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Thank you, Mr. Green. It is always difficult to live up to the nice things said about one by a charming master of ceremonies---so why try? Just the same, it's [[strikethrough]] nice [[strikethrough]] good to hear pleasant things, so thank you again. 
Also let me express my grateful appreciation to all of you who are so generously giving of your time, sympathy and money to the Chinese. China probably seems very far away if one hasn't been there, but to those of us who know it first hand, the distance is lessened by our memories of its historical traditions, its ancient temples, and its art treasures, centuries old. 
To try to help 400,000,000 people is a staggering task; so staggering, it is less appealing than as if there were only 100,000,000, let us say. Out of that great number, prob-ably at least a fourth of them are engaged in the terrific business of fighting for their lives against the aggressor.  An aggressor, not even polite enough to give warning of his intention to strike! 
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers are entered on the casualty lists; other hundreds of thousands are seriously wounded and in need of medical aid. 
It is to aid these injured soldiers we are here tonight. When we give as little as 15c, we may be saving a life, according to Dr. Margaret Chung, of San Francisco, to whom the funds are first sent on their way to China. To us, 15c is a bowl of soup, or an ice cream soda perhaps, but to those engaged in relief work at the various Chinese hospital bases, it is the