Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-21
GEN. WOODS LENTEN PLAN s.. FOR NEAR EAST RELIEF

Notice has been sent to the Norwich committee of the~fact that Major Gen
 eraf Leonard Wood. who is being mention
 led as. the ns xt goyernor-general of the
 Philippines; will head committee to
 launch a nation-wide appeal for Lenten
 sacrifice offering in LehaH of the starving
 Armenians and other peoples of the Near
 East. On tho committee which will
 work with General Wood are people prominent, in national life apong them William H. Taft of New Haven, Mrs George Maynard Minor, president-gen- leral of the D.. A. R.. of Waterford.
 Others on the committee with General Wood are: John Grier Hibben, president | of Princeton :, the incoming secretary of the treasury, Andrew ". Mellon Frank A. ,Munsey. Dr. Alxeis. Carrell; Governor John M Parker of Louisiana; Senator
 Reed Shoot of Utah; Bishop William T. I Manning of New York Mrs. Carrie Chap
 man Cattl: Mrs. Thomas c. Winter pr.s- 1 ident <of the General. Federation of Wo-
 mems Clubs; Miss Anna A. Gordon, pres ident of the W. c. T. U,: Mrs Philip 1 North Moore, president of the National Councillor Women; Mrs. Percy V. Penny lbacker' of the League of Women vot- ters, Miss Alice Stone Blackwell; John c. 1 Milburh and Moorfie.d Store of the Amer I ican Bar Association Rupert Hughes, Emerson Hough and Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart of the Authors League of Amer 1 lea; Mary Garden and David Bclasco.
 1 Samuel GomBer5 and Warren S. Stone,
 representing the labor organizations
 iJohn c. Shaffer of Chicago: William C.
 Bobbs of Indianapolis; Dr. Frank M. u IAfcMurray of Columbia Teachers College Il Newcomb Carlton of the Western Union
 Telegraph Co.,; Dr. Henry van Dyke; J ! Thompson Willing; Mrs. Horace Lorimer !of Philadelphia; Mrs. Cleveland H. Dodge
 Mrs. Medill McCormiclk of Chicago; Mrs Henry Morganthau Airs. Edwin M. Bul- T kelley; Mrs. William Nash Read Of Mont
 SoEery-. Ala Mrs. Seaiitey White; Mrs I Cor.nne Roosevelt Robinson, Miss Eliza beth Marbury and . [. F. r. Ncd. The appeal for t:i.i cause. signed b, General Wood and the special committe' l follows:
 "As chairman of g special commi.te' of representative men and womsn of tn country. charged withSplacing before tn
 American people the desperate need O two and a half million Armenians. tn remnant of the oldest Christian nation ! whose suffer;ngs through sixteen centuris l seem to have brought them no neare . peace, liberty or security. I beg you | personal cooperation and yoHr influenc ]. I 10 forward an appeal for Lenten sac u ;Ti5ce offering to enable the Near Eas 5 Relief to 20 on with it's work of mercy. "Over one hundred thousand little chi iydTen who have been kept alive by Amer ' can generosity for the past three year I nre absolutely dependent upon the sur
 iport which America gives them. tirouE ithe Near East Reiisf. I feel that how : ever many and however worthy the oth' D fappeals which are being made to tf ' tlKreat heart of America these days ma l. be. this cry from tho little children { e inc land where Christ gave his life ft | mankind cannot remain unanswered. > "Wiil you help to save this martyrC le people?" s.
 y Norwich people have been very gene T. ous and no special effort Is to be ma' here now, but any who feel moved n Lheip this cause may send thei- contrib T. tons to Mrs. S. ". sev!n, the local Urea T. u-er, at 2S Bliss place.