The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-11-13
The Slaughter of the Innocents

Three and half million children call to the heart
and resources OF America for daily supplies,
not .v avsabls as their I eeHntrie. that their
iHss' seinS and to the rebuilding of their physical we'll
Our will be exhausted in January
, We must not step aside and permit the spectre of
death, in the form of hunger to haunt thess
helpless ones this winter. yet without
America ss . f shrrss s on the American heart and
ou, d, syJ three million dollars must be raised with
the Belgium in the 's dark Rot ho1r 1rs
of 1916, / come o GU again"
(ssned).HERBERr HOOVER
literary Digest
In immediate response the foLI0winq editorial uos
published in The Literary Digest of October son:
N7HEN JESUS CHRIST CAME UPON THE
wv earth, nearly two thousand years ago to
save all mankind, his mere coming seemed
to interfere with the material interests of a few
people Of that period notably King Herod who
promptly decided to dispose of this interloper and
sent forth his soldiers with orders to slay all the chill
dren OF two years old and under. Thus was consun-
mated the most atrocious crime against innocent
childhood ever committed up to that time 1t has
come down to us through all the ages in song and
story, and master painters have pictured it on mar
VelOuS canVaSeS.
Today passing in review as we look out through
the windows OF our comfortable homes in this great
and happy land, are three and half millions of
helpless children the innocent victims of the great
est that has ever afflicted humanity 1t matters
not as gaze in the direction of these children
that our eyes must stretch across three thousand
miles of ocean, we still can see them and we still can
hear them, if we wish to do so; and we cannot help
hearing the tragic appeal in their voices and seeing
their tiny stretched out to u.s. and their search
ing eyes looking into souls, as they say Help
us, or we perish" And if we fail to listen to this
great call of three and half millions of Gods help
less chdren if we close our eyes and ears to this
great demand of duty, shall be just as guilty Of
the slaughter of the innocents as was Herod near
ly two thousand years ago.
In these lands, swept by death and filled with
tragedies too deep for tears, of human suf-
ferng is being written greater perhaps than for all
ages gone by. The mind grows numb and the heart
sick from constant recital Of tales of such tragedy
as it is difficult to believe the twentieth century
could hold.
And so, when we received letter from Mr..
Hoover telling that America must not allow
death in the form of hunger and cold to come to
these 100000 helpless children our soul was
stirred and the hot blood surged up in heart We
felt it was our imperative duty to use all the power
God has given us to aid this noblehearted American
in continuing the work. of saving human lives to
which he has devoted unsparingy and at great per-
sona sacrifice, his tremendous energy and admins
trative genius during the past six years in which time
he and his American colleagues have administered
two billions of dollars of relief funds from all parts
of the world with total overhead expense of only