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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER Z 3 COUNCIL HfIS’NT FIXED BUSINESS LICENSES And Must Meet Again in Spe cial Session to Act Formally on Matter---Council Only De cided to Make Near-Beer License SI,OOO. There will be a special meeting of council Wednesday, at 5 p. m., to pass the business license ordinance. A great many people, including members of council, thought that the business license ordinance was adopted at the special meeting held on Friday night last but such was not the case. Here is the -way things occurred. Af ter the recess of ten minutes, which was taken immediately following ad dresses by Mr. W. H. Barrett and Dr. M. Ashby Jones, in support of the SSOO license and 50 saloons, Mr. William Martin, of the sixth ward, moved that the near beer license be fixed at SI,OOO. There was some discussion, amend ments were proposed, etc., but council finally passed the SI,OOO license with out a dissenting vote. However, it fail ed to pass the business license ordi nance in which was incorporated the $1 ,000 license for near beer saloons. The proper form for the motion would have been that the business license ordinance, as reported by the finance committee, be adopted This would have included the SI,OOO license. Members of council thought, and some still think, that the motion of Mr. Martin ended the matter, but as a matter of fact council must meet to formally pass the business license or dinance. It will be a matter of form but the form must be observed. Mr. Martin will be excused for his mistake because, to be perfectly frank about it, members of council were still under the spell that Dr. Jones had thrown over them in his masterful talk. LftUEHED ABOUT KILLING WIFE Albert Tolbert, White Man From Greenwood, S. C., Car ried to Columbia via Augusta For Safe-Keeping. Albert Tolbert, a young white man, apparently about 35 years of age, who choked his wife to death Sunday af ternoon in Panora, a little cotton mill village near Greenwood, S. C., was brought to Augusta last night by Sheriff McMillan, of Greenwood County, who was enroute to Columbia with the prisoner foY safekeeping. The coroner’s Jury found a verdict against Tolbert for cold blooded mur der and the feeling against him is running high in Greenwood County. For this reason the sheriff deemed it wiser to remove him to a safer place. He left with the prisoner at 6:40 o'clock this morning for Columbia. Tolbert appeared very little con cerned here over the deed. He gave the officers the impression that he was either a half wit or a crazy person. He declared, so It Is said, that he couldn't go to sleep last night l»e --cause the fellow in the cell beneath him was crunk and noisy. He is said to admit freely that he choked his wife and laughs about it. The crime occurred Sunday after noon and after the woman was dead he sent for the sheriff and the un dertaker. Long domestic trouble caused Tolbert to make away with liis wife, sd it is said. Dr. T. L. Davis Entertains Undergraduate Osteopaths Basket Ball Team From Ameri can School of Osteopathy Guests at a Banquet at the Genesta. A very delightful banquet was ten dered by Dr. Thomas L. Davis, prom inent Augusta osteopath, to the mem bers of the basketball team of the American School of Osteopathy of Klrksville, Mo. The affair was held at the Genesta Hotel and was thor oughly enjoyed by every one present. Dr. Davis is a graduate of the Ameri can School of Osteopathy, which is the parent school and the largest in stitution for the study of the scien tific treatment of disease in America. The young men who came here to play basketball made a splendid im pression. They are a clean-cut aggre gation, playing a fast snappy game, and are thorough sportsmen. They made a most favorable Impression on every one who saw them last night. They were somewhat Jaded, having played almost every night for more than a week In seven different cities. They left at 12:30 today for Atlanta. All of the young men left singing the praises of Augusta and they are de lighted with the entertainment they have received on their trip South. XMAS PRAISE SERVICE AT ST. JOHN METHODIST There will he no prayermeeting at St. John’s Church tonight. The pastor announces a most Inter esting Christmas praise service on Friday morning. Christmas song*, scriptural re sponses. a special message by the pastor and friendly greetings will be the order of program. A cordial Invitation is extended to all to unite In this early morning praise service that we may better un derstand the m*atilng and experience (he Joy of Christmas Day. NEGRO'S HOUSE BURNS MO UE IS ARRESTED John Mays’ Home on 15th Street Destroyed By Fire Early Wednesday. Some Suspicious Circumstances. About 5 o’clock Wednesday morning fire destroyed the home of a negro, John Mays, on Fifteenth street, near the Richmond county stockade. The negro owned the house and the loss is probably more than SI,OOO. It was insured. Suspicious circumstances | connected with the affair led to the arrest of Mays by the police, although