The Washington herald., 1921-03-13
Relief Needs
To Be Told
Near East Leaders Speak
ers at Gen. Woods Meet
ing Wednesday.

In the name of Gen. Leonard
Wood Invitations are being sent out
for the meeting in Memorial Con-
tinentxl ID. A. r. Hall, Wednesday
at O'clock. when Col. William II.
Haskell, allied high commissioner
to the Near East; Maj. David G.
Arnold. recently general director of
Constantinople district. and Prin-
cess Anne Azgapetian, of Russia,
wife of Gen. Azgapetian, of Ar
menia, will speak. Federal officials
and distinguished members of Gen.
Woods committee will attend.
The Navy Yard Band will give a
concert at As o'clock.
Mrs. John Hervey Young, Mrs.
Walter r Tuckerman, Mrs. Cabot
Stevens, Mrs. Theodore W. Noyes,
Mrs Francis A St Clair. Mrs. Emma
Sanford Shelton, Mrs. Minerva
Crawford. Mrs Howard L. Hodg-
kins, Mrs. VIM. E. Chamberlin, ID.
]. Callahan. Frank Morrison. will
lam H. Baldwin. Chauncey C. Will
Jams, Harvey W. Wiley, Md, John
b Larner, William b westIake,
Henry D. F. Mcfarland, William
knowles Cooper, l.. W. Glaxebrook.
Md, Charles J. O'Nen, Charles i
Bell, J. A Whitfield, Rudolph Jose
Isaac Cans, Charles W. Semmes and
Thomas J. Bradley are members on
the Washington committee.
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On the special national committee
are: Andrew W. Mellon. Secretarv
of the Treasury; William II. TAT
President John Grier Hibben
Princeton University; Mary Gar
DEN, David Belasco, william r
Manning, Bishop elect; Carrie Chan
man Gait. Mrs Corinne Roosevelt
Robinson. Mrs Thomas C. Winter
President Federation Women,s
Clubs; Miss Anna A Gordon, Presi-
dent w. c. T. u; Mrs George May
nard Minor, President-General d.
A R.: Mrs Mendill Mccormick.
Mrs. Phillip North Moore, Presi-
dent National Council of Women:
Frank A Munsey, Miss Elizabeth
Marbury, Miss H F.. H Ried, Mrs.
Percy v. Pennybacker. League of
Women Voters: Miss Alice Stone
Blackwell. Mrs. George Horace Lori
mer, DR.. Alexis Carroll, Rockefel-
Ter Institute: DR.. Harry vandyke.
Gov. John NJ. Parker, Louisiana; /;
Senator Reed Smoot, Utah; Moore
field Story and John G. Milburn,
American Bar Association; Rupert
Hughes, Emerson Hough and Mary
Roberts Rinehart, writers; John C.
Shaffer, owner Chicago Post: Sam
uel Gompers and Warren s.
Stone, American Federation of La
Dor: DR.. Frank McMurry. Column
bia University; William c. Bobbs,
Indianapolis: Newcomb Carlton,
President Western Union Telegraph
Company; ]. Thomas willing. ar
tist; Mrs. Henry Morgenthau. Mrs.
Edwin NJ. Buckley. Mrs. William
Nash Reed. Montgomery. Ala; Mrs.
Stanley White, Mrs. Cleveland H.
Dodge.
| General Wood says: '.As chair
man of a special committee of rep
resentative men and women of the
country. charged with placing be-
fore the American people the des-
perate need Of two and a half mil
lion Armenians, the remnant of the
oldest Christian nation, whose suf-
ferings through sixteen centuries
seem to have brought them no near
er peace, liberty or security, 1 beg
your personal cooperation and your
influence to forward an appeal for
a Lenten sacrifice offering to enable
the Near East Relief to go on with
its work of mercy.
over one hundred thousand little
children who have been kept alive
by American generosity for the past
three years are absolutely depend
ent upon the support which Amer
lea gives them through the Near
East Relief. 1 feel that however
worthy the other appeals which are
being made to the great heart of
America these days. may be, this cry
from the little children of the land
where Christ gave his life for man
kind cannot remain unanswered
Will you help to save this mar
tyred people?