The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-04-14
WORK OF CENTENARY
What the Missionary Centenary of the
Methodist Church is Doing for
World Uplift

BOSTON, April 11-Laden with
live stock, tractor plows, seeds, cloth
ing, shoes, flour, condensed milk,
medicines and movable houses, a
Methodist relief ship will start in a
few weeks for France, Italy and
southeastern Europe. 1t will be the
offering of the American Methodist
Episcopal churches to the suffering
people of the war devastated regions.
Plans for the relief ship and for
more permanent work in many parts
of Europe were announced today by
DR.. j. l. Bartholomew, Boston Area
Executive Secretary of the Methodist
Missionary Centenary Movement.
The Department of War Emergency
and Reconstruction of the Methodist
Centenary Commission has appropri-
ated $997,850 for immediate work in
Italy this year; $796,000 for France
and sums for other countries which
bring the total to be spent in Europe
to $2,908,S50. An equal amount has
been allotted for reconstruction needs
in the United States. The ship will
enter the Mediterranean, discharge
part of the cargo at Marseilles, a nd
then land the rest in Trieste. From
Trieste supplies will be sent to North
ern Italy, Rumania, Albania and, if
conditions allow, southern Russia.
eve intend to take over tractor
plows and other farming implements
which are desperately needed in the
devastated regions" said DR.. B. w.
Triple, Centenary Secretary for
Europe. eve will also have cows, as
the invading armies drove off all the
live stock from northern Italy and
the Balkans.
ave shall include auto trucks for
farming and for carrying relief sup
plies; clothing and shoes desperately
needed by men, women and children;
condensed milk for babies; flour, corn
meal, potatoes, salt, sugar, bacon,
simple medicines, seeds, candles for
lighting, pots, pans, matches and
movable houses"
DR. Triple, Bishop Theodore S.
Henderson of Detroit and Bishop w.
F. Anderson will accompany the re-
lief ship.
Clinics, dispensaries and public
rooms for rest and entertainment will
be established in many cities in
France and Italy and the present
work of caring for war orphans en-
larged. The expenses will be paid out
of the $140,000,000 Centenary fund
for which a great campaign is now
being made throughout the country.
"Foyers" or rest houses will be es-
tablished in Noyon and Amiens, two
places which suffered most severely
in the war. Others will be at Lyons,
Paris, Toulon, Nice, Grenoble, Nancy,
Metz, Cannes and Nantes. Each will
be equipped with a moving picture
a photograph and other at
fractions to one wishing to spend an
hour or two in recreation and pleas
ure of sane, healthy sort
An elementary school will be built
at Noyon, which is now pitiful heap
or ruins, and another will be erected
at Cannes in southern France.
There will be nine clinics with dis
pensaries attached, in France, locat-
ed at Lyons, Marseilles, Toulon,
Grenoble, Metz, Nancy, Nantes,
Amiens and Noyon.
Additional land and buildings will
be acquired to extend the work of
caring for soldiers orphans at Char
yieux and Ecully Here the sons of
hose who fell in the war are being
educated to become skilled agricultur-
SITS.
The program for France also in
,ludes five scholarships in Paul Dou-
school for social workers in
Paris, day nursery in Albertville, 4
Savoy, community center building
in Bourgnouf, and assistance in reg I