The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-04-22
MONTANANS
FINANCIAL AID
WOMEN AND CHILDREN DYING
IN THE NEAR EAST FROM
HUNGER AND COLD
Starvation and Exposure and Merci-
less Persecution Are Killing Hun
dreds of Helpless Human Beings
in Armenia Daily; How the Demon
of Death May Be Defeated.

The Montana Near East Relief
committee has issued the following
appeal:
"If a little child died from hunger
and exposure in your neighborhood
last night you would be heavy-heart-
ed today. If some poor woman froze
to death yesterday in a neighboring
shack, you would be Mortified and
remorseful. You would be idnignant
because something had not been done
in time to prevent such a needless
tragedy. You would have gladly
given up enough of your own food
and fuel and clothing to have saved
the life had you only known of the
need
Every mar and woman in gener-
Gus Montana would have done as you
would have done had they only
known the need That's Montana's
way. That's Montana's record. Mon
tana's people are notably broad
minded, generous-hearted and open
handed.
cit is impossible to visualize the
unspeakable horror that pervades a
country where hundreds of thous-
ands of human beings r freezing
and starving to death. Yet, in misery
unmatched since mar first came to
inhabit the earth, Armenia is per-
ishing today. Starvation and expos
ure and merciless persecution are
killing hundreds of helpless human
beings daily. Where Christianity
had its birth, the blacklist page of
human history is, at this hour, being
written.
Thousands of baby lips, blue with
hunger, moan piteously for your help
and mine. Hundreds of thousands
of emaciated, naked and under-nour-
ished arms are stretched towards
America in mute appeal for the help
that will defeat the Demon of Death.
We cannot save them all, but is it
not a glorious privilege to be able
to help in saving some of these poor
sufferers from a death of %indescrib-
able torture?
"You are tired of drives and
appeals for help. We all are. Gen
erously and uncomplainingly doubt
less you have borne what you
thought was your fair share of the
burden in helping to win the war and
rescue the victims of a war-wrecked
Nob1y Montana's people have
responded to every worthy appeal.
We all welcomed the signing of the
armistice, but hunger knows no arm
"M~ontana's r%ed-blooded, big-heart-
I'd charitable people are not yet tired
IF doing good. They are not weary
If feeding the hungry and sheltering
he suffering. They are not so self
.sh, so hardened, that the cry of hun
1reds of thousands of starving peo-
pie does not touch their generous
ut is only because of the tragic
necessity of the awful situation that
prevails In the Near East today that
your help is being asked now. Starv-
ng children ask you for food. The
mother, with death written
Upon her face, holds out to you the
living skeleton of her starving child
Ind appeals for help.
"Your answer mean life or death
% some one. In Gods name let your
prompt response be given.
you are not asked to sacrifice
anything you really need for your
OWN prosperity or comfort. No re-
luest is being made upon you for
that will cripple your bust
ness, impair your credit or impose
hardship upon any n dependent
upon you. You are not asked to
pinch or punish yourself.
1.-THE very crumbs from your table
save a human life.
eff you can help in this great work
If humanity without discomfort or
90 great a sacrifice, please send your
contribution promptly to Mr.. P. B.
BARLEY, treasurer, Conrad Trust &
Savings Bank, Helena, Montana.
Every penny put into this fund
~ the public is expended for the re-
ief of those for whom it is given. Not
nickel collected in Montana goes
pay salaries, travelling or other ex-
,enses."