Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1920-01-30
FoUR-M|NUTE MEN To
CARRY NEAR EAST RELIEF
STORY TO M|Ss0UR|AN!
JAMES CARROLL AND DR.. GEORGE
HYDE ARRIVES HOME FROM
ARMENIA.
A DRIVE BEGINS FEB.
Conditions in the Stricken Country
Are pescribed-ssoo, 900 10
Urgently Needed.

East Relief, formerly the American
Committee for Armenian and Syrian
Relief. for $1,000 900 required for the
care of 5000 starving orphans for one
year, will be made by four-minute men
in every county.
This announcement was made last
week by Benedict Farrar Of st. Louis,
who has been appointed chairman Of
the Speakers Bureau for the state.
The bureau will also be aided by L.
L. Leonard, former State Director of
the Missouri Four.Minute mems Or.
ganiZation.
1.-THE world is still far from free, and
the consequences Of the oppression OF
the past still rest with awful weight
upon millions of men," said Mr.. Farrar
in his request to the speakers to carry
the appeal to Missourians. 1--WE who
are strong and free must help to bear
the infirmities Of the weak and OPP
pressed"
Mr.. Farrar asks that the people of
Missouri imagine the following pic.
ture:
IAN alien and only half civilized
army overran Missouri. In many dis
tricts the people are ordered to leave
their homes under guard and proceed
to some spot to be shown them in the
Ozark Mountains. There is no refus-
ing, and they start-men, women and
children. Immediately. as they march,
the guards begin, on every fancied pre-
text, to arrest and murder their
charges. The older people and many
of the children are murdered in such
numbers that their corpses lie thick
along the principal highways. The
able-bodied men are forced into the
ranks of the alien army. The younger
women-we can imagine that, but will
not talk about 1t. They never reach
the spot in the Ozarks. Meantime,
their homes have been pillaged,
wrecked and burned.
I'm districts where people are not
thus exiled, they are robbed Of every
thing, the heads Of families are gen
orally killed and the younger women
are deported.
Next year outside influences com
pei the alien army to withdraw and
the remnants Of the people try to re
establish themselves. They face a con
dition of wrecked houses, no seed
grain and comparatively few able
bodied men to do the work. There lie
a large proportion Of children, for
these have not been massacred so ruth
lessly as have their fathers and moth
ers. Missouri is a desert, peopled by
skeletons.
What would you do for Missouri?
This picture is the picture Of Ar
menia today,
There are 250,0O0 orphans in Ar
menia crying to the world for bread
clothes and schooling"
ARRoLL TELLS OF ARMENIAN
SUFFERING.
did you know there had been a
war;" asked Jimmy" Arroll of New
York, recently returned from Armenia,
in the course Of an address before q
group of county chairmen and workers
for the Near East Relief at a meeting
held in st. Louis on January 10th.
IF you think so, imagine yourselves
coming across a desert and finding
hundreds OF young girls stripped OF
their clothes and buried to their necks
in sand to await death under the suns
b%listering rays.
Finding women with red hot nails
bored into their breasts: aged men
with parts of a human body under their
arms which they were taking home to
save their grandchildren from starva,
ton"
These and many other ivid pictures
Of the manner in which tae Armenian
people were prosecuted by the Turks
because they were Christians. was de.
scribed by Arroll.
With John Elder, Of Chicago, Arroll
was cut off in Armenia from the rest
OF the world for II months. During
that time these two young Americans
worke: night and day to keep up the
WOTdl6 Oh lUt llltlc AEu1euldu hlLuI,
which was holding out against the
Turks.
Conditions annot be exaggerated
in Armenia" said Mr.. Arroll. only
last September, nearly a year after the
signing of the armistice, kurdish
tribes killed 10000 Armenians."
PALESTINE COMMISSION WORKER
DESCRIBES CONDITIONS
IN ARMENIA. "a
DR.. George b. Hyde Of the Palestine
Commission, recently returned from
Armenia, speaking before Near East
Relief campaign workers at a confer.
ence in st. Louis on January 10th, as.
serted that failure Of the United States
to recognize the Armenian Republic
and to assist that little nation against
Islam. is the blacklist disgrace In
American history.
The speaker wildly described con
ditions in that country. where thou.
sands Of women and children are
starving. while thousands more. many
Of them little girls as young 40 Z