New-York tribune., 1920-02-02
Gerard .Assails
Soviet Board
OF Adnlil'als'
Tells Armenian Relief
Meeting He Would Have
Heads of Ohcer.Critics
in Basket in "a Hours
Daniels Champions Treaty
Other Speakers Plead for
Fund to Aid Survivors
OF Turkish Massacres

A three-weeh drive to raise $50
ona 900 "a keep 120o.0 900 destitute
sdnl,s a5o.0oo orphaned children and
I'M, coo women. recently freed from
bondage all Armenians-fro persia
'ns hy starvation. WAS launched yes
.srdav afternoon in Simultaneous
meetings 81 The Hippodrome. in Man
ba.tsn. and the Academy of Music, IN
Brooklyn
A. the Hippodrome meeting. which
mas snarsely attended. 1t was an
rounced that contributions totalinS
So2l 100 had already been made in New
York toward the metropolitan Quosa
.f 81. Ooo 600. Of this sum s750oo0
csue from the Commonwealth Fund
for the relief OF children and $4,000
IRON, fifteen Armenian residents of the
NV Against this amount the Near
Vas. Relief has a debt of Sl,000.o00
outstanding II was stated In the
Snu.h $500 900 has been raised. accord
uss % Supreme Court Justice Abram
!. ElAus. who presided
Secretary Of the .-Savy Josephus
nanjeiS. al unexpected speaker at the
4 inuod-onc. and James ". Gerard,
n rner United States Ambe sador TO
Ce rrany. coupled outside affairs with
~uhcn think Of this last year of in
act y and adGiing IN America while
he whole world has been burning
declared Mr. Daniels, the Armenian
si,ua .ioH looms as a tragedy of TRACE
dies. We have not measured up to
wns. was expected OF US after the
arrnist ke through failure 10 ratify the
neace .reaty, which would have pre-
-ented the Armenian disaster and
saved thousands Of lives.
= !,
or without reservations. however we
will not = ke our hands from the piow
until the orh IS finished.
Mr. GesA I'd. introduced as possibly
he next President" referred TO the
SINS -Dani ! controversy by saying:
There = nothing wrong with the
navy II uere Secretary OF the Navy
and any adioirals or anybody else had
s:srted % form Soviet board OF cri.i-
csrn - DESTROY efficiency and discipline
would have had them or the slide
and their heacls in the basket inside OF
-wen.y-four h,xirs.
Rabbi Steph an s. Wise stirred the
audience by de claring that il Ameri-
cans say they &c tired OF war relief
projects the Arnu mans might very we'll
reply tnat they are tired OF starving"
Tine Mohammedan apaches should
1e kept out OF Asia and Europe alto
gether," Rabbi Wise added. armenia
n peace * the sane challenge 10 this
coun,ry's moral sa.nding as Belgium
vas in the war. If Armenia is neglected
now. Germany Will have won the war
or Turkey. the fou!sast and most igno-
3lc o. her allies.
Wants L. $ to Protect Armenia
"This country did r.o. go TO war with
Tarkey. because 20 90 so would have
mealt tie massacre ct the Armenians
By the Turk L now IS our duty to
redeem OFT urspcsec Aromlse TO Ar
Menla. hope - Armenia may be
lat under t.rua-i-4- = h'c.ion and the
World given rc-.s - America will
see that Arne-z sal "a die"
A the Brooayz -eetalg addresses
we're made by Asa-y Moreenthau, for
~.cr Anba ssado- = Turkey. and Cap
ain George 3. Evce, latesy returned
rom Armenia. Dr. II. lie told how the
iricken land, despite me lure OF Tur-
r.isn promises, Kept faith " lth the AL
-ies and equentiy was bathed in
blood for four years and fVr people
s.aln, scattered and beGeared' DR..
Hyde was for twenty-five years a ply
s'cian ia Mexico before going 20 Eu-
ope with the Red Cross
The Turk has not been di,armed, "
said Dr. Hyde. And me greater part
of Armenia is in Turkey It was there
nat the greatest Of the coldly calcu-
iated massacres and deportatiore took
place as the result OF a we'll plot ted