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EWS BULLETIN

Published by the

Americ-aiv Committee
yb^Armeni-an a^id Syrian
K^lief

"NewYork.TsIY

VOL. III.

MAY, 1919

No. 12— Total Number 24

The Neivport News before she shed her camouflage.
ANOTHER LIFE BOAT.

The Newport News, fourth transport granted by the United States Navy
to the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, sailed to the
rescue of the starving peoples in the Near East April 22nd from New York.
The Newport News is bound for Constantinople. She carries five tech-
nically trained relief workers to swell the forces already at work in Turkey
and a large cargo of clothing and supplies of all kinds for distribution among
the destitute millions in that war ravaged land. This is the eighth relief con-
tingent sent out recently by this committee.

Over two hundred persons gathered at Pier 62 of the White Star Line in a

farewell service held on the forward deck of the ship before she left on her life
saving mission.

MAY 2 3 1919

The relief party is headed by Dr. J. P. McNaughton, who has had many
years experience as a relief worker in the Orient. The other members of the
expedition are Lieutenant Wendell Wheeler Brown of Princeton University,
John M. Gilchrist of Williams College, who are experienced in teaching, and
William Morris Gilbert, Jr., of Union College, Schenectady, who goes out as
engineer and correspondent. All three are United States service men. Rufus
W. Lane, a business-man from Smyrna, is also sailing on this vessel to aid the
relief workers in his country. His knowledge of the people and of the Greek
language will be of great value to his companions.

"My heart swells when I think what this ship and its cargo will mean to
the Armenians, Syrians and Greeks," said Cleveland H. Dodge, Treasurer of
the Committee, who conducted the farewell services on board the ship. "A
better day is dawning for these people," he continued. "There is much in store
for them but our work has only just begun and we will have to care for four
hundred thousand orphans for a good many years to come."

Dr. F. W. MacCallum also made a short address. In speaking of the
young men going forth on this mission of mercy, he said : "These young men
who have served their country faithfully are giving their services again for
humanity. Besides carrying supplies to these suffering people, they will bring
them the love and sympathy of the American nation."

Dr. McNaughton spoke of the workers already in the field. "Our workers
in the Orient," he said, "threw themselves into the work of helping the weak
and oppressed during the years of war, and although these men and women are
now worn out, they are refusing to leave their posts until others come to carry
on the imperative work they are doing. They have proved that their faith is
not only something to live for but to live and die for."

The Reverend Haig Yardumian, pastor of an Armenian Evangelical
Church m Philadelphia, expressed the undying gratitude of his people to their
brothers m America who are saving their lives. "This boat is witness that the
American people are leading the civilization of the world," he concluded.

A chorus of Syrian women sang in their own language a song of praise of
the Newport News and its mission, and the Greek delegation presented a huge
bunch of roses to Mrs. Morris, wife of the consul to Smyrna, who also sailed
on the Newport News, the only woman aboard the ship.

The cargo of this vessel consists of 4,000 tons of necessities for distribution
in the Near East, including agricultural tools, medical and hospital supplies of
all kinds, and also 300 tons of clothing materials and a large number of refugee
garments donated by the American Red Cross.

Other ships lent to the American Committee for Relief in the Near East
by the Navy Department for relief purposes were the C£esar, Mercurius and
the Pensacola.

A MESSAGE FROM SENATOR LODGE

United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge has issued the f oUowkig^Itement :

"The distress and suffering in the Near East is very severe and relief is greatly
needed I earnestly hope that Americans will give generously to the fund of the
committee m charge of this work. The sufferings of those poor people are intense
and no time is to be lost m aiding them in the most generous way and to the very
best of our ability. ^

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NEWS BULLETIN

Published by

American Committee for Armenian
and Syrian Relief

Vol. Ill May, 1919 No. 12, total No. 24

CHARLES y. VICKBET. Hanacei
1 Madison Ayenii«, N«w York
AGNES V. WILLIAMS, Editor

Entered as second-class matter November 21, 1918
At Post Office, New York, New York
under Act of March 3rd, 1879.

