Connecticut western news., 1920-12-09
NEAR EAST RELIEF
 SUNDAY IN CHURCHES
Drive for Funds Will Take
 Place Here Next Week

Next sunday Will be Near East Relief Sunday in the churches. In observance of the day, union services will be held at the Pilgrim church Sunday morning. James Arroll, for mer divinity student and soldier, will tell of conditions in Armenia.
 1t is to be hoped that the success of the Near East, canvas of last year will be repeated the present month. The total receipts for the 1919 drive was $e69.00, and all but less than $10 of the whole amount sub scribed was paid to the treasurer, c. F. Hardenbergh. +
 Last Friday afternoon Rev. A. M. Griffin gave a most interesting talk at the High, School on the impor- tance and the need of relief being sent to Armenia the present year. Tomorrow night at the movies a reel of pictures iliustrating some features of the work being done by the Near East committee will be shown. .
 Tke schools of the town are pre- paring to make their offering to the fund through the. teachers who have agreed to act as recipients of the funds to be turned over to the treasurer, Mr. Hardenbergh. Miss Lucy O. Teague and Miss Ellen c. Lindell represent district Mo- q; Misses Hamblen, Brewer and Thorpe at East Canaan, Miss Stevens at the Sodom school, Miss Roger at Canaan Valley and Miss Gaylord at No. 5. Next week a general canvass of the town will be made in charge of the committee announced last week
 Several times the committee in charge have been asked the question as to whether the Hoover plan and the Near East Relief are not the same thing. In reply to these in- quiries the state authorities send this explanation: X rs55 ff...
 Each day one is asked to differen- tiate between the Hoover relief for Central Europe and the relief work now being done by the Near East Relief. q Many people appear to. be of the opinion that both erganiza- tions areq. working along similar channels for the same countries. This opinion is, of course, an erron- eous one. The area included in the scope of the Hoover commission does not embrace any of the countries to which ehe Near East Relief is now administering The Hoover plan provides for one meal per day, gen erally at school houses. for under nourished children all under shelter, mostly Tn. their own homes with par ,ents,, nearly all of whom receive other food daily. They also have responsible governments, Germany, Austria, Poland, and others, that are able to give some relief. The diff erence is: Near East children and probably one million refugees are entirely dependent upon the Near East Relief for food, clothing and shelter with no government, no schools, no churches and no homes
 Don't tell me the Armenians cannot or will not fight" says James Arroll, former soldier who is just back from two years in Armenia with Near East Relief, which purposes to save 1,250,000 people in Western Asia from starvation. "There is a popular impression, just Ohy I don't know, that the Armenian simply lays down and waits for the Turk or Kurd to come along and massacre him. It isn't so.
 "Given anything like a fair chance, with arms and ammunition. the Ar menian will fight like tiger to de- fend his home and loved ones from harm. Why for years centuries ago it was the Armenians who alone
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