The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-12-18
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
TO RAISE Fund FOR
THE ARMENIANS
Children Of Maysvllle and Mason
County Are Asked to Save For
Suffering Children.

An appeal has been made to the
children of Maysville and Mason coun-
ty to save their nickles and pennies
for fund being raised for the relief
of suffering children in Bible lands.
This offering will be taken at all of
the Sunday Schools of Maysville and
Mason county on next Sunday.
The suffering races are our allies in
this war; eighty thousand exiled
Greeks from Asia Minor are working
in the munition factories of Greece
and Macedonia, sixty thousand more
are in the Greek army fighting with
the Allies in Macedonia, and a little
Armenian army held out for long
time in the Causcasus against the in
vasion of the Turk. Mr.. Thomas Damn
Heald, who has returned from the
Caucasus, reported as the latest news
from there that the Armenians, after
refusing terms with the Turks when
the Germans offered a small area for
a republic, had taken a large town in
which there were food supplies.
Immediately after the surrender of
the Turks a representative commits
sicn was appointed under the chair
manship of DR.. James L. Barton to
sail at once and study the situation
anew and prepare the way for COM
pany of workers who must soon be
sent to direct the work of rehabilita-
ton.
From the devastated countries in
this great area there are four million
known refugees. A full million are
now within our reach, among whom
are 100000 children, and their only
hope of life is in the food and clothing
we supply them.
War has ravaged their land and for
The present has destroyed the possibil-
ity of selfhelp, but thev are our broth
ers and must have our sympathy and
support.
Much of the food for the people in
the Palestine section of this wide field
is obtainable in Egypt We purchase
it there and have it shipped in on
motor trucks at top speed so that
lives may be saved that might be lost
by little delay.
Long ago the words grain in
Egypt" brought hope and heart to the
household of Jacob, whose ten sons
made the journey with asses and
brought food for the families in need.
Motor trucks instead of asses, with
telegraphic and wireless communica-
ion, is a great advance in efficiency,
but in view of the greatness of the
need and the multitude of the people
served, the problem is much greater
n promotion. 1t is interesting, though
to remember that once more messen-
gers are passing over the same roads
on the same errand as they did years
ago. They are serving a people like
those who were kent alive then and
from who came such men as Moses,
David, Isaiah, and Paul. Who can say
what man may yet be found from
among these people in days to come
and what blessings may result to the
world from the saving of these lives
that today look to us for bread?
The Armenian atrocities are so re-
cent and what can be told has been
so widely published that it is perhaps
not necessary or wise to attempt to
repeat the narrowing tales that have
made the story behind this destruo-
ton one of the blacklist pages of hui
man history. We must, however, see
the need in its breadth and fullness
and heed the challenge of the peoples
cry.