Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-02-06
Fl Jersey Doctors and
Nurses Giving Relief In
Near East

Twenty-one men and women from
New Jersey are among the American
relief workers who are toiling ID
Armenia and Syria in an effort to feed
the starving orphans in the Near
East-there were $50, 900 OF them at the
last estimate-and to help the other
homeless and disease-racked refugees.
These New jersey men and women
have seer the horrors Of a country
from which the word that "the
situation is the worst in the world"
On the high plains, as where HaTpoot
il located, where there is nothing Blu
almost Arctic bleakness, down to the
villages along the Mediterranean these
relief workers are trying to save the
remnants OF a race. In thirty-seven
hospitals, in ffty-four- relief stations
and soup kitchens and in 1853 orphan
ages the relief workers are striving to
repair some of the ravages Of the cruel
treatment of the Turk.
The Armenians are universally re-
cognized in normal times as the most
thrifty, industrious, and prosperous
people of the Near East, but they have
now been for four years exiled or
fugitive from their ancestral homes.
their last vestige of negotiable property
has been sacrificed for food and
protection, and they enter the doors
held open by the Near East Relief,
destitute, hopeless and utterly forlorn.
For these people, escaped from
almost unreal horrors, ragged, starv~
ing, shaken with disease, naturally the
first thought is food, clothing, and
medical care. In nearly all Of the
homes maintained by the Near East
Relief, there is either a hospital in
connection with the institution, a
clinic to which the people may go for
treatment, and there have been as
many as 49, 28 clinic cases in a single
month.
Two of the New Jersey contingent
are physicians. They are DIR. Elsie r.
Mitchell Of 228 East Ninth street,
Plainfield, and DIR. Byron Harmon, Of
Frenchtown. Five young women are
serving as nurses. They are Ethel M.
Kent of go High street, Passaic;
Mildred Davidson Of Ramsey; Blanche
Easton, of 10 Hope street, Ridgewood;
Elizabeth Frost, of 25 Elm street, Sum-
nit and Frances M. Witte of Ruther-
ford.
Among the other relief workers are
Clay L.. Bristol, of 410 Westminster
avenue, Elizabeth; Walter Curt, Of "a
Overlook Road, Caldwell; w. Fletcher
Daum, and Sue May Daum, of 1870
Lafayette avenue, Psssaic; Margaret
Dixon, of 100 Passaic street, Hacken-
sack; Mabel d. Mac Intosh, Carts E.
Mills and Elaine Van Dyke of Prince
ton; Margaret H. Niles, of Al Bay ave.
nue., Bloomfield; Byron Moon, of
Hsworth; Mabelle G. Phillips, of 921
Madison avenue, Plainfeld; Mrs.
Georgia Underwood. of Westwood;
Marion Weston, of POI Garfield place,
South Orange; and Jessie r. White, "a
Emerson street, East Orange.
The relief work is rapidly expanding
and meeting the situation but the
future depends on the continuation of
American support. With this in view
New Jersey has been asked to feed
$4,000 orphans for a year. Former
Governor Runyon, state chairman of
the Near East Relief, is directing a
campaign through February. asking
the people at home to back up their
twenty-one fellow citizens at work in
Armenia and Syria. $50 will feed a
child for a year in the Near East.
Frederick Frelinghuysen, of Newark is
S ate treasurer.