10/08/1917
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"Three and a half million children are facing starvation in Central Europe."
"Ten dollars contributed through the European Relief Council will save the life of one child."
"I suggest to my fellow-countrymen that the circles around their Christmas trees will be incomplete unless, mingled with their own expectant children, they shall visualize some of the waifs of Central ..."
"I shall adopt twenty of these children as my own temporary wards."