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Brouwershaven Is Your Town Now
Will Give to Dutch Children
In Flood-Swept Community
Tel. parkway 7-1
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By ALICE BURKE
March 6 is B-Da; in the Boston Public SchoolsB for
Brouwershaven.
ON THAT DAN thousands of boys and girls will have
a chance to help homeless children of the flood-ruined
little Dutch town that Boston has adopted as "its own."
Coins or folding moneywhatever any Boston pupil
wants to give—will be collected in each classroom ancl
turned over to the Traveler's Save-a-Town fund.
AND EVERY PENNL contributed by our youngsters
wll be set aside for the kids of Brouwershaven.
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One big goal of the Traveler's
campaign is to restore a six-room
school known to have been dam
aged by angry seas that ripped
open the dikes of the Holland farm
and fishing village.
ik GIVING to the Brouwers
haven fund, Boston's boys and girls
add a bright, new link to the shin
ing chain of mercy that has been
forged by generations of this city's
childrenat least as far back as
1847.
They yielded their pennies then
to put food on the boats that sailed
to relieve the tragic potato famine
in Ireland.
Half a century later, a new
batch of school kids sacrificed
their candy money again so their
"brothers and sisters" at home^
and abroad could be warm and
whole and safe:
In 1906 they dug down for the
victims of the San Francisco
earthquake.
In 1908 it was for refugees from
the frightful quake and fire at
Messina, Italy.
When disaster struck anew with
the explosion of a munitions ship
at Halifax, N. S., in the horrible
December of 1917, Boston's young
sters got their money up fast. It
couldn't help the 1600 dead, but
it saved many of the 20,000 home
less.
In January 1937, Hub boys and
girls once more made it cash on
the line in response to Mayor
Mansfield's appeal for thousands
of sufferers in the Louisville floods.
They'll do it In 1953 for Brou
wershaven.
RECORD OF CHARITY
It was the record of charity
that Boston's young and old have
written through the years that sold
Fire Commr. Michael T. Kelleher
on serving as chairman of the Trav
eler's Dutch relief committee.
"I'm only alive to serve," he
told the committee's first meet
ing "because of those blessed
boats from Boston to Ireland in
1847. They saved my grand
parents."
Two day's mail and receipts have
brought in more than $2000 for I
Brouwershaven. ii
In addition, business houses have f<
provided services in place of .cash, fi
Hub Mail Advertising Service,
Inc., helped to the tune of $69.28.
The names of all contributors,
except those requesting anonymi- tl
ty, will be published in future edi- 1
tions of the Traveler.
The Brouwershaven drive ends
March 10.
YOUR donation, great or small,
will help. Send it to the Boston
Traveler, 80 Mason street, Boston.
