Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-04
ARMENIANS IN
NEED OF FUNDS
TO KEEP ALIVE
DR.. Worrell Gives First Con-
tribution to Cause at
Offices Just Opened

B. ". Desant, of New York, who
is in Harrisburg assisting Chairman
Charles w. Burtnett in the prelimi-
naries of the campaign, through
which it is hoped to raise $SS,0O0 In
Dauphin county for the benefit OF
suffering Armenians and Syrians,
was asked to-day what is being done
with the money that is being raised
in the United States.
Mr.. Desant said that besides the
boats of supplies and workers which
have been sent to the field. reports
and stories constantly come home
from those who have now been on
the field since the beginning, cast
ing bright and encouraging nght
on the effect which their devoted
work is having on conditions In the
North East, as we'll as the need Tor
continued and greater effort until
not a starving orphan shall be left
unbefriended or a man and woman
deprived of the means of livelihood
through no fault of their own, be
left without the means of starting
life anew.
The following story just received
from John Elder, one of the rellet
workers of the Armenian Committee
for Relief of the Near East in
IL,
in particularly interesting way.
He says:
'The number of orphans has been
raised from $50 to $50. and may
soon be $50. This increase was I'M
perative. For weeks at time dur
ing the fall I passed from two or
three to eight or ten grimy, shiVer-
ing. starving youngsters, crying by
the roadside, with no earthly sup
port, deserted by parents unable to
care for them. There is no DOUBT
that hundreds, probably thousands
of them, died during the fall months
of sheer starvation.
"The industrial work has been IN
creased in every department Ihe
looms are putting out about 1O,0Oo
arshens of material a week, as COM
pared to some 5000 before and 100
new looms are practically ready 10
put to work. Our money here works
three times, one in giving WORK;
again in making cloth which we sell
at as low price as possible, but
which brings at that very con-
siderable sum of money, and again
in providing cloth for the half
naked refugee population OF Ar
menia We are at present working
on a government contract for S,oo0
soldiers uniforms of black and
white. and have about half hnlshed.
Our workers are approximately as
follows, Erivan $500, Ashtarak o.
600 and Etchmiadzin 1,400, In all
about $500.
I'm direct relief we are doing
the following. A soup kitchen in
Nova Bayazed gives food to about
900 regularly, and a much larger
number occasionally. In Billigon we
have been giving milk and food to
some 400, but will soon close that
work as the refugees are leaving
that region. In Erivan money dis
tribution reaches 500 or more a
month. In medical aid we reach
about 5000 month through
company doctor, DR.. Mandinian
whom many of you may know. and
through the hospital and outpatient
department. During the cholera
epidemic we had a special doctor
giving full time to refugees in the
streets and gardens"
The Rev. DIR. Edwin r. Worrell,
of the Board of Temperance of the
Presbyte Church, to-day made
the first contribution to the local
fund. DR.. Worrell appeared un-
solicited before at the headquarters
of the local committee in the Boy
Scouts offices and handed in his
,haoLr IN Mr. JeathcOtp