The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-03-02
EDUCATOR TELLS or RUIN
Americans and Armenians Make Appeal
to People to Aid in Name of HUI
manity to Prevent Wiping Out Of
Once Peace Loving People.

Kenosha answered the call Of hui
manity again on Monday evening
when more than four hundred people
attended mass meeting at the Rhode
Opera House at which the story of the
suffering of the Armenians was told
and at which committee was or
sganized to seek relief for this stricken
people in Kenosha 1t was one of the
Emost notable expressions Of the inter
est of Kenosha in great humanitarian
movements. During the evening a
collection was taken and goodly sum
of money was thrown into the plates
to be sent for the immediate relief of
suffering people. The Hon. James
Cavanagh, who presided at the meet
ing, has been named as head Of the
committee to accept funds for the
Armenian cause and as a result of
the meeting it is thought certain
that considerable sum will be col
1ected within the next few days.
"Every cent contributed for the re-
lief of suffering in Armenia will be
dispensed at once" said Ernest Var
row, one of the principal speakers of
The meeting. eve have Americans
ut Cairo, and at Constantinople who
are watching every move in the great
tragedy of the Armenians and as fast
as money is contributed it is sent by
cable to these trusted agents and the
dollars contributed here tonight will
be doing actual service in relieving
distress within week.
The address Of DR.. Yarrow, while
brief, was a notable presentation Of
the call Of Armenia. DR.. Yarrow him
self was under the fire of Turkish bull
lets at Van. He was In the long line
of the thousands upon thousands Of
refugees that fled from the be-
1eaguered city and made their way to
the outposts of the Russians, and he
told in graphic language the story of
what Turkey had done to stamp out
the Armenian people as a nation.
There was no added coloring of the
brutal facts. DR.. Yarrow made his
appeal strictly as an appeal for hui
manity He told of the resistance
which peace loving Armenians had
made against the outrages committed
against their wives and sisters and
declared that this was the only reason
that the Turks had assigned for the
massacre of the people of the city of
pVan, He declared that the Armenians
had not in any way sought trouble, but
that they had been forced to battle
for their lives and for the lives of
their families. The half Of the
butchery, the torture, the murder and
boutrage against the Armenians has
mot been told,'' declared DR.. Yarrow
lin his appeal for help.
DR.. Yarrow is an American who has
seen long service in Armenia and at
tthe time Of the attack on Van he was
ir charge of one of the leading
sChristian schools in that city. He
remained under shelter of the Stars
band Stripes until after the Turks had
sshelled the buildings of the American
school and had set flames which af-
terward destroyed it. Then he join
ed the long list of refugees in the
march for the Russian outposts.
The Rev. D. Dikijian, an Armenian
minister from Chicago, was the other
principal speaker of the evening and
he told in an eloquent manner the story
of the Armenian nation and the out
irageous treatment it had received at
the hands of the jealous Turks. He
declared that Armenia was the first
of the Christian nations. He declared
that the standard of American civiliza-
tion was no higher than that of the
Armenians and asserted that the Ar.
menians had contributed greatly to
the advancement of the world. He
declared that the greatest advance
ment in Asia and in European Turkey
had been brought by the Armenians
who had been loyal to Turkey regard
less of the lash of torture, rapine and
murder which had been laid on the
backs of the people.
He gave authentic statements of
recent outrages against the Armenians
as a people. He told of ruthless muir.
der of women and children; of the
trips into captivity for the women and
children; of the violation of the purity
Of maidenhood and the sanctity Of
motherhood. His appeal was drama
tic appeal for the civilized world tc
unite to give the Armenians chance
tc preserve their integrity as nation
and to humanity to save the lives OF
the people of the ancient nation.
The program for the evening, furn
ished entirely by representatives Of
the Armenian people, was most in
teresting one. There were piano Sc
lections by Mrs. H. Bezazian, voca