"Acceptance for mailing at special rate of post-
age provided for in Section 1103 Act of October 3,
1917, authorized March 3, 1919."

Published Monthly Subscription 10c per year

EDITOEIAL COMMITTEE

James L. Barton
Samuel T. Button
Charles V. Vickrey
Cleveland H. Dodge
Albert Shaw

Talcott Williams
William T. Ellis
Hamilton Holt
Frederick Lynch
Nora Wain

NEARING THE GOAL

The whole amount contributed so
far to the Relief Fund aggregates
$22,000,000. From February 1st to
April 1st contributions came in on an
average of $100,000 a day. The cam-
paign is now speeding up again under

the spur of the Easter checks and
Bonds to Save a Life Plan.

During the week ending April I5th
$1,419,738.60 was received in cash.
A few of the gifts may be specially
mentioned :

Richmond, Virginia Committee. .$200,000.00

Ohio Committee 200,000.00

Portland, Oregon Committee.... 100,000.00
Kansas City, Missouri Committee 65,000.00

Minnesota Committee 65,000.00

Texas Committee 50,000.00

Seattle, Washington Committee.. 40,000.00
Churches and S. S.'s of Brethren

Denominations, Dayton, 0 36,383.00

United Drive for Relief in Near

East, Phoenix, Arizona 35,000.00

Armenian & Syrian Relief Com-
mittee, Toronto, Ontario 34,000.00

Omaha, Nebraska Committee 35,000.00

Des Moines Local Committee 30,000.00

Louisiana Committee 30,000.00

North CaroHna Committee 28,000.00

St. Louis, Mo. Committee 27,000.00

New Hampshire Committee 26,000.00

Florida Committee 25,000.00

Syracuse War Chest Association. 25,000.00
Rochester Patriotic and Com-
munity Fund 25,000.00

Indiana Committee 23,000.00

Alabama Committee 20,000.00

New Jersey Committee 20,000.00

All aboard for Turkey: Left to right — Lieut. Wendell W. Brown, Dr. J. P. McNaughton,
John M. Gilchrist, and William M. Gilbert.

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Montana Committee 20,000.00

Maryland Committee 15,000.00

South Carolina Committee 12,000.00

Christian Herald 10,000.00

Wyoming Committee 10,000.00

Eldridge M. Fowler Memorial

Fund, Chicago 10,000.00

Fast Express — No Stops
West Washington keeps on going
though it has already raised $217,-
799.00 against a quota of $182,000.00.
It recently sent in $15,716.00. Half a
million more has come from Ohio,
which had already passed its quota ;
Michigan is following the example of
these two states and is still going on.
South Carolina counties are doing
very good work raising considerably
over their quotas, every dollar of it
cash. Honolulu was the tenth unit to
oversubscribe its quota.

The Acting Secretary of the Navy
has recently instructed the Command-
ant of the Mare Island Navy Yard to
permit a canvass in the Yard for
Armenian-Syrian Relief. This is an-
other evidence of the Navy's hearty
co-operation in the Relief work.

An a No. 1 Showing
The "Buy a Bond with a Bond"
plan has been taken up with great
enthusiasm, the first bond of each de-
nomination having been taken at once.
Mr. Hoak claims the first "Save a

Singing "God Be With You Till We Meet
Again", led by Chaplain Seelye on hoard
the Newport News.

Life" bond in the $50 denomination,
Mr. Vickrey the first $100 bond, Rev.
and Mrs. Lucius Thayer of New
Hampshire have given a $1000 Liberty
Bond in exchange for the first "Save a
Life Bond" of that denomination and a
check has just been received through
the mail for the first $500 bond.

