Cleveland County herald., 1919-02-13
LAST WAR TASK AOH CONFR0HTS
 UNITED STATES
ENEMIES ARE CONQUERED, BUT SOME WEAK ALLIES MUST
 BE SAVED.
STARVATION IN HOLY LAID
Four Million Christian Arnenlana, Syrians, Greeks, and Thousands of Jews, Prosecuted By
 Turks, in Distreso.

The American people have been
 asked to give money for the starving and suffering a good many tizaos
 since the great war began, and t.ey have always responded in a way that
 has made the word "amcrican" ola of the proudest titles on earta.
 But there has never been @ more
 urgent need than that of the dying
 multitudes of the old Bible Lands. Try to imagine 100000 men, women
 and children starving in desolts and old inwalled cities, dying in Desti- lenoe and plaques in the old noly places of the Near East. Picture ;his vast army of sufferers going down in.
 to the Valley Of the Shadow with
 none save far-off America to su.cor
 and to help.
 That is what is happening at this
 very hour in Syria, in Armenia and the Greco-TurlIish parts of tie Near
 Cast What the fanatioal Tmk ear ried out under the direction Of the eold-hearted Prussians famine, pes tilence and the black shadow of star yation are now rapidly completing.
 They call Armenia, that lies uo to-
 ward the Russian frontier in Ease eern
 Turkey, "Tke Death Valley of the
 Near East" No one knows. no one
 will ever know, how many Arn,enians
 were slain by the Turks s.a2o the great war began.
 Millions of helpless people died of massacre and starvation i2 t2is an clant land. The Ar.nenians were cut to pieces by Bashi-Ba2oaEs, t.ey wore beaten to death by the thous- ands under the nail-stuaaod cubs of tho Turkish soldiory who clu&nol thcm to death rather than waste cart ridges in staying them. HundrcG3 or thousands of tEe olS men, $A8 wo1l- en and children were driven eff in. to the open deserts to de undor the burning sun of Asta They have d.s- appeared utterly. Tho race i3 at Hle point Of being wiped out.
 There are but 4,G00,G90 nf tEn3e PNi lltlttt'A'Nd pNGiyt6J Gl A. menia and Syria left. They arc stary- inS, as no other people in the weed have ever been starved Tho Gor- mans thought they were at the Dart; Gates of Hunger when they finally surrendered. Belgium knows some thing of real hunger, but in Arme- nia and Syria these stricken people with death at their shoulders gre fighting for the rotting s}oat Of lur.g- dead animal carcasscs, &al arc ssa. taining life on the flthiest garbage | that comes to their hands. They arc i literally starving.
 Ths sandy trails Of tho desert asa 1 lined with the bodies of the staryo}. ! The dead bodies chol.o tae v;lla@a | streets. There are tee few oI tho liy- i ing and they are too week to t9~2 ! their own dead It is a Land ot Death, eharnel housa made by tAe Turk and the German.
 If these 4,O00,00O people are to b. 1 saved it must bo through Amercan help. If the 100000 orphaned cAil- drcn in the Holy Lands of Christian ty are to live it must be hec>usa will give enough A;2efi- can dollars to save them.
 It does not take much to do 1nHn'to good. The man or tho woman wS0 gives T gives enough to keep ta9 breath Of life in somo poor uatcct,,- nate for month. Twc.ve times 5 Will mean life for year 70 s4cae man, woman or child wEo is o:aar. wise doomed. Only F coEtG 9aS ts9 s required to maEe tho difference aa- .ween life and de&ta to so~ac cn. Of the starving millions cc tAe 1tAer East.
 Other Americans have Eo4-a American men and women r~.e workers havo been do;8g thetr hoE there for Ions time Some cf tneae have given their lives io an ctf9rt te save these people. Ire Tuk4 ans the Germans wcro detcrm ned k wipe cut these people wA;io t'.a wor,t was So busy with war taat it e,r2' not turn aside 10 answer tho pitcau appeals that r'ere coming aGut ef th5 fasncsses ot the Turkish En7,ve. Now that the curtain las ben lied |, by tae ending of tho wa, tho g;3.la knows that 'Gey succeeded al too well.
 Arkansas people ..s as,-ei +o hclp 1 save these stricken peoples. rae Ar l mcrian and Syrian Relief Campaigu | begins February 3 and continues oue 1 week and wo will mako thig cam paiSn a success.