Evening star., 1924-04-13
COMMITTEE OF 100
BACKS GERMAN AID
Members Prominent in All Walks
of Capital-Will Raise
Relief Furd.
FORM PLANS TOMORROW
Davis Bespeaks Charity in Letter
to Allen.

Including District officials, local
civic leaders, society folk, labor chief
tains and nationally prominent men
and women. names of the committee
Cf one hundred to indorse the Wash
InGton campaign for raising part of
the $10,000,000 national fund for
Quaker feeding among starving chill
dren of Germany were announced
by Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen, chair
man of the American committee for
Feltef of German children, yesterday.
The local committee will meet to-
morrow at o'clock in the local
headquarters, Federal American Ma
tional Bank building, for the first
organization meeting. Plans then
viii be formulated for the concen-
trated efforts of District workers in
behalf of the charitable cause.
Davis Bcspeaks Charity,
struck by Secretary of Labor Davis
IN a letter to Gen. Allen, when he
sXtates:
America owes 4 duty to all human
ttv, and in no way could duty be
better performed than by saving the
lives and happiness of the children
~ Germany. We fought a war to
Jree the world from the danger of
,Autocracy as it was exemplitied by
the militarist government of Ger
many. That purpose accomplished, it
should be no part Of Americas world
pohcy to attempt to crush a stricken
people"
! Hundreds of thousands of potential
cases of tuberculosis threaten German
homes and hospitals today, accord
ing TO Gen. Allen. He continued: :
'Realizing this, the American friends
Eervice committee (Quakers), acting
ha A risaaT, "
many, is preparing TO launch d sys-
tumatic anti-tuberculosis fight. In
addition to it's regular child-feeding
program consisting Rot a supple
Guentary meal TO nearly a million
Ihool children between the ages of
SIX and fourteen. this relief work
VIII now be expanded to include
smaller children from one to six
Years of ago. who will be put upon a
dtet or cod liver oil and dried milk.
VIII Fight Tuberculosis.
This cure will be administered to
such children as already show symp-
toms of the disease in its incipient
khase. or such whose health is en-
dangered by living and housing con-
ultions of such a nature as to make
their escape from infection difficult"
Fhe Endorsement committee of 100
! behind the relief work is, as follows:
! commissioners Rudolph and Oyster
/ Secretary of the Treasury Mellon,
Postmaster General New. Secretary
of Labor Davis, Assistant Secretary
sf War Dwight +. Davis, L. s. Rowe
| director general Pan American Union
Frank White, United States treasurer;
MEr Thomas. DIR. Ulysses q. &.
Pierce. Frank w MOndelI head of
War Finance Corporation; Rev. John
+. Creeden, president of Georgetown
/ niverSity; Senator La Toilette Of
Wisconsin, Edward p. Colladay. presi-
dent Washington Board of Trade
aaev. ]. J. Dimon. president Pastors
federation of Churches; DR.. Abram
SinEn. Julius Garfinkle, Gen. Nelson
4. Miles, Peter A Drury, Senator
Copeland OF New York, Maj. Gen.
Frank Mcintyre chief of bureau
iusular affairs; Carl A Droop, Mrs
Emil Newell Blair, Mrs. Basil NJ.
Manley, Mrs. Abbie Scott Baker and
Blair Lee
Included IN Committee.
Capt julius /. Peyser. !. Callan
o Baugh'in. Rear Admiral Harold p,
Morton. William H. Johnston, presi-
dent International Associa ton of
MachinistS; Mrs Alexander Mackay-
IF Ohio, Mrs. Hamilton Fish, jr.; Mrs
Anne NJ. Hoyt, DT. George Kober
Commissioner John J. Esch of the In
teTstate Commerce Comm SSion. Dr.
Margaret Eek, senator Watson OF
indiana. Senator Ladd Of North Da-
,iluta Maj Gen. Frank ". Coe, john
". Larner, Howard Sutherland, Ed
ward \. Hartman, Eliot Collier
Zen. Tasker II. Bliss. Maj. Gen. ".
Il. Hart. w. L. ClarkSuu. Albert OF
tinger. assistant attorney general:
Dr, ). y. Pierce. Representative
Moore Of Virginia. Representative
Burton of Indiana. Simon Lyon, Rem
resentative King Of Illinois. Col @.
i. F'ieberger, Chaplain John 7. Axton.
IL. S. A
Re-. W. VI. Lyon, Mary Anderson,
Montgomery Blair, Rev. J. F. Wen
chel, John A. Boobar, l.. Z. Breunin-
ger, john A. Cochran. William Much
ieisen, Mrs. Abraham Van Wrinkle,
Mrs. Alexander Wolf. Roland Rob-