Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1919 — ARMENIAN AND SYRIAN RELIEF [ARTICLE]

ARMENIAN AND SYRIAN RELIEF

QUICK WORK NECESSARY TO SAVE THOUSANDS OF » CHRISTIAN LIVES. You are asked for $30,000,000 to sustain the lives of 3,950,000 Christians and Jews through the winter, through their return to a new life free from religious and political persecution. . Why? America entered the Great Warthat the rights of small nations may never again be trampled upon. The noble little nations of the Near East have kept the faith and borne the burden of massacre which thousands, of miles have kept from our homes. Victory has come. And now these bravest and staunchest pilgrims, in sight of the goal of freedom, stajid for lack of $30,000,000 —your $5 and $lO and sso— immediate danger of starvation or of death from the diseases of war and Lunger. - —— Why doesn’t the Red Cross do it? The Red Cross found the machinery, of relief already at work in the Near East—the missionaries, who know the people and speak their languages, and all official representatives of the United States had been organized by the American committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief. Channels of distribution were well established. And the Red Cross asked the committee to carry on all relief work in the Near East territory, in order that there be neither duplication nor lost motion. The territory is Asia Minor, the Caucasus, Armenia, Persia, and Northern Egypt. 100 per cent efficient! Every dollar you give goes to the Near East. All expense ot collection and of distribution is met private' iy.

Of the $12,321,145.92 collected before September 30, 1918, $12,371,145.92 was sent to the field. The increase of $50,00-0 over collections was interest ..ccrued from daily balances. Your $30,000,000 will go in full to save lives of individuals anti of whole countries. Full government approval and co-operation is given to the -Commission's work. AH funds are transmitted through the Departmentof State. . The Shipping Board and all consular agents of the United oiates government give every possible aid. There are 3,950,000 souls, 400,000 of whom are orphans, all in desperate need. 17 cents pgr person per day Is the estimated expense of giving them food. Catholics, Protestants and Jews alike have been the victims of Turkish oppression and of Turkish government orders to exterminate or drive from their homes and industries every other people in the Near East. Catholics, Protestants, and Jews alike are receiving every help within our power. The Commission’s work is one. not only of relief tmtof tion and reconstruction. Our budget includes seeds for next year’s crops, farm implements, cattle and sheep. These people are freed from their oppressors but shorn of homes, and property. Our part Is to set them on tbei* own feet. .I:\ZZZZLZ.'’■ * Cables from every worker in the

Near East tell a story such as this: - Cable from Constantinople “Refugees from all’countries and many deported Armenians drifting back. Their homes in ruins, lands laid waste, cattle and implements gone. Need help to reestablish. Need much help for they have lost everything. Heroic men and women who have strained every energy to save lives now have task of picking out those who shall perish. Can you not cable that promised monthly appropriation is ■certain till end June, 1919. Such action would double value of gift.” . ♦ ' (Signed) STOVALL, -U. S. Minister at Berne, Switzerland. Jasper county’s quota is' $1,700*. COUNTY CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE J. M. Sauser, - Chairman C. Howard Mills, - Treasurer G. A. Williams, Director of Speakers M. L. Serrett, Director of Publicity Grant Davisson, Dennis O’Riley, F. B. LeFevre, Alfred Duggleby, Clifford Fairchild, Julius Huiff, Chas. W. Postill, Erhard Wuerthner, Warren E. Poole, Chas. W. Wood, Walter Harrington,, John Pettet, Jobjjj Bowie. / . a > t