every Penny of It Goes to Help the Starving Belgians All expenses are paid; the ship is paid for by a citizen-of -Philadelphia, the headquarters is rent free, the staff at headquarters costs the con tributors nothing; the docking and loading and even the pilotage of the ship are all free. There are no expenses. Every dollar goes to buy food to go across the sea. Telephones: Filbert 2456 and Filbert 2457 t ' "-"' ,' TTr.'i " ft .. ' , Cyrus I K. Curtis . . . Public Ledger Cyrus M, K Curtis . . Evening Ledger Benjamin GWelfs x Philadelphia Press John l Collier'. . . JEvening Telegraph i:ife '. i,.t t-Ti -s' " - ' ,T " r - --V - ' M.F Hanson . . Philadelphia Record James Elversonjr. . Philadelphia Inquire 1 4. Van Valkenburg . North American ''Wi&Mkm.' . Evening Bulletin m VZ& m SffiS' I cci i w& fm " "T- " ;. ftvMla? TfvSafr- 4f'grgfti? -' t'-msmti&mjmiAmtm i&tej -0-i H "' 'vTi l.i i..-; . tX'., '--r-,i -s Tte, ?fjsi j iJst fipi 'S rts . v Us'iasi mhm w&'Xj!nysFtt?r::2&SB& wmm$