Show Edwin M. M Bulkley Financier and Philanthropist Def Defines nes Near East Relief Work New York There There re Is la no spot on the globe today where there Is more desperate and ho hopeless suffering than thanIn In la Armenia Edwin Edwin M. M icy Bulkier the well known New NeY York banker who has just been elected chairman of ot the tha I board of ot trustees of ot Near East Relief Relict declared toda today Mr Bulkley succeeds the tho late Alexander J. J ashead as u ashead head of ot the American relief work nork InA In A Armenia Turkey Palestine Syria Mesopotamia and Persia la He Ha has hu long been connected with the banking house of ot Sp Spencer Trask Co and Is la thoroughly thoroughly thor thoro conversant with the N Near ar Eastern Eastern East Eat ern em situation u Elsewhere Mr Bulkley continued there Is Ii famine that tears at our strings heartstrings J and evokes our pity and our help But In Armenia It is not starvation alone filone that the people face face face- but starvation coming after arter six sir years eari Y 1 I I J 4 4 EDWIN M M. M BULKLEY I destruction wrought by br n a war that th I has never ended and today Is not even ended It Is starvation following pestilence and stalking hand In hand with death from ro 1 exposure from violence vio 10 lence or from disease In the mountains between Kars and there arc are 2 human beings without clothing tood or shelter In the bitter winter who are wandering from place to place like people In a nightmare Unless they are are suc succored before the end of another another an an- other ther month they ther will all be dead In southern Persia the remnant of ot the ancient family of at Chaldean Christians have been forced to renounce forever tore all hope of ot ever returning to the homeland homeland homeland home home- land where they have dwelt and flourished flourished flour flour- for tor 1000 1600 years and to become pitiful tu fugitives dependent upon the generosity of ot strangers for tor life lite Itself In Ie Armenian refugees have crowded Into the coast regions seeking safety from the anarchy which reigns In lu the Interior In terror for tor their lives They live from day to today today today day on the food tood which is given them In the soup kitchens established by the Near East Relief nellet Scattered throughout hout the Near East there then are some Armenians ns the remainder re remainder re re- of ot a nation of ot 4 who Tho have n neither government country country Homeland shelter or hope of ot regeneration regeneration tion save lave av that which lies In the greatheart great reat greatheart heart of ot America It Is a tragedy to so stupendous that It Is difficult for tor ui us to Its grasp mean- mean Ing A Ahole wh whole hole le nation a living Christian people face tace to face with extermination tion to today 14 unless we help W We W. shall shill see seo an cn entire nation disappear from the face tace of ot the earth before our eyes If we Te withhold our bud band now when the call comes to ua us to save San by giving or b by Inaction to condemn to death Save the Children I Perhaps we cannot connot says save all the grown people of this oldest Christian nation in lu the world But Dot at least Just we w. can save the little children who hold the future In th their lr hands The They have ban wronged no one The They have haTe harmed no one And nd they thy ha have 1 suffered through the precious yean lean of child hood a calvary of aron agony and anti wretched wretched- ness nell For three thru years the Near East Relief Reller an American organization organisation Incorporated incorporated in In- by bl Congress h. h has haa built up th the nucleus of ot a new generation In the Near East with the little children that It has taken token in from the roadside and nd batTen barren places and nursed back to health fed ted clothed housed and educated educated educated edu edu- in the name of ot the American people who have Te furnished the funds for tor this great work This has been our signal contribution tion Uon to the worlds world's future peace that peace that tens of thousands of et these little ones shall all their lives look to ua us with gratitude and faith It Is a seed of ot world brotherhood that we have haTe sown Shall hall we ve let it die now The Near East Relief Is appealing to the American people for tor the money to go on with this work to work to keep these little ones all alive and to save saye this martyred red Christian people |