Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1919-12-12
YULET|DE
GIVES MISSOURI
A GRAND CHANGE
THEY CAN HELP THOSE BORN IN
SAME LAND AS SAVIOR,
WHOM THEY FOLLOW.
WILSON AND TAFT FAVOR
President and FORMER United States
President Speak for Near
East Sufferers.

Missourians. who have ever respond.
ed when patriotism demanded. and
who have hardened and have given
freely when their gifts were actually
needed and would bring relief to the
stricken. will have an opportunity
during the approaching Yuietide sea.
son to participate In another outpour-
ing that should appeal to every Chris.
tian within the borders Of the State.
Something less than a year ago char.
table Missourians loosed their purse
strings and contributed their share to
the $50. 000. 900 FUND that was raised
throughout the United Ttates that the
slaughter and the starvation Of Chris.
tians in the lands ruled by the Turkish
Sultan should lease
No state responded more heartily
or more spontaneously than Missouri.
Missouri dollars went to New York,
where the officials of Near East Re.
lief, then called the American Commit
tee for Armenian and Syrian Relief,
assembled the resources of the nation
and dispatched shipload after ship
load of supplies and provisions that
the lives of millions of stricken people
might be saved. Not only this, but
hospitals were established and thou
sands of Armenians who had been
driven from their homes by the bar.
barrie Turks were re-~established and
were placed on a se1~f-supporting basis.
When that campaign was conducted
last February 1t was thought the work
OF mercy would have been completed.
The war had been fought and won,
thanks to Americans. The power OF
the German Emperor and the Turkish
Sultan had been broken. All that re-
NAMED was to bring about the uni
versal peace, and it was everywhere
expected that America would accept
the mandate that would give this
country the power to see that the afro
cities of the past, committed by Turks
of the Mohammedan faith, could never
be repeated and that q peaceful peo'
pie could re~-establish themselves and
Fold up their heads among the nations
of the world.
America, however, has seen fit to
delay the signing of the peace treaty
and the government, as such, can take
no national hand in alleviating the suf'
ferings of a people who have been tor
tured for centuries for no other rea
sons than that they saw fit to follow
in the footsteps of Him whose birth
will be celebrated throughout the
world December 25.
But because Congress failed to act,
the people Of this land will not see
the peoples of that land across the sea
the Holy Land-the land where
\ Christ was born and where His mir
acles were performed, suffer and die
because they are doing as did His
followers in the early days--clinging
to the doctrines He taught.
President Wilson, while making the
tour of the country in September, in
an address at Kansas City. in this
state. called attention to the sufferings
of the Armenians. Secretary Of the
Navy Daniels, in an address at New
York a few days ago, told how the
Navy Department was working hand
in glove with the Near East Relief
the name Of the organization that has
taken up the work formerly done by
the same organization that conducted
the campaign so successfully last Feb
ruary.
Secretary of War Baker and Herbert
Hoover, who personally inspected the
conditions in Armenia, have added
their pleas to the public telling Of the
vast needs Of these Christian people
Abram Elkus. who was Ambassador
to Turkey from the United States
when diplomatic relations were sew
J cred with the Sultan's government, In
an address a day or two ago, said that
conditions as described by former
Ambassador Morganthau bad never
been exaggerated and that the terrible
Turk was completing individually the
work that was begun countless cen
turtles ago-exterminating Armenians
because they refused to accept MO
manned as the True God.
FOTIu6I TTcbtuCht iho
Taft, who has given freely Of his mon
ey and his time in the pact to aiding
this, stricken people, Is working for
the success OF the plan adopted in be
half OF the Armenians and Is urging
in addresses and in public prints tina,
Americans open their hearts and
pocket-books that a Christian race
shall not be totally destroyed.
The first plan for relief will be an
Offering to be made at Christmas time
by Missourians. Mr.. ]. A. Mcmillan
has been named State Secretary 70,
Near East Relief for Missouri, and ne
has established headquarters in Room
1923 Chemical building. st. Louis.
Two hundred thousand letters will
be sent out shortly to as many indi
vidual M~issourians, urging that they
make such contributions as they deem
they are able to afford. Pledge cards
and data showing to whom remittances
shall be made will accompany these
lstters.
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