The Press., 1922-03-30
WOMEN MEET CRISIS
 IN NEAR EAST RELIEF
Sponsor Lives of 25,0OO ChiI- dren to Keep Them
 From Starving.

Twelve million women in America are rallyinS 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- zation to make a 25 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 Catt 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 26O0O children now under sentence of death because of the cut by Near East Relief. It must be q Super-glft, 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. 7
 Mrs. VandsFIlp a Witness F
 Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip, recently re- turned from the Near East. says {: "Galsworthy said that one of the strik- ing American qualities is a deep adOra- ton for all children. Not just ones own, but for every child anyone of us meets anywhere. When I saw the pale, thin faces, dumb, hopeless eyes and the emaciated bodies under the scanty clothes of the refugee children in the Near East I longed to bring home to the child-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 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 25,0O0 children alive 1t will be possible to meet the needs of the other 75,OO0 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 JOD ETC.
 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 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 4. Gordon, Mrs. Lena Lake Forrest, Mrs. Ellie Lines Ohapin, Mrs. Agnes H. Parker, Mrs. Percy V. Pennypacker, Mrs. Mary Roberts Rein hart, Miss Jane Add0ms, Professor I Vida ScuddeF, Mrs. Livingston Rowe Schuyler, Mrs. Millbank Johnson, Mrs. Helen Barrett Montgomery, Miss Mary Emma WOolley, Mrs. George Horace Lorimer, Doctor Esther Love1oy, Mrs. William AthertOn Dupuy, Mrs. Eugene J. Grant, Mrs. Milton P. Higgins, Miss Chart Ormond Williams, Mrs. Fred erick Abbott, Mrs. Charles E. Wolbert, Mrs. James w. Remick, Mrs. Florence Spencer Duryea, Mrs. Frank J. Shuler, Mrs. Robert J. Reed, Mrs. Coleman du Pont, Mrs. Robert K. Speer, Mrs. Medin Mccormick, Mrs. Lizzie George Henderson, Mrs. Henry MOrgenthau, Mrs. Cleveland Fl. 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 NJ. Bulkley, Mrs. Harold A. Hatch, Miss Agnes Pelton, Mrs. John H. Finley, Miss Julia Latnrop, Miss Lillian Wald, Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Mrs. Webster Fox, IT,, Miss Jane J. Martin. Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fl. L. Robbins, Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, Mrs. William M. Congdon, Mrs. Walter w. Slack. Mrs. Joseph Irwin France.