| Show A NATION SAO BY SAYS CLEVELAND 1110 k new york business man describes vast armenian work woric of near east relief cleveland 11 dodge new york brink er and business man director of the national city bank and treasurer of the russell sage foundation and of the near east relief declares tant a nation has been saved by Ameri american cill philanthropy and tile the generosity or of aliv american people through the near ne ir east relief to ID its tor for the ar men ians tans the lowest official estimate andl cates that one million persons are liv alv ing today who would not be olive alive imil it not been jor or this relief mr doda 4 continued 1 I have an autograph lette from dr n president or of tile the armenian republic in which le writes america literally saved us bom starvation wholly aside from adults who have been saved from rod starvation we roda roiley y S I 1 CLEVELAND fl DODGE have in orphanages and elsewhere tinder our caie homeless home lessi fatherless or mot motherless berles children who are absolutely dependent upon us this Is exclusive ot of ga hospitals with r 2 beds 1 28 clinics rescue homes for girls and unnumbered thousands of refugees who are being helped through our industrial relief and in other ways the near east relief has during the ast four or five years commissioned and sent to the near hast east roon more than 1000 american relief workers of whom are still in the field all of them working at great financial sacrifice the standard of salary being ia per month and aa maintenance and many of them facing great personal danger and hardship in the performance of their life ilfe savin service A score of them have died from typhus or other dle diseases ilses more or less related to their faithfulness in the performance of relief relict service nor Is that all we ve have raised and disbursed during war times alid in a war torn area in large measure under enemy control more than al 41 41 in cash and including fluur flour red cross and other supplies administered by our agents a total of ca 1 and supplies in excess of the official reports show that on juna jun 0 30 1920 we had in orphanages children and that we are partially supporting outside of tile the orphanages children making a total of llo boys and girls now under the care car of the near east relief 10 mr air dodge ion siders the work of the near east relief one of the most stupendous unde undertakings rt akings of disinterested philanthropy tile the world has eer cier seen it ii countries whose population totals more than souls american idealism exemplified by the work of the near east cast relief constitutes today loddy a 8 torch of and n influence for peace throughout the n whole near past ast he maintains our american ideal of liberty industry ani and helpfulness ims has brought us as a people happiness prosperity an and fulfillment out of the fullness of this heritage we are furnishing a faithful and undaunted Chrls ll n people taj th bretl brotherly erly aid which will enable them to reali reach tte tle same fulfillment that god has given us it Is an achievement of which every am way may well wel be proud |
