New Britain herald., 1922-01-04
LOCAL SOCIETY
 BECOMES FAMOUS
Organized less Than Mouth, At
 tracts National Attention

So great is the fame of the newly organized Assyrian-Amercan society | of New Britain, although it has been | Tn existence less than a month, that requests have been received from Philadelphia and Yonkers for infor- | nation and a personal representative l of 2.5oo Assyrian people has come all the way from Chicago to learn the method of organizing and working here.
 Organized December 9. 1921. The Assyrian-A erican society of New Britain was organized December g, 1921, under the auspices of the l Americanization department. For ner Mayor George A. Quigley, Treas l urer John A. Loomis, Of the Conner cial Trust Co.,, Americanizatiou Direc- tor James E. O'Brien, Babn Y. Jones, Rev. Symon Yonan and Pera Benja- min were speakers. At that time q committee was appointed to draw up bylaws. This was done and by-laws now are under consideration. Baba Y. Jones has been elected first i president. The association three weeks ago sent a committee by Mir, Quigley, Mir. Benjamin and Rev. Ionan, to Washington to take up the | immigration question, as it relates to the Assyrian and Armenian refugees, with the l.. s. immigration commit tee, and returned home to report, Rev. Yonan and Mr. Benjamin re- turned to Washington and have been interviewing congressman and sena-
 ors ever since, in an effort to have congress take some action permitting the entrance into this country ot people fleeing from the Turks. The arge allotment from these countries has been competed.
 The work of the committee has at tracted attention all over the country It was the addresses made by MT Quigley and others before the imm- grafton committee which are thought to have had considerable influence in congress permitting the 1,iho refugees to enter the country under bonds be- fore Christmas, instead of compelling them to remain over the holidays or shipboard The immigration com nittee is considering substitute i'm migration bill and in the meantime
  now in the country under bond, for a limited time.
 Attract National Attention.
 So successful have the efforts of this committee from New Britain be- come that they have attracted the at tenton of Assyrian and Armenian people in all parts of the country. At a meeting of the local organization last evening Elisha Shlemon, of Chicago, was present, representing o,5o0 Assyrians of that city, to ascer- tain how they could organize and accomplish in Chicago things the local committee has done.
 Similar requests were read from Philadelphia and Yonkers, x. Y. An interesting sidelight on the crrand oi Mr. ShemqH, is the fact that he ana the president of the New Britain or ganization, Baba Y. Jones, came rom the same town, that of Nrmla, Tn Persia. The visitor from the Windy City will remain here until the next meeting, getting points on organizlng a branch of the society in that place.
 Plan National Organization.
 Through the efforts of the local As syrians, with the cooperation ot the Chicago, Philadelphia and Workers people, it is planned to start move mont for national organization The objects would be to hold annual conventions, interchange Ideas anu help the people in general.
 To Be Self Supporting. The New Britain organization has manned to be self-supporting ana does not intend to ask it's frlends 10 finance it. Some time Tn the carry part of February play will be giveh' the proceeds to be used towards de- fraying the expenses of the commit tee to Washington
 Sometime this month mass meet ing of Assyrians will be held to ap- point committees and map out plans for the play.
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