The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-01-31
GERMANY URGED
TURKEY To SLAY
THE CHRISTIANS
BLooDTHIRSTY MoSLEMS THUS
HAD DOUBLE lNTENTIoN-RE-
LIGIoN AND POLITICS.
WILSON ASKS RELIEF NOW
Best Peoples Of Turkish Nation De-
ported and slain Because They
Are Followers of Christ

Probably no campaign ever staged
In America met with SO responsive a
reception as that given the Armenian
and Syrian Relief Campaign, once its
true object was made known to the
loyal and generous people in Missouri.
We had always associated those
places in which the suffering from the
recently ended world war is the most
intense with our remembrances Of the
Bible stories, and our attention was
fastened on Belgium and France.
But the stories related in the Bible
of wars cruelties, and those stories
of the sufferings of the Belgians and
the French cannot begin to compare
with the actual conditions as they ex-
list even today in the place that We
call the Holy Land.
The very places where Jesus was
born, where he was reared, where he
performed his miracles - Bethlehem,
Nazareth, Jerusalem, and the entire
Palestine, are now the abiding place
Of famine, pestilence, and outrages
daily from the hand of the unspeaka-
BILE Turk and the farbarous Kurds.
The Armenians, Syrians, Greeks and
Persians, who for centuries have been
the producing classes Of Turkey,
which government dominated the EN-
tire Holy Land, was sought to be ex-
terminated when the war broke out
This was for two reasons-religious
and political.
These peoples were and are Chris
tians. The Mohammedan Turk hates
all Christians, and in days gone by
has massacred thousands In his en-
deavor to make the "infidel dogs" EN-
brace the true religion" as he terms
the Moslem religion. Then came the
war. The Turk, spurred on by Ger
many, who realized that these Chris.
tians were the natural allies of the
nations Germany was fighting, sought
to complete the destruction Of these
Christian people.
ALI other attempts were puerile as
that Of the last four years, when the
prosperous Armenians. Greeks and
Syrians were deported from their
homes, their property confiscated, and
tens of thousands massacred for the
love of inflicting torture. The mira
Gle is that even now four millions are
yet alive.
For several years the Armenian and
Syrian Relief has done much to ale.
yiate the suffering. 1t has an organi-
cation that can reach these peoples,
who have no nation through which TO
protect themselves. 1t is the only or.
ganization that can extend help to all
The Red Cross cannot do the work
It has but few stations there.
The men at the head of the Armen.
ian and Syrian Relief have provided
fund to carry on the expense of the
organization here. Not one penny of
the $30,000,000 that will be raised
February $40 will go into the expense
tt raising the fund. A special fund,
contributed by men at the head of the
organization, pays this expense
President Wilson has scrutinizcd
the plan, and has placed his stamp
Of approval on it, He has issued
proclamation asking the public to re-
spond to the call. He has gone fur.
Their. He has asked congress to ap.
propriate $100,000,0O0 for the same
purpose. But in doing so he made it
clear that this should in no wise in
terfere with the 100000 drive. The
S100,000,000 will not be available for
months, and by that time hundreds
Of thousands would have persisted
Food Administrator Hoover when he
went abroad soon saw for himself the
need of quick action. He got in COM
munication with the officers of the
Armenian and Syrian Relief. Though
the big $30,000,000 has not yet been
raised, these men of wealth advanc-
ed money with which food was bought
through the Food Administration, and
1t is now beig dispensed.
The War Department, through Sec
rotary Baker, is conveying workers
to the scene on Government trans.
ports without cost. Secretary of the
Navy Daniels is placing at the COM.
mittee's disposal ships on which to
ship other supplies. And this is with
out cost. aS
Hoover has ordered all food admin
lstrators in every State and in every
county to do all in their power to
make this campaign n uuick success