Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-12
STARVING ARMENIAN
 OERELICTS MAKING
 APPEAL 10 AMERICA
nat Which Goes in Garbage Cans Re.
 ea Garoias aug as beIicacies by Thousaud.
 Vl Starving Waifs. '''''"s

me great drive is on For. tuo "HehS extensive preparations ba,o
 aen soih9 on behind tie lines. vhi,o : .l,U"Ne'S' lctler, appeals, and at,,er
 ,'to''it'o'lS ,a' and material Ntt can,naiqns
 nave cen moving up to tna front in ,
 a:e"oy ,:y @tream, and are not masssJ
 "iies " behind the ,eitsr, m ro,,n,,
 "'3'. IalsoN has been well es,'h | tsile z between all },.i ann .ha 1,,,'1',
 o, support from from to rear arc clearly identified When the zero
 !iouf afflVes, all units will go forward
 III ct well directed drive which will i,hoW no stop until the final obiectiva
 Is reached
 Al'ef continuous publicity barrage
 ol three days. the way is well paved ioI lile advance of all other units The
 zero houf will be at D. m. this after
 room, when Governor Charles Rrouoh
 VIII lead the offensive with sneech
 at the First Baptist church. Fo],owino HoVernor Trough will be NIme, pavs-
 het' noted JeWess lecturer. These oD
 eElhS speeches of the drive will be fol-
 lowed by four minutes speeches at the
 picture shows by members of the
 speakers committee. These four nm.
 ute speeches will obtain until the ob- jective is reached.
 Executive Committees Report Tuesday
 FolIoWlng d meeting last night, of the executive committee Judge Sor-
 rells sad that every preparation had
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 to believe that Jefferson eounty's quota would be raised by Tuesday, Jan. II. "Thc people of the city have responded rcadily,'' he said, "and Judge Williams who has the rural dis i tr'ct in charge, has stated that the people in the country are showing wonderful enthusiasm
 On Tuesday, Jan IA, there will be a meeting of the executive committee who will discuss the results of the drive at a luncheon at the Y. M. c. A. report will be rendered then by , the heads of committees. Jefferson county's quota is $12,000. This amount must be raised between the 13th and the 18th of January.
 TelcgramS From Taft. A telegram from EX-President Taft was received by Judge SorrelIs yes terday, which urged the success of the drive, stating that the need of these starving peoples was becoming more acute. and immediate relief was necessary.
 trmeniiius Betrayed And Prosecuted. The people for whom this fund is being raised are not bound by national ties. They are a tribe of people whom the Turk, in the disease of his filthy mind, and the debauch of his tender emotions, have tricked. be- trayed. and persecuted. The United States cannot give official aid to these peoples for they are not na- ton. Aid can be given them only from private sources.
 The deeds of crime committed upon these peoples are too terrible and too horrible to recount starvation, perse- cution, lust and rape, are words which would enter into the description Of Ithe scenes which have been enacted. The quick and charitable murder by Ibullets or the bayonet which the Ger mans practiced were not followed by the Turk. They contended that lead could not be wasted on these people, and men. women, and children were lined up. and gory handed Turks walked by and knocked each ill the head with an axe, leaving them to lie with the brains oozing out Of thelr crushed skulls, while their bodies were convulsed with the pain Of lingering death. If is the orphans of these murdered people who arc looking with great pig appealing eyes at America. The sul- fering of thousands can be allevlated; 1919 crops will relieve all starvation. But right now there are 4o0,ooo or nbans- s-children--who are starving to death for want of even the crusts
 which Americans throw into the gar bage can. ,,,
 Those who were not murdered were turned from their home, derelects,
 wanderers, into the desert they turn cd where the hot sands soon recelVcd their starving and dying bodies to us breast and covered them over gently
 with the eternal dust of the ages.
 Many of them survived the desert, put
 tbcv reached new land, strangers
 and dependent on the nc..i or peoples
 who are themselves in meager clrcum- stances.
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