Evening star., 1921-10-06
|SCH0O[ HEADS BAR
/ / NEAR EAST WORK
Rule to Deny Collections
From Children Continued
Despite REQUESTS.

While soliciting of funds for Near
East Relief work in the District pub
/ lie schools will not be permitted this
year, the board of education. in pri-
committee of the Near East Relief that
| it will cooperate in other ways with
the humanitarian campaign being
! waged in the levant.
The board. by tie vote, adhered
| to its former decision not to allow
I, members expressed sympathy with
! the cause and acknowledged the
| greatness of the task which lay be-
fore the Near East Relief workers. The
vote was taken in the conference
which preceded the regular open
meeting of the board yesterday at the
Franklin School. Mrs. Cabot Stevens
spoke in behalf of the Near East Re-
| lief.
The board was presented with a let
| orary chairman: John Il. Larner.
| treasurer. and Hugh A. Thrift, chair
man of the local Near East Relief COM
mittee, in which it was pointed out
| that the Near East Relief has the
!, same status and kind of responsibility
delegated to it by Congress as has
the American Red Cross, in operating
with the cooperation of the Red Cross
| in the area from which the Red Cross.
| as such. withdrew, and is throughout
/ the United States and Canada entitled
to and given the same recognition.
privileges and cooperation as is given
to the Red Cross"
President's ProclamatiOns.
The letter pointed out further that
by proclamations of formet President
Wilson and Of President Harding. 'ail
American citizens have been urged to
aid our stricken allies in the near
east, and that President Harding re-
c.i1 tn hIa M
cessation or relaxation of our sympa-
thetic American efforts for them"
The above letter was supplemented
.. with an Endorsement. signed by
twenty y-nine citizens. which read:
I'VE, the undersigned citizens of the
District of Columbia. indorse the re-
quest presented by the officials of the
/ Near East Relief to your honneRble
board and the superintendent of
schools. asking an opportunity for the
children of your schools to voluntarily
make an offering from their earnings
and savings. as they have in the past.
in order to save orphans of the
martyred races in the Levant. who
were our allies in the world war.
we believe that the national |
j. e., the Red Cross and Near East
Relief, are entitled to cooperation be-
cause they have 4 task assigned by
act Of Congress. and all citizens have
been urged by both former President
Wilson and by President Harding to
assist this work.
I'VE further believe that the oppor-
tunity has great educational value
, to the children cooperating, and that
past results prove that the vast ma
jority of parents and teachers favor
the opportunity"
The following names were signed
to this Endorsement: Charles w.
Semmes, William B. Westlake, V. B.
Deyber. Isaac Cans, George S. De
Neale. sigmund Kann: William
John Joy Edison. j. E. McQuade, Eric
Powell. F. ]. Grimke. Frank p. Rec
side. A. J. Driscoll, Charles ]. Bell,
Cuno H. Rudolph. James F. Oyster,
Albert S. Schulteis. Thomas Bradley.
! Eugene E. Thompson. G. o. Watson.
F. Galliher. Frank r. Jelleff, Theo-
dore w. Noyes, Ulysses G. B. Pierce,
CHARLES E. Howe and c. T. Clagett.
Another Endorsement addressed to
President Simon of the board by Rep
resentative John w. Summers of Mas
sachusetts concluded as follows:
"Believing as l do that the educa
tional and spiritual vision to- our own
children is, in it's way, of even great
er value than the contributions made
for starving children of other lands,
sincerely trust that this relief work
may continue to be carried on
through our public schools as in the
past"
Letters also were sent to the board
by Mrs. ]. w. Frizzell. Mrs. Emma S.
Shelton, John Poole. Andrew Wilson,
Holcombs G. johnson, Rev. DR.. James
H. Taylor, Rev. Jason Noble Pierce.
Miss EAen Vinton, Mrs. Ransome and
, many others.
The reference in the committees
letter to the Red Cross was made in
view of the pledge of cooperation in
granting cetrain privileges recently
given the Red Cross by the board of