WAYS AND MEANS

Breakfast Nothing, Dinner Noth-
ing, Supper Nothing
In Washington, D. C, plain pine
tables were placed in banks, depart-
ment stores and other prominent
buildings, spread with white oil-cloth
and set with cheap plates, cups and
saucers and a few bowls. Each was
placarded "Armenian-Syrian Dinner-
Table" and the conspicuously dis-
played menu read "Breakfast nothing,
Dinner nothing. Supper nothing."
Another card invited the public to fill
the bowls for Armenian-Syrian Re-
lief. The receipts in some of the de-
partment stores averaged $20 an hour.

Uncle Sam's Big Hat
The young ladies of the First Aid
Legion of Dallas, Texas, appeared in
uniform on the streets one noon carry-
ing an Uncle Sam hat measuring ten
feet and bearing the words "Kick in
for Armenian Relief". Others cir-
culated through the crowds collecting
coin in smaller hats which they emp-
tied into the big one. The sum of
$1000 was turned in at headquarters
that evening.

Red Cross Girls and Boy Scouts
In a Charleston, West Virginia, pa-
rade preceding the campaign a squad
of Red Cross Girls with a body guard
of Boy Scouts carried an enormous
American flag in which to collect coin
from the crowds they passed through.
The flag was followed by high school
cadets giving exhibition drills.

A Unique "Plaintiff's Brief"
The manager of the Atlanta,
Georgia, Campaign sent to every law-
yer in the city a "Plaintiff's Brief" for
a case at law : "American Philan-

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thropy" as plaintiff versus "Turkish
Barbarity" as Defendant in No. 1 In-
ternational Court of Common Pleas,
Division of Justice, April term, 1919.
With his brief he sent also his argu-
ment, which should have secured an
overwhelming verdict for the plaintiff.

The "Cross of Service"
The Director for South Texas or-
ganized his counties into an army, giv-
ing County Chairmen rank according
to the amount of their quota raised.
Three of these generals have been
awarded the "Cross of Service" be-
cause their counties went over the top
30%, two the "Cross of Merit" as
their counties have raised 15% more
than their entire quota, and ten have
been retired with "Honors".

Mississippi is the latest state to get
out a daily bulletin. One of her slo-
gans is

1918— Bullets for Foes;

1919— Bread for Friends.

Thank You, John Galsworthy

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Publishers
Fifth Avenue at 48th Street

April 26, 1919.

For

The Armenian & Sykian Relief
Commission

1 Madison Avenue, New York.
Dear Sirs :

I have the pleasure of enclosing you the
sum of 4,000 Dollars, which are the net
profits of my lectures in this country after
payment of all my expenses — as a contribu-
tion to your Fund for Armenian and Syrian-
Relief. I should be greatly obliged if you
will kindly give the bearer a receipt.

The sum is a Httle over the actual net
profits, but I have made it a round figure

With good wishes, I am

Very truly yours,
(Signed) John Galsworthy--

Are You With Us?

A letter is being sent each director
urging him to approach each county
chairman where the quota has not

On board the Newport News — Mrs. Cleveland H. Dodge, Mr. Cleveland H. Dodge, Dr. J.
P. McNaughton, Dr. F. IV. MacCallum, Mr. Charles V. Vickrey.

been reached with the proposal that he
use his influence with the Victory
Loan Organization in his county to
have it get enough $50 and $100 Vic-
tory Bonds exchanged for ours, or to
sell enough of our Save a Life Bonds,
to raise the deficit. This deficit can be
figured out from the statement in the
daily Bulletin of April 26th which
gives every State's standing with its
quota, amount subscribed and percent-
age. Each director can then keep
watch on the Liberty Loan reports
and as soon as each county or city
completes its Loan Drive make ar-
rangements to complete the Armenian-
Syrian quota as quickly as possible.

This is a splendid opportunity to
"carry on" on the impetus of the Vic-
tory Loan Drive before it has spent its
strength, and if successfully done so
that the National quota is reached by
May 20th, accounts can then be
checked and the campaign closed on
June 1st.

