The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-03-11
"Is 1t Nothing to You, All Ye
That Pass?"
This Verse From Lamentations Applies to
Charity.

few days ago there landed in San Francisco an
Armenian boy of nineteen his family had been one Of
those who in times Of peace were reckOned among the pros
porous people Of KasEg, near HarpOot, in Armenia
This young boy, whose name is Sooren Darkasparin
old Of those Stories which despite hdeOusnesS and hOr
or, have become that we who hear and read
than are too little impressed
He rected to representatives of the San Francisco
papers the gruesome details of the massacre of his entire
family by the Turks and also told how he had seen ten
thousand Of his fellow countrymen wantonly killed and
thrown into Lake Kalgnak
This boy has come to America to escape death what
than death the Witnessing Of the suffering Of his
fellow human beings.
His reCtalS follow almost to the letter the descriptions
which Ambassador Mgenthau gives Of the flooding Of the
Eupses by the bodies of dead Armenan when he writes
'n loop Of the river birmingham the thousands Of
dead bodies created such barage that the river changed
ts course for about hundred yards
The story Of the prosecutions of Armsnans is not new
Two hundred thousand Of the people Of that country fell
ct the hands Of the Turks in 1895 and 49, when Abdul
Hamid earned the title of "The Great Assassin"
Too many Of US have forgotten him and his bloody
work
In the great world war the Hun casped hands with the
Turk and sought to accomplish by their bloody partnership
in rapine and murder the determination which the Turk
had failed to complete alone.
In the gu1se OF bay0netS and swords did their
tun work. and where they failed starvation made to
take up the task
More than four millions of men and women and little
children have been driven from homes their hands had
bufh
Every conceivable crime has been committed upon the
persons Of these helpless people.
-Four hundred thousand little children whose only
mse il that they born In countries where peseCu
ton Of ther has been regarded the sport Of
stronger nstOn today facing starvation and death
Is to relieve these suffering peoples; to put bread in
ther mouths and clothing upon their fran and shattered
bCes TO help to restore to them Semblance Of hu
man comfort that the Committee for Relief in the Near
East operating the United States asks you to subscribe
all yOu able to the fund for the rehabilitation Of this
broken race
Seventeen cmts day; five dollars a month; sixty
dollars year. VIII keep Of these people alive and help
to put him back where he may be self sustaining and as
far person who has had his experiences may BE- self
respecting
At the bottom Of of the posters which the commit
Il nothing to you all ye that pass? Behold and see il
thefe be any sorrow, like unto my sorrow.
The pity Of your heart will avail but little to soften
their suffering.
The pity Of yo pocketbook is the only effective means
Of ansviatiug their distress
To give and to give generously win not only cure
suffering but it viii save suffering You can address your
letters and your contributions Eugene Thompson treas
ure care Crane Paris Co. 728 fifteenth street north
vest with the certainty that every penny viii be devoted
TO the cause for which you are asked to subscribe
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