Newport daily independent., 1919-01-20
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.

asked to give money for the starving and suffering a good many times since the great war began, and they have always responded in a way that has made the word American" one of the proudest titles on earth.
 But there has never been a more urgent need than that of the dying multitudes of the old Bible Lands Try to imagine 100000 men, women and children starving in deserts and old inwalled cities, dying in pesti- lence and plaques in the old holy places of the Near East. Picture this vast army of sufferers going down In none save far-off America to succor and to help.
 That is what is happening at this very hour in Syria, in Armenia and East. What the fanatical Turk car ried out under the direction of the cold-hearted Prussians famine, pes tilence and the black shadow of star vation are now rapidly completing.
 They call Armenia, that lies up to- ward the Russian frontier in Eastern Turkey, The Death Valley of the Near East" No one knows, no one will ever know, how many Armenians were slain by the Turks sfnce the great war began.
 Millions of helpless people died of massacre and starvation in this an cient land. The Armenians were cut to pieces by Bashi-Bazouks, they were beaten to death by the thous- ands under the nail-studded clubs of them to death rather than waste cart ridges in staying them. Hundreds of thousands of the old men, the wom- en and children were driven off in to the open deserts to die under the burning sun of Asia. They have, dis appeared utterly. The race is at the point of being wiped out.
 There are but 100000 of these persecuted, harassed peoples of Ar menia and Syria left. They are starv- ing, as no other people in the world have ever been starved. The Ger mans thought they were at the Dark Gates of Hunger when they finally surrendered. Belgium knows some thing of real hunger, but in Arme- mia and Syria these stricken people with death at their shoulders are fighting for the rotting meat of long dead animal carcasses, and are SIS taining life on the filthiest garbage that comes to their hands, They are literally starving.
 The sandy trails Of the desert are lined with the bodies of the starved The dead bodies choke the village streets. There are too few of the liv- ing and they are too weak to bury their own dead. It Is Land of Death, a charnel house made by tlfe Turk and the German.
 If these 100000 people are to be saved it must be through American help. If the 100000 orphaned chil- dren in the Holy Lands of Christian ity are to live it must be because Americans will give enough Ameri- can dollars to save them.
 It does not take much to do infinite good. The man or the woman who gives S5 gives enough to keep the breath of life in some poor unfortu- nate for month. Twelve times $5 will mean life for a year 10 some man. woman or child who Is other wise doomed. Only IF cents per day is required to maKe the difference be tween life and death to some one of the starving millions of the Near East.
 Other Americans have helped. American men and women relief workers have been doing their best there for long time. Some Of them have given their lives in an effort to save these people. The Turks and the Germans were determined 10 wipe out these people while the world was so busy with war that it coull not turn aside 10 answer the piteous appeals that were coming out of the fastnesses of the Turkish Empire. Now that the curtain has been lifted by the ending of the war, the world knows that they succeeded all too we'll
 Arkansas people are asked to help save these stricken peoples The Ar menian and Syrian Relief Campaign begins February and continues one week and we will make this cam paign a success.