Will you co-operate in this Drive to
Complete All Quotas, May 10th to
20th ? "The Bonds of Brotherly Love
constrain us, the Bonds of Necessity
impel us, the Victory Bonds entice us,
and the proper determination and co-
operation back of Bonds to Save a
Life, God willing, will result in our
Victory."

Bravo, Oregon!

For the benefit of those who do not
see a $100,000 check every day, we
herewith submit an exact repro-
duction of Oregon's latest contribution
to the campaign. It was sent in by
Mr. Ben Selling, Treasurer of the
Portland, Oregon, Committee for Ar-
menian and Syrian relief.

Incidentally, the committee is fa-
vored with a check of $100,000 or
more from some city or state treasurer
every week, occasionally two or three

of them in one day — the Portland
check is reproduced here as typical.
Similar exhibits could be shown from

Texas, Ohio, Virginia, Nebraska, Illi-
nois, Pennsylvania, New York, Con-
necticut, Vermont, California, Wash-
ington and several other states.

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Loading the Newport News with a substantial message of good will from America.

Luther R. Fowle Returns to Amer-
ica After Seven Years' Service
in Turkey

Starvation, pillage, intense suffering
and generally chaotic conditions in
Turkey were pictured by Luther R.
Fowle, who arrived in New York
April 30th, after seven years' service
in Turkey as Treasurer of the Ameri-
can Committee for Armenian and
Syrian Relief. Mr. Fowle holds out
great hopes for the future of that
country if a stable administration be
set up by the United States or one of
the European nations. He declared
that the Americans are the only people
trusted in Turkey because during the
last few decades they have proven
themselves through their missions and
schools to be honest and entirely disin-
terested in their policy.

"What the conditions are over
there," said Mr. Fowle, "may be
guessed from the fact that in Tiflis
there are one hundred fifty deaths a
day from typhus fever, and further

back in the region of Kuban and the
Don, there were one hundred thou-
sand cases among the people. In the
latter district there are no hospital
supplies. The doctors are dying at the
rate of 33% a year, which means there
will be no more doctors in a few years,
and the nurses are passing away at the
rate of 19% a year. Conditions are
intolerable and something must be
done."

Unloading the Mercurius in Turkey — They
never did a happier day's work.

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Colonel Finley Finds Lost Family

When Col. John H. Finley went out
to Palestine at the head of the Red
Cross Commission, he promised Alex-
ander Milham, a Syrian shopkeeper in
Albany, to find his wife and five chil-
dren from whom he had not heard
since the Armenian- Syrian massacres,
and to give them a hundred dollars
which Milham entrusted to the Colonel
before he sailed. Col. Finley sent the
money to the Red Cross to be deliv-
ered through the regular channels.
When at the mission in Beirut he was
told that a woman had walked 15

Mrs. Milham after Syi years of wandering
in Syria.

This picture is of Mr, and Mrs. Alexander
Milham and their children of Albany, N. Y.,
before Mrs. Milham and the children went
to Syria on a visit.

miles to receive a hundred dollars her
husband in America had sent, and if
he would wait a while he would see
her. The woman proved to be Mrs.
Milham and she forgot all about the
money when Col. Finley told her he
knew her husband and snapped a pic-
ture of her to take to that husband — a
picture which, contrasted with a pho-
tograph taken before the war, tells a
story of mental and physical suffering
more eloquently than words. Alex-
ander Milham broke down with joy
when he received from Col. Finley on
his return this photograph and the
message that his wife and children
were well.

A CHILDREN'S REPUBLIC IN THE NEAR EAST

Major Nicol cables from Syria: "Can children of America help to estab-
lish a shelter city for five thousand orphans with homes, shops, schools, farms,
stores, government, conducted by children under guidance to make them great
asset to the future of the country?"

Major Nicol's plan would involve the purchase of a tract of land and the
erection of cottages, stores, schools and other buildings and an endowment of
about three million which could be released for other purposes after fifteen
years, and the village itself could be used for some colonizing scheme after its
work as an orphanage was completed. This children's republic would develop
individuality and initiative as ordinary institutional life cannot.

