The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-23
Overseas Men Aiding Local Workers To Put Help Drive Over Top
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Continued rom Page One.) In the East are the Armenians, who opposed the pagan TEFk They are clean, wholesome, handsome, reng- ious people of power and vigor. Not at the price of safety would they join with the Turk against the holy cause of Allied nations.
 And for this reason, because they were brave, with a braveness of the spirit, and because they would not bow their ideals, though their bodies were broken they were tortured by the Turk, slaughtered by the fanatic Mo- hamedan. The faces of the Armen- ians were ground into the dust; theIr children were consigned to death by hunger; their old women 70 the an initiation of unrelieved fatigue and their young women to the lusts of their oppressors.
 These people were lined up before open trenches, which they dug them selves, and there standing were fn- discriminatory moved Gown. and their bodies covered in by relatives and friends spared for the task.
 Sometimes the Arnenians were packed into enclosed places, often into churches, and the buildings were fired, and death came by the keenest torture which man can inffict.
 Those who survive are in bitter need. Either they must be helped or they cannot exist.
 And this is the third of the causes which are submitted to the people of Bridgeport, by the overseas sol- diers, and the volunteer civilian workers of the Combined Help Drive.
 It is true that the people bought
 
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 There are the young men, who have earning power; many thousands of them who were fortunate enough not to be called to the colors; young men who have no families. nor any re- responsibilities, except their own sup port.
 These may generously aid. And this aid may be rendered, not alto- gether for the good of the cause, but for the good of the giver.
 The boys who did not go to war are under a handicap To the serious young man belongs the race of life.
 The serious young man is more cer- tain to be thew inner. The soldiers have come home, for the most part, serious minded. They have sacrificed; they hayes uffered. They have learn ed the difference between unabated selfshness and unstinted giving.
 The young civilian will need to cultiva te self sacrifice, seriousness and responsibility if he is to hold hss own. with the young soldier, in the years to come.
 Let Bridgeport now, realizing the need and the duty, make things hum during the next few days. Let's put the Combined Drive over. Ac- Ccpting the principle that civil pop ulations also are stronger and bet ter. when they receive the necessary discipline of war, which includes the activity of giving as well as the ac tivity of fighting.
 If any person who can give, is in clined not to give, let him, when he has finished with all his excuses, think of the hundred overseas sol diers, who are working for the cause, who have given to the cause, and who are determined to send the drive over the top.
 If the soldiers can do this, on top of what they have already done, how shall any find himself in good con- science when he refuses also to do his share?