Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-11-08
THE CHRISTMAS
SHIP FOR 1916

| Christmas Ship to foreign lands, which
this year will be the Navy collier
Caesar or a collier of the same type, is
icing refined by the Government for
carrying food supplies to destitute Syr-
ians and Armenians. 1t will leave New
York December l, carrying a capacity
cargo of foodstuffs and new clothing
for Beirut, Syria, from which port re-
lief will be distributed by American
Red Cross and Red Crescent agents,
aided by United States consuls and
missionaries.
The American Committee for Armen-
ian and Syrian Relief, has just sent
$208,0O0 through the State Department
to various distribution centers to be
distributed Immediately by the Com
mittee's agents direct to the most
needy survivors of the Armenian de-
portations and the Syrian famine
months. This money will purchase
grain, blankets and colthing, giving the
stfferers within the Turkish Empire a
foretaste of the Christmas cheer which
the United States navy boat will bring
AS a necessary preliminary to the
sending of the Christmas Ship arrange
ments are being made for collections in
the churches of the entire country
Thanksgiving Day, the receipts of
which will be used in completing the
cargo. The ship will carry 100000
pounds of rice, 100000 pounds of lima
beans 100000 pounds of crushed
wheat, 100000 pounds of whole
wheat 100000 pounds of sugar, 1000
cases of condensed milk for children,
10000 barrels of -four, $4,000 gallons
of petroleum and $4,000 gallons of cot
ton seed OIL
Military regulations forbid the
carrying of any except new clothing.
Hundreds of cases of warm underwear
and sweaters and light shoes for men,
women and children, stockings for wo-
men and children, cotton and wooden |
socks for men, blankets and blanket
shawls, gray cotton and wooden cloth |
in the piece, unbleached muslin, and |
cototn thread, needles and pins will !
form part of the cargo. Contributors
to the cargo and churches which are
raising money are sending their gifts /
to w A. Staub, the Red Cross repre-
sentative in charge of the Christmas
Ship, at the Bush Terminal, Brooklyn,
New York.
Navy officials ana prominent church.
men of all denominations will join
the ceremonies to be held at the
Christmas Ships departure, adding to
its cargo the holiday good wishes of
ere country to the stricken races of
another.
The money collected on the two days
recently proclaimed by President Will
son as Armenian and Syrian Relief
Days having been cabled already for
relief, more than a quarter
of a million dollars additional must be
gathered to freight the Christmas Ship.
Funds already collected it is believ-
cd, will be supplemented to this am
cunt in hundreds of cities in which the
proclamation days were used merely as
the beginning of local campaigns
which will last until after Thanksgiv-
ing.
There is little doubt, however, that
even after the response of the country
to the appeals of the President and the
Committee has been registered fully,
many of the most elemental needs of
deportation victims, to relieve which
in Armenia alone former Ambassador
to Turkey, Henry Morgenthau esti-
mates $5,OO0,0OO is necessary, will still
be uncared for permanently, and that
Americas assistance to the sufferers of
the Orient must continue.