The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-12-18
EDUCATIONAL.
(By ]. w. veboril)

The following letter will tell you
about the awful condition of the Ar
menian Christians. Another letter TAX
EN- from the Racine journal News and
written by Lieutenant j. w. Thompson
tells us that 100000 Armenians were
massacred during the war leaving
| 50U,000 orphans uncared for, wander
ing about the country side, starving,
eating refuse of all kinds even to the
raw partially decayed flesh of dead
camels and other animals. Conditions
are so had that the people have resort
ed to eating the flesh of human beings.
These are facts reported by government
officials to Washington. Do you not
think that you can spare little of your
Christmas cheer to bring relief to these
starving people? To save one of them
will cost you only seventeen cents a
day or $5 per month.
To assure you that the money you
donate will reach its destination want
to inform you ihst Governor Phillips
is Honorary Chairman, II. A. Moeh-
lenpal acting chairman, and w. Hasten
is treasurer of the Wisconsin commit
tee. Many prominent men of the state
are on this committee, William
Howard Taft, Charles Evans Hughes,
and many others are In charge of the
National Committee.
Will each district try to care for one
orphan? Donations can be sent direct
ly to the Office of James w. Thompson,
State Secretary, 2l3 Plankinton Arcade,
Milwaukee, or to the County Superin-
tendent of school who will forward the
money. In either case please report
the amount to this Office for / wish to
publish list of the donations.
December l5, 1919
NV dear Friend:
Another little child has shrivelled up
and diedl The mother, creeping back,
gaunt and cold, from the desert, has
| put down the thin little bones with
those that strew the road, so-many
miles, and has sunk beside them,
never to rise again.
Only little child, and a mother, out
on the bleak Armenian road-but what
is that Vision, lowering there-and
what is that Voice the cold winds bear
to the ears of our souls II was hun
cry, and We gave me no meat-I was
naked and ye clothed me not2'
To-day-yes, to day while we are
preparing our gifts for Christmas
many more of these little chiidren-not
hundred nor thousand, but two
hundred and fifty thousand of them
are still wandering unoared for and
alone in that dead land, their weazen-
ed skin clinging in fear to their rattl-
ing bones," and they are crying out
with gasping breath, ~ am hungry
am hungry! ! am hungryl" And
the Voice of One who watches us as we
prepare gifts to celebrate His bi rthday
comes again TO the ears of our souls
am hungryi | am hungryl Iam
hungry!'
! Now the children, and the mothers
in Armenia are dreading the winter
Just human remnants, they are, not
protected, many of them, from the
! Wy CNtH lht vi rugs
But we can feed and clothe those
perishing ones some of them-before
it is too late. Hoover has cabled from
the Caucasus. at is impossible that
the loss of 10000 lives can at this day
be prevented, but the remaining 500, 900
an posi- bly, be saved" They need
not starve, and freeze and die if we
will save them. Open now your heart
and purse. They need not diel Give
ye them to eat!
TO day nearly eight hundred thous-
and destitute Armenians-His people -
need food and clothing. He took lit
tie children in His arms and blessed
them. To-day will you take one, or
more, of these sad, cold, hungry little
children of Armenia into your arms
and heart, in His name, and give them
food, and warmth and life2 'Inas-
much as ye have done it to these NJ y
brethen, ye have done it to Me-"
The pledge card for your Christmas
gift to Him is here in this letter.
Faithfully yours,