The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-02-03
Armenian-syrian Campaign Fund
Gets Going In Grady and
to Continue Through the
Entire Week.
WORKERS in GRADY
ARE WELL ORGANIZED
Town Chairmen on Job for
Work in Districts; State
Head Writes of Condi-
tions in Holy Lands.

81 want to give $50 for the relief
in the Bible lands" said ]. II. Grif-
fin, old resident of the city, when
he walked into Chairman Eliiott's
office this morning. Chairman FL
lott accepted the payment as Mr..
Griffin handed over the money.
We're going in following today"
said W. N. Elliott, county chairman,
when asked as to the progress OF
the Armenian-Syrian relief drive, to
be a national movement from Febru-
airy to 10.
EARLY reports from town chair
men, appointed to conduct the cam
paign in their respective towns and
the surrounding districts, are that
the drive is well under way and that
if cooperation continues to hold the
standard established thus far, we
will easily go over.
The people Of Grady county fully
realize the cause for which we are
making this campaign and the con
dition in Armenia and Syria"
Perry e. Pierce, Of Tulsa, state
director for the Armenian-Syrian
campaign, and one Of the foremost
workers in Oklahoma says in a let
ter to county chairmen
''In a land which is naturally one
of the most fertile agricultural areas
in the world, four million war refu-
gees are now homeless, destitute
and on the verge Of actual starva-
tion. The story of the massacres of
millions of Armenian Christians by
lie Turk, abetted by the Germans,
IS Wen known added to these hor-
r0rs is The history Of Turkish and
German inyasions and cruelties dur
ing the last four years in Syria,
Armenia, Mesopotamia, Persia, Asia
Minor, the Caucasus, and other
countries of the so-called near east
Relief of Armenians and other
sufferers in the east has been af-
forded almost entirely by America
and England. The American COM
mittee for relief in the near east is
the only organized agency for this
purpose. To relieve the desperate
condition of these peoples who have
suffered above all others for their
Christian faith and their sympathy
with the allied cause. the American
committee is planning to ask the
American people for at least $780,
0OO,OO0 during a campaign to be
conducted February to 10.
-Four hundred thousand of these
sufferers are little children. A re-
port from Major Stephen Trow-
bridge, a relief worker in Palestine,
tells of children who ate out of
garbage pals; gathered orange peels
from the mud and ate them eagerly;
picked up handfuls of dust for the
few kernels of oats, and barley they
found in it, and lived for months
on dry bread and soup made only
of salt, rice and water. In other
places people are grazing in the
fields like cattle. During the war
men and women perished in the
streets while food and fish were
sent to Germany.
"One baby six months old was
brought into Bagdad, whose mother
had perished on the way, had been
nourished for two months with
grass which had been first chewed
and then given to it by its father
"The object of the campaign for
SsO,eOO,OOO in February is to raise
sufficient funds first, to relieve the
immediate sdfferings; and second,
to get the refugees back upon the
sol, and MAKE It possible for them
to develop is resources, SO that
they will become in the shortest
time possible wholly self-support-