The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1919-12-18
Prominent men
IN XMAS APPEAL
FOR ABMENIANS
Former President Taft Leads In
, Eloquent Plea for Support Of
! Near East Relief.

To save the lives Of 100000 people
IN Armenia and other western Asian
countries and to care for more than
$4,000 orphans who are homeless
there former President William How.
ard Taft. Henry Morgenthau. former
ambassador to Turkey. and Alexander
]. Hemphill, the New York banker, as
members of the Executive Committee
Of Near East Relief, the former Amer.
ican Committee on Armenian and
Syrian Relief, have issued Christ
mas appeal for continued support Of
this organization and Its work.
Near East Relief Is now operating
under q government charter and Is
practically alone in the western Asian
field, the Red Cross several months
ago having announced its withdrawal.
The Christmas letter, q classic Of ito
kind, Is as follows:
"Dear Frlend-Another little child
has shriveled up and died.
"The mother, creeping back, gaunt
and cold, from the desert. has put
down the thin little bones with those
that strew the road and has sunk be-
side them, never to rise again.
"Only q little child and a mother
out on the bleak Armenian roadl But
what Is that vision lowering there and
what Is that voice the cold winds bear
to the ears Of our souls-T was hungry
and ye gave me no meat: was naked
and ye clothed me not
'TOday-yes, today-while we are
preparing our gifts for Christmas.
many more Of these little children
not q hundred nor q thousand, but
100000 of them-are still wandering
uncared for and alone IN that dead
land, their weakened skins clinging In
fear to their rafting bones,' and they
are crying out with gasping breath,
am hungry, am hungry! And the
voice of one who watches Us as we
prepare gifts to celebrate his birth
day comes again to the ears Of our
souls-T am hungryi I am hungry! !
am hungryi!v
"Now, the children and the mothers
in Armenia are dreading the winter.
Just human remnants they are, not
protected, many Of them. from the ele-
ments by even the dignity Of rags.
The most favored have merely shred
ded rags How shall we sing our
Christmas songs and laugh and light
the candles and give beautiful gifts
while that pleading voice cries In the
ears Of our souls. 4 am naked and cold
naked and coldF
"But we can feed and clothe these
perishing ones-sOme Of them-befOre
It 10 too late Herbert Hoover has ca
bled from the Caucasus, 1t IL impossi-
BILE that the loss Of 100000 lives can at
this day be prevented, but the remain
ing 10000 can possibly be saved
They need not starve and freeze and
die II We will save them. In the name
of him who saw the multitude as
sheep not having a shepherd and was
moved with compassion toward them.
who exclaimed when his disciples
would turn them away, They need not
depart, give ye them to eatr open
your heart and purse and give to
these Christians whom he loves, who
are suffering for him and with whom
he 10 suffering. They need not die.
Give ys them to eat.
"Fffteen dollars Z month will pro-
vide food. clothes, shelter and educa-
ton toward self support for one Or
phan child.
"Ten dollars . month will provide
food, clothes and shelter for one Or
phan child.
give dollars q month will provide
food for one orphan child.
He fed sop hungry people IL the