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A Chapter of Horrors

As they penetrate farther and far-
ther into the interior, reHef workers
sent to the Near East by the American
Committee for Armenian and Syrian
ReHef discover conditions throughout
that famine-scourged land more hor-
rible than human langnage can de-
scribe. We thought we had learned
what suffering is during the past four
years of war.

What of this : — "We made our first
stop along the Syrian coast at Haifa.
The poor wretches were brought out
to us in lighters. They had been lying
on the beach. They were military and
civilian. We picked up a Turkish
pasha and his family; they were well
fed but the other wretches were in-
describable, most of them Syrians.
We had a human cargo of over four-
teen hundred, although the original
capacity of the boat was six hundred.
They were lying on the decks, scores
of them were too sick to eat. The first
night we sewed fifteen up in their
blankets and silently slipped them into
the sea. I turned to the mate the
next morning with the query, "Can
these refugees we have picked up
really be human beings?" Their
wizened skin clung in fear to their rat-
tling bones and they were not pro-
tected from the elements by even the
dignity of rags. The most favored had
merely shredded rags. They were
rough pencil-sketches of humanity."

"We carried on a coast-wise busi-
ness in human remnants. Why they
didn't fall apart when they were
shipped aboard, I can't understand.
When we first pulled into Beirut and
tied up to the Quay we on the ship
were idle, for our motor lorries were
running continuously doing nothing
but carrying away the dead from the
city streets. The docks and the
wharves were constantly jammed with
women and children. Every time the
steward would throw a bit of refuse
overboard, the boys would dive in,
fighting and swimming for a mere
crust of bread or scrap of meat. Their
ribs were like spread fingers. Back

A pitiful fragment of humanity, wasted by
starvation and sickness.

from the water's edge the streets were
lined up with those waiting to die."

And this cable? — "The situation in
the Caucasus is very terrible. Now
not only the refugees but the local
inhabitants are in a desperate condi-
tion. People are dying in Erivan at
the rate of five hundred a day."

And again this: — "Food shortage
terrible. Food now in Erivan will last
only six days. Every week's delay
costs thousands of lives."

These are only a few extracts from
the heartrending reports flowing into
National Headquarters daily, now that
the way is open for communication.

We thought we had learned to be
merciful during the years of war but
it is reports like these that reach the
very bottom of our hearts and the last
cent in our purses, and we know that
we have got to raise our quota in the
present drive for funds, for one life,
boat must follow another straight
from the hearts of America out into
that vast sea of suffering until the last
shipwrecked survivor has been rescued
from the engulfing depths of despair.

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Colonel Finley Tells of Conditions
in the Near East

John H. Finley, Commissioner of
Education in the State of New York
and President of the University of the
State of New York, has recently re-
turned from the Near East where he
has been Commissioner of the Amer-
ican Red Cross for Palestine. He an-
nounces the transfer to the American
Committee for Relief in the Near East
of the Red Cross work in all of Syria
north of Palestine, where there are
thousands of Armenians returning
from the Arabian desert to which they
had been deported by the Turks.

"The American Committee for Ar-
menian and Syrian Relief has a long
program ahead," said Col. Finley,
"and the work of the Red Cross in
that region, which is an emergency
proposition, should be fitted into it.
We know that from 600,000 to 1,000,
000 Armenians have been driven down
through that region in the past four
years, and out into the desert to perish
in the sand. How many of this great
army of men, women and children sur-
vive we do not know.

"We know this much, however:
from the one town of Aintab 30,000
were driven out into the desert to die,
and now there are, so far as we can
learn, only 4,000 or 5,000 alive — at the
most one-sixth of the original number.
If this proportion holds true through-
out, then nearly 850,000 men, women
and children perished in that desert.

"These people who have been exiles
for years — who have no homes, no
food, no clothing but rags — are drag-
ging themselves back from the desert
to try life over again, and looking to
the relief workers for help. It is a
tremendous problem — an enormous
responsibility."

