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Contributed by the Publisher as a public service Is there really starvation in America? [[image - black & white photograph of three, poor black children]] There sure is. And there would be more of it except for the NAACP Emergency Relief Fund. There's Elma May Greer. Since her husband died, she's been trying to support eight children on $84 a month from welfare. Join Ray Wood's family for dinner. When he can't pick up any day labor, his $25-a-month veteran's disability pension has to feed all 11 of them. Try budgeting Berlean Fairley's $60 a month to cover lights, gas, food and shoes for four growing kids. For these families, and thousands more in the rural South, there's only one alternative to literal, actual starvation: the Federal Food Stamp Program. But how do you buy food stamps when you have no cash? How do you get to the selling office when you're blind, or crippled, or can't scrape up the carfare? That's where the NAACP Emergency Relief Fund comes in. Through volunteers working out of local NAACP branches, we provide the cash—and sometimes the carfare—that makes food stamps available to the Greers and Woods and Fairleys. Sometimes it's as little as $1 to buy a penniless couple $64 worth of food stamps. Occasionally, it's as much as $20, which can give each member of a family of 16 about 65¢ worth of food each day. Mostly, we help families out with the $8 or $10 or $12 a month they need to get their full food-stamp allotment. It really isn't much—but to the people who get it, it's the difference between life and death. And when you're talking about more than 30,000 families helped, the cost mounts up. That's why the NAACP Emergency Relief Fund needs your help so badly. Every dollar you contribute is tax-deductible. And, on the average, every dollar we get converts into $11 worth of food. But we can't do it without your dollars. So please send what you can. Thanks. NAACP Emergency Relief Fund Dept. BP2, Box 121, Radio City Station, New York, N.Y. 10019