Show SHOWN BY AMERICAN WORKERS OF NEAR EAST RELIEF BELIEF cables reveal appalling armenian need hundreds of thousands starving by CHARLES V VICKREY general secretary near east relief 4 approximately american men and women fire are standing loyalty loyally and heroically roi rol cally at their 1 posts in armenia 4 turkey and t the h e near east many of them luring during the long winter of isolation are undergoing nhat we in america call hardship nut but these charles V your fellow citi zelis in the near eist ire are volunteers serving with a high P aw aud they do nut not recognize li hardship alWill nhen they meet it they have had their opportunity to withdraw with honor from the ficia of famine and desolation they have refused to leave because they inow that their departure would mean dath for tens ot of thousands of women and children whom their efforts have kept 1 alive and whom they are determined to save for a better future A dozen cables are on my desk from various centers in armenia anatolia cililla and syria pleading piteously ly for the lives of hundreds of thousands wh who tire are homeless sixty five thousand refugees constantinople alone refugees flocking into aleppo Tv twenty enty thousand refugees at isaid one hundred thousand people at t Alexandr opol will starve unless relief Is provided refugees arriving from froin caucasus escaping persecution naked destitute urgent need to save must m st of them from death two hundred thousand starving between kars and Alexandr opol severe winter adding to distress above all towers the mute appeal of the more than little children orphaned hi whom these american relief workers have saved and whom we licare here tit at home must sustain not only through the winter and spring but through the summer and an autumn as well it if we do not provide they perish and with them dies tile the hope of a new near past east the easter season Is here bere alie season that commemorates or ates the great sacrifice for mankind america Is known as a christian nation she Is also tile wealthiest nation that history has ever known can we really enjoy our wealth and claim the name of christian if we turn a deaf ear car to the appeal which general leonard wood in behalf of the near east relief has sent forth broadcast for a lenten sacrifice offering to save these little children in bible lands |