The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-19
APPEAL MADE FOR CANNED GOODS FOR
 NEAR EAST RELIEF
Local Committee Asks for Fifteen Car Loads of Canned Goods for War
 SufererSf

During the coming week the people of Birmingham will be called upon to donate Is carloads of canned goods to the war sufferers of the Near East. These sufferers are women and children, whose husbands and fathers were killed in battle or died of disease in army camps during the war while fighting for tho allies.
 Hundreds of thousands of orphans are said to be starving while the Near East Relief. corporation char tered by Congress, is caring for over 1000 others. More children have been turned away from the orphan ages and hospitals than were re- eeived into them, because of insdffi- eient funds to provide further accom- modotions the directors of life Near
 East Relief report,
 In all the churches of Birmingham tho pastors will devote few min utes at their regular services today { to an explanation of the canned l goods Campaign and to a description i of the work being done by the Near
 East Relief and conditions in the i Near East.
 Pledge Cards
 Next Sunday March 20. pledge 1 cards will be distributed at all the churches. These cards, when signed,
 will be gathered up. delivered to the Near East Relief local committee and l by 1t turned over to the grocers 1 whose names appear on them. The /, retail grocers will send them to the
 wholesale houses who will then de- l liver to the committee canned goods i to the amount of the aggregate orders, including all profits of re- taller and wholesaler. Neither re- taller nor wholesaler will retain d cent of profit on these orders
 The Louisville and Nashville and the Southern railway have agreed to haul these goods free of charge to New orleans, where they will be put aboard d ship.
 The ministers of Birmingham, as | well as the wholesale and retail gro cers, have indorsed the canned goods campaign and will lend full CO., operation in making it success.
 Speakers Coming
 General Azgapetian, who won dis tinction as commander of an Ar
 menian army during the World war, and Dr. David, a noted lecturer, will be in Birmingham Monday morning and during their stay here they will make d number of addresses before clubs, civic bodies and other organ izations. W. NJ Howe, regional di- rector with headquarters at Ghatta- nooga, who for a time was national organizer of the retail grocers, will arrive from Chattanooga early Mon day morning to aid in the campaign.
 At 10 o'clock Monday morning one of the speak CTS will address the pupils at the Ensley High school and s:45 o'clock Wednesday morning the pupils at the Central High school will be given the opportunity to hear one i of them.
 Other clubs to be addressed, outside of the civic bodies. are the Business l and Professional Women's club, the Graded Union and joint meeting of the ministers and Sunday school superintendents to be held at the Hillman motel Thursday night. The local committee in charge of the Near East Relief canned goods campaign is headed by R. A. Porter. president of the Chamber of Com merce, and he is ably assisted by Dr.
 R. N. Simpson, pastor of the First Christian church. as vice chairman : S l.. Earle, president of the Whole sale Grocers associations Paul H. Shropshire, president of the Retail Grocers and Butchers association and a large number of other prom inent citizens of Birmingham. /