New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-15
Ex-AmbassadOr Tells of
Atrocities and Appeals
for Funds.
SAYS u. S. MUST
BE BIG BROTHER
Recital Next Friday for Benefit
of Relief of Victims
In Poland.

Henry Morgenthau. ex-Ambassador
to Turkey. spoke in the Free Syna-
gogue, Carnegie Hall, yesterday on the
Armenian atrocities. In an appeal for
aid to the victims Mr.. Morgenthsu ex-
claimed:
when you think that this entire
country % 100.00O.000 people has only
contributed the insignificant sum Of
$S0,000,000 to all the suffering human
ity abroad, we ought TO drop our heads
in shame.
when ! tell you that these people
are now exposed to cold with scanty
clothing and nothing to eat, with dis
ease rife among them, dying from star
walton. and remind you that we are
the only people to whom they can APP
peal, you see the need.
I'VE can raise in this country easily,
II properly organized. s500,000000. II
we are worth 81 500 each on the aver
age, that is less than one-third of one
per cent. There must be some way
found to federste all these activities
and let the world understand that we
are willing TO disregard profit and to
be a big brother. listening TO the needs
of the whole world"
Mr.. Morgenthau painted the picture
OF Armenian desolation when Turkish
orders for deportation were issued.
"Whcn in my childhood | had cried
over Uncle Toms Cabin" he said,
"and later read 'Evangeline,' it seemed
very sad but all of those things were
nothing compared TO what went on
there under my own eyes.
"The Armenians were living just as
quietly as possible in close contact
with their Turkish associates, when
suddenly they were picked out TO be
deported. 1t was then, indeed, that
my heart bled for them. And IT was
then that my good friend. Cleveland
Dodge, responded so promptly TO the
appeal I sent to the Secretary Of State.
when you think of a race that is
in every way as well qualified and en-
titled to live as we are, we, who have
come to this country or who were born
here. and are permitted to exercise the
rights Of religion, OF freedom OF
thought and freedom Of speech. are
bound TO sympathize with them. If we
do not heed their cry then America
is not what I think she is.
"If you folks could only see these
Gaunt little figures, if you could have
seen these little orphans brought in
by Turkish officers to Constsntinople
and / want to say that the Turks as
a class are not a bad people-if you
could have seen the two little children
who had lost their parents and every
thing, mere skeletons covered over by
skin. or the women 7 have seen come
into Constantinople, who 10 reach there
had to become Moslems; if you could
have heard the tales have heard,
sworn to and signed, that would make
YOU weep if ! dare repeat them TO you,
you would see the need"
The Commission for Relief in Bel
GUM has sent out new appeal for
help to relieve the conditions exposed
in Northern France and Belgium by
Herbert r. Hoover's recent reports.
Another charitable enterprise is ere
ating interest throughout the city. II
is the recital to be gwen Friday even
ing in Aeolian Hall by three artist pu-
pills of Sigismond Stoiowski for the
benefit of the Polish Victims Relief
Fund. The pianists who have donated
their services are the Misses Phyllids
Ashley, Luisa Morales Nacedo and Mar
garet Jamison.
Among those actively interested are
Nine. Paderewski, Mrs. Anthony
Drexel, jr., Mrs. Herbert Satterlee,
Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mrs. John R.
Drexel, Mrs. John D. Prince, Mrs. Will
lam II Force, Mrs. W. Bourke Cochran,
Mrs. John L. Duer, Mrs. Pierson Ham
ilton. Mrs. Charles B. Alexander, Mrs.
Hermann Oelrichs, Mrs. r. Fulton Cut
ting, Mrs. George Gould, Mrs. John
Henry Hammond. Mrs. NJ. Banks Tay-
Tor and Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt, ST.