The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-12-13
NATION WIDE DRIVE FOR
$30,000,00O
Millions in Desperate Need in the
Near East

MlllIONS III DCopC1 dlC 4NCCd III liz
Near East
The American Committee for Re-
lief in the Near East has just issued
a call for $3Q,000,000 to relieve the
immediate needs of the various peo-
pies in the Near East who have been |
rescued from the horrors of Turkish
misrule, massacre and deportation.
This sum will only supply the neces-
sites for these vast numbers Of peo-
pie for period of six months. By
that time it is hoped that the Allied
Nations will have organized the po-
litical conditions of these former
Turkish lands so that government
loans may be made as in the cases Of
Belgium and Serbia.
The campaign for this relief work
has the hearty support of President
| Wilson, whose proclamation concern
ing it is given to the press today.
Mr.. Hoover says that this work in the
Near East is the counterpart of the
work of his committee in the dew
astated parts of Europe. The State
Department will furnish, through the
cooperation of the Navy, transport;
and through the War Department,
motor trucks for the work of trans
portation of relief. 1t is expected
that the American army officer who
has charge Of transportation for the
American Expeditionary Forces in
France will be released to direct the
transportation Of relief in Asia Minor
He will go at his own charges as will
many others Of the $50 workers who
are to sail sometime in January
There are now accessible for aid
$4,000 people in Asia Minor, at least
100000 of whom are children with
out fathers, and in many coses with
! out mothers All are destitute. The
total refugee population is 3,950,000,
a great portion Of whom can be
reached as the work proceeds They
include Armenians, Syrians, Greeks,
Persians, and natives of Caucasus,
Damascus, Palestine and Egypt.
The American committee is com
posed of such men as Dir. James l..
Barton as chairman, Cleveland Fl.
E Dodge as treasurer, former Ambas-
sador Morgenthau, former President
c. H. Eliot, John r. Mott, the Rt.
Rev. James Cardinal Gibbons, the Rt.
Rev. David H. Greer, Rabbi Stephen
S. Wise and former President Will
liam H. Taft
The Vermont committee has lust
been organized with the following
members: Judge H. 3. Howe of Bur-
lington, Frank C. Partridge, presi-
dent of the Vermont Marble Co. OF
Proctorsville, Col. j. H. Estey Of
= Brattleboro, Hon. F. G. Fleetwood OF
= M louisville. Hon. Frank l.. Plumley
of Mortified, J. Gregory Smith OF
. st. Adams, Hon. F. H. Rabbit OF
Bellows Falls, Hon. Mason S. Stone
of Montpelier, Frank H. Brooks of
st. Johnsbury and Judge John Weeks
of Middlebury.
The state office has been opened al
White River Junction. Roland E
, Stevens of White River Junction has
been appointed campaign manager
Rev. Charles K. Tracy of Richmond
7 field secretary; John C. Prince Of
Bellows Falls, publicity secretary
: and chairman of the speakers .bu.
reau; and B. E. Bristol of the Bur
lington Savings Bank of Burlington
treasurer County chaiI1nen are
being appointed. The campaign
throughout the nation is set fol
Jan. 1919. The quota for Vermont
is 100000, which will be apportionec
on the basis of the apportionment OF
the states quota for the Fourth Lib
erty Loan.