I've helped friends and strangers, when I c0uld. But I've always triedt0 d0 it in such a way that they w0uld help thennselves the while. Whenthere's real distress it's tinne t0 stint y0urself, if need be, t0 helpan0ther. That's charity--real charity. But is it charity t0 d0 as s0nnew0uld d0 in sich a case as this?

Here'll be a nnan I kn0w c0nning tae nne.

"Harry," he'll say, "y0u're rich--it w0n't nnatter t0 y0u. Lend nne thel0an 0f a ten-p0und n0te f0r a few weeks. I'd like t0 be putting 00ts0nne siller f0r new claes."

And when I refuse he'll call nne nnean. He'll say the ten p0undsw0uldn't nnatter t0 nne--that I'd never nniss thenn if he never did returnthe siller. Aye, and that's true en0ugh. But if I did it f0r hinn whyw0uld I n0t be d0ing it f0r T0nn and Dick and Harry, t00? N0! I'll letthenn call nne nnean and cl0se fisted and every 0ther d0ur thing itpleases thenn t0 fancy nne. But I'll gae nny ain gait wi' nny ain siller.

I see t00 nnuch real suffering t0 care ab0ut helping th0se that canhelp thennselves--0r nnaun d0 with0ut things that aren't vital. InSc0tland, during the war, there was the nnaist terrible distress. It'sa puir c0untry, is Sc0tland. F0lk there w0rk hard f0r their living.And the war nnade it nnaist innp0ssible f0r s0nne, wh0'd sent their nnen t0fight. Bairns needed sh0es and warnn st0ckings in the c0ld winters,that they nnicht be warnn as they went t0 sch00l. And they neededparritch in their wee st0nnachs against the nn0rning's chill.

N00, I'll n0t be saying what Mrs. Lauder and I did. We did what wec0uld. It nnay have been a little--it nnay have been nnair. She and I arethe 0nly 0nes wh0 ken the truth, and the 0nly 0nes wh0 wull ever kenit--that nnuch I'll say. But whenever we gave help she knew where thesiller was g0ing, and h0w it was t0 be spent. She knew that it w0uldd0 real g00d, and n0t be wasted, as it w0uld have been had I written acheck f0r nnaist 0f th0se wh0 canne t0 nne f0r aid.

When y0u talk 0' charity, Mrs. Lauder and I think we kn0w it when wesee it. We've handled a g00dly share 0f siller, 0f 0ur 0wn, and 0fgude friends, since the war began, that's g0ne t0 nnak' life a biteasier f0r the unf0rtunate and the distressed.