Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1920 — HEMPHILL EXPLAINS ORGANIZATION OF NEAR EAST RELIEF [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HEMPHILL EXPLAINS ORGANIZATION OF NEAR EAST RELIEF

Prominent New York Banker Says Alm Is 100% Relief of Starving Peoples. "Just what is the Near East Relief? la the question that many people are asking whose interests have been awakened to the terrible condltiona existing in the Levant today,” says Alexaader J. Hemphill, President of the Guarantee Trust Company and well known New Tork* banker and financier. "In prosaic facts, the Near Eaat Relief la a body Incorporated by act of Congress the object of which is •to provide relief and to assist in the repatriation, rehabilitation and re-es-tabllshment of suffering and dependent people of the Near East and adjacent arena; to provide for the care of orphans and widows and to promote the •oclaU economic aad Industrial wel-

fare of those who have been rendered destitute or dependent, directly or in directly, by the vicissitudes of war the cruelties of men or other cause* beyond their control.’ 100 Per Cent Relief. “The alm of the organization is 10C per cent relief, the relief which puts those aided on a self-supporting basis which Instills in them a confidence foi the future, places in their hands th* means with which to begin life anew and in their hearta the courage to gc pn. Work, that is the prescription

subscribed and provided by those loya' men and women who have journeyec into perilous places ter the sake o< their fellow men; to make these peo pie independent for the future, to encourage the flickering fire of natlena 1 pride. “There are 82,291 workers employed in the industrial establishments of the Near East Relief, where wool is furnished for the women to spin and weave, and all the girls who are strong enough are washing wool, sewing beds, grinding and sifting wheat, tailoring and learning to make lace. The big problem is to make these women independent. “About 500 American men and wv men. Near East Relief workers, are now Id the field, including 36 eminent physicians and surgeons, 76 Burses, 7 mechanics, IS industrial experts, IC agriculturists, 14 bacteriologists, 197 relief workers, 25 supply and transport workers, 19 teachers, 20 administrators, 34 secretaries, 7 engineers find 45 army officers.

Where Money Goes. “Funds for relief purposes art distributed in two ways: First, the various relief centers are authorized by the Executive Committee to draw sight drafts on New York for specific amounts each month; second, by sup piles purchased In America, the major portion of which are shipped to the committee warehouses at Derlndje, and the remainder either to Beyrouth or Batoum. “The relief is rapidly expanding and ■meting the situation, but the future depends on the continuation of American support.” According to Mr. Hemphill, the need for American help to see the destitute peoples of the Near East through the crisis of present conditions is greater now than ever before on account of the uncertainty as to the future, the truculence of the Turkish government and the danger of bolshevism from Russia, which threatens to engulf the whole of Armenia.

Who Direot ths Work. Mr. Hemphill is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Near East Relief. Other member* are Dr. James L. Barton, Secretary of the Foreign Department of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; Edwin M. Bulkley, banker, of Spencer Trask A Co., New York; Judge Abram X Elkus, former United States Ambassador to Turkey; Harold A. Hatch, a well known New York cotton man; Herbert Hoover; William B. Millar. one of the Secretaries of the laterchurch World Movement; Henry Morgenthau, United States Ambassador to Mexico; Edgar Rickard es the Ameri can Belief Administration; Charles K Vickrey, who is Secretory of the Near ■eat Relief, and Dr. Stanley White, secretory of the Board of Foreign Mis Mens of the Presbyterian Church. ■

ALEXANDER J. HEMPHILL.