Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-25

II desOlatlon and misery.
at each other-and occasionally fight
ing
Enough damage has not been done.
There is not enough misery yet
They are going to start on a cam
paign hercer and bloodier than ever.
No Men in Interior.
There are no men and even few
boys left in the interior They are
all in the trenches Only women,
children, helpless old men and babies
are left, and the women take on the
| burden of it all
They persist in sticking to the
ruins of their farms and villages try
| ing TO scrape enough to keep body
and soul together, for there Is still
a hope that this war will be avoided.
: There ts still time TO til land for this
I years harvest
The authorities repeatedly warn
them TO leave and go into safety at
| Salonlea, but still they stick. The
| soldiers share their rations with them.
which draws too many near the lines.
then are sent under compulsion to
Salonica. II needs Compulsion to SET
the tide moving as, poor souls. the,
sun hope that there will be no war
what do they know about giIded and
useless conferences?
Now they start trooping into Sa
lonlca, where they are taken in hand
by the American and other missions.
At first 1t is case of dozens. Their
scores, then hundreds. All depend on
outside voluntary assistance. This
burden is taken up almost entirely
by big hearts. Consul General and
Mrs. kehl. the STATS OF the consula 10
| and mission at Salonica. take a lions
snare America Is asked for help ana
| responds well.
The mission is so besieged that an
other building has to be taken. Rread
and soup are served out TO hundreds
daily as quick as willing hands san
do 1t. From somewhere they forage
a milk supply, and the ladies take
the babies in hand.
Yet still they roll up
All are treated alike-Turks. Bull
gars. SerYians, NlaChs, Greeks
Bread Bread" Is the Wall
Other committees are formed. Re-
fugee camps are organized and laid
out. Churches are made use OF; the
venerable St. Sophia has nearly two
| thousand camping in It, Tents are
put mp wherever there Is room for
| two or three. and still they roll M
| They cannot be COPIED with.
outside on the great, white, chok
ing road transport wagons. motor
and horse, mule trains. artillery anC
| troops are crowding out to the front
| Homeless and destitute refugees arc
| crowding in, all getting In each 9th.
| er's way There is no water. anc
/ the dust is rising in clouds. The big.
hearted, kindly "Tommies" toss thei
bread TO the pleading women as theN
fash by the women passing it or
| untasted 70 children
Heroes all,
Here IS woman hugsing a bah,
| too far gone to Cry-to her dr.,
breasts, four other little ones drag.
ging at her skirts. There is an old
old woman. with two Just orphaned
Riddles with her She has droppec
on the roadside She has half-car.
ried, half dragged these two from
Melnik, seventy five miles away. Hel
husband, their mother and three othe-
children We're butchered to make /:
Bulgar holiday. She can go no far
Their, and the babies are sobbins the,,
hearts out, frannte, give us bread. "
These people cannot he kept her,
forever. They have no homes 10 Q,
To- They are pillaged and burne,
and they have no tools TO build with
They have TO till the ground. bu
they have no plows.
Their fields have to be sown, hu
they have no seed.
They have to eat. and In the MEAN
TINE they have no BREAD.
with millions and millions OF Chris
tian people around them. are thcs
unfortunate victims to be allowed Z,
wander back and die like dogs with
out an effort for them?
Powers Sit Idle.
The so-called great Powers" tina
] have let these things be. are the,
going to ST idly by and watch thes
people die
Never mind whether these peopl
be Christian or Noslem they. like n,
want to live and must live. The con
ditions are worse than they have bee
B known In modern history. The coun
, try has been completely az a stand
stiil for fifteen months
! Rad after the first war. many time
. worse after the second. and now. t
me- fresh from tie middle ot IT, II
~ 'esi bable. The position Is in
u. ubs bic