no charges have been actually pre ferred. The negro was drinking at the time and it may have been the , liquor he had been imbibing that caus ed him to make allege conflicting statements. Mays said that he got up shortly before five o'clock and made a fira in his children's room, he leaving the house to go to a store several hun dred yards away. He said that the house caught on fire, he knows not how, and burned while he was away. His wife tolrf Captain Crouch, of the fire department, that she was awak i ened by the smoke llmt filled the house and had difficulty in getting her chil dren out of the house before they were Injured. Whether the fire popped out on the floor in the children’s room or how the house caught is not known. There was a piano in a wagon In the yard that had .been placed there Tuesday night and/this was the first suspicious circumstance. However, Mays and his wife declare that they had decided to lend the piano to a relative to be used for an entertain ment Christinas and had intended moving it early Wednesday morning. Developments in the case will he watched with interest. The house had burned almost down when the l'ire de partment was called on and the dis tance is considerable, while it takes nearly 2,000 feet of hose to reach the nearest plug. Mays is an Industrious negro and people who know him well do not think him guilty of arson, although not vouching for him while drunk. 1. ROCKEFELLER IS COMING 10 AUGUSTA Standard Oil King Writes Friends That He Will Be Here Within Next Few Weeks, Al though Bon Air Has Heard Nothing From Him r o ro< Friends of Mr. John D. Rockefeller in Augusta have received letters from him stating that he is coming to Au gusta tliis winter and will be here within the next few weeks. Although the Bon Air Hotel has received no ad vices indicating that the oil king is to return here for a sojourn, still it is a fact that Mr. Rockefeller Is coming. Mr. Rockefeller enjoys motoring over the roads around Augusta and playing golf on the links of the Country Club. He was not here last winter. It is assumed that when Mr. Rocke feller comes he will stay at the Bon Air, as he has always stayed at that hotel. STOLE A COW, SAWED OFF PORTION AND LEFT REST Fine Jersey Cow of “Uncle” Wade Mims, of North Augus ta, Stolen and Killed Sunday Morning. Evidently someone was hungry in North Augusta Saturday night. “Un cle" Wade Mims, an old negro em ploye of the town had to suffer for that person’s hunger, it seems. Mims was the owner, up until sometime Sunday morning, of a fine Jersey cow, having raised It from a calf. Sunday morning Mims went to feed the cow when to his dismay he found that the rope had been cut and the cow stolen. A search was Instituted and the cow, dead, was found at the edge of the swamp of that section, with its throat cut. The left hind quarter of the cow was seemingly sawed off, and was appropriated by the guilty party, leaving the rest of the cow where he, or they, had kil'ed it. Marhsall Horn arrested two negroes yesterday but let them go this morn ing for lack of evidence. He stated that he Is working on a clue that he believes will lead to the arrest and conviction of the guilty party. SMALL BOY AND HIS FIREWORKS IN EVIDENCE Poppers Exploded on Broad Street in Anticipation of Christmas. The small boy, with his harmless fireworks, was in evidence for the first time on Broad street last evening. There were a number of "poppers” ex ploded during the evening, which cre ated animation among the little fellows who think that Christmas is not Christmas unless they are allowed to “shoot" their fireworks. It would seem that the merchants and city au thorities are vieing with each other in tlie matter of selling and permitting the harmless, sane and safe fireworks, and if the more dangerous ones at • not used there can scarcely he any serious objection to the younger generation having his usual fun In this manner. LUHRS CASE*WAS” POSTPONED TODAY The case of the city vs. Charles H. Luhrs, charged with selling whiskey on Sunday, was called In the recorder’s court Wednesday morning hut was postponed until December 30th at the request of the city. Mr. Lttlira denies the charge. Irish Political Contest Interesting In Spite of War LADY GRANARD. London. —Tlie contest between Lord Wimbornee and Lord Granard for the I-ord Lieutenancy of Ireland is attracting attention despite tlie war. Lady Gra nard. who was Beatrice Ogden Mills, is a gre.it source of strength to her husband, for it is known tiiat she has tho ability and tact, to say nothing of the wealth, to discharge the social duties of the otrice with distinction. The salary of tlie Lord Lieutenant is SIOO,OOO it year, hut thlH does not meet the outlays of the post except in the most frugal hands and there Is umple oppor tunity to sepnd five times as much. “DOCTORS”LOST TO THE T 1 Cl American School of Osteopathy of Kirkville, Mo., Defeated by Locals By Score of 52 to 32. The Y. M. C. A. basketball team de feated the American School of Osteopa thy, of Kirkville, Mo., last night at the association building