The Arvada enterprise., 1919-12-11
FOR ARMENIAN AND
SYRIAN RELIEF
(By RICHARD r. MlLToN)

golden channel in Armenia this year
the second Yuletide celebration of
the coming piece. Over all the
country is being sounded an appeal
to all the people of the greatest ma
tion OF them all, an appeal for hun
reds of thousand
whom Christmas has become only the
Saguest of memories, for nation
weighted down with barborous bur
dens of war. The appeal has come
to this City, this State, to every man
and woman and child.
1t is the appeal in behalf of the
peoples of the Near r-East. In Ar
menia and Syria, nations who suff-
cred inconceivable things rather than
forsake the Allies, and their Christ,
there are more than 100000 boys
and girls to whom a crust of bread
will spell a glorious Christmas Wo-
men to whom bit of food will offer
another day of life. Fathers and
mothers to whom gift of clothing
will mean new hope. Whole COM
munities to whom medicine will mean
Salvation.
In the churches of this community,
in common with communities over all
the country. special Christmas Col
iections will be taken for these peo
pie. Every citizen is being asked to
give something towards saving these
hundreds of thousands from death
Returning Armenians who have seen
the sufferings nthe Near-East de-
clare that the plight OF these people
is more pitiful than anything the
mos; devastating of wars has produ-
ced. Here is what one man says:-
Commander John Brockenshire, chap
lain of the u. S. S. Martin Wask-
ington, which returned recently from
= voyage taking in the Black Sea
norts: s:
II have seen neople in droves Of
thousands gathered around rail.
road station so hungry they fought
for orange peels, melon 'rinds, anu
even egg shells which were thrown
from the trains. They would literal
ly anything in the shape of food"
Herbert Hoover says: 1.-THE Near
East. in my opinion, is the most des.
psrate situation in the world" And
like reports como from all who have
been on the ground and studied the
situation.
The American people have come to
know that those they are asked to
succor are not the worlds scum, a
slothful, slack, begging race Of aims
seekers. They are Civilizations old
est representatives. They are the
peoples who, deserted and betrayed
by the faithless Georgians, abandon
ed by the Bolshevill-corrupte Rus
sians, surrounded by the murderous
Turks and Tartars, their women be-
ing ravished and slain, and driven
with their children starving into the
deserts, knowing they had been choe-
sen deliberately forextermination,r re.
fused to surrender the Allied cause.
or renounce their Christianity. Il
was they who, with one rifle to sevei
men, their brave little army Twin,
more than week only on herbs anc
grasses, faced tho well.armed well.
fed. multitude Of Turks, and route
them, drove them back more than
hundred miles. II was they, who
when the Armistice was signed, turn
cd resolutely to the task of recon.
strrction, md with that which had
been saved. thru the generosity OF
and aid Of America, started to builo
= new government upon their tragic
ruins.
America has come TO know, too
that she Is the only great Nation 70
whom the Ncar-East can turn fol
aid. because theoiher nations have
other great calls TO heed. In Ar
monin now approximately 100000
children nrc being cared for in Am.
cr-can named and American finan-
ccd orphanagcs. And yet 100000
other children are homeless and star
wing. The nation needs food, mus
have Il OF perish II needs meGt
ieincs. clothing. materials. rohabili.
,ation. Theirs i. promise OF great
ncss for the future II the American
people hold out the helping hand
NOW.
Five dollars . month will feed
child In the Near-Enst.
Ten dollars will naxurc that child
food. and plncc TO nlccp, and clo.
thing for the cold weather thir win.