Arizona republican., 1919-02-02
OPEN CAMPAIGN
 IN PHOENIX FUR NEAR FAST RELIEF
At Lunch At Hotel Adams City And County Argoniz- CTS Plan Drive To Raise $15O,0OO In This State

q want the people of Arizona to get | behind this great movement which has | for it's object the relief of suffering in | the Near East" declared Governor | Campbell at a luncheon rendered city | and county organizers of the coming | triple drive of February 1O-17. The ] luncheon was given at the Hotel Ad 1 ans yesterday noon and marked the | formal launching of the campaign in l which Arizona is asked to contribute s150,000 for the relief of Armenianst Syrians and Jews.
 "rhis requires no great individual l sacrifice said the governor. Tt means only fifty cents per person or the price of two picture shows If this nation entered the war for any purpose, it was that it might be a big brother to the small friendess nation" Continuing, the governor said: q am glad to be counted as a worker in this cause and do not apprehend but that the coming drive will be a success. The stimulus for patriotic ef- fort has gone. We as nation are just sort of resting. The rest is but tenn porary, however, and the people must be brought-to realize that the great work of reconstruction of the world is before us.
 First Jewish Appeal
 This is known as the land of the almighty dollar, but through just such work as this, we will become known as the land of the almighty soul.-just as soon as we prove to the world that our garnering of dollars has been that we might have the privilege of giving to those in need. We can give and give and give. Our greatest pleasure should be in giving and we as a nation are just beginning to realize this"
 Governor Campbell paid high tributs to Chairman David Goldberg and State Director Charles F. Willis; to County Chairman Sidney J. Ross and others who were always counted on, he said, in previous patriotic campaigns. He all so touched on the point that this is the first time in the worlds history that the Jewish people have asked the gen. eral public to assist them in a cam paign for the relief of their people as one of three races to be benefited.
 pr. McN -uqhton Talks
 The principal address was made by pr. Jas. P. McNaughton, recently re- turned from Asia Minor where for 31 years he has been conducting mission ary work under the auspices of the Con- gregational church. In illustrating the inter -denominational features of the present drive MT. McNaughton referred to a gathering in Los Angeles which was opened by a Catholic priest. He was followed by a minister of the Bap- list church, Q Jewish rabbi an Episco- palian rector, then ministers from the Congregational and Christian churches. Southern California has gone over the top, declared the speaker, who cited in stances where towns had raised seven and eight times their quotas The al lotment for San Bernardino county was S150,000; on the first day $1S,000 were raised.
 Dr. McNaughton drew on history to prove that the ancestors of the people now asking for bread, fought the worlds earliest battle for freedom and but for this fact the torch of civiliza- ton would not have been passed on to America. Two great streams of civil lization that of the Hebrews and the Greeks, had come down through the centuries he said, to make civilization what it is. The voices of Jew and Gen tile, he continued, the ancestors of these people really responsible for the advancement of ethics, arts and relig- ious freedom,-are calling upon us to arise in this hour of distress to make the world safe by giving a litle bread that others might live.
 "They Must Not Die"
 The speaker quoted Henry Morgan thau, late ambassador to the Sublime Port, in saying that we are in the pres once of the greatest tragedy that the world has ever seen. So great, he de- clared that President Wilson before leaving for the peace conference issued proclamation calling upon the Amer ican people for prompt assistance to prevent the extinction of these Orien- tai races.
 Similar appeals were issued. he said. by Lloyd George, England's prime min ister. and the president of the French republic. Physical victory does not sig- Eify the end of the war, he asserted, and added that this could not be ac- complished until allied ideals were made to predominate. 6
 The speaker further stated that the Armenians, Jews, Syrians and Greeks are the democratic elements of the lana of the unspeakable Turk, and that to allow them to perish is to postpone the moral victory of the war for a century or more. The future welfare of tht world. he said, depends in an important degree upon the survival of these Or iental democracies and declared 'they must not die' should be the slogan of all true Americans, whether Jew or Gentle.
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