Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1919-02-07
GERMANY URGED
TURKEY To STAY
THE CHRISTIANS
BloODTHIRSTY MOSLEMs THUS
HAD DOUBLE INTENTION-RE-
LIGlON AND POLITICS.
wilson ASKS RELIEF NOW
Best Peoples Of Turkish Nation De-
ported and Slain Because They
Are Followers Of Christ

Probably no campaign ever staged
In America met with SO responsive q
reception as that given the Armenian
and Syrian Relief Campaign, once its
true object was made known to the
loyal and generous people in Missouri
We had always associated those
places in which the suffering from the
recently ended world wal is the most
intense with our membranes of the
Bible stories, and our attention was
fastened on Belgium and France.
But the stories related in the Bible
OF wars cruelties, and those stories
of the sufferings of the Belgians and
TIE French cannot begin to compare
With the actual conditions as they ex'
IL even today in the place that We
scall the Holy Land.
The very places where Jesus was
born. where he was reared. where he
performed his miracles - Bethlehem,
Nazareth, Jerusalem. and the entire
Palestine, are now the abiding place
Of famine, ~pestilence, and outrages
daily from the hand Of the unspeaka.
bic Turk and the farbarous Kurds.
The Armenians, Syrians, Greeks and
Persians, who for centuries have been
the producing classes of Turkey.
which government dominated the en-
tire Holy Land, was sought to be ex-
terminated when the war broke out.
This was for two Recommendations
and political.
These peoples were and are Chris
tians. The Mohammedan Turk hates
all Christians, and in days gone by
has m%assacred thousands in his en-
deavor to make the "infidel dogs" en-
brace the true religion" as he terms
the Moslem religion. Then came the
war. The Turk, spurred on by Ger
many, who realized that these Chris
tians were the natural allies Of the
nations Germany was fighting, sought
to complete the destruction of these
Christian people.
All other attempts were puerile as
that Of the last four years, when the
prosperous Armenians, Greeks and
Syrians were deported from their
homes, their property confiscated, and
tens Of thousands massacred for the
love Of inflicting torture. The mira
Gle is that Eel now four millions are
yet alive.
For several years the Armenian and
Syrian Relief has done much to allie
viate the suffering. 1t has an organi-
cation that al reach these peoples,
who have no nation through which to
protect themselves. 1t is the only or
ganization that can extend help to all.
The Red Cross cannot do the work.
1t has but few stations there.
The men at the head Of the Armen-
Ian and Syrian Relief have provided a
fund to carry on the expense of the
organization here. Not one penny of
the $3o,OO0,000 that will be raised
February 80 will go into the expense
or raising the fund. A special fund,
contributed by men at the head of the
organization, pays this expense.
President Wilson has scrutinized
the plan, and has placed his stamp
OF approval on it. He has issued a
proclamation asking the public to re-
spond to the call. He has gone fur
ther. He has asked congress to an.
propriate 500, 600, 900 for the same
purpose. But in doing so he made It
clear that this should in no wise in.
terfere with the $50, 600, 900 drive. The
$ioo,o0O,O00 will not be available for
months, and by that time hundreds
oi thousands would have persisted.
rood Administrator Hoover when he
went abroad soon saw for himself the
= Z OF quick action. He got in com
muhication with the officers of the
armenian and Syrian Relief. Though
tne big 100000 900 has not yet been
raised, these men of wealth advanc-
(ea money with which food was bought
.nrough the Food Administration, and
II is now beig dispensed.
me Wal Department, through Sec.
|Ietary Baker, is conveying workers
20 the scene on Government rams
ports without cost. Secretary of the
|Navy Daniels is placing at the COM
|n,i'tee's disposal ships on which to
ship other supplies, And this Is with
put cost.
hoover has ordered all food admin
tstrators in every State and in every
county to do all in their power to
hake this campaign a quick success,
. that millions Of lives will be
fpared.