Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-05-12
GOOD RECORD
in RELIEF WORK
BOUNDARY COUNTY SUBSCRIBES
40 PER CENT OVER QUOTA FOR
NEAR EAST RELIEF FUND
PRAISE FROM SECRETARY POTTER
Statistics Given OF Humane Work Be-
ing Done in Armenia.

Walla county, Washington, and
Boundary county, Idaho, are sharing
distinctive honors as the first in their
respective districts to hit the tape"
in the race with death among the
starving children of Armenia.
Both have responded with large
oversubscription of their quotas to the
call for funds from the Near East Re
lief Committee with which to carry
along the rescue and reconstruction
work in Asia Minor, according to the
report just issued by Executive Secre-
tary E. A. Potter of the big relief
body, with headquarters for the north
west at AIT Peyton building in Spo-
kane.
Boundary county is the first county
in north Idaho and Walla Walla county
is the first in the state of Washington
to reach their goal in our big child
saving campaign" said Mr.. Potter. "A
magnificent record in humane effort
has been made in both counties. and
want to express my gratitude in behalf
of the Near East Relief Committee and
for the hundreds of otherwise helpless
little children who have been given a
new lease of life by the generous help
that has been given.
"Walla Walla county was asked for
$7S00-enough to provide a years food
and shelter for 1870 homeless and par
entless Armenian children-but Walla
Walla county's people actually gave
SS343. This is a little more than
enough to care for 139 orphans. 1t
actually means life to that many for a
year
I'VE asked Boundary county for only
S400 and the givers contributed nearly
approximately 40 per cent more
than we asked of them last year be-
fore the county quotas for eastern
Washington and northern Idaho were
cut down. This generosity will help
to make up for the deficiency in some
of the other counties of this district
which have not provided for all the or
phans allotted to them"
With funds contributed by the givers
of this and other parts of the Pacific
Northwest for the salvation of Ar
menia and her troubled neighbors, the
Near East Relief Committee has been
carrying on one of the most efficient
and business like life-saving efforts
on record, according to the declaration
of Admiral Mark L. Bristol, United
States high commissioner to Turkey
Admiral Bristol's statement is included
in the annual report of Charles V
Vickrey, general secretary of the Near
East Relief Committee, copies of which
have just been received by local dis
trict and county leaders of that or
ganization. who are now stressing a
call for help. Rev. A. II. Morton is
chairman of the work in Boundary
county
That 95 cents of every dollar given
by the people of America to the Near
East Relief body has actually been de-
voted to the rescue of the starving
children of Armenia and in giving
aid to the other homeless and stranded
victims of war. massacre and famine
of the Bible lands is shown by the re-
port. Only five per cent of the dona
tions have been used for expenses
Admiral Bristol has been associated
with the relief committees work fol
about % months.
To date approximately sixty millioI
dollars contributed by the people o
America has been spent in this human,
work and it is estimated by Mr.. Wick
rey that at least million and hal
lives have been saved as a result. III
reports that about 2,790,000 Armenian
are still living out of a pre-war popu
lation of 100000 in spite of the fac
that in parts of Cilicia alone IS pc
cent Of the Armenian population is de
clared to have perished from starva
lfion during the war
While a number of sections of tn
: northwest have already raised all tina
! is asked of them to help continue thi
relief work during the present year.
7 majority of them still must give con
siderable to meet their share of tn
great life-saving budget, according t
5 word received here today from e
A. Potter, AIT Peyton building, Spo
( kane, who is northwest executive sec
5 retary of the Near East Relief body.
t Most of the money yet to be gathere
= must be had to feed and clothe tn
e orphans of Armenia, more than 110
e 600 Of whom are absolutely depender
p upon The Near East Relief for thei
e lives, MIR. Potter states. Old clothe
t also are wanted for these children an
I the other refugees of Western Asi;
: A definite plan for gathering and shiI
ping clothes from this community wi
be announced within the next tw
weeks, it is said.