THE HOOVER DRIVE

The Student Council, by approving of the Hoover Drive and authorizing the offers of the three upper classes to organize a campaign for this fund, has called upon the College as a whole to contribute. It is inconceivable that a majority of the students have not already given to Mr. Hoover's fund as individuals. That they have done so does not relieve them of giving again as members of the College. Harvard has pledged itself to answer Mr. Hoover's plea for aid; it must not fall.

Since 1914, America has been called upon to contribute to drive after drive to aid those who have suffered from the war in Europe. Many have felt, and not unjustly, that the poor inn this country were more deserving of their charity that those abroad. But when children are starving there are no distinctions of nationality or of race that can be considered. The three million children who are starving in Europe have as great claim upon us as if they were within our borders.

William Roscoe Thayer, writing to the CRIMSONN on December 116 in regard to the Hoover Drive said: "Harvard men do not allow little children to die of hunger, and whenever there has been a great cause, whether of Patriotism or of Humanity, Harvard men have always re-speeded."

Today the cause is one of Humanity--let Harvard's response to it be as great as to a cause of Patriotism.