4 Y Wi g^''^^"v\e-l\ey ^"^5 has this little ^1 d homp in your heart ? sJioItdSJio other/ You are asked for $30,00€,000 to sustain the lives of 3,950,000 Christians and Jews through the winter, through their return to a new life free from religious and polit- ical persecution. Why? America entered the Great War that the rights of small nations may never again be trampled upon. The noble little nations of the Near East have kept the faith and borne the burden of massacre which thou- sands of miles have kept from our homes. Victory has come. And now these bravest and staunchest pilgrims, in sight of the goal of freedom, stand for lack of $30,000,000— your $5 and $10 and $50 — in immediate danger of starvation or of death from the diseases of war and hunger. Why doesn't the Red Cross do it? The Red Cross found the machinery of relief already at work in the Near East — the missionaries, who know the people and speak their languages, and all official rep- resentatives of the United States had been organized by the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief. Channels of distribution were well established. And the Red Cross asked the Committee to car- ry on all relief work in the Near East ter- ritory, in order that there be neither dupli- cation nor lost motion. The territory is Asia Minor, the Caucasus, Armenia, Persia, and Northern Egypt. 100% Efficient! Every dollar you give goes to the Near East. All expense of collection and of distribution is met privately. Of the $12,321,145.92 collected before Sept. 30th, 1918, $12,371,145.92 was sent to the field. The increase of $50,000 over collec- tions was interest accrued from daily bal- ances. Your $30,000,000 will go in full to save the lives of individuals and of whole countries. Full government approval and co-operation is given to the Commission's work. All funds are transmitted through the Department oi State. The Shipping Board and all con sular agents of the United States Govern ment give every possible aid. There are 3,950,000 souls, 400,000 of whom are orphans, all in desperate need. 17 cents per person per day is the estimated ex- pense of giving them food. Catholics, Protestants and Jews alike have been the victims of Turkish oppression and of Turkish government orders to exterminate or drive from their homes and industries every other people in the Near East. Cath olics, Protestants, and Jews alike are re- ceiving every help within our power. The Commission's work is one, not only of re- lief but of repatriation and reconstructioii. Our budget includes seeds for next year's crops, farm implements, cattle and sheep. These people are freed from their oppressors but shorn of homes and property. Our part is to set them on their own feet. Cables from every worker in the Near East tell a story such as this: Cable from Constantinople "Refugees from all countries and" many de- ported Armenians drifting back. Their homes in ruins, lands laid waste, cattle and implements gone. Need help to re- establish. Need much help for they have lost everything. Heroic men and women who have strained every energy to save lives now have task of picking out those who shall perish. Can you not cable that promised monthly appropriation is certain till end June, 1919. Such action would double value of gift." (Signed) STOVALL, U. S. Minister at Berne, Switzerland. The Near East looks to America as the de- fender of liberty, the big brother to little peoples. America has given them their greatest uplift— their colleges, their chief encouragement to progress, and generous help through their crises. The Great War has resulted in their liberation. Shall they lack our support for effectual re- habilitation ? Shall we fail to save them from immediate starvation ? National Campaign Committee of the American Committee for Relief in the Near East (^Formerly American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief) ONE MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY Alexander J. Hemphill, Chairman Cleveland H. Dodge, Treasurer William B. Miller, Director-General Hon. William Howard Taft Myron T. Herrick Hon. Charles Evans Hughes Charles W. Eliot James Cardinal Gibbons Vance C. McCormick Henry Morgenthau John R. Mott Wm. Jay Schieffelin William Sloane Oscar S. Straus Arthur Capper Robert W. Bingham George Warren Brown R. A. Long James L. Barton Charles B. Crane Arthur Curtiss James Samuel T. Dutton Edwin M. Bulkley Charles V. Vickrey Frederick H. Allen Charles E. Beury Arthur J. Brown John B. Calvert Wm. I. Chamberlain William T. Ellis Jerome D. Greene Rt. Rev. David H. Greer Fred P. Haggard Harold A. Hatch William I. Haven Hamilton Holt Frank W. Jackson Woodbury G. Langdon Frederick Lynch Charles S. MacFarland • Frank Mason North ' George A. Plimpton V Rt. Rev. P. Rhinelander Karl Davis Robinson • William W. Rockwell George T. Scott Albert Shaw Edward Lincoln Smith James M. Speers Harry A. Wheeler Stanley White Ray Lyman Wilbur Talcott Williams Stephen S. Wise Wallace M. Alexander Thomas H. Brewer George Cosson F. E. Kauffman Frederick W. Lyman Charles A. Rowland .Tohn L. Severance J. W. Spangler Col. R. E. Twitchell Charles F. Thwing Charles M. Wilhelm