Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-20 | Page 6 | Some Kiddies You Are Helping Feed

II Some Kiddies You I Are Helping Feed H v row of Um starving children nlio need four help H Again calllnc attention of the people saga -f Ogdcn to (ho opportunity to aid In K .(i.r Near K:iti I'.li mp:i ipn t H'j i. n'liiiK a dinner whlrh wilt he friven ii iji the Weber Club. March I. the pro- Hj r'ffj.s of which will go directly to the H H rtkarving people of Armenia and other mm ill Or.loii committee has cited an Instanc e In of the terribl Buffering in tin- .War SI Eft si by limiting from an article written II ly Ptillerton L. Waldo, who hns. Just I Returned from Armenia. Mr. Waldo wrote: (.p. win. ii vrvm ji "A few weeks afco, In flie Krivnn I $laln, Armenia, I saw a little boy who U Jad no parent!, no friends, no home MM l nothing but the open streets of u ij mud village and a wall to ban upon. .8 and a pile of straw to share at night I With dogs. -I 1 saw him standing heedles. of the ted dust cloud, his; lieuJ against the N all. His only g-arment ty.i a ragged I niece of meal bag. Tils stonmch pro- Htlded to three times the norma! size. l swollen with the clay and the greee he y bad stuffed in It to satisfy the gnaw- inc of his everlasting hunger. I In on hand he held three tt r- ii ni ion seeds Witli the other he feeb- l & plucked at them to extract a 51 meagre and a miserable nouriHhment. 1 All tin hop. leaaneas of Asia Minor gggggfjj (as In that tlesolale little figure. Had 111 in Ween the only one he might not 11 have seemed so dreadful. But in this. II ode small hamlet there were ten orj U twelve like Mm In the countryside. H round about were thousands in a sinn-J l .r appalling state. I was told he had leen a waif fori tv. . years, Two years of mud and ' 'list, of rain and hall, of running! I ; irei uporl his head and body, and of mi rets that fed upon them: 1 sawj .ii wave at them a hand too weak l ' diivr thent away. "WW -h.,n we do with him?" ( i M I I I s The following teleginm was received ibv John C. Cutler, treasurer of Near;' E i Ib-lief for Utah, from CgaS. W Iviokrey, general secretary of the Newr.' East Relief. Now Fork City: I "Rejoice i 1 1 1 you In the splendid ro- i sponv. that Latter-day Saints haveil made In their wonderful fast offerings it We earnestly hope that you will see th. t X-.ii K.im1 Relief ue'-o's are fullv'j (rectgnlzed as urgent and increasing! i ronstMnil;, with the winter months. II There are continued eilo and warfare. ; Si . ablcgt.uiis Just received tell of or- i I Iphanage work continuing throuchout 'entire area, with a large number ap- i plying for admission In midwinter. The;.- are unable to receive them." Cablegrams received read: "Armenia lln dire need. Bj March lsi hundreds I of thousands of people nt Alexandropol I : will starve unless relief is provided." ; Siv thousand Qreeh refugees orlg 1 1 jlnatlng at PontUB, arriving from Can-I Can-I casus, naked, escaping from Turkjsh I persecutions Present conditions un- jsntlsrac tory ; 'urgent need to save most j ' of them fi om dentil and starvation.'; I Respectfully requesi cabling money II immediately, and later clothing, food- , I stuffs and tools." -Another cnble from Bagdad reports: 'I "Kutire Assyrian nation of the ancient i'h..l.ii an church homeless and in ex- C lie for life. In Jeopardy. Appej.l lor d r ONI J i; IIKKjP. Mr 'i. ki. adds " tur executive) i oomtnittee win gyeatlj appreciate larg- lest poj-iiiie sasistance in me. -ting these;" urgent mld-vvlnter needs of ancient ' 2 Christian recsd " I This ny for immediate help has'! gone Into sverj state in the rnion, 'j Tie local Ne.n Basl Relief, mindful I f the fact that we are under very! I peculiar oblicatlons to these people, to'2 whom w biiv- denied BuUtarj ptotec- j ion from further msnsni is. I every citizen of I'Lah to give the last ! " dollar1 they can spare. As the lato.j Edward Bverett Hale said: ' "We car.-, not do everything, but let us do t: Something we can do." .