Arizona republican., 1919-02-16
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS SHORT
 IN GREAT DRIVE
Near East Relief Campaign
 Must Get That Amount
 Before Tomorrow Night Workers Send Out Appeal

With Arizona more than S50.009 short of its quota of s150,O00, a drastic | attempt is' being made by the state | committee in charge of the relief work for the Near East to make up this diff | ference before the end of the campaign i which closes Monday night.
 Wires have been sent out to 100 or more workers in the state, asking them i to re-canvas their districts and secure pledges. These pledges can for an in stallment payment in March, April, | May and June, making it easier for | any one to do his or her part in rais- ing of funds. The sum total of these | pledges will be added to the sums al ready donated, including liberty bonds, war savings stamps and thrift stamps, and in this way it is believed that Arizona will be able to touch the sum- init of $150,000.
 Few people seem to realize,' said Charles F. Willis, state director, "that it is also possible in this campaign to pledge to pay Q certain amount per month for the next months, as few | people have taken this method. Very few who have subscribed but what | could have given and would have 1 given the same amount each month 1 without considering their resources, if | they had realized that such a plan was | possible.
 Pay On installment Plan
 "Ten dollars per month for months keeps a child for year. It is not necessary that all of the money spent for Armenians, Jews, Syrians and other sufferers be sent at one time, and | therefore monthly installments are just
 
 ment."
 | As a further inducement to hasten mp the raising of the states quota, the committee has made the following ap- peal:
 'Wanted-10,00 900 Arizonans. who can not bear to hear the call of starving 1 children crying for bread, to pledge themselves to pay s1 or more a month for five months. Twelve million people including hundreds of thousands of children are starving in Eastern Asia and America is their sole source of
 help. Are you deaf to such a call? Every cent goes for relief. Write us
 that you will help. Arizona head quarters. room l, War Work building, Phoenix, Arizona, Box s56.'
 If you came upon a trembling, foot
 sore, half starved. helpless horse,
 which neighed feebly and looked at
 you with imploring eyes, what would
 you do?" asked Mir. Willis in com
 menting upon the apathy of the people when human beings are dying of star
 yation. You would exert every effort
 to feed that horse, because being hu-
 man. you couldn't do otherwise, yet
 among the millions of people that are ] starving are 400, 900 children. and Ari- ] | them starve.
 | Now. it is obviously impossible. " he continued flor all of ous to 20 to ? Armenia, or to Assyria, or Persia. CT
 to the Holy Land, but in each of these , countries, and in other parts of West B ern Asia, there are not horses. but human beings-thousands upon thous- l ands of them-who are trembling, 2 footsore, half-starved, shelterless and 9 helpless, and they are feebly calling l and looking across to America with inn ploring eyes.
 Arizona Must Help s Perhaps it is a good thing that we l cannot go to the stricken section to 9 see with our own eyes the unspeak l. able misery and horror that prevails e for there are sights there today tha, k would shake down the very pillars oi
 our souls. Children whose bodies have
 been cruelty mutilated, so that they T will be helpless and dependent cripples . all their lives. Thousands of young = women who have been through worse . than death, and who are constitutional. i ly ruined. Men who have been delrS- erately rendered unfit for work-lr many cases, hamstrung. Horrible i. \ a weak word to use in describing thes. conditions. There are millions of in. nocent people literally dying of expos ure and starvation.
 Every self-supporting citizen O Arizona should feel it privilege tt
 give at least one days pay or incom, toward this cause
 People of Arizona, Awaken to th,
 great need. Let's make Monday, tn, last day of the campaign, the day ol
 which Arizona goes over the top fol humanity"