by the score of 52 to 32 in one of the best and clean est games ever played on an Augusta court. The local aggregation showed far better form than they did in the re cent game with Athens, thus the Os teopathy went down to defeat. The game was enjoyable from the begin ning until the end, interest was never lax. The team, work of the local club could have been no better, the Indi vidual play just as good, In fact the contest goes to prove that the Y. M. C. A. has gotten together a team that can battle with the best of ’em, and stand a chance at that. The star of the occasion was Captain Hester, of the locals, Hester being light, simply piled up the score by his continuous efforts, aided by his marvelous faculty to put the sphere through the hoop. Rheney, who showed grand form was backed up by every member of the team Olds, for the visitors, featured with Englar a close second. The rest of the visitors demonstrated that they knew the game for all that It afforded, gain ed by their experience, not a man on the club having played the game less than four years. They were the clean est lot of players that the locals ever tackled. The first half ended In favor of tho Y. M. C. A. by the score of 26 to 23 points, and wns a little better than tho second half. It seemed during the sec ond half that the visitors were a little fagged, therefore the locals simply walked away with them. Rheney fea tured In his long-distance goal-shoot ing, which was the feature of the game, In the last half the "doctors" were unable to score but 9 points. The Hqt-up: Tjocals. Position. Visitors. Hester Olds Left Forward. Young Manhart Right Forward. Claussen Englar Center, Rheney Wilson Right Guard. Muller, fflbley Foster, Johnson Left Guard. Teacher—Willie, why don’t you keep your hair combed? Willie—’Cause I ain’t got no comb. Teacher Why don’t you ask your mother to buy you one? Willie—’Cause then I’d have to keep my hair combed. —Boston Transcript. THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. CITY BRIEFS Caught Negro Burqlar.—William Harrison, alias Bill, alias Georgs Washington, a negro, charged with burglarizing the homo of Mr. M. A Rushton, at 2315 Central avenue, was turned over to Deputy Sheriff Whit tle by Conductor John Laird, of tlio Georgia Railroad yesterday. The ne gro is said to have stolen a.trunk from the home of Mr. Rushton, carried It some distance from the house, broko into it and stole $25 and then went to Grovetown, where he hoarded a Geor gia train. Conductor Laird recognized him and turned him over to Deputy Sheriff Whittle, whom he happened to see at Camak. Twenty-two dollars of the money was recovered. Live Wire on the Street.—Consider able excitement was created yesterday evening about 6:30 o’clock on the 700 block of Broad street, near the Monu ment, when a trolley wire charged with electricity broke and fell on tlie street. The wire, In falling narrowly missel striking a lady. Tho motorman and conductor of a street ear took charge of the situation and kept pedestrians and vehicles away until linemen came to repair tlie damage. Bridge Over Canal.—A concrete bridge Is to he creeled over the ea nal at Ninth and D’Antignac streets and Mr. Nlsbet Wingfield, commission er of public works, has drawn plans In accordance with instructions from city council. The bridge is to cost not over $3,000. Elks Plan Christmas Tree.—A Christmas tree will he given on.Chrlst mas Day by the Augusta Elks fln their lodge rooms. It Is expected that every Elk In the city will be present and It will he a most enjoyable affair. The Elks this year, as usual, are giving a great deal to charity. WAR PRESENTS ITALIAN RIVIERA OPPORTUNITIES Monte Carlo.—The war has brought an opportunity to the Italian Rlverera, and towns In this region will make strenuous endeavors this winter to gather to themselves what Is left of the winter resort business formerly monopolized by Nice, Mentone, and other French places. At the llochers Rouge, a Htone’H throw beyond tho border, a Casino Is to tie opened with n. government license, to compete with Monte Carlo. There Is also much ac tivity at Han Remo and Bordighera, although these places are largely filled up with Germans and Austrians who have been expelled from France. Nice and Mentone, which formerly saw at least 49,000 German visitors every season, will suffer heavily as a result of the war, 106 GERMAN THEATREB OPEN, Amsterdam, via London. —The Ber lin Tagehlatt. In a review of the the atrical situation, states that 106 Ger man theatres have opened for the season, while JO7 have decided to re main (dosed. Of 7,200 unemployed actors, about 3.000 are known to bo at the front. I FIGHTING MAKES SOLDIERS HUNGRY—EAT TOO MUCH London. —Fighting makes soldiers hungry and they also eat in excess when food is at hand, through fear that they may not get any more for somo time, a Servian soldier writes a fellow countryman here. "If I wanted half as much to eat at home as I do when campaigning, my little farm wouldn't support me,” the letter said in part. "We all feel the same—that we must lay up at each meal enough to last us for days, the future being to uncertain. "When we were In the trenches a hundred yards or so from our oppon ents, likewise In trenches, we wanted something to eat besides maize and a few men risked their skins to go for aging to the nearest villages. They cumo hark next day with three roast lambs, and, In the joy of the feast, we forgot precautions. Hitherto we never popped up our heads except to fire, but now wo could not resist call ing, 'Hey, Swabos! See what we've got for breakfast!’ and we showed them the roast meat, knowing it would make them wild. They fired a volley at it, breaking It into fragments. The Babes of Belgium Bg WILL IRWIN Eighty Thousand Innocents Bom In War —Mothers Scrape Empty Tin Cans Thrown from German Camp Kitchens. TWO or three little pictures before I really begin: It was the Pas tie Calais at the end of October—an October blessed, In this year of dread, with clear, cool, bracing weather, much like our own Indian Summer. Around a turn In the road came a strange, shuffling multi tude, doubly strange in that well-or dered landscape. At the head marched an old woman —a stalwart, straight-backed Flomlßh woman vigorous In spits of har sixty years. Beside her walked a boy of not mors than twelve, hts figure already settling Into a peasant solid ity. He, like the old woman, car ried on his back a bundle wrapped In a sheet. And between them they dragged by the hand a little girl, not more than six years old —half car ried her, since now and then she raised her feet from the ground and let them support her. BEYOND TEARS. It was plain to see why she lifted her feet. Her poor little shoes, heavy though they had been In the begin ning, were worn clear through. Her clothes and hair were matted with dirt, and her face was gray with It, eavo for tile streaks made by l r tears. She had stopped crying now she was beyond that. There come the time with all these refugees, young an 4 old. when they get beyond tears. Behind followed the rest of tbs refugee caravan, like these leader*, except for minor details. Of course there was not among them a man of vigorous years—only a few grand fathers. trudging along beside their women folk. Mainly. It was a col lection of yeung children—all, like tha little girl In the leading party, beyond tears and misery. A MONTH OF FLIGHT. A doxen of ths women, at least, carried babes In arms who had some how survived the miseries of days and days of walking. These were the last of the Belgian refugees to pour Into France. They cams mainly from that thickly-settled, fertile, one* prosperous southwestern strip along which Germans and allies were now fighting for the bridge-head of the Yaer. But not all. Borne of them as I learned from the few who had the energy to talk—lived further north. A month before they had tied from the German advance after the capture of Antwerp; and they had been flee ing ever since sleeping In the fields through rain and shine, eating what bread of charity Heaven only knows. BABE BORN IN TENT. The tall of ths procession, I foand, had halted at a arossroads beside which som# ons had erected a tent from blankets strung on sticks. As 1 approached, wondering what this might be, an automobile came whir ling down the road at seventy miles an hour—there are no speed Laws for military automobile* In time of war. It stopped beside the tent; there was a parley and a man In Belgian uni form wearing a Bed Crons brassard on his arm alighted. "What Is It —what Is happening?” I asked the first of the refugees be side the tent —an old man who crouched In the gutter. “l/n enfant —a baby Is being born,” he said briefly. The man In uniform was a Belgian surgeon taking time from hln work of repairing death to assist in giving life. Again: It was ths next day In Calais—Calais, once so busy and so venerable, and In spots so pretty, but now faded and dirty with the passage of armies. Ten thousand of these refsgeea came Into Calais that day That day, also, ths Bad Cross was bringing In Belgian wounded by the thousand there had been serious fighting along ths Yser. HERDED ON THE PIERS. The refugees, herded or escorted by ths polloe, streamed down ths streets to ths concentration yards prepared for them on the docks of the French Government, which woe going to transport them to ths Midi as soon ** It could get the steamers. You would hear now and then the toot of an automobile horn, and the refugees would make way for the passage of a motor-oar loaded to capacity with the white-faced wounded. Tlie car would go on, and the refugees would eloes their gaps and resume their weary, nerveless pees. At the concentration yards they sat tn family groups, ths children hud dled about their mothers and grand- “ ‘Thanks for carving it! We had no knives and forks, so in return for your service we will share with you,’ shouted our corporal. Then we lay in our trenches and ate our fill, throwing the bones to the Swabos and laughing at their shots which all went astray, they were so angry. ‘‘The next day we saw boats sus pended on sticks outside the Austrian