Jackson County sentinel. (Gainesboro, Tenn.) 1914-current, 1919-01-16

Plod3,ae across burninr saads Ever
thirst sit1s patched Throat dry,
Grown. Eef with every step Mpjh
ers are s,F.ei to lay their babbs at
the sid q. the. sandy. blood marked
trail. ed with skeletons aud
dying al MS, because they have nc
nourishaa at in their breasts for then
offspring. E5ory shrub uproo'ed and
chewed until the last drop OF moi TIRE
is gone. Nothing to eat. Nothing to
drink
Marching across a desert. feet worn
70 the hone drops of blood are the
footprints in these sands Of de5ola
tion. Whitening bones Of millions Of
massacred men, women and children
streN the plains ot Asia Minor from
the Black sea 10 the Persian Gulf. In .
single day's travel II is possible to see
AiS hlutl-a1fA " VI hpiN tAAuh "
900 women. outraged by The Turkish
army, their children wandering to
wards What once was heir home
, guided only by instinct such a. an an,
,tmal shows when carried away.
Thousands OF diving babies have been
hurled INTO the rushing tides OF ths
E~uphrates, Tigris and other rivers by
mothers who wanted them not TO sui
fer the agony OF slow death From one
town $4,000 persons were deported
Not permitted to take eve a crust OF
bread. Allowed to carry only the
clothes they wore. Deported, driven
for endless miles over mountains,
numbed by biting winds; over plain,
made barren by barbarfc war; across
deserts sf parching heat. Passing hur
,riedly from one extreme of climate to
another, driven by mounted guards
ex-convicts, criminals and ruffians oil
the lowest order.
After 81 days OF wandering 1876 d
the $4,000 we're living. They staggered
into a town hundreds Of miles from
where they started ~Shuddering skele
tons, covered only with rags OF the
raiments that covered them at the
start, half blind from starvation and
heat, half dead Of their suffering.
This is only one Of hundreds Of
towns and villages similarly treated
BY the Turkish armies. Horrors OF the
underlings OF the Sultan Of Turkey
commanded by German officers. II
this was the end Of the story appeal
would be useless aud the work OF the
American Committee for Relief in the
Near East would not be needed But
with the end OF the war and The cessa
ton of hostiiities these abused PEG
Plies naturally attempted to return tG'
their homes. They had nothing where
they were. When they started on the
return journey OF them died
HoW ( hundred Of thousands a
aeed TO withstand the terrible ordeal
and reached what once were thefi
homes. Unl, to lind heaps Of ruins.
Children lost their parents. Parenu
who had Aoi lost their babies could not
care for themselves. They. could not
be expected to feed others when the,
lad nothing with which 10 Tegals
themselves. II 4 TO ave these helpless
almost hopeless. pretty babies Of the
Western Asiatic countries that The
American Committee for Relief IN the
Near East was formed from the Amer
team Committee for Armenian and So
rian Relief The Red Cross was mob
o~rxapiEed in these countries 70 succos
these people. That organization pave
the Ane ~ COMMITTEES for Relief IL
The Nea. 8ney with which tis
relief work vas begun, No more could
IL epared from that body's treasury
Thersfore he committee decided u
ask the people Of the United States foi
ssu.e,t.uo6 and the State OF TENNESSEE
was allotted one per cent Of this %
raise Just ssO0OoQ Every hour tia.
the money is delayed, several hunores
innocent babies reach up their Ans
Cor : crust u bread. receive 1t not ana
vita . err Of despair. psrtsh.