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Barton will lead an expedition to Turkey. News Bulletin, Nov 1918.
Location
New York, United States
Year
1918
Item Detail
This issue announces the Committee's first relief expedition to Turkey. James L. Barton will chair the Relief Commission with Edward C. Moore, John Hanson Thomas Main, Harold A. Hatch and W. W. Peet, and between 100 and 300 experienced American workers are to follow as shipping permits. The money was still being raised, through a campaign for thirty million dollars, a drive set for 12 to 19 January under W. B. Millar, a Sunday School appeal across 80,000 schools, and the eight-reel photo-play of Aurora Mardiganian's story booked into fifty cities for January. An Armenian merchant left $10,000 and refused to be named.
Context
The News Bulletin was the monthly publication of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, formed in New York in 1915 and renamed the American Committee for Relief in the Near East during 1918. It was published at One Madison Avenue.
The Bulletin kept contributors and campaign workers informed. Issues carry cablegrams relayed through the Department of State from relief stations across the Ottoman Empire, Syria, Palestine, the Caucasus and Persia, with campaign news, donor rolls, field photographs and accounts by survivors of the Armenian and Greek genocides.
The two 1918 issues cover the last months of the war: refugees driven west from Es Salt reaching Jerusalem in June, and in November the armistice, the renaming of the committee, and the decision to send Americans into the field under James L. Barton rather than remit funds through missionary channels as before.
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Holding Institution
Columbia University Library
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Attribution
Columbia University Libraries, digitized for HathiTrust
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Notes
Masthead reads 'Published by the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief.' Still ACASR wording in November 1918, though the interior text and the Barton portrait caption already read 'American Committee for Relief in the Near East.' No Total Number.
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Document Contents
Lead article 'Relief Expedition to Be Sent to Turkey.' The Relief Commission is chaired by James L. Barton, formerly president of Euphrates College, with Edward C. Moore of Harvard, John Hanson Thomas Main of Grinnell, Harold A. Hatch and W. W. Peet; separately the Committee expects to send 100 to 300 experienced American workers as transport permits, and George H. Washburn, son of the founder of Robert College, will lead a medical unit. Poem 'Armenia' by Amy Sherman Bridgman. 'Armenians in This Country Do Their Share' on a $10,000 gift from an Armenian merchant who refused to be named. 'Preliminary Statement on Field Organization' sets out the campaign for Thirty Million Dollars culminating in a drive January 12 to 19 under Director General W. B. Millar, with fourteen divisions and department heads Frank C. Jackson, H. C. Jaquith, Ellis Parker Butler and John H. Cover, and over 600 magazines pledging free space. 'Notes of Interest' names the December conference speakers, among them John H. Finley, Abram Elkus, Henry Morgenthau, Stephen S. Wise, Charles F. Aked and S. Parkes Cadman. 'The Persian Commission' reports Harry Pratt Judson and five of his party safely arrived at Teheran, a chain of relief stations from Bagdad to Teheran, a further contingent sailing 8 November from Seattle, and $3,252,953.16 cabled to Persia. 'Constantinople College Opens a Dispensary' as the Allied fleet is hourly expected, with Louise Wallace named as the college's acting president earlier in the war. 'Another Life Given in Service,' the obituary of Russell A. Harty, who died of pneumonia at Amarillo on 8 November. 'The Sunday School Campaign' across 80,000 schools with fifteen million enrolled, for a two-million-dollar Christmas appeal. 'Ravished Armenia, A Photo-Play' announces the eight-reel film of Aurora Mardiganian's story for January release in fifty cities. 'A New Outlook for the Near East' on agricultural reconstruction and 400,000 orphans. W. C. Pearce's twelve-city tour for the Sunday School Visitation Day. 'Traveling Men Adopt Orphans' on an address by General M. N. Azgapetian to the Southern Travelers Association.