"Help"

President of China Chiang Kai-shek cabled urgently, last week, to the China Famine Relief Fund, 205 East 42nd St., New York City. "Funds must be raised and forwarded immediately," cabled he, "if great loss of life is to be prevented."

Thus far the C. F. R. F. has collected some $340,000 after appealing ten months ago for $10,000,000: less than $1 each for the 12,000 Chinese who are now on the brink of starvation (TIME, Sept 10 et seq.).

The only reason why charitably inclined persons should hesitate to contribute to the fund is that--although their money will save lives this year--they can scarcely hope that any total of contributions, however large, will suffice to permanently relieve the perennial Chinese famine. Such considerations have determined the American Red Cross to send neither food nor cash to China; but persons who give even two cents to the fund may rejoice in the knowledge that they are putting a bowl-full of rice into an otherwise empty and agonized Chinese stomach.

The C.F.R.F. was organized under the aegis of General James G. Harbord, president of Radio Corp. of America, with Doctor S. Parkes Cadman, so-called and famed "National Radio Pastor," as chairman.