| Show raper Paper or of Y t f PLEADS DS FOR HELPING HAND HANDIN IN INTHE THE NEAR EAST Former Ambassador to Turkey Says America Should Not Let Armenian Allies Starve By HENRY Former Ambassador to Turkey and Leader in Near East Relief If It they were were good Rood enough to fight and die for tor us when we needed their help so sorely they are good enough h now to share some somo meager little crumbs from our plenty when they lave have ia e nothing when hundreds of thousands thousands thou thou- sands of them are homeless unclad foo foodless less and threatened with extermination extermination nation by their enemies and our own Not far from a million Christians have been murdered by their Turkish oppressors Hungry terror stricken hundreds of ot thousands of ot refugees now lo look k to the United States for tor suc suc- suc cor Have Trust in America We cannot refuse Next to their faith In God Is their trust In the disinterested dis interested good will and generosity of ot 0 h p 2 L 9 3 i it t wY Y r. r S r. r t 1 K L r M Coto Copyright Ight right by Underwood do Underwood HENRY the American people They look to us us's us s the human agency to extricate them from the frightful situation In which UlC they have ha been left as us a consequence consequence conse conse- quence of the war If we should fall fail to aid them starvation starvation tion ion and the winters winter's cold would go far tar farto farto to completing the work done by the unspeakable Turk I have lm not seen with my own eyes the misery In which the Armenians now exist I have been spared that But the reports which have been In ought Drought in bj by agents of the Near East Relief and by representatives of ot the Peace Conference paint a picture of ot wretchedness Inconceivable to those who have ha not a first hand Impression of ot the savagery of ot the Exiled From Homes Home Since the beginning of ot the war the Turkish Armenians have been l largely refugees from their homes bomes A simple agricultural people they have been exiles from their farms deprived of ot nit nIl opportunity t to support themselves Year b by year year- their sufferings have In In- creased Now ow a year after atter fighting has ceased they are still sUll living the life life of nomads able to continue to keep alive only by virtue of American philanthropy These homeless people people filthy filthy Infidels infidels dels to tho the Turk were Turk were good enough h to exert their poor might in our behalf behalf be be- half halt while the war was still In the balance Massacres of ot a half halt century had not so broken their spirit that the they dared not fight for tight right and for tor democracy when justice was the Issue We accepted their aid then Surely we shall not pass them by without compassion now The day has passed when any sell self respecting man dares permit absorptIon absorption tion Lion in his own personal affairs to exclude exclude ex ex- clude aude consideration of his neighbors neighbor's well being No honorable man can knowingly allow his iris neighbor to buner hun hUD hUDer hunger ger er or to go unclothed The Christian peoples of or the Near Neal East are our neighbors The money needed to relieve relieve relieve re re- lieve them can be spared without causing pausing any man woman or child Inthe in inbe inthe the be United States to suffer t Must Not Rest on Pact In Iu oUter other years of ot our own free will willye we ye sent missionaries to Turkey Our schools and colleges and hospitals hospital In hu- hu save have played a wonderful role that dark spot In the world Our ur ideas our educational resources have been our ur material equipment leaven eaven in the Near East Because w wI we w. ha e save done well In times past we hue have I th this his great rca opportunity o for lh jho the j f res resit t r. d y i I. I o |
