The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-25
NEAR EAST RELIEF
 EXTENDS MILLIONS { ID HELP HUNGRY
Disbursements Last Year TotaIed S13,0O0,0o0, Push ing Aggregate to ESQ., 00O,OO0-- Wide Areas
 Are Covered
Rr Associated Press

Washington April 2i.-Accounting for the disbursement of $13129, 1i7 in 1920 and a total of s6oooO,OOO 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 Congress today by Charles " vickrey, general secretary ot the relief organization.
 The report includes an auditors state ment by firm of chartered account ants, whose travelling auditors in the field check on all expenditures by the near east relief A balance on hand or ss67 .21s is reported. In regard to the x business methods and efficiency of the \organization, Admiral Mark l.. Bristol, limited States high commissioner to Tur- lsey. is quoted; Mi have been very closely associated With the work of the near east reler ebmmittee for about g months, Nd ntiral Bristol reports. ''On the whole, ,' the work of this relief committee has bAen such that Americans should De p1toud of this great humane effort The nAar east relief here in Constanttnople isirun more like a business organization ttAn any relief organization With Whlch have ever come HlIo coIltdSl'
 THE RESULTS
 As 10 the accomplishments of the or ranization, Mr Vickrey's report shows iii American and Canadian relief work- CTS. including physicians surgeons nurses. mechanics, industrial experts, en- ejneers agriculturists, teachers, aonih- strators, orphanage experts, suppiy' Transportation and general relief work ers employed on little more than vol ,,ntehr basis, while ST 7,291 native workers haEe been used by the near east rehel orkanization According to the report' 2fhospitals. with 6522 beds, 12S cl1nics' 11 rescue homes, 299 orphanages accom- n<s9odating 54600 children In orphanages I,r,[A 56, ,0s9 children outside orphanages, have been maintained by the near east relief. It is reported that approximately gTeo. 4g0 Arrnenians are still living out sof a pre- war population of about 4.0o0. 900. In parts of Cilicia alone, It is stated that 65 per cent of the Ar rnenian Christian population perlsheu from starvation during the war, Wnlle ir the whole of Syria not less than 2o perished from the same cause. It IS estimated that had it not been for the American aid furnished through the Near East Relief. fully half of the present population of the near east woulG have succumbed.
 COVERS BIG AREA
 < The field of operations of the Near East Relief covers European Turkey Grhrace), Anatolia. Armenia, Ciiicia, Kurdistan, Syria, Palestine. Mesopo- tamia, Persia and Trfnscaucasia. While relief is given impartially to all needy without distinction of race or religion. the greater part of the work is deciareA tc have been carried on among the Armenians. Greeks, Nesto- Hans, Syrians and Assyrians. largely Christian, of whom 561,97o were fur nished food during a large part of 1920 while 3oo.600 garments comprising i500.en0 pounds of clothing and shoes were distributed to refugees.
 In regard tc the work among the children MT. ViclSrey says in the re- port:
 "A few millions of dollars wisely ex- pended at this time in the support ed- ucation and moulding of these young lives will be worth vastly more to the world than billions of dollars that otherwise may later be required in suppressing warfare and strife This distinctively humanitarian relief work as an expression of brotherhood should help to mark the beginning of new era of peace and interracial good will in the near east"