New-York tribune., 1922-03-26
Women Organized
TO Meet Near East
Relief Fund Crisis
Leaders Unite in Forming
Committee to Save rs. 900
Armenian Children Who
Will Need Money for Food

Fifty of this countrys prominenr
women, under the chairman ship Of
Mrs, Carrie Chapman Gait, have organ
lied the Women's Emergency Commit
tee, TO meet crisis threatening The
lives Of $4,000 Armenian children now
under American care. Because OF lack
o; funds one-fourth OF the 100 600 chill
diem now being cared for in Near East
Relief orphanages must be turned out
to die in the streets unless INN edia t.
action is taken. In this emergency
leading women in all lines have united
10 form the committee, which viii ap-
peal to ali the women of America to
save the lives OF the children.
The Women's Emergency Committee
asks the women Of America to under
write the lives of these $4,000 children
at So month per child.
The members OF the committee arc
Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait, chairman;
Mrs. Philip North Moore, national pres
ident Of the National Council of Won
EN-; Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, president
Of the National Federation Of Won
ems Clubs; Mrs. George Maynard
ters Of the American Revolution; Mrs
Josephus Daniels, Mrs. Frank A. Van
derlip, Miss Bina West, Supreme Com
mander of the Woman's Benefit Asso-
citation of the Maccabees; Miss Anna A.
Gordon, national president of the Won
ans Christian Temperance Union; Mrs
Lena Lake Forrest. national president
of the National Federation of Business
and Professional Women's Clubs; Mrs
Ellie Lines Chaplin, most worthy grand
matron OF the Order Of the Eastern
Star; Mrs. Agnes H. Parker, national
president Of the Womcn's Relief Corps
Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, Mrs. Mary
Roberts Rinehart Miss Jane Addsms,
Professor Vida Scudder OF Wellesley,
Mrs. Livingston Rowe Schuyler, presi-
dent of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy.
Also Mrs. Millbank Johnson. Mrs
Helen Barrett Montgomery, Miss Mary
Z. Woolley, president of Mount Holyoke
College; Mrs. George Horace Lorimer
DR.. Esther Lovejoy, Mrs. William Ath-
crton Dupuy, president Of the League
of American Penwomen; Mrs. Eugene
J. Grant, president Of the Society of
New England Women; Mrs. Milton P
Higgins, president Of the National Con-
gress of Mothers and Parent Teach
ers' associations; Miss Charl Ormond
Williams, president of the National Ed
ucation Association; Mrs. Frederick P
Abbott, Mrs. Charles E. Wolbert, presi-
dent of the Daughters of the Revolu-
ton; Mrs. James W. Remck, Mrs. Frank
j. Shuler, Mrs. Robert J. Reed, national
president of the International Order
of the Kings Daughters and Sons
Mrs. Coleman du Pont, Mrs. Robert E.
Speer. president Of the Young Women 8
Christian Association; Mrs. Medil Nc
Cormick, Mrs. Lizzie George Hender-
son, Mrs. Henry Morgenthau. Mrs.
Cleveland H. Dodge, Mrs. William
Fraser Mcdowell.
Also Mrs. Mary La Rocca, supreme
guardian Woodmen Circle; Mrs. Clar-
ence F: R. Jenne, president gen.
eral of the Daughters Of 1912;
Mrs. John S. Drum, Miss Rose Brenner,
president of the National Council Of
Jewish Women; Miss Elizabeth Mar
bury, Miss Mary Mullett, Mrs. Edwin
M. Bulklcy, Mrs. Harold A. Hatch, Miss
Agnes Pelton, Mrs. John H. Finley,
Mrs. Julia Lathrop. Miss Lillian Wald.
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Mrs. Will
liam Fox jr., president of the Daugk-
ters of the British Empire; Miss Jane
J. Martin, Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske,
Mrs. II. L. Robbins, Mrs. William M.
Congdon, Mrs. Walter W. Slack, Mrs.
Joseph Irwin France, Mrs. Harriet Tay-
lor Upton and Mrs. Florence Spencer
DuTyea.