Col. Finley denied the rumor that
he was to return to Palestine in any
official capacity or in Government Ser-
vice, and said he had come back to the
United States to take up again his re-
sponsibilities here.

The Romance of a Survivor of the
Lusitania and a Survivor of
the Armenian Massacres

A worker in the National Head-
quarters of the American Committee
for Armenian and Syrian Relief was
walking up a street not far from the
office the other day when she heard
her name called from a window.
Turning, she saw an Armenian girl
who had once been her pupil in
Turkey and whom she had supposed
either dead, a captive in a Turkish
harem or a starving refugee in the
Caucasus.

The girl's story was quickly told.
With the other students in the Ameri-
can Mission school in Bitlis she had
been saved from deportation, the fate
of all the women and girls of that city,
by the efforts of Miss Shane, head of
the school, and the mediation of the
Turkish superintendent of the military
hospital who represented that he
needed these girls as nurses for his
soldiers. He continued to protect
them even after Miss Shane and her
associate. Miss McLaren, had been
ordered out by their Ambassador, but
at last the Government sent a demand
that he could not disobey — the girls
must be given up on the morrow.

That night the Russian army took
the Turks by surprise and captured
the city. One of the Armenian sol-
diers of the advance guard had been
on the Lusitania when it was sunk and
had kept himself afloat for hours until
rescued. Later he had joined, with
hundreds of other young Armenians
from the United States, the Russo-
Armenian Volunteers of the Russian
army, and had reached Bitlis in time to
save this girl and her companions
from a dreadful fate.

The two young people were married
in Russia, then came on to New York.
But the bride's sister, who also mar-
ried one of the Volunteers, remained
in the Caucasus and nothing has been
heard from her for three years.

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192 Corpses Picked Up in One Town in a Single Day

The following cablegram is from Dr. G. H. T. Main, President of Grinnell Col-
lege, Grinnell, Iowa, now serving as Commissioner to the Caucasus of the American
Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief.

President Main would probably be classed by those who know him best, as con-
servative and judicial — rather than emotional in temperament.

In addition to the signature of President Main the cablegram carries the names
of Mr. F. Willoughby Smith, American Consul in Tiflis throughout the war, and
Mr. Louis Heck, who is American Commissioner, and in the absence of an ambas-
sador the highest diplomatic representative of the United States in Constantinople.

Constantinople, April 14th, 1919.

"Have been handling refugee concentration along the former boundary line
between Russian and Turkish Armenia. Alexandropol, a large center, and Etchmi-
adzin, a small one, are typical. In the one are 68,000 refugees by actual census at
our bread and soup kitchens. In the other there are 7,000. Refugees have streamed
into these places hoping to find it possible to cross the border into their former
homes in Turkish Armenia near Kars. Concentration at these two places and many
others without food or clothing and after a winter of exile in the Caucasus and
beyond has produced a condition of horror unparalleled among the atrocities of the
great war. On the streets of Alexandropol on the day of my arrival 192 corpses
were picked up. This is far below the average per day. One-seventh of the refu-
gees are dying each month. At Etchmiadzin I looked for a time at a refugee burial.
Seven bodies were thrown indiscriminately into a square pit as carrion and covered
with the earth without any suggestion of care or pity. As I looked at the workmen
I saw a hand protruding from the loose earth. It was a woman's hand and seemed
to be stretched out in mute appeal. To me this hand reaching upward from the
horrible pit symbolized starving Armenia. The workmen told me that the seven in
this pit were the first load of thirty-five to be brought out from the village that
morning. The cart had gone back for another load.

