Morris tribune., 1919-01-24
People OF Ste0ens County Will
Help Armenians And Syrians
House Canv0ss VIII Be Made Cty Sunday
Atter"oo" to Raise Money for STARRING Millions In


Inc QrlV6 TO raise stevens county S
allotment in the Armenian and Syri-
an Relief Campaign is on this week
and every district is reporting fine
success. This campaign was to have
been put on from the 18th to the
18th of January but for several rea-
in this county. Stevens county is
asked to raise $25OO and there is on
Iy one county that has lower allot-
ment. That is Traverse county with
an allotment of $4,000. Other coun-
ties in this vicinity are allotted as fol-
lows: Grant $275O, Big Stone $4,000,
Kandiyohi $500, Meeker $500,
Pope $3.50, Stearns $4319 and Swift
$4,000. 1t will be seen by this that
Stevens county is not asked for a
large amount and the other counties
are meeting their allotments and
some are already over. This county
should go fifty per cent over the top.
The county is divided into districts
and the Morris district includes the
city Of Morris and the townships of
Darnen, Morris, Framnas and Swan
Lake. The drive in the townships
is being made by mail and already
many trainers have sent in their
share. Those who have not done so
should attend to this at once in or
der to bring the drive to completion
without going around to make in
dividual calls. Each family living
in the four townships named above
has been asked to send $500 to Mr..
VIM. Cooley, Morris, who is treasurer
of this district.
The money in the city will be
raised by a house to house canvass
next Sunday afternoon and business
men of Morris will meet at the Com
mercial Club rooms at 2 o'clock for
the final instructions. 1t is thought
that the allotment for the city can
be raised in one afternoon if enough
men will help with the work.
This is worthy cause and no one
should refuse to give according to
their means. The amount asked
from the people of this county is not
enough to be hardly missed and yet
it means so much to the people who
are actually starving to death in
Armenia and Syria. America is the
only country that these people can
appeal to, and the fact that the Am
erican people are literally rolling in
wealth. is one reason why they should
come to the relief of those in trouble.
This drive has the endorsement of
the leading men Of the country, such
as President Wilson, John R. Mott,
Secretary of State Lansing, Governor
Burnquist, William Howard Taft and
Charles Evans Hughes. This is not
a religious propaganda and all
churches should be represented on
the drive. Cardinal Gibbons has is
sued the following appeal to the
Christian people of America in be-
half of the drive '"The attempt to
relieve and save the starving peoples
in the Near East deserves the SYM
pathetic support of all Christians
people. Not only have the Christian
inhabitants of Turkey been impover-
ished and decimated by a succession
of wars, but deportation and mass
acre have destroyed many fathers and
mothers, leaving hundreds of thous
ands of orphans to be fed, clothed and
provided with homes. The Ameri-
can Committee for Armenian and Sy-
rian Relief is to undertake to raise
a large sum for this purpose. hope
that all who have given freely for
this and other forms of war relief
,sll be generous still in the face of
this greatest tragedy of the war;