The Dermott news. (Dermott, Ark.) 1910-1977, 1919-02-13
LAST WAR TASK
NOW CONfR0NTS
UNITED STATES
ENEMIES ARE CONQUERED, BUT
SOME WEAK ALLIES MUST
BE SAVED.
STARVATION IN HOLY LAND
Four Million Christian Armenians
Syrians, Greeks. and thousands
of Jews. Prosecuted BY
Turks, in Distress

The American people have been
asked 70 give money for the starving
and suffering good many times
since tho great war began. and they
have always responded in way mat
has made the word "Ameriean one
of the pr0udest titles on earth
But there has never been a more
urgent need than that of the dying
multtudes Of the old Bible Lands
Try TO imagine 1000, 600 men, women
and children starving in deserts ana
old inwalled cities. dying in pest
lence and plaques N the old holy
places of the Neas East Picture this
vast army of sufferers going down n
to the Valley OF TIE Shadow with
none save far-off America 10 succor
and 10 help
That Is what is happening at this
very hour In Syria. In Armenia al:
the Greco Turkish parts of the Nenr
East What the fAnatieal Turk ca
RED out under tue direction X tho
cold-hearted Prussians fsmire. p~s
thence and the black shadow u 5tds5
yaiion are now rapidly completing
They call Armenia. that lie. UP 20
ward the Russian frontier In Eastern
Turkey. I he Death Valley OF tf~
Near East" No one knows. no ons
will ever know. how many Arninniana
were slain ny The Turks SINCE the
great war began.
Millions OF helpiess people died OF
massacre and starvation in this an
eient land Tho ArInenisns were cut
70 pieces BY Bashi Bazouks they
We're beaten TO death by the thous
tho Turkish sordtery who Cluhoed
hem to death rather than waste carr
rsoges IN staying them Hundreds OF
thousand. OF the old men. the WON
n and children were driven OF, In
to tie open deserts 20 die under tho
burning sun OF Asia They have dis
appeared utterly TIE race is at N.
point OF being wiped out.
There are but 4.ooo. 900 of these
persecuted harassed peoples ~ A.
nenis and Syria left They are s,arv
tnS. ar no other people in the world
have yer been starved The Coz
mans thought they we're at the Dark
Gates OF Hunger when they finally
surrendered Belgium knows some
thing u real hunger but in Arme
MA and Syria these stricken people
With death NJ their shoulders are
hShtins for the roting meat OF hong
eead animal csrcasseS. and are SIS
tainine life on the fithtest garbage
chat comes TO their hands hey ara
terAi.v starving.
Tn ssniy TRAITS OF the DESERT are
lined with the bottles Of the starved
he dead bodies choke the village
STREETS There ar TOO iyw ef the l'vz
fHe md they are teo Weak To bury
their own dead L Is a Land u
Death. a eharnel house made by he
Turk and the Conan
II these 4oooc.o peop'r are 10 he
saved it must through American
help. II the 900 a. orphaned Chi
dren In lie Holy Llads = Christian
itH are 20 live Il must ~ hecause
Americans Will ~ enough Amcri
can dollars 20 save them
Il does not take much 70 do Infinite
good The man OF the woman who
gives IS gives enough 10 keep III"
breath OF life in some poor unfortu-
nate for month Twelve times IS
Will mean life for year 20 some
nan woman or cnild who is other
wise doomed Only Il cents per a.
is required 10 MAKE the difference BE-
tween LIE and death 10 some one Of
the starving millions OF the Near
East
Other Americans have helped
American men I'd women rehes
workers have eeen do+nx their best
there for long time Some OF them
have given their lives in an effort 20
save these people The Turks and
tho Germans were determined -
Wipe out thsse people while the world
was 40 busy with war that II could
moi turn aside 10 ansver tho piteous
appeals that we're coming out OF thu
fastnesses OF the Turkish Empire
Now that the curtain ha. heen littei
BY The ending of he war. tho world
knows Tint they succeeded all 90
we'll
Arkansas people are asked 70 help
save those stricken peoples The Ar
menian and Syrian Relief Campaign
begins February and continues oua
week and We viii make thts cem
pstgn a success