Show PLEADS Io FOR HElI NG HAND HANDI I TOE NEAR EAST 1 Former Ambassador m a to Turkey e Says Ameri America a Should Not Let Armenian Allies Starve By HEN HENRY V. V sAU Former Amb Ambassador to to Turkey and Leader In Near East Relief If It they w were re good enough to fight and die for us when we needed their help so sorely they are good enough h now to share some meager little utile crumbs from our plenty when they thc have haye nothing when hundreds of thousands thousands thou thou- sands ands of them are are homeless unclad oodles foodless and threatened U with extermination nation h by their enemies and nd o our own Not far from a million Christians have been cn murdered by their Turkish oppressors Hungry terror Stricken hundreds of thousands of re refugees gee now look to the the United States for suc cor Have Trust Trust In America We Ve cannot refuse Next to their the J faith In God Is is their trust In the ills dis disinterested interested good will and generosity oi of I az Q i Y a y w iI z I I Copyright by Underwood Underwood HENRY th the American people They look to us as the thc human agency to extricate tin them from rom the frightful situation In which they have ha been left leU as a consequence consequence consequence conse conse- quence of the thc war If U we should fail fall to aid them diem starvation stan stan-no tion and ancI the winters winter's cold would go far tar farto farto to completing the work done by the unspeakable Turk I have ban not seen with my own eyes the misery In which the Armenians Crow now exist I have been spared that But the reports which have ha been brought in by agents of the Near East r Relief lIet and by representatives es of the theP P Peace c Conference paint a picture of ot wretchedness inconceivable to those who have ha not a first hand impression of the savagery of the Exiled From Homes Since the be beginning of the war the Turkish Armenians have been largely r refugees from their homes A simple a agricultural people they have been exiles from their farms deprived of ot all opportunity to support themselves year by liy year gear their sufferings have in in- creased Now a year after fighting has bas ceased th they y are still living the life nf of nomads able to continue to toke ke keep p alive only by virtue of American philanthropy These homeless people filthy people filthy Infidel infidels infidels del dels to the Turk lurl were Turk were good enough to exert their thell poor might in our behalf behalf be be- half while the war was was' still In the balance Massacres of a half century had hod not so broken their spirit that they dared not fight tight for right and for foi democracy when justice was the issue We Ve accepted their aid then Surely we ve shall shaH not pass them khem hem by without compassion now s The Tic day has passed when an any s self lf r respecting man dares permit absorption tion in his own p personal affairs to exclude exclude ex ex- clude elude consideration of his neighbors neighbor's well weli being No honorable man can knowingly allow his neighbor to hunger hunger hunger hun hun- ger or or- orto to go unclothed The Christian peoples of the Near ear East are arc o our r neighbors The money needed to relieve relieve relieve re re- re- re lieve them can be spared without causing any man woman or child In inthe th the United States to suffer Must Not Rest on Past In other years year of of our own free will we Ie sent missionaries s to Turkey Our schools and colleges and hospitals have ha played a wonderful role in humanizing humanizing hu hu- hu that dark darI spot pot In the world Our I ideas as our educational resources our material equipment have been leaven in the Near East Because we have ha done well in times past we have this great opportunity for the presen present The Armenians have haye been treated as perhaps no people In history have be been n treated because they are the spiritual brothers of western races rac s. s Will America help hp them There Therean can can an be but one answer answer Their necessity necessity sity Is dire but our power is is great W We are wealthy We ar are area a a member of the family of nations Our brothers call us ns Food I clothes loUies m money ney are immediately immediately im im- im mediately wanted If ever suffering called alle for suc succor or the the plight of the Armenians should sho ld be heed heeded d now A few months more more and It may mar mayhe mayhe he relief will be Te too late line for th those se myriads whom only we c can can save ave y Je e shall not Dot fall fail them J J |