| Show ARMENIAN NATION LOOKS TO U Us S FOR SUCCOR FROM DEATH edwin M bulkley financier and philanthropist defines near east relief work new york there 1 Is no spot on the globe today whore where there Is more inore desperate and hopeless suffering than in armenia edwin 11 bulkley the well known new york banker who lias has just been elected chairman of 1 the file board of trustees of near east relief declared today mr bulkley succeeds tile the late alexander 3 hemphill as head of the american relief relict work in armenia turkey palestine syria mesopotamia and persia lithas long been connected with the banking house of spencer trask co and Is thoroughly conversant with the near kastern eastern situation elsewhere mr bulkley continued there Is famine that tears ears at our heart strings and vokes our pity and our help but in armenia it Is not starvation alone that the people face blit starvation coming after six years W lt ak r ir A Y air 4 0 EDWIN M BULKLEY destruction wrought by a war that lias has never ended and that today Is not even ended it Is starvation following pestilence and stalking lia liand nd in hand with death from exposure from alo violence or from disease in the mountains between kars find Alexandro pot there are burnan beings without clothing food ot oi shelter better in the bitter winter who are wandering from place to place like people in a nightmare unless they are succored before the end of another month they will all be dead in southern persia the remnant of the ancient family of chaldean christians have been forced to renounce forever all hope of over ever returning to the homeland where they have dwelt nod and flourished for years yearn and to become pitiful fugitives dependent apon the generosity of strangers for life itself in CIll cla armenian refugees have crowded into the coast regions seeking safety from the anarchy which reigns in the interior in terror for their lives they live from rom day to ilay day on the food which Is given them in the soup kitchens established by the near east relief Itell cf scattered throughout the near east there are some armenians Armen ians the remainder of a nation of who have neither nelt lier government country homeland shelter or hope of regeneration save that which lies iles in the grent great heart of america erica it Is a tragedy to eo stupendous that it Is difficult for us to grasp its meaning ing A whole hole N nation a living christian people face to feco with today unless we help we shall see s ee an entire nation disappear from the 1113 face of the earth before our eyes if 11 we withhold our hand now when the call comes to us to save hy by giving or by inaction to condemn to death save the children Childre nl 1 perhaps we me cannot save all the grown people of tills this oldest christian nation in the world but nt at least we can save the little children who hold the future in their hands they have wronged no one they have harmed no one and they have suffered through the precious years of childhood a calvary of agony and wretchedness biess for three years the near east relief an american organization incorporated corp orated by congress has built up the nucleus of a new generation in the near east with the little ch children that it lias has taken in from the roadside all and d barren places and nursed back to health fed clothed clot lied housed and educated in the nanie name of 0 the american people who have furnished the funds for ti this its great work tills this has been our sl signal nal contribution to the worlds future peace that tens teng of thousands of these little ones shall all their lives look tous to us 9 gratitude rati tude and falth faith it is a seed of world brotherhood that we have sown we let it lie die jiow now the near east bast relief relict Is appealing to the american people for the money moncy to go on oil with tills work to keep these little ones alive and to save tills this martyred marty red Chilst lan people sixty dollars per benr tle 10 per month feeds it a child we hine hale taken tills great re upon ns w i A whole nation looks look q to us lil li faith and trust we 0 connot belroy thein now flow i cantril wity lie he sent to cle cleye re land 11 polar I 1 madison avenue A vu aa k city I 1 |
