Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-04-25
SIXTY MILLION
DOLLARS SPENT
ON RELIEF WORK
Annual Report of the Near
East Committee Is Sub
mitted to Congress BY
the General Secretary.


Washington, April 24.-Aecount-
ing for the disbursement of $13,-
in 1920 and a total of $780,
100000 to date, including flour,
clothing and medical supplies, the
annual report of the Near East
relief. incorporated by congress
August 6. 1919, was filed with con-
gress today by Charles V, Vickrey,
general secretary of the relief Or
ganization. The report includes
an auditors statement by a firm
of chartered accountants, whose
travelling auditors in the field
check on all expenditures by the
! Near East relief. A balance on
hand of $367,219 is reported.
In regard to the business meth
Cd and efficiency of the organiza-
ton, Admiral Mark l.. Britol,
! United States high commissioner
to Turkey, is quoted;
81 have been very closely asso-
! ciatcd with the work of the Near
| East relief committee for about
22 months" Admiral Bristol re-
ports. ION the whole, the work
of this relief committee has been
such that Americans should be
proud of this great humane effort.
! The Near East relief here in Con-
stantinople is run more like a
| business organization than any re-
| lief organization with which l have
ever come into contact"
As to the accomplishments OF
the organization, Mr.. Vickrey's re-
port shows III American and
Canadian relief workers, including
physicians, surgeons, nurses, me
chanics, industrial experts, en-
gineers, agriculturists, teachers
administrators, orphanage experts
supply. transportation and general
relief workers employed on little
more than a volunteer basis, while
lS7,291 native workers have beer
used by the Near East relief or
ganization. According to the re-
port, G3 hospitals, with 6,522 beds
12S clinics, II rescue homes, 29'
orphanages accommodating $4,000
children in orphanages and So,
i039 children outside orphanages
have been maintained by the Neal
East relief.
Field of Operations.
1t is reported that approXimatel.
2,79O,490 Armenians are still liv
ing out of pre-War population o
about 100000. In parts of CT
licia alone it is stated that 65 pc
cent of the Armenian christian
population persisted from starva
ton during the war, while in tn
whole of Syria not less than 2
per cent persisted from the sam
cause. 1t is estimated that had
not been for the American ali
furnished through the Near Eas
relief, fully half of the presen
Armenian population of the Nea
/ East would have suCcumbed.
The field of operations of tn
Near East relief covers Europea
| Turkey (ThraCe), Anatolia, Az
= menia, Cilicia, Kurdistant, Syrit
Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persi
, and Transcaucasia. While relic
is given impartially to all need
! without distinction of race or re
ligion, the greater part of tn
work is declared to have hee
carried on among the Armenian'
Greeks, HISTORIANS, Syrians an
c Assyrians, largely christian, q
e whom 561,970 were furnishe
1 food during a large part of 1921
e. while 800 900 garments Compris
y ing 100000 pounds of clothin
g and shoes were distributed to rel
S ugees.
= In regard to the work anon
4 the children, Mr.. Vickrey says i
|. the report.
d IA few million dollars wisel
e expended at this time in the SUP
i port, education and moulding c
e these young lives will be wort
vastly more to the world than bil
lions of dollars that otherwise ma
e later be required in suppressin
V warfare and strife. This distinC
o lively humanitarian relief wor
r as an expression of brotherhood
e should help to mark the beginnin
Il of a new era of peace and inter
= racial good will in the Near East