Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1916 — BELGIAN FLAGS TO BE SOLD SATURDAY [ARTICLE]

BELGIAN FLAGS TO BE SOLD SATURDAY

D. A. R. Will Take This Method of Raising Funds For the Destitute War Sufferers. The national board of the society of the D. A. R. has decided to assist the commission for relief in Belgium in organizing a Flag (Tag) Day for the relief of the war sufferers in occupied Belgium. These sufferers number about 9,000,000 people, 3,000,000 of whom are entirely or in part destitute. The day chosen is the Bth of April, the anniversary of King Albert’s birthday. Seven cents is the cost of a flag and seven cents is the cost of food for one destitute person in Belgium for one day. These people will need help until the war is over. Members of the General Van Rensselaer chapter will have these flags for sale Saturday, April Bth, on the streets. It is hoped that everyone will buy a flag and thus help in allieviating the suffering that the war has brought to these innocent, helpless and defenseless people.

It is requested that each person purchasing a flag will wear it? not only on Saturday, the Bth, but on Sunday, the 9th, with prayers for these unfortunate people. Ten million of these flags will be on sale next Saturday throughout our great country. —We are prosperous and happy, it is our country’s great opportunity to demonstrate not only its patriotism but its high ideals. Shall we deny them, or as a great, neutral nation, shall we come to their aid and rescue . DAISY ALLEN STORY, Pres. Gen. Nat Society G. A. R.