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ENEMIES ARE CONQUERED, BUT
GONE WEAK ALLIES MUST
BE SAVED.
STARVATION IN HOLY LAND
ps~s million Christian Arvnseiana.
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and suffering good many times
since the great war began. and they
have always responded In a way that
has made the word American" ons
of the proudest titles on earth.
But there has never been a moro
urgent need than that OF the dying
multitudes OF the old Bible Lands.
Try to imagine 100000 men. women
and children starving in deserts and
old inwalled cities, dying in pestt-
lence and plaques in the old holy
places of the Near East Picture this
vast army Of sufferers going down in
to the Valley of the Shadow with
ne4le save far-off America to succor
and TO help.
That is what is happening 1T this
very hour in Syria In Armenia and
he GrecoTurksh parts OF the Near
East. What the fanatical Turk car
led out under the direction Of the
cold-hearted Prussians famine pes
thence and the black shadow Of star
walton are nov rapidly completing
They call Armenia. that lies up to
ward the Russian frontier In Eastern
Turkey. The Death Valley Of the
Near East" No ono knows. no one
viii ever know. how many Armsntans
were slain by the Turks sfnos the
great war began.
Millions Of helpless people died OF
naasAAors and starvation In this au
cient land. The Armenians vere GIL
to Pieces by Bashi- BAzouks, they
were beaten to death by the thous
ands under the nail-studded clubs OF
10 Turkish soldi-ry who clusoed
them to death rather than waste cart
ridges in staying them. Hundreds OF
thousands of the old men. the WON
en- and children were driven OF in
to the open deserts to die under the
burning sun Of Asia They have dis
appeared utterly The race is at the
point of being wiped out
There are but 1000, 900 OF these
prosecuted. harassed peoples OF Ar
ing. as no other people in the world
have sver been starved Tho Ger
mans thought they were at the Dark
Gates Of Hunger when they finally
surrendered. Belgium knows some
thing OF real hunger, but In Arme-
MIA and Syria these stricken people
with death At their shoulders are
fighting for the rottins meat OF long
dead animal carcasses, and are aus.
tanning life on the hlthiest garbage
that comes to their hands They are
literally starving
The sandy trails OF the desert ara
lined with the bodies OF the starved.
The dead bodies choke the village
streets There ara too few OF the liv-
ing and they are too weak to burr
their own dead II is, Land Of
Death, charnel house made by the
Turk and the German.
n these 1900 900 people are TO be
saved IL must be through American
help. II the 100000 orphaned chill
dren in the Holy Lands OF Christian.
ity are 10 live Il must be because
americans will give enough Ameri.
can dollars 10 save them
II does not take much to do infinite
good The nan or the woman who
gives IS gives enough TO keep ths
breath of life il some poor unfortu-
nate for month, Twelve times So
will mean life for year 10 some
man. woman or eiild who is otner
wise doomed. Only IT cents per day
is required to maze the difference be
tween life and death 10 some onr OF
the starving millions OF the Near
East
Other Americans have helped.
American men and women r>.e.
there for long time Some OF them
have given their lives in an effort 20
save these people. The Turk and
the Germans were determined 70
wipe out these people while the world
Was so busy with war that II could
not turn aside TO answer the plteous
appeals that were coming out OF tho
fastnesses OF the Turkish Empire
Now that the curtain has been lifted
by the ending OF the war. tho world
knows that they succeeded ali too
" ell
Arkansas people are asked 10 help
save these stricken peoples The Ar
menian and Syrian Relief Campaign
begins February and continues one
week and we will make this earn
patKn a success.