Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-22
RELIEF COMMITTEES COVER
 TOTALLY DIFFERENT FELL

Hoover committee for the relief of Gen. lral Europe are covering totally different icads was ted Tuesday by E. H. Mo- Donough, state director of the Near East Relief for Connecticut It was pointed out that the work being done by the two organizations covered different fields and applied to extre1nly different degrees ce want and need.
 There is no duplication of aid given by the two organizations" the state di- rector said The European Relief Coun- Gil operates in Central Europe, and the Near East Relief in Asia Minor money raised by the Literary Digest and MT. Hoovers committee does not include Asia Minor among it's benehciaries. MT. Hoov- CT is undertaking to raise money to sup plecent the inadequate food supply, and to give one meal a day to the undernour- ished children of Central Europe, feed ing them in their own homes, school houses or other convenient places. The Near East Relief on the other hand. is feeding, clothing. sheltering and caring for children who have no homes of their own and who would were it not for the Near East Relief, perish in very short time"
 'It was said that the Near East Relief was incorporated by congress in 1919 for
 
 Near. East regions, and to meet the great problems of hundreds of thousands of war orphans there who have no support other than charity The Near East Relief has taken oyer all the Red Cross work In Asia Minor. Theer arc over 800 Near East Relief workers in a vast area, where it is the only relief agency. where there is no government to give aid. where there are no schools and no homes, save as we provide education and shelter for the or phan children of our allies. The presence of the workers at relief station is ofter | all that prevents the entire annihilatior of Christian community by the Turks There are over a5o, 900 children without massacred or died in deportation, and tht Near East Relief. through it's orphanages must feed, clothe, and shelter them, o1 | they die"
 | Although In some quarters the impres i sion has been secured that the Near Eas Relief and the Hoover Central European 1 Relief committee are doing the sam' work and covering the same territory | State Director McDonough declared tha this is not the case. The very name' 1 of the two organizations show just wha l territory they cover" the state direcSo said. Ina summing up this difference, Di | the two in the follow way;
 "UnderTrouisrhment in central Europ | starvation in the Near East centra European peoples destitute in their owl i hornes-Near Easterr. peoples are home less exiIes Central Europeans are unfort | unate people under d friends govern | ment establishments, hoyal households and. able to render considerabl assistanc to destitute children-Near Eastern peo pie are under an enemy government tha would rejoice in the externination.'
 Ex Ambassador Henry Morgenthau ha
 issued an earnest appeal to the America
 people to continue their relief to tn homeless and destitute people of the Nea East
 He said America has won the ad
 miration' and gratitude of the Near Eas
 by it's disinterested altruism and philar
 thropy during the past four years.
 Hundreds of thousands of these pe'
 ple are living today who would have pc, istid had it not been for American relic
 t.But peace and order have not bee
 restored. Their efforts to maintain the
 independence have partially failed owir
 to the superior force of their neighbors Large numbers of refugees ha' 1 again been dispossesed from their tem'
 orary homes Recent cables state thl
 the roads leading to various places safety are crowded with refugees. IT : hard winter. has begun. Snow is kne deep in many places. These helpless ref
 gees are again thrown on our mercy. u less we heed their cry they will perl' this winter by the thousands.
 The situation today is worse than was last year.
 Near East Relief Is the only organiz | fAr h hic
 Large numbers of orphans, deprived both father and mother do. not ev' know their names and are now in mo
 than 200. orphanages maintained by t Near East Relief, They are totally d
 pendent upon American philanthropy f the simplest necessities of life.
 we must continue the support
 these orphans whom " have already r5
 cued and placed in our institutions;
 should not relinquish the care of the r
 fugees and othr destitute until und | stable government they are restored their homes and to self-support. |, No matter where these people are
 which faction claims the right to gove them-the refugees are homeless. the O phons are .helpless-their faces are turn
 toward us in despair and expectanc
 There win be no season of rejoicing f
 them if we fail They are the ri
 Tins of this Holiday Season
 Our organization wants to be [ Good Fairy that will rescue from |
 present day Scrooges to help them. . implore the public to read again Dickel = Christmas Carol and absorb its spir = then select the Near East Relief , their messenger of mercy to these tho z sands of Tiny Tins
 f | l. NORWICH B. ANT L. ASSN