The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-09-16
~America! America!!' the Millions Cry
In Sad Armenia, Land of Stalking Death
Melville Chatter, Home, From Near
East, Tells Narrowing Story Of
Human Misery There-8es-
ties and Straw for Food.

ties and Straw for Food.
"Crouching by herself in corner
4 little seven-year-old girl was cracsi'
ing something between two stones.
says Melville Chatter in an article,
1.-THE Land of Stalking Death" in the
National Geographic Magazine, de-
scribing conditions ~ Armenia. Il
looked closer and found the child was
eating the marrow from a bone.'
"Where did she get it?' asked the
Interpreter who accompanied me-
"Yonder in the grave yard" he re-
Piled, after questioning the girl
This child, according to Mr.. Chatter,
was subsisting solely on small dole
Of rice furnished daily by the Near
East Relief representatives in her ma
tive city, Igdir. There was not suffi-
cient food In the town to even give
one meal day to all Of the children
and shortly after they had received
this bare pittance of food all were
searching for any bit on which they
might chew to appease their hunger.
They picked up beetles, straws, and
one piece of horses hoof says Mr.
Chatter.
Root and Grass Diet.
Conditions at Igdir are horrible al
most beyond relief. People live chief
Iy on roots and grass, but occasionally
the diet is varied by the killing Of a
dog or cat. Workers sent out by
Near East Relief, the former Commit
tee for Armenian and Syrian Relief,
who are furnishing the only susten-
ance to thes people, told Mr.. Chatter
that 1t was impossible to remove at
from starvation, and when they were
taken out for burial, an arm or leg
Of the body had been eaten by the
famished survivors.
Mr. Chatter tells of visit to the
burying ground when. graves were
torn open and bodies exhumed by the
famished Inhabitants. 1--WE had taken
4 short cut he says, toward where
our car waited and by chance we
we're skirtlng the cemetery. Our guide
pointed thither and said:
SIT is not pleasant sight. You
must understand that the Turks left
this country so bare that there were
not even spades. Graves must be
dug with any available thing, even
with human bones. If the dead has
relative strong enough to carry a
weight-big stones are placed on the
grave; but If not he shrugged sig
ni6cantly.
y asked, hardly knowing how to
frame my question, Exactly what
exactly whom do you mean?
Men Stalk Dogs.
"I mean,' he answered, the pariah
dogs by day and under cover of night
well, come and see for yourselves
! II will never forget that terrible
acre of earth-the observation-disclosures
mounds, and those others, the unpro-
tected graves, now revealed as empty,
scooped-out holes whose Drinks were
strewn about with remnants of torn
off garments, among which lay black
ened semblances Of humanity. As we
turned away the apparition of great,
yellow pariah dog, paving among the
gr" = drew from us volley Of
st. hen. as he skunk off, a skele-
TOD, man sprang up from behind
the wall (under cover Of which he
had been stalking his prey) and BRAIN
Ing the beast with club, disappeared,
carrying its carcass with him.
"Our farewells and thanks to the
American Committees manager SEEM
ed an endless proceeding and upon
by host of humanity, who, having