Republican farmer., 1919-09-19
AME REGAIN AiD MUST BE GivEN
 ID AR11ENIANS
Turkish Atrocities Will Re suit Tn EsxteTmination If
 Allowed to Continue.


 |n American Armenian volunteer. Tho public will probably never see these "Wv never publish painful pie lures of that kind,' said tho last daily editor to whom I showed them T. is not business policy to show 8 table full of several Armenian heads Iuarded by armed men wearing the faS and ghastly photographs Of lIv- ing skeletons which show Turkeys Ioastiy ferociLy in AruoDia. Tho pub lie must havc what it wants and, it wants ball games and fall fashions and reports Of actors strikes, Ar nenis is very far away. Why should ve be called co jo s1o-a for her than for suffe~3lw EeLyiC-l-o--oa't we all sending our doles to the rcIicf aren- Cies and docsg't Armenia have It's sharo2 Wc know We cannot copc with the worlds aU6-I woa, II we give all we can, why toCturo us with tules of horror oil tho tiu,ec
 L.isrea- my friends There Is some shIur tN Jn now bcsidLa EiVinE sluS Belgium is free. It's p.v~7lc, V.r1-chcd indeed, are not In daily spr7-u~ o@ l:re and limb, unorgantzod and uncertain Of their fate Not SD Armenia. Since rime began among au the suffering people on the planet in any cline ur aAtAh'Aa4 lAL'AN'L |'taH I.hf.lS Afet--t sAIl prolonged agony as Armenia has en- dured- Unlike HrlEiuu, the grmisjtcc has mo- brought her posce- Just now, while tho League uf Nations is mpnaCcd by twenty =e1rfcrs re0dy ro knife it and more vscuId cmaeculo-e iL- while JNG question or all mAuda- tories is stl9 an open one. TaIrl=lsh forces nh Uncogcd. are sr1lI daring Co vvreak thoir yeuccance on hll-,Icss. Armenia. The British troops war weary arc being withdrawn aSJer hav- ing prOlougpd their stay at the enr- nest request of ths Pence Coufarancs
 Great Br5lafn has dono 1u she can Wilh a daily nntioTal expenditure Of about S11.oo0,o0O above her daily in come, rutrouchrusur or national bank ruptcy an, her alternatives Admiral Fisher has just starIic-I Eu-laud vith thy demand that the british navy shall be scrapped. part of it befn= 0ut of date, and most of It uunC-es- Eary now that Germany's fee- is ruin ,1- Nothing SD refreshing as this de- maud has been heard since tho ar misl4cc- as 1t prcsaErs that genuine ulivC rgs1 disarruamcn1- planned for in inc Covenant. bat of which mankind has bCau exceedingly szepccnL Now. iu tLo interim oT f3I1eiah withdrawal from Armenia and the cousumnlation of general dislrnamonL- what can America do- We arc thc sole nation which ha5 thc men. the moucy and inc influence to deal with the tragic ssfruarion fn which the Jizcrish pro. rlEltIcS of Turk and Eurd arc s-iIII unCurbed.
 It is stated that wash lne1on has lxarnfrrd The situation and decided that il vuuid take 15D.bDc men to re establish order In Armenia and to protect the inhabitants from Turkish persecution Presumably this is an ostinlrto made some time ago and in view of Turkeys present armament Certain fl is that we shaIl send no conscripts and most probably that not one twentieth of 15C. 900 Amcri- can volunteers would Eu 10 guard Armenian mrgu-ain passrz and peas ant villages this winter Help. If if is t0 come must be through public sen ltue1L diplomacy and imucdlltD ac- liau by our Eoyarnmen- through the I'caUe C0ufa~e-ce- While we are working ro pr-yenL the destruction of rna CDveuant-Ihe worlds Ercatast hope louav-thprB arc other matters .l which all lovers Of humanity
 nould also concentrate attention Turkeys arrogance and cruelty wiu .nate markedly if she shows that an impartial international commission under the League is to administer to tho affairs of Consta arInople and tho immediate hiuterland- -aze all forts ans guarantee free passage at all times to all sea craft through Inc I80suhorous and Dardanr5las. Co1stau- 1fnople under a Greek mandatory. -hich Greece drsIres- would be in danger of being a ho. Erd of strife a5 the population iz mixed Greek and EIoaIem- This key rI-y, agnifiCcuily placed between -Le Lues of traffic that connect three continents should be the sacred charge of the Iaaeuc of Nations alone and never again be permitted t1 Da the goal of any nl- tUual ambition It is for N-n---ca ar ihis juncru-e to bring such public pressure to bear as shall ensure it.
 Next America must insist tnas tHo treaty with Turkey, auu unfinished, shall Ice ai least as drastic as regards armaucuLs aa wac that with Cor many. TAe best part of the very faul- tv requirements made Of Germany was shat section V Of thc treaty which w.u reduce her army to 100000, cur tgN extremely her manufacture Of aruamcnts and require surrender of equipment IF a ratlou of G5.0OO,- GOO citizens ig Co Zoe allowed but 1OO,- 900 soldiers. surely Turkey with less than onc-third her population must be pruportiouatnly restricted. With out m armed Turkey. Armenia will loo safe
 In the meantime. a fHw months must clapso and Armenia cannot wait The Peace Conference must act 1t seems prcsumptuous at this distance Co suggest how, but certain ly this powerful little body in Paris which drew a cOrd0u around Hun gary when ft choose and overthrow rts government could find some pres fure to cocrce the Turk. and do it now. learn from the Headquarters can-Arrncnilns who pr -ticfpltcd in the war are available 1T needed to go Of the Armenian National Union of America. that about 10000 Ameri- again Co guard their fatherland. With energetic action by Great Britain and America through the Peace Confer encs, not even this force should be needed The newspaper report that England calls for us to send 200, 900 troops to Armenia comes opportune- ly to those who are trying to alarm our people aB to the fearful military burdens we shall incur if we enter ,t,. 1o~-tra oF Naffoua and accent n