"The refugees dare not go forward. They halt on the border land of their
home. The Turks, the Kurds, and the Tartars have taken possession of their land
and will hold it by force of arms. A line almost like a battle line from the Black
Sea region, where is located the South Western Republic with Kars as its Capital,
to the Caspian Sea, where Baku is the Capital of the Azerbaijan Republic, together
with a line of Turks, Kurds and Tartars between these two extremes, holds the
refugees where they are. The total number is more than 330,000. To these must
be added the local inhabitants also suffering indescribable hardships. The Allied
forces on the Turkish side are not in sufficient numbers to dominate the situation.
The only solution is a considerable number of troops to be used as a policing force
supplied by a mandatory power. Many Armenian soldiers would be available for
such service. Such action must unhappily await the findings of the Peace Con-
ference, and the votes of governing bodies. Every moment of delay means enlarge-
ment of existing horrors.

"The Armenian Republic on the Russian side of the line and our relief commit-
tee working together are not able adequately to feed the refugees. Meanwhile
seeding time is here and passing. Another season of famine is inevitable unless
there is immediate action by some compelling power. The world appears to be
unconscious of the overwhelming human tragedy that is being enacted in the Cau-
casus. The Turk and his racial confederates are carrying forward with growing
eflBciency the policy of extermination developed during the war by the method of
starvation. Starvation is aided by typhus; and already, as if in anticipation of the
hot season, cholera is developing.

"At this last moment can Christian civilization do something to restore and
heal? In the emergency I have told the officials of the Armenian Republic that our
committee would take over the orphanages until some mandatory power is given
authority to assist in establishing order and giving financial stability to the peoples
concerned. This move on my part I firmly believe is demanded by the conditions
and by the most elementary principles of humanity. Should our Government delay
in reaching out a helping hand to these suffering people? The question of political
expediency ought to be forgotten in the presence of this world catastrophe. These
people look to America. Our Government is under moral obligation to respond.

(Signed) Main-Smith.
Heck, American Commissioner.

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Brooklyn and Queens Headquarters — Armenian and Syrian Relief Campaign

for $30,000,000.

The Sunday School Commission in Jerusalem

The Sunday School Commission which left New York on March 15th reached Port
Said on April 11th, and sailing from there on the 13th, arrived in Jerusalem before Easter.
This Commission, the seventh contingent, was composed of general secretaries of Sunday
School Boards and editors of Sunday School literature. Their purpose was to investigate
particularly the condition of the children in the Near East and to use the information in
the coming Sunday School campaign. Rev. H. C. Jaquith, Assistant Executive Secretary
of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, headed the expedition.

AMERICAN COMMITTEE for ARMENIAN and SYRIAN RELIEF

One Madison Avenue, New York

NATIONAL COMMITTEE

T»mes L. Barton Chairman

Samuel T. Button Vice-Chairman

Charles V. Vickrey Secretary

Cleveland H. Dodge Treasurer

Chairmen of Local Committees are Ex-ofBcio Members of the National Committee

Hon. William Howard Taft Jerome D. Greene Rt. Rev. P. Rhinelander

Hon. Charles Evans Hughes Rt. Rev. David H. Greer Karl Davis Robmson

Hon. Elihu Root Fred P. Haggard William W Rockwell

Hon. Henry Morgenthau Harold A. Hatch Wm. Jay Schieffelin

Hon. Abram Elkus William I. Haven sJP.f.''' ^'S"'

William B. Millar Alexander J. Hemphill WiUiam bloane

George T. Scott Myron T. Herrick Edward Lincoln bmith

Charles R. Crane Frank W. Jackson James M. Speers

Frederick H. Allen Hamilton Holt Oscar S. Straus

Charles E. Beury Arthur Curtiss James A- Wheeler

Arthur J. Brown Woodbury G. Langdon Stanley White

Edwin M. Bulkley Frederick Lynch Ray Lyman Wilbur

John B. Calvert Vance C. McCormick Talcptt Williams

Wm I. Chamberlain Charles S. MacFarland Stephen b. Wise

Charles W. Eliot John R. Mott Harry Pratt Judson

William T. Ellis Frank Mason North Col. Wm. Cooper Proctor

James Cardinal Gibbons George A. Plimpton Hon. H. B. F. MacFarland

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