The Brinkley argus., 1919-01-31
LAST WAR TASK NOW CONFRONTS
 UNITED STATES
wnEMiEs ARE CONQUERED, BUT SOME WEAK ALLiEs MUST
 BE SAVED.
STARVATION IN HOLY LAND
Four Million Christian Armenlans, syrians, Greeks, and Thoussnds of Jews, Prosecuted By
 Turks, In Distress.

The American people have been asked to give money for the starving and suffering 8 good many times since the great war began. and they have always responded in a way that has made the word American" ono of the proudest titles on earth.
 But there has never been more urgent need than that of the dying znultitudss of the old Bible Lands. Try to imagine 4.00o, 900 men. women and children starving in deserts and old inwslled cities, dying in pesti- 1ence and plagues in the old holy places of the Near East. Picture this vast arny of sufferers going down in~ to the Valley of the Shadow with none save far-off America to succor and to help.
 That is what is happening at this very hour in Syria, in Armenia and The Greeo-Turldsh parts of the Near East. What ths fanatical Turk ear rted out under the direction of the cold-hearted Prussians famine. pes tfience and tho black shadow of star walton 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 ons will ever know, how many Armenians were slain by the Turks smce the great war began.
 Millions of helpless people died of massacre and starvation in this an c1ent 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 the Turkish soldiery who cluboed them to death rather than waste cart ridges in slaying them. Hundreds of thousands of the old men, the wom- en and children were driven off in- fo 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 4.000,0 900 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 rorting meat of long dead animal carcasses. and are eus- taining life on the flthiest 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 tco few of the liv- ing and they are too weak to bury their own dead. It is Land Of Death, charnel house made by the Turk and the German
 If these 4,000,000 people are to be saved it must be through American help. If the 400.000 orphaned chil- dren in the Holy Lands of Christian ity are to live it must be because Americans will give enough Ameri- can dollars 10 save them.
 It does not take much to do infinite good The .~an or the woman who gives S5 giytf enough to keep the breath or lire in some poor unfortu- nate for a month Twelve times S5 will mean life for a year 10 some man. woman or child who Is other. wise doomed. Only IT. 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 r>hef 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 to wipe out these people while the world was so busy with war that it could not turn aside to 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 well.
 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 success.