trenches, and a voice called In broken Servian, ‘See, you rots, how are shod, whilo you have not even sound sandals!' Then our commander re minded us of all the roast meat we had consumed, and said that on the strength of it wo ought to be able to earn a pair of boots. So we charged at a moment when the Swabos least ex pected it. Sure enough we drove them out and captured hundred of new boots, with many other good things. In that charge I was wounded, but 1 briught away my new’ boots." DURING THE~WAR MANY “DEPLORABLE MISTAKES” London. —Many deplorable mistakes have been made during the war, Colo nel Uniacke of the Gordon Highland ers. declared in a lecture recently be- mothers like chickens around hens. No child among them laughed or played; they were too weary for that; but no child cried. I was trying to have speech with these refugees, and flrdlng them too nerveless to give any account of their adventures when an ambulance arrived. NO MILK; BABIES DIE. A nurse and a physician descended. A woman rose from a distant group and joined them. She carried In her arms a bundle wrapped in rags. The slant of her back showed that the handle contained a child—there Is an attitude of motherhood whloh none can mistake. The women In the nearest group followed the pantomime with their tearless, hopeless eyes. "What Is It?" I asked. For a time none of the women an swered. Then one spoke la a dead tone. "Her baby Is dead,” she said. "Ghe had no milk In her.” All that happened on the fringe of Belgium, to the refugeos who had made their way out and were nearing aafety, and enough comfort tc keep soul and body together. I could multiply Instances from the observation of others. There was, for example, the group of two hundred refugees who arrived in Holland early in November. They carried with them four dead, new-born babies. It was the same story which one hears everywhere. The mothers were to reduced by privation that they aad no milk of their own. As for cows’ milk, it was not to be had for any money. MILK FROM GARBAGE. Add another plctare, brought out bv an American from Belgium. He stood one tn&rnlng by the back door of a German cook camp, watching a group of Belgian women grubbing through the trash-heap plied up be hind the camp. All tnese women car ried babies. "What are they doing?” he asked a German sergeant with whom he had struck up acquaintance. ’’.Scraping our condensed milk cans,” aald the sergeant. "It's the only way to get milk for their babies. I've seen them run their lingers round a oan which looked as bright as s new coin, and hold them Into the babies' mouths to suck. My company,” he added, "baa been getting along without milk In Its coffee and giving It to these women. We’ve received no orders to the contrary—and we re mostly fam ily men. But we're an exception; and It doesn't go very far." A MOTHER COLLAPSES. Here la another recent picture from stricken Brussels, that gay, dainty, lively city In old times the city whose smiling people called It petit Parts. The scene Is the once busy, pleasant boulevard Blschofshelm. A woman collapses on a bench set along the Sidewalk after the fashion of the Greater Paris, in her arms is a baby. A child staggers along, clinging to her apron. The woman’s face Is blue and yelloW; she la on ths verge of col lapse. The baby, surely not over five months old, has a pale, lead-colored skin. Its mouth is open us though set that way. Its eyes are closed. Two women of Brussels pass this unhappy group. They harrledly ex change somo words, turn back to the woman on the bench. Then one stand* guard while the other hastens for some milk and bread—such as Is to be found In the Brussels of to day. They force a little milk between the teeth of tho mother. They let the baby drink. Unwearied though It was, it drinks as though it had never drunk otherwise. NO FOOD FOR TWO DAYB. To the face of the mother comes a few patches of color. She slowly re covers until she Is able to eat a hit of bread. The baby opens Us mouth, drinks mors greedily. “It has not fed since two days,” the mother whtspors. The mother tries to rise from the bench.but she cannot. The elder child drinks the milk that Is left, it looks curlossly at the place of bread ns If It dtd not know what It was The mother forces It to eat. A crowd has gathers!], murmuring This sight is not new, yet each time It draws a little crowd. Every one would like to give—but no one can. Who Is not poor at this mornent7 Many of them have children at home who to-day weigh less than ths day they were hor n. France end England and Germany and Austria are Issuing their lists of tho deed, which are mounting up day by day to a ghastly million. But these take account only of the strong young men wtio tiavs died In the light ing. They do not taks account of mere non-ebrnbatants. They do not list ths women who, foolishly or Ignor antly stick te thslr homes, have died under the shell-fire of enemies or friends They do not list ths weak and helpless who have dropped ost from the pathetic caravans of refu gees to perish along the edges of the