The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-12-21
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3. XMAS APPEAL
ASKS AID FOR LITTLE ORPHANS
:. or ARMENIAN
= MARTYRS
I GOV. ENDORSES MOVEMENT
s Executive Requests Pastors And ~
psrlntendents IA Help Put
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7ov. ENDORSES MOVEMENT

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The Xmas appeal, which Is signed b
A. F. Lever, honorar
tate chairman for South Carolina, ha
be endorsement Of nearly every hig
and state official. Woo
pw Wilson and President Hardin
ave given their unqualified endorst
aent to this great humanitarian worl
Governor Robert A. Cooper Is takin
leading part in giving this appes
impetus through personal letters q
Endorsement to as many pastors, Sur
iay school superintendents and prom
nent citizens as he can. Both house
4 the South Carolina general assen
lly have endorsed very strongly th
york and workers Of the Near Eas
selief.
Congressman Levers letter callin
Ittention to the fact that every fiv
!ollars (s5.00) given saves the lif
i a child for a month. follows:
Columbia, Dec. 10, 1921.
Dear Sir:
During the World War, when
the nesss Of the destttution In tho
Near East was reported to the
authorities IN Washington, it was
!, my privilege to have first hand
! information relative to the ter
ribIe conditions In Armenia
have Just had an interview
with members Of the Commission
who spent three months last sum-
mer In the Near East studying
conditions, especially Ia Armenia
and Syria, and they report an ap-
palIins situation which, up to the
present hour, has not been ade-
quately answered In spite Of the
eommendabIe and continued gen
srosity Of our people.
The Turks did not yaeate this
country until the month Of August.
This did not give the ArmsnIans
4 chance to raise 4 crop, and this
means that 4 multitude Of women
and children will be In need Of
, food this winter. There are 11o,-
600 children In 22s orphanaees in
the Near East who would die like
fIies If the Relief Committee would
cut off their supplies.
You do not wish South Carolina
/ 10 quit when what remains to be
done In relief is small compared
with what has been done. Neither
do you want to lose the spiritual
satisfaction that viii! come from
seeing the thing through" In char
aeterlstiealIy thorough American
fashion. The slamor Of the war
has gone. Real love, real vision
and real saerifiee are called for
now "a never In the Near East.
You can feed ono Of the father.
less ehlldren Of that deselate land
for five dollars $500 a month.
For the completion Of the task
that blesses every siver and for
the feeding Of the dependents,
whose fate 10 In the balance,
please send to William M. Gibbes,
.Jr., 21t. Liberty National Bank
Building, Columbia, s. c., your
contribution for az many months
az you can give.
Sincerely yours
(slgned) A. r: LEVER,
Honorary State Chairman.
It Is hoped that the coming yea
eill be the last one required 70 Cal
or the 550,000 refugees who s-e bein
ed at the Near East Relief soup kitel
ms In Armenia and Syria every de-,
rhe Turks were just driven out
mia last August Aut during the
IN that have looted and d
nes made fields unproduc
cattle and stock an
lustries.
their homes ha,
ag girls and mot
aged and carrie
ems and childre
Eh{t More than III
e been taken into Il
j now being maintaine
East Relief In the BIB
hey donated by generos
icans. There are ,
Children outside the gat,
n{le they cla-nor for admissio
khick T. denied them because the'
are talready taxed almo
,syond their cap<ciS:
rs. Laura M. Hoyt Recommen
- Chamberlain's Tablets.
II have frequently used Chambe
aims Tablets, during the past thr
,ears, ana have teufd them splend
.or headache and blious attacks.
I'm only too pleased, at any time,
peak word in praise Of then
Erites Mrs. Laura NJ. Hoyt, Roc