New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 13, 1923, Page 9

S100,000,000 WENT 70 THE NEAR EAST Rmericans. Were Generons With Money for Sullereps —— Constantinople, April 13, — More than $100,000,000 has been given by the American people and government for the relief of exiled subject races in the Near East since the armistice, Upward of 65,000,000 persons have been beneficlaries of this Amerfcan charity, At leaat 250,000 children are allve and safe today because they are under the protection of Americans. In #imost cvery corner of Turkey, the Caucasus, Southern Russla, Greece and the Aegean Islands, the stars and | stripes float over relief stations where food, medicines and clothing from America's generous families are dis- pensed to the destitute and sick. Activities of Relief Continue, of lite, Tn 1922 the American Near Bast Rellet Organizatipn in Turkey, Greece and the Caucasus received from the United Btates 67,366,000 pounds of re- liet supplies, valued at $5,000,000, A total of 42,662,000 pounds of ecorn grits, contributed by America's farm- ers and valued at more than half a millon dollars, were distributed, Nearly 17,000,000 pounds of flour, donated by the American people and worth' $434,417, were apportioned among the needy. Of old clothes the organization received 3,347,114 pounds from the United States, valued at $2,- 600,000, Ten million rations of con- densed milk, valued at $8,180,926, were given to mothers and bables. Remove Children To Safety. This soclety 1s now éngaged in re- moving tens of thousands of parent- lesa Christian children from the inter- ! lor of Asia Minor to places of safety In Greece and the Aegean Islands. The orphans are being brought out by way of the Black Sea and Mediterran- ean ports under the direction of Am- erican men and women, who have suffered great privations in the deep snows and bitter cold of the Anatolian mountains. Several of their nuntber have perished from exposure, Most of Europ: jufferings ended| In Alexandropol the Americans hav with the armistice of 1018, but those [the largest orphanage in the world. of the Near East set in during the in- | Twenty-one thousand boys and girls, tervening period. It is for this reason | whose parents succumbed to the war, that organizations like the American |famine and disease that have afflicted Red Cross, American Near East Re-|Asla Minor for the last eleven years, llef, American Rellef Administration |are sheltered, educated, fed and and the Y. M. C. A. decided to con-|clothed through the hounty of Ameri- tinue their activities in this sorely-|cans at home. The children are he- tried part of the world untll peace|ing taught the trade of their choice should restore the normal processes|in an effort to make them useful, self- Time is the greatest test of clothing value. The wearing is the true test! Time will tell whether the garment contains honest tailoring, cold - water shrunk cloth, proper inter- linings and correct con- struction. : | citizens, NEW BRAIN DAILY HERALD, PRIDAY, AFRIL i3, 1b2s. supporting men and women. No small part of the money for thelr support has come from unselfish boys | and girls in the United States, who have glven up thelr nickels and dimes in order that these less fortunate chil- dren might be happler in their child- hood and more useful in their ma- turity, RULING SOUGHT ON COLLECTING TAXES (uestion May Be Decided Shortly by United States Supreme Cort Washington, April 13.—A quoauon' which threatens to revolutionize the | tax collecting methods of the coun- try, according to the government, soon may be decided by the supreme court of the United States, ancient Involved is an practice | which the federal government, until recently, was always able to enforce vhen It touched the pockets of its This policy consisted of re: quiring the taxpayer to turn jnto the custody of the United States treasury the tax assessed against him, leaving him, as his only recourse, its pay- ment ‘“under protest,” and the in- itiation of litigation to recover what he contended had been illegally col- | lected. 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