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Show GEN. LEONARD WOOD MAKES APPEAL FOR NEAR EAST RELIEF Says Two and. a Half Million Starving Armenians Need Help at Once. Ft. gherldan, 111 Major General Leonard Wood, commanding the S;.xth Corps Area, has Issued a Lenten sacrifice sacri-fice appeal for funds to save the Armenians Ar-menians from annihilation by starvation starva-tion and disease. "I feel that however how-ever many and however worthy the other appeals which are being made to the great heart of America these days may be," he says, "this cry from the little children aunot remain unanswered." unan-swered." The Near East Relief, 1 Madison avenue, New York City, which has been charged by Congress with the American relief work in the whole Near East, has formed a special "Lenten "Len-ten Sacrifice Appeal Committee," of which Major General Wood is chairman, chair-man, Charles V. Yiekery secretary and Cleveland H. Dodge treasurer, to put before the American people the desperate des-perate need of the Christian populations popula-tions of the Near East, who have suf- W if M AJ. GEN. LEONARD WOOD fered and' are still suffering the horror's hor-ror's of war. Among the prominent members of General Wood's Committee are Secretary Secre-tary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, Mel-lon, Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, sister of the late President Roosevelt; ex-President W. H. Taft, Mary Garden, President John Grier Hlbben of Princeton University, Bishop-Elect William. Wil-liam. T. Manning of New. York, Dr. Henry van Dyke, David Belasco, Samuel Sam-uel Gompers, Frank A. Munsey, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mrs. Henry Mor genthau, John G. Milburn of the American Amer-ican Bar Association, Miss Elizabeth Marbury and Mrs. Medill McCormlck of Chicago. General Wood's Appeal As Chairman of a Special Committee of representative men and women of the country, charged with placing before be-fore the American people the desperate need of two and a half million Armenians, Arme-nians, the remnant of the oldest Christian Chris-tian nation, whose sufferings through sixteen centuries seem to have brought them no nearer peace, liberty or security, se-curity, I beg your personal co-operation and influence to forward an appeal ap-peal for a Lenten Sacrifice Offering to enable the Near East Relief to go on with its work of mercy. Over one hundred thousand little children who have been kept alive by American generosity for the past three years are absolutely dependent upon the support which America gives them through the Near East Relief. I feel that however many and however how-ever worthy the other appeals which are being made to the great heart of America these days may be, this cry from the little children of the land where Christ gave his life for mankind man-kind cannot remain unanswered. Will you help to save this martyred people? Leonard Wood, Uajor General, U.S. Army. |