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This winter, as never before, support your local Community Campaign ITIZEN * | v m boy whose stomach is empty cannot be expected to do good work at school. Rabies undernourished through another winter may be handicapped by trail bodies through life. The hun gry father of a hungry family is hardly the man to seek employ ment with persistence, or to do well on the job when be gets it. Before you can save a man’s soul it is often necessary to feed his body. You have no right to expect the civic virtues of patience, courage and honesty from starving, freezing men and women. It they preserve a just attitude towards the laws of the city in which they live, it is a miracle. This winter, as never before, it is the duty of all who are well- clad, well-housed, and well-fed to help the less fortunate, 1 he fact that you gave last year, and the year before, does not lessen your responsibility. The fact that you cannot afford a large contribution must not deter you. The upturn of business with a gradual im provement of economic conditions does not remove the crisis of this moment. Emergency appropriations by the federal goveH mem amount to 5y,00,000,000, but they meet on! half the increased national needs tot* human relic; The rest is up to you! How will your dollars be used? hirst of a they will feed the hungry, and relieve the absolu: want ot the unemployed. They will be used, also, to take care ot the sick and aged. E will help to maintain hospitals, orphanages and schools. They " make possible clinics and visiting nurses. The dollars you give are invested in the forces of civilizati right in your community! WELFARE AND RELIEF MOBILIZATION, 193 The ITcljare and Relief Mobilization for i<y.n is 0 co operative national program to reinforce local fund-raising for human welfare and relief needs. Xo national fund is being raised; each community is making provision for its oven people; each community will have Jnil control of the money it obtains. Ciive through your established welfare and relief organi zations, through your community chest, or through your local emergency relief committee. KEWTOS D. BAKER, CHAIRMAN', NATIONAL CITIZENS COMMITTEE