Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-11
VAST AUDIENCE HEARS
OF NEED OF ARMEN|ANS
Meeting For Raising Fund For
Starving People One Of
Great Enthusiasm
STIRRING SPEECHES MADE

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Delegates last night, and an overflow
in the gallery, the mass meeting to in
augurate the drive for the Armenian
Relief fund was held last night in the
State House.
Never did the Naval Academy band
play a better selected musical pro-
gram, under the leadership of Band
master Toroysky feature being Ar
menian airs. that seemed to echo the
pathos of a martyred people whose
wall from their brother christians were
attuned to weird music.
Governor Harrington presided at the
meeting which was opened with invo-
cation by the Rev. Edward ID. john
son, rector of st. Anne's The COVER
nor, in his opening address. said the
question of appeal for Armenian relief
was one from the heart. from every
standpoint of justice, and is in behalf
of those people of the last who have
suffered as never before any people
have suffered.
Governor Gives Endorsement.
Millions, the governor said, are with
out home and no place on the face OF
Gods earth to call home, and are
fighting for an existence and make a
plea for subsistence until they are in
position to earn a livelihood and
give them an opportunity to make good
in the eyes of the world. The appeal
to Annapolis, the governor said, is a
call worthy of our generous support
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the Peace conference is over, said the
governor Il hope the League of Ma
tions will be big enough and strong
enough to protect humanity.
Prof Angelo Hall, of the department
of mathematics at the Naval Academy,
gave an interesting talk. He named
the local committee appointed for this
drive, including Mrs. S. S. Hepburn,
chairman; Miss Katherine Walton.
Mrs. Abram Moss. Miss Beatrice Gum,
Mrs. Dashiell, who are working indus
triously in the interest of this drive.
The people of Annapolis always stand
by the women, said Prof. Hall, and are
sure to aid the cause they espouse.
He told of the general rule here for
scientific charity, and investigating
cases, and of using wisdom in giving
charity He told of the inhumanity
and cruelty to the Armenian people by
the Turks, who had oppressed them,
and reviewed their past history. Mary
land is always ready and willing to go
to the relief of those in distress. said
Prof Hall, and he referred to the noble
800 who went out to Washington at
the battle of Long island, and who
were slain. They did their duty, and
there were men who did their duty in
this war, and he named young Tisdale.
of Annapolis. who had lost leg while
battling for his country, but was game
under such afiliction.
Must Give More Money.
Annapolis is the best place to start
this movement for Armenian relief, he
said. and he told of the slaughter in
| 1852, of $4,000 people slain on the Is
land of Greece. of the Crimean War.
which was a case of international
jealousy. He told of the savage afro
city of the Turks in Bulgaria, when
Russia started in to put the Turk out
of business and Armenian generals in
terferred Historians of the future, he
said. would say this war was revenge
for the treaty of Berlin. Carrying out
the policy of getting rid of the Ar
menian question, was getting rid of the
Armenians.
In closing, Prof. Hall said we must
do something more than give our
money. We must see to it that in
fiuence of governor and senators be
brought to bear to make the European
statesmen do their duty
Dr. Poteat, of Botson, Mass.
clergyman, and professor of a univer-
sity in that city, was the orator of the
evening. He was highly dramatic at
times. during his address. and his audi
ence hung in breathless silence on his
words, especially when he gave graph
ic description of the atrocities inflicted
on the Armenians by the Turks, whom
he called barbarians.
Speaker Says Earth Is Shrunken.
In beginning he said the striking
feature of the new life after this war,
is that we have got closer together
than ever before The earth has
shrunken to the size of a neighbor-
hood, so that what goes on in one part, !
tingles in the other. Some one has
said, he affirmed. that the earth has
shrunken to eight ninths of its size 1
In Washington's day it took nine days
to journey from New York to Albany. |
Washington was dead two weeks be-
fore Boston heard about It. Now, |
when war was declared on August IA, it /
was asked how long il would take to |
send the news to the whole British /
empire The answer was-six min
utes, and in six minutes the news went /
round the world and the machinery of /
war was set in motion.
Dr. Poteat. whose son is mission
airy in China, gave a graphic descrip- |
ton of the Chinese students on parade