The Glenwood post., 1919-12-13
|roe AAarns1AN AND
EY1xAe RHIIRr.


The spirit Of Christmas, which finds
happy expression in the giving Of gifts
has been Offered q new and golden
channel in America this year-the Sc
cond Yuletide celebration Of the COM
ing of peace. Over all the country 10
being sounded an appeal to the people
of the greatest nation of them all, an
appeal for hundreds of Thousands Of
children to whom Christmas has be-
come only the vaguest Of memories,
for nation weighted down with bar
barous burdens OF war. The appeal has
come to this City, this State, to cv-
cry man AMI woman and child.
1t is the appeal in behalf Of the
peoples of the Near-East. In Armenia
and Syria, nations who suffered incon-
ceivable things rather than forsake the
Allies, and their Christ, there are more
than 250,O00 boys and girls to whom
a crust of bread will spell glorious
Christmas. Women to whom q bit Of
food will offer another day of life.
Fathers and mothers to whom a gift
of clothing will mean new hope. Whole
communities to whom medicine will
mean Salvation.
In the churches of this community,
in common with communities over all
the country, special Christmas Collec-
tions will be taken for these people.
Every citizen is being asked to give
something towards saving these hun
dreds of thousands from death. Return
ing Americans who have seen the suf.
ferings in the Near-East declare that
the plight of these people is more pitt
ful'than anything the most devastating
wat of wars has produced. Here is what
one man Commander John Broc-
kenshire, Chaplain of the U. 8. s.
Martha Washington, which returned
recently from a voyage taking in the
Black Sea.
II have seen people in droves of
thousands gathered around a railroad
station SO hungry they fought for Or
ange peels, melon rinds, and even egg
shells which were thrown from the
trains. They would eat literally any
thing in the shape of food"
Herbert Hoover says; "The Near
East, in my opinion, is the most des-
perate situation in the world" And
like reports come from all who have
been on the ground and studied the
situation.
The American people have come to
Know that those they are asked to
succor are not the worlds scum, a
slothful, slack, begging race of aims
seekers. They are Civilizations Oldest
representatives. They are the peoples
who, deserted and betrayed by the
faithless Georgians, abandoned by the
Bolshe vik-corrupted Russians, sur
rounded by the murderous Turks and
Tartars, their women being ravished
and slain, and driven with their child
rem starving into the deserts, knowing
they had been chosen deliberately for
determination, refused to surrender the
Allied cause, or renounce their Chris
tianity. 1t was they who, with one
rifle to seven men, their brave little
army living more than a week only OH
herbs and grasses, faced the well
armed, well fed, multitude of Turks,
and routed them, drove them back
more than hundred miles. 1t was the.
who, when the Armistice was signed,
turned resolutely to the task of re.
construction, and with that which had
been saved, through the generosity and
aid of America, started to build a
new government upon their tragic
ruins.
America has come to know, too, that
she is the only great Nation to whom
the NearEast can turn for aid, because
the other nations have other great
calls to heed. In Armenia now approx.
mately 100000 children are being
cared for in American manned and
American financed orphanages. And
yet 25O,O00 other children are home
less and starving. The nation needs
food, must have it or perish. It needs
medicines, clothing, materials, rehab-
ilitation. There is promise Of great.
ness for the future If the American
people hold out the helping hand
NOW.
Ten dollars will assure that child
child in the Near East.
Ten dollars viii assure that child
food, and place to sleep, and clothing
for the cold weather Of this winter.
Fifteen dollars will give him
home, clothing, food, and education.
Your fifteen dollars. or ten. or five.