Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-04-05
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 a super-gift, 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.
Mr3 VdnCcTllp witness
Mrs. Frank A. Nanderlip, recently re-
turned from the Near East, says:
"Galsworthy said that one of the strik-
ing American qualities is a deep adora-
ton fer all children. Not just ones
own, but FIR 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 chld-loving people here a.
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 10000 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 the
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. Vanderbilt, Miss Bina
West, Miss Anna A. Gordon, Mrs Lena
Lake Forrest, Mrs. ellie Lines Chaplin,
Mrs. Agnes II. Parker, Mrs Percy "
Pennypacker, Mrs. Mary Roberts Rein
hart, Miss Jane Adams, Professor
Vida Scudder, Mrs. Livingston Rowe
Schuyler, Mrs. Millbank Johnson, Mrs.
Helen Barrett Montgomery, Miss Mary
Emma WOOlley, Mrs. George Horace
Lorimer, Doctor Esther Lovej0y Mrs.
William Atherton -Dupuy, Mrs. Eugene
]. Grant, Mrs. Milton P. Higgins, Miss
Charl Ormond Williams, Mrs. Fred
erick Abbott, Mrs. Charles Z. Wolbert,
Mrs. James W. Remick, Mrs. Florence
Spencer Duryea, Mrs. Frank j. Shuler,
Mrs Robert j. Reed, Mrs Coleman
du Pont, Mrs. Robert E. Speer, Mrs.
Medill Mccormick, Mrs. Lizzie George
Henderson, Mrs. Henry Morgenthau,
Mrs. Cleveland H. Dodge, Mrs. viii
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 NJ. Buckley,
Mrs. Harold A. Hatch, Miss Agnes
Pelton, Mrs. John II. Finley Miss Julia
Lathrop, Miss Lillian Valid, Miss Alice
Stone Blackwell, Mrs. Webster Fox,
Jr. Miss Jane j. Martin. Mrs. Minnie
Maddern Fiske, Mrs. II. L. Robbins,
Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, Mrs.
William NJ. Congdon, Mrs. Walter w.
Slack, Mrs. Joseph Irwin France.