Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1916-12-06
MILLIONS STARVING
IN THE WAR ZONES
Out Of Your Abundance Will You Not
Give a Little7 Three Cents a Day
Will Save One Of the StaN-
ing, Dying Millions.
10 Readers of the Chronicle:

10 Readers of the Chronicle:
By request of the editor herewith
present some facts setting forth condi-
tions existing at this time, among the
starving thousands of Europe. Last
week at the close of the Thanksgiving
service, in the Congregational church,
an appeal was made for this cause, but
only a small number of Crossvllle's
citizenship were reached with that ap-
peal.
We feel that II is only fair to the
many other large-hearted people Of
Crossvlle and vicinity, who did not
hear the appeal mentioned above, to
bring before them in this way the ter
rible suffering and need of Europe
starving ones, 50 that they may give
expression in substantial way to the
sympathy that surely will stir their
hearts.
So many appeals have come to me
from various sources, asking Tor aid
for these people that find 1t hard to
select only d few of the many harrow
ing stories @ suffering.
| wish | lld give you TO under
stand real Co Iitlons without mention
ing GONE of 4e things that follow, but
there is no Csner way to give the facts.
"A cruhsil..s blow has fallen on the
Armeniaps and Syrians in Turkey,
Persia, Syria and Palestine. 75O, 600
have perlshed by massacre, disease
and hardship. Half a million children,
each with story tragic enough to
break the hardest heart, are IN dire
distress. They are remote from their
homes, without shelter, clothing or
food.
Hon. Henry Morgenthau, eXAmb
sador to Turkey says: "lf the people
of the United States could only see
the distress as have seen 1t, ii they
could see the gaunt little figures OF
children, the little orphans brought to
Constant!nople by friendly Turkish
officers, the need of prompt aid would
be fully realized. If dared repeat the
tales have heard. sworn TO and sign
ed, it would mako men and women
weep. The American Missionary Hos
pItal fed from It's back door a thous-
and starving persons a day, 90 an
averaye of three cents a person, with
the $50 we gave them.
An extract from letter written
October 8th by our German teachers in
Aleppo to the German government, is
rs follows: "GirlE, hoys and women
all practically naked, lie on the ground
breathing their last sighs, amid the
dying and among the collins put out
ready for them. Forty to fifty people
reduced to skeletons, are all that are
left OF the 1900 to 8, 900 healthy peas
ant women driven down here from
Armenia. The good looking ones are
decimated by the wee of their jailers,
whilst the 0gly ones are victimized by
beatings, hunger and thirst.
DR.. Samuel &. Wilson,, of Erivan,
Turkey, IN a letter says: parents
driven under the whip lash on the
march IN freezing cold and under the
blistering sun alike. carried their help
less children until nature could no long
er stand the test; then these parents
were fored to abandon their children
and leave them by the roadside to die,
their last earthly remembrance of their
own flesh and blood being piteous cries
of despair. Ev srywhere comes the cry
of cold and hungry people, mostly
women and children. A are half
naked. They have been sleeping tor
months on the bare ground and shiver-
ing through the long nights.
From part of Prince Arlghontians
report of the massacres of Treblzond,
we take the following concerning some
of the orphan children, who are beng
gathered together by the Greeks:
MANY of these children had escaped
to the forests of the neighborhond,
hIoing themselves in caverns and liv-
ing on roots, fruits and whatever char
ity was dispensed by passers.by. At
Congress convened Monday for the