roads. They do out take list ut these fore an audience of soldiers at the Hounslow Barracks. A summary of tlie lecture was permitted to pass the censor too. It was a “deplorable mistake,” ac cording to Colonel Uniacke, which caused Huch heavy casualties In his regiment. An order to charge was given which never should have been given, he said, and the Gordons went forward “only to come under a ter rible shrapnel and shell fire” to which rthey were exposed for a long time. It watt never ascertained who gave the order to attack. Nor was this terrible experience of the Gordons an isolated one, Colonel Uniacke said. He declared he knew of other regiments that had been or dered to make “a perfectly hopeless attack” and had made It at the cost of half their strength, and afterwards "It was found that the order to at tack was never given by the General.” No order to advance or attack should ho taken, he insisted, unless It were properly authenticated. “Why is that man laughing?” "Because he bought a horse cheap ly." “And what’s the other one chuck ling over?” “He sold the horse.” No Strong Men In Fugitive Army. Babe Born in Tent—Amerlc* Attempts to. Supply Quarter Ration. who are beginning to die by IraajpzF lr. stricken Belgium. And finally, they do not list these babes of Belgium, dropping off before their Uvea bsvu fairly begun, because there Is HO milk. BABES MUST HAVE MILK. Lot us view the situation In ooM. blood. Belgium la aturt off from tha world—ringed with steel. Har own food supply was used up long ago. either by the people or by their con querors. Tha cattle were Brat of oil to go; oven In A a gust I aaw tbs Ger mans killing milch cows far rations. A cow or a small dairy hard Is loft hers or there; but tbsy arc the ex ceptions. The supply of oondenaed ratlk ran ahort long ago. Now milk la e ne cessity to most olvUlaed children be tween the ages of one and two years. Gome children. It la true, pull through, under exceptional clrcumatanoaa of privation without It; but thaae are the unusually sturdy; they stand apart from tho rule. The average, young child must have milk or ha 1 will die. And there Is no milk. Again, tho suckling baby must have mother's milk or a substitute. There ls, of course, no substitute to be had in Belgium and equally there la little mother’s milk. Every woman knows that a civil ised nursing mother must “keep up hor strength.” She must have nour ishing food in many cases special food. Every woman knows that a certain proportion of civilised mothers cannot feed their awn babies even at that. Nourishing food special fooodt The news which Biters out of that locked, stricken country to the American Commission for Belief in Belgium makea a sarcasm and a mockery of those phrases. BUN AND CABBAGE oOUfM In many. If r.ui in most Belgian cities, tha populace la down to oae large baker's bun a day. Issued by the municipal authorities In some places the authorities have been able to supplement that ration by one bowl of oabbage sou > a day. Ons bun and one bowl of Garbage soup a day—tor a nursing mother! Yet that is all they have and all they will have this Winter at the beat America can do. The American Com mission hopes at best to transmit ten onnees of food a day to each Inhabi tant of Belgium—and to do that tho people of the United States must strain every resource of charity. How little that Is for a civilised human be ing. and especially for a nursing mother, becomes plain when one learns that tha average Inhabitant of Greater New York consumes forty two ounces of food a day. The best the mothers of Belgium can hope for is a quarter ration this Winter. 80,000 INNOCENTS. Kven allowing for the reduction of the birth rate due to the war. there must have been forty thousand births in Belgian: sines tbs Germans cense. There will be forty thousand more la this Wlntar of hardship and priva tion, How many of the newly arrived forty thousand hare already died on naceesarlly—undecorated, unsung vto time of this war—no ons wtu ever know. How many of the coming forty thousand will die thw Winter depends upon us In America—upon how muett food we send to the nursing mothers, how much milk to the bablsa AMERICA'S OPPORTUNITY. No Christmas In our time has brosght such a call for ths Christmas spirit as this. Belgium Is starving. America Is trying te feed ths Bel gians. The best ws can ds Is t* give (hern quarter rations this Winter— Just enough to kssp soul and body to gether Ws cannot do svtn that an ise* every American helps, A barrel of flour will pull tws Bel gian adults through this Winter A case of condensed milk will save ths lives of rhres Belgian children. A few tins of mast will gfv# a nursing mother ths strength to kssp bar ohlld alive. Think *of that when you sit down to your Christmas dinner Many organisations are solioltliig food and funds. If thsra Is ene In yosr community, help It. If there is none, start one. Ths Commission for Belief In Belgium, No. T 1 Broadway New York, will tell you how to go tl work. * Copyright bv Commission for He Hos. in Belgium, No. 7i Ihoadway, Novo York, SEVEN