The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-01-09
Financial Men from all Sec
tons of the United States
IntereSfed-Dr. James l..
Barton Makes Report.

Ministers, laymen and financiers
from many sections of the United
States gathered in New York Septem-
her 10 and 20 to receive reports from
returned relief workers who had been
helping to care for the suffering and
starving peoples of the Near East,
there being 1872 persons in attendance.
At that meeting plans were def
nitely outlined for the campaign toI
raise ssO,OOoOOo to help care for the
destitute people, this having been de-
, cided after much discussion as the
real needs were reported to be in ex-
cess of $56,O00,O00.
The campaign will run from jan
uary IL to 19. ... ~ b..
Giving survey of the entire field,
DR.. James L. Barton, chairman of the
committee, made the following state
ment of conditions in Western Asia:
"The committee has taken as a
basis minimum casts as reported by
our distributors and others personally
acquainted with local conditions in
the areas of restitution. The largest
possible allowance has also been
made for the development of self
support through industrial relief. The
minimum budget with which to meet
the most urgent needs of the winter
and early spring, by the most conser-
vative computation, amounts to $780,
100000.
Asia Minor. .....s
audited reports covering relief
work in the Ottoman empire have
been received through diplomatic
channels from Constantinople ac-
counting in detail for the receipts and
disbursements of all relief funds up to
July of the present year. These re-
ports, signed and certified by we'll
known American citizens and neutral
diplomatic representatives, show the
exact amount of relief that has been
administered by American citizens or
other responsible representatives In
more than thirty interior distribution
centers. DIR. Charles F. Gates, presl-
dent of Robert College, the chairman
of the Central Relief Committee in
Constantinople, in his extended re-
port says: "The Ottoman govern
ment has not opposed any obstacles to
our work. In some places the local
governors have recognized the great
usefulness of the work and have
helped our agents to secure food at
reduced prices
The Russian Caucasus.
"a large portion of the 100000
homeless refugees in the Russian Cau-
casus were driven by military opera
tons into southern Russia. +. Will
oughby Smith, the American consul
to Tiflis, reported that when he left
Tiflis these refugees were passing
through that city northward at the
rate of 5000 day. Our commissions
ers are now serving them by means
of soup kitchens and such employment
as can be procured in Vladikavkaz and
Samara, where they are gathered IN
large refugee camps. The commits.
ssioners are cabling through the Amer.
lean consul at Vladivostok for funds
not only to maintain soup kitchens
but also to help sreturn these people
to their homes or colonize them ir
Siberia on self-supporting basis al
the earliest possible date.
Persia.
CDR. Harry Pratt Judson, president
of the University of Chicago, as the
leader of the Persian Relief commits
sion of 20 members, has now reached
Persia and is engaged in organizing {
relief along industrial lines wherever
possible that will prevent the awful
harvest of death of last winter wher
people died of starvation by whole
sale. Recent cab1egrams from thu
American minister to Persia, Johr
Lawrence Caldwell, and from Ameri
can Consul Gordon Paddock repor
the arrival at Hamadan, within TIT
British lines, of the remnant OF 80,OOl
Assyrian Christian refugees iron
Urumia, $4,000 having persisted Ell
route. The Rev. DR.. w. A. Shedd
chairman of the Western Persia Re
lief Committee and later American
vice consul, died of cholera whit
leading these $4,000 refugees to safety
T.. Mesopotamia.
/ Thousands of refugees, most o
them women and orphans, are findin,
their way from their hiding places ii
= the mountains and deserts to point
within the British lines, and are beins
cared for temporarily by our commits
sioners in refugee camps in Bagda'
and vicinity.
Palestine and Syria. ..
iaPio duHdhCc VI NSnsi al ~,
lenby's army has brought within reacl
relief workers in Palestine, who'll
provinces with hundreds of thousand
OF Syrians, Armenians, Greeks, AM
others, whose ports have been block
AIDED for four years. Relatives AM
eountrymen of these people number
ing tens of thousands have starve'
and the remainder have been re
duced to the last stages of destitu
ton. They are now a challenge t.
american philanthropy in providing
the necessities of life for the comin
winter, after which they will YER
quickly return to self-support an
prosperity.
Will Give Industrial Help.
Contributors may depend upon tn
wisdom, business sense and practice