Connecticut western news., 1921-03-24
FINAL LENTEN APPEAL
 FOR ARMENIAN ORPHANS
General Wood Makes Stirring Easter Appeal for
 Funds

AaASc SnouEH money Tn OOnneCTlcuT during the week to rescue 2,50O starving and destitute orphans in Armenia has been launched by the Near. East Relief. Simultaneously similar movements were started in every other state of the Union, each responsible for a proportionate num- Der of 10000 Armenian orphans, whose lives depend, according to Major General Leonard Wood, on the response in America. The move ment is undertaken under the direc- tion of a Lenten sacrifice appeal committee headed by General Wood, and on which Connecticut is repre- scented by ex-President William Howard Taft of New Haven and Mrs. George Maynard Minor of Waterford.
 To emphasize the fact that a per son can save the life of one orphan by contribution of $60, there have been issued by General Woods com mittee 10000 coupon books, one for each orphan, each containing sixty coupons at $1 each, and the effort will not be considered suc- cess unless every book Is sold, as for each one not sold the Near East Re- lief will be deprived of the amount necessary to keep one orphan alive a year, it was explained. The distri- button of the bulk of Connecticut's share of 2,500 books was completed yesterday, but before the last book had been placed, returns had begun to come in from people in all sec tions of the state, who had matched Governor Lake, purchaser of the first. Some of the reports showed that factory departments and office divisions had jointly taken the res possibility for one child, by having sixty members each, take one of the one-dollar coupons in book, -,,.. State Headquarters of the Near East Relief, No. 1903 Main street, Hartford, made public the following appeal issued by General Wood for publication today:
 "The spirit of Easter is one of sacrifice-the Great Sacrifice was made then. That sacrifice has been made since, in many lands by many individuals. But never in history has whole nation made the sacri- flee for the faith that the Armenians have made.
 "It is not none of our business what happens to the Armenians.' They stand for stubbornness in what they believe-and what we be- lieve-that makes their struggle our struggle. We can no more refuse to help them than we could let one of our divisions holding a sector in the late war be cut to pieces when we had the reserves to save it.
 "We have the reserves of food and money and sympathy. We can do the job-do all of it. We can do it ourselves, without being told to do it by anybody, in any company of nations. It is not a political duty or a matter of commercial expedi- ency. It is an opportunity-an op- portunity to make our idealism dy- manic influence in the world, not just fine phrases.
 "The man who has least among US HdS ulOIS IIldu LuOSI III AIIlSillds 1I is one of the finest things in cur his tory that, through the Near East Relief, the American people from the richest to the poorest, unsolicit- l ed, have kept 10000 little children in Armenia from hunger and death, have saved a whole people from an initiation, and have done it without | fanfares, or self-righteousness.
 "I, and the American men and | women who sign with me, ask that this work go on. 1t is an American work in the best traditions of big hearted American generosity. 1t cannot falter or pause"
 Checks and cash covering the pur- chase of coupon bonds are being to Meigs H. Whaples, chairman of the board of directors of the Hartford Connecticut Trust Company, who is state treasurer of the Near East Relief. They may also be forwarded through "The Courant", and additional books from the balance of the supply at state headquarters may be had by appli- cation to the Near East Relief Editor of "The Courant".
 A committee of ladies, Miss Rosalie Imhoff, chairman, will be at the Post Office all day Saturday l to receive the Sacrifcial Offering. %