Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-02-21
MANY VOLUNTEER
As SOL LE|TORS FOR
NEAR EAST DRIVE
Campaign for $4,000 in State
Has Auspicious
Beginning.
CHURCHES BACK OF EFFORT

The appeal of the Near East for money
for food and clothing will be presented
IN both Protestant and Catholic churches
of this city and State tomorrow. Della
wares campaign for SIS, 900 was SUCCESS
fully inauglratod Yesterday at a luncheon
and meeting in the Hotel du Pont and
although formally the campaign docs not
begin until Monday, the hundreds OF
volunteer workers who have enlisted for
the effort have already begun their
The Campaign has the support and
sympathy Of all faiths that predominant
in this country and most OF the workers
are from the churches. Any one who
attended the meeting at the du Pont yester-
day could not help but be impressed
with the earnestness with which the
volunteers received the Instructions given
and the enthusiastic manner with which
they planned among their teams for can
vassing the city for funds.
Mayor Taylor. chairman Oh the State
drive, presided at the meeting and during
the luncheon the Original Six orchestra
easier, song leader o, the Community
Service, ledthe workers in the singing o,
community songs.
Many of the workers have contributions
ready to report at the first meeting for
that purpose on Monday. Just because
it is legal holiday. viii not stop these
volunteers from proceeding with their
campaign. III is not believed that many
industrial plants will be closed Oh Monday
and armed with authority TO solicit
contributions the workers Will circulate
among their designated sections and seek
and for the campaign.
Rev. W. f.. Habbart invoked divine
blessing on the meeting at its opening.
Mayor Taylor in few appropriate re-
marks urged the workers to do their
utmost to put the campaign across and
then introduced DR.. Constantian.
TURKS ABUSE CHILDREN.
This Armenian during the war was the
official interpreter between the German
and Turkish commanders In the Near
East. He was Their not by choice OF his
own but by cxpedienoy. He related
tragically how he deserted at time when
the Germans and Turks were planning q
massacre of a village of Greeks and how
he aided the villagers in escaping In part
the death and torture and captivity that
the Hun and his Moslem colleague had
IN mind for them.
DR.. Constantian said that when the
armistice was signed. he had charge
Of $50 orphans. All OF the parents Of the
ehildran had either been killed by the
Turks, had died of disease or as, was the
case Of some of the mothers, captives in
Turkey.
His recital of stories told him by the
orphans, of seeing their parents killed
and how they had themselves, although
only children. feigned death in order to
escape death at the hands of the Moslems
sent thrills through the workers. His
story OF how the young girls were taken
captive and subjected to suffering worse
than death caused the women volunteers
to shudder at the fate of their Christian
sisters across the seas. He appealed to
the workers TO do everything they could
TO help In such a cause. because the
Armenians look solely to America TO help
them during their period of disaster.
Morton Stevens, following DR.. Con-
stantian, told the workers how they were
to proceed with their canvass and supplies
were distributed among the women with
printed on large envelopes
which the captains OF each team viii
retain.
As the campaign has been mapped out
now, there VIII be luncheon meetings each
day next week excepting possibly Satur-
dsy and a final meeting ON March /