Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-01-16


Hold our babies just a minute plead
= hundred thousand mother 10 Amer
lea. Take them on your ace that we
may rest our arms we have walked
miles and miles. our b-n sle dry.
Our babies are dylne 10 The W.nt OF a
piece of bread,
Can not the people OF pa uessee
hear that cry from across Che sease~
From the Near East where 18th and
disease lurk under every piece OF de-
molished homes?
Their wall has been heard bE the
American COMMITTEE tor Relief in the
Near East and is beine echoed to the
whole United State With the echo
comes the call for money fulds for
the greatest and most isyreaehing
charitable cause ever presented 10 The
people of this wealthy nati0t
These peoples, this m0lla and her
brown-eyed baby, we're drIl s. from
their peaceful and quiet villa s. oy the
Turkish armies when tnat German.
officered organization Of fiends invad.
cd the Western Asiatlc couu ries OF
Persia, Syria. Mesopotamia Armenia
and others. Deported fo~r-lundreds OF
miles. At each turn in The winding
road lies a heap OF skeletons. Mile
stones in the march OF Kultur with
Its Turkish atrocities.
This mother is one OF huadreds OF
thousands returning to their rormer
homes. Her husband died on the way
that she and Baby might live. Both
YER refined and educated. Bany was
to have been sent to the village school
and then given further opportunity to
become a useful citizen OF me world.
What If 1t does prattle with 4 weak
voice in another tongue? WIat Is Ian
guage, anyway? Speech is nothing
more than certain ARRANGEMENTS OF
sounds that express thoughts. Does the
hct that Baby's mother andsaIhor ex-
pressed their thoughts differently
from Americans lessen the duty to
answer the call for help?
And now. unless the people Of the
United States heed this prayer for
help, soc, 900 orphans will die ana their
deaths will be checked as the sins Of a
selfish heart. Every refusal to help
this Baby is the signing Of its death
warrant.
Tennessee is asked 10 give 300. 900.
The entire State has been oreanized
under the direction of a state hair.
man and state director I Graham
Hall Ia the state chairman and Seth
Soldiers, state director. Each county
has a county chairman aud effective
organization which Is seeking coltribu-
lions for the saving Of these Ives
All expenses Of the campaign are net
By subscriptions privately solicited
Every cent Of every dollar given ia
his drive goes to the purchase Of food
and clothing for these unf1rtunates
and this Baby will be one Of them. IL
viii be placed in an orphanage and
given education, and FOO for body.
soul and mind II viii be allowed to
play with others. Ii Tennessee does
not give $780, 900 or more there always
will be a stain upon Il. Is citizens
will not fail in the only purely charit.
able relief work every undertaken On a
nationwide scale, hy such men 'as
Cleveland II. Dodge, William Il. Taft
and Charles Evans Hughes, who are
members OF the executive committee
Cleveland H Dodge IS National Troas-
urer. A B. Benedict general mana
ger Of the Nashvil TTust COMPANY.
Is state treasurer.
This little Baby's mother 'a1Ts nat
somewhere there is food and i8ss ut
She knows that there are shiT 10 BRING
1t to her little darling And Tie pao-
pie Of Tennessee know there Is too,
and they win make the way clear for
that DEMONSTRATING tood % reach this.
mother and child. and hurZsds Of
thousands OF other mothsrs and chiL
-sD. in time 10 kesp these heaps q
Istons tom growing larger