Great Falls daily tribune., 1919-01-21
ARMENIA'S CASE
FORCEFULLY PUT
Magazine Article Tells Eloquent.
ly the Need of This Suf-
fering People.

Cascade county has been gathering its
contribution to the Armenian relief fund
during the past week and it has not yet
completed the work The people, ap-
parentIy. have not heard the story Of
suffering Armenia told with sufficient
force to cause all of them to nnloose
their purse strings and give their share.
In the latest issue Of the Literary Di-
gest there is a page article that covers
the case eoncisely, forcefully and eff
fectively. It is worth reading, as the
following extracts from it will indicate,
and If read it will cause those who
haven't contributed to give something
and for those who have given. IL may
cause them to add something. Here is
the article:
"If ye shall ask anything Of the Fa-
ther in my name. He will give it to you.
"For 10 centuries this glorious
promise has been source Of comfort
and of strength to the countless mil
lions of the oppressed, the sick, the suf-
fering, the troubled. and the grieyousig
hurdened. These burning words have
been a pillar of fire by night and pillar
of cloud by day to the heavily laden and
the sore distressed and to those multi
tIldes who have passed thru the Valley
of the Shadow of afflction or death.
And now in this latter day-nay. at this
very hour-millions Of women and chill
dren IN and near those lands those hills
and rivers made holy by the sacred mem
ories Of our Lord. are claiming this
promise and are crying out to Him in
IN agony Of spirit and body beseeching
Him that He viii save them from star
vation, from death, and from horrors
worse than death.
A i
other war sufferers in western Asia are
practically without food, clothing. or
shelter, the vast majority helpless wom-
en- and children. More than a million and
a half have been deported Nearly a mil
lion have been brutally murdered and
massacred. -Four hundred thousand chill
dren are orphaned. 1t can be said that
there are practically no more children
left under the age Of >, all having per-
ished from exposure and disease. For
every hundred births there are from two
to three hundred deaths. The newly born
children die almost Immediately their
mothers having nothing to give them but
tears Deaths from dysentery. fyphus.
tuberculosis, and famine are increasing
from day to day with appalling rapidity
The homeless-a pitiful stream of WON
en- and chidren-wander aimIessIy thru
the streets of their wrecked villages IF
you stop a child toward evening and ask
him where he is going he will tell you,
I am searching for place to Sleep
san winter long they have slept in
hooks and corners, in alleys by the road
sides. with no blankets no covering
whatever. their clothing the merest rags
The women clasp their wan-faced chill
dren to their breasts and on their faces
Is written the ptiful story Of their ut
ter despair.
1.-THE scenes in these lands of grief
and suffering are beyond the power Of
imagination to conceive or of words to
describe Thruont the length and breadth
Of these countries there is no food save
bread the dry crusts of bread that they
receive at the hands Of charity. No
meats, no soups, no vegetables. no SUI
gar, less than pound Of bread daily
and even this poor morsel has often TO
be shared with others. A poor old wom
an faint with hunger said to me today
writes one Of the devoted workers, 'Sa
hib, tie bread won't go down. | soak it
IN water, but it sticks in my throat
"Now is our opportunity to show
these lands made luminous by the foot
prints of Christ and the Apostles what
our Christianity Of the west means to-
day Now is the time when these places
Of sacred history should receive Q new
sanctification by the service Of Gods
children in the twentieth century. With
a Christlike healing Of the sick and
feeding the hungry, we will make
royal highway for our Lord into the
grateful hearts Of these people, along
which the King Of Glory may come with
his message of love and light.
OF course it is none of our business.