Arizona republican., 1920-12-17
EUROPEAN RELIEF CAMP PAIGN ID BE
 STATED SUNDAY
Statewide Organization For Drive Perfected = Ma tional Goal $33,000,000- Hoover Heads Council

In it's efforts to raise funds to keen from starvation 3,50O000 orphans in Europe, the European relief council, Of which Herbert Hoover is chairman. VIII open Q campaign next Sundav. when reference to the work and needs of the undertaking will be made by clergymen at the churches, it was an nounced at state headquarters here yesterday.
 The work in Arizona will be thor ough- Each county will have it's own organization working under a county chairman Norman Carmichael is state chairman and state headquarters have been established at 524 Heard building. He said yesterday that every clergyman in the state had been asked to unite in efforts toward the national collection of $3S.000,000. He called al tention to statement by Herbert Hoover that the view of this council is that until this children's relief is financed all American charity should go to that end. There is no call on American relief for adults except some exceptional cases, like refugees in Con stantinople."
 Make 3o.ooo Appeals
 More than 1000 special letters of appeal are being sent throughout Ari- zona from state headquarters. These letters say that congressional appro- priations, the presidents emergency fund and other government assistancs | came to an end with the arrival of the 1919 harvest, which was not sufficient to supply the actual needs in Europe i through the present winter IL is eS plafned that 3,500,000 orphans are de pending upon the European relief council for help, that the shutting off of government aid puts the matter of saving many young lives directly up to | the people. The letters say S1 will support child for one month and that 1 S10 will support one until the next harvest when, according to estimates made by the council, the afflicted Eu- ropean nations will be able to care for their own.
 That the European relief council has no connection with the Near East re- lief undertaking was made clear upon receipt yesterday of letter from Her bert Hoover. The letter follows:
 Herbert Hoover's Letter
 New York, Dec 8, 1920.
 Answering various inquiries, ths Near East relief committee has the burden of supporting about 10000 Ar menian orphans situated in Armenia Caucasus Turkey and Persia Due ta the occupation of Caucasus Armenia by bolsheviki, the area in which 1t can WOfk naS been cOuSl0eTa0Iy c0rtailed We have no desire to minimize thr necessities of these 10000 orphans but we wish to point out that the eight . organizations for which we are acting are providing support for 3,500.000 or plans and undernourished children iH central and eastern Europe, a vast ter ritory. to which the Near East reliel 1 committee has never contributed , Through arrangements we have made ; local governments and local charit, contribute all the support of whicl I they are capable to this mass of chi
 dren. It costs us rather less per chil' than the operations carried on by th'
 Near East relief, but we do not wisl f to enter upon any controversy tha f would minimize it's success. We hac a hoped that the Near East relief com
 rnittee would ioiA in this amalgama l tion. but it feels that it's arrangements arc such that it cannot, in its own m , terests. join us.
 EUROPEAN RELIEF COUNCIL,
 HERBERT HOOVER, Chairman