The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-12-04
An APPEAL FOR HELP
FOR THE STARVING BABIES

them 100000 innocent little cnlldrea
In America and Syria think n. it
it staggers one-whose piteous voices
have been heard throught the press in
every portion of this broad land, in
tones of agony crying from hunger.
Bread, Bread-are now reaching the
ear OF every citizen Of South Caro-
DINA. We cannot help hearing their
songs of starvation There is no
alternative but to furnish them re-
lief with food or turn them away from
our doors and close our ears to their
distressing walls. Can we afford to
send them away empty? That is the
question each must answer for him
self. American charity is all they
have to depend upon, Either that or
the horrors Of death from starvation
Here is the situation:
Government aid from the United
States and other Governments which
appropriate millions of dollars for re-
lief OF women and children in France,
Belgium and other countries is not
available in consequence Of Armens
= Ar p
~ians, Syrians and Greek Christians Of
Western Asia being scattered races
to which the United States cannot
make a loan. 1t is now American
charity or death"
The American Committee on Arme-
nian and Syrian Relief in New York
gives this account of the barbarities
to which these desperate suppliants
have been subjected "Exiled from the
homes, robbed of their possessions,
wanderers in a desolate land, their
only hope for the barest necessities
of life being in American charity.
They are innocent and industrious
people and ordinarily are the wealth
producers Of the land"
There are many calls at this tims
from various patriotic organizations
all of them most deserving and in
sistent, but none of them which can
touch a tender heart more keenly
than this. Human beings. little chit
dren, asking Of us bit of bread.
What appeal like this. What did the,
Savior say-"It Were better for hina
that milestone were hanged about
his neck and that he were cast into
the sea than that he should offend one
Of these little ones"
The President of the United States,
amid all his pressing engagements.
put them aside for the moment to is
sue an urgent appeal to the people
Of this great Republic to aid these
sufferers, so seriously did he regard
the gravity of the case.
1t now becomes the duty Of the
home Committee to present this aw-
ful tragedy to the calm and prayer
full consideration of our tender heart
ed citizens. Civilized history con-
tains on it's pages no event so brist-
ling with savagery and crime.
That dignifed body, the House OF
Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal
Church Of the United States, at re-
cent meeting in Chicago, passed this
resolution for American and Syrian
Relief:
"Resolved: That this House Com
mends to the sympathy and generos-
ity of the American people the con-
tinued and increasing need of the
people of the LeVant, especially the
Armenians and Syrians, and refug-
ees in the Caucasus and Persia,
BROUGHT about by the deportation,
nasscre, hunger, disease and des-
tuition"
We have presented as carefully and
as fully as space will permit the at
,ocities that have been piled upon
.hese inoffensive people and now ap-
peal in the name of humanity to Jew
and Gentle, rich and poor, white
and black, to contribute to the extent
If their ability to help keep alive these
terrible sufferers. Send your checks
gladly welcomed and promptly &C
znowledged by A. C. Kaufman.
In the name Of the Committee
Charleston, S. c., Nov. %, 1917.
Treasurer.
CharlestoA, S. c.