Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-29
DRIVE To RAISE
FUNDS FOR NEEDY
STARTS SHORTLY
BernaIiIIo County Is Expected
to Contribute So, $50 to Aid
ArnnenianS and SyrianSl
Says Campaign Director

Eernalillo county win be asked to
raise $2,75O of the $35,ooo to be
raised in New Mexico for the Armen-
ian and syrian relief fund, according
to the official announcement made
here yesterday by Edward Everett
Young, executive secretary and cam
paign director
People generally, il is believed. are
more or less familiar with the terri
BILE conditions which exist in Armenia
and in Syria as the result of the cam
raign Of death, destruction and de-
vastation carried on by the Turks
during almost the entire period of
the war. The story of the sufferings
Of the prosecuted ArmenianS and Sy-
rians has not been half told. 1t is
only within the last few weeks that
there have filtered through the news
agencies. details of the deSolatiOn
that has swept throughout Armenia
and Syria in the wake of the muir
derous onslaughts of the merciless
Turks. The lifting of the censorship
has revealed TO the people of Amer
lea scenes almtst unbelievable, of
famine and things worse than death.
The helping hand of America is be-
ing extended across the sea to the
sufferers Ship after ship is being
loaded at American ports with food.
clothing, medical supplies doctors
and nurses, bound for Beirut and
ether ports i'm the desolated regions
carrying succor to homeless, penni-
less millions of people
1t is believed that this county will
go over the top on the first day of
3 : div f,b To-
This county has gone over the top in
every loan compalgn, in every drive
for war work and there is no doubt
in the minds of those who are direct
ing the Armenian and Syrian relief
campaign, but that the quota allotted
to this county will be met with the
same generous response, the same
prompt and vigorous action that have
characterized all other appeals Of this
kind in the past. Il. T., Twtchell is
the state chairman of the drive and
Levi Hughes of Santa lFe Is treasurer.
A. b. Stroup of Albuquerque has
been designated as chairman of the
local committee, charged with the
success of the drive in this county,
With the money collected in Amer
lea, it is proposed to furnish $50 a
year to each sufferer Of Armenia and
Syria, which will be paid out at the
rate of SIS a month TO each person. It
is believed that this plan will enaLie
the poverty stricken people of those
countries to at least exist ana keen
body and soul together until they are
able to raise their crops.
The work undertaken by the
American committee for the Armen-
ian and Syrian rol'ef fund has the
y,,,. 1,,,,. i,
prominent citizens Of the country.
That eminent church. Cardinal
Gibbons of Baltimore has endorsed
the project in the following brief
recommendation:
Cardinal Residence. 40S North
Charles street baltimore
The attempt 10 relieve ard
save the starving peoples IN the
near East deserves the eVr1na-
thetic supnort of all Christian
people. Not only have the
Christian iuhahtants ~ Turkey
been impoverished and decimat-
cd nv Il Succession IF wars
but deportation and massacre
have DESTROYED manv fathers
and mothers leaving hundreds
Of thousands of orphans to he
feed, clothed and provided with
homes. The American committee
for Armenian and Syrian relief
is TO underta Ike to raise in Jan
nary. large sum for this nur-
pose. hone that all who have
given freely for this and other
forms of war relief will be gem
erous still in the face of this
greatest tragedy Of the war.
J. CARD. GIBBONS.
= DeCember /. 1918