Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1922-03-29
WOMEN MEET CRISIS
IN NEAR EAST Relief
Sponsor Lives Of $4,000 Chill
dren to Keep Them
From Starving.

Twelve million women in America
are rallying to the cry of the starving
children cared for by Near East Relief
in Constantinople and Asia Minor.
Lack of funds has forced the organi-
cation to make a % per cent cut in
its orphanage appropriations during
the spring months, when relief work
is more seriously needed than at any
other time during the year.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait has form
ed a Women's Emergency Committee
of representative women from every
corner of the land The committee
represents 100000 American women,
and they appeal to the motherhood of
America to save the $4,000 children
now under sentence of death because
Of the cut by Near East Relief. 1t
must be supergift, the women say,
and must be added over and above to
whatever gifts their communities may
have made during the year to the
work of Near East Relief.
Mrs. VanderIp a Witness
MTS. L TdIlk "A Nuiuelllp ItCcIllV Tc-
turned from the Near East. says:
'Gasworthy said that one of the strik.
ing American qualities is deep adora
ton for all children. Ndk just ones
own, but for every child anyone of us
meets anywhere When l saw the
pale, thin faces, dumb, hopeless eyes,
and the emaciated bodies under the
scanty clothes of the refugee children
in the Near East longed to bring
home to the child-loving people here
poignant appeal for help to save their
lives and restore childish peace to their
hearts. The respect which knowing
these people gives one bases my de-
sire to save these children on a serious
recognition of the terrible loss the
world will sustain If this fine pOpula.
ton perishes."
Near East Relief officers estimate
that if the women of the United States
will keep $4,000 children alive it will
be possible to meet the needs of the
other $4,000 under American care and
protection in the Near East.
Among the women who compose the
Women's Emergency Committee that
will make every effort to finish tho
job" are:
Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait, chair
man; Mrs. Philip North Moore, Mrs.
Thomas G. Winter, Mrs. George May
nard Minor Mrs. Josephus Daniels.
Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip, Miss Bina
West, Miss Anna A. Gordon, Mrs. Lena
Lake Forrest, Mrs. Ellie Lines Chaplin,
Mrs. Agnes H. Parker, Mrs. Percy V.
Pennypacker, Mrs. Mary Roberts Rein
hart, Miss Jane Adams, Professor
Vida Gcudder, Mrs. Livingston Rowe
Schuyler, Mrs. Millbank Johnson Mrs.
Helen Barrett Montgomery, Miss Mary
Emma Woolley, Mrs. George Horace
Lorimer, Doctor Esther Lovejoy, Mrs.
William Atherton Dupuy, Mrs. Eugene
j. Grant, Mrs. Milton P. Higgins, Miss
Charl Ormond Williams, Mrs. Fred
-erick Abbott, Mrs. Charles E. Wolbert,
Mrs. James w. Remick, Mrs. Florence
Spencer Duryea, Mrs. Frank J. Shpler,
Mrs. Robert ]. Reed, Mrs. Coleman
du Pont, Mrs. Robert e. Speer, Mrs.
Medill Mccormick, Mrs. Lizzie George
Henderson, Mrs. Henry Morgenthau,
Mrs. Cleveland H. Dodge, Mrs Will
liam Fraser Mcdowell, Mrs. Mary
LaRocca, Mrs Clarence F. r. Jenne.
Mrs. John s. Drum, Miss Rose Bren-
ner, Miss Elizabeth Marbury, Miss
Mary Mullett, Mrs. Edwin M. Buckley,
Mrs. Harold A. Hatch, Miss Agnes
Pelton, Mrs. John H. Finley, Miss Julia
Lathrop, Miss Lillian Valid, Miss Alice
M Wy
Jr.. Miss Jane ]. Martin, Mrs. Minnie
Madden Fiske, Mrs. H. L. Robbins.
Mrs Harriet Taylor Upton, Mrs.
William M. Congdon, Mrs. Walter w.
Slack. Mrs. Joseph Irwin France.