Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1920-03-19
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Sticking His Face
Against the Wind
By DR.. FRANK CRANE

An agent of the Near East Relief society whose
object to raise money for the suffering Aenians who
everybody knows have been robbed and butchered by
the Turks was making speech meeting in Columbus
Ohio. $500
After the address the speaker noticed a workngman
in blue shirt trying to make his way to the PLATFORM
He was an engineer and his face marked by scar
caused by blast Of steam He stood waiting at the edge
of the crowd The speaker approached him and asked
what he could do for him. "
The man said that all he wanted to know was whether
it thing that all the money contributed to the
fund actually reached the starving Armenians He
assured, and proofs furnished.
It afterwards developed that this locomotive engineer
whose is Robert Graf, had already contributed f
hundred dollars to the Relief Fund: This good
deal for engineer to contribute out of his salary.
But it was not ALL Robert Graf went home, sold his
house for thrve hundred dollars and gave that to the
Fund for the purpose of purchasing orphanage in Ar
mena-
The agents of the Fund objected to taking the money
as it seemed too much Whereupon the engineer replied
'Oh, that's nothing at ALL can't stand the idea Of
knowing women and little children going hungry
Why, could sell and give away everything I've got and
still be rich man. have got my work, my hands, my
health, and job and l know what it is to go
hungry These people have opportunity to work. they
helpless. don't deserve any credit for giving long
as am not suffering nor sacrificing anything myself
Was this man justified in this sort of giving?
Our first impulse is to say that he not; that he
should have provided for himself and his wife before CIV
ing to Others and that he not prudent and thrifty
This is good reasoning Perhaps but it leaves out the
most important factor in human nature and that is it's
capacity to do something big and glorious and unreason
The reckless, hilarious adventurous gambling in
stinct is confined to doing wrong We it and
get fun out of it also in doing right You cannot get the
to life by adding up the figures on the balance
take my hat off to- Robert Graf and all the maenif
cent, unreasonable, Godblessed people like him. and
glad to know that humanity can not only to the
devil hariously by getting drunk and spending money
Broadway but they heaven hariousy and have
glorious Intoxicating Joy doing it, by giving away all
that one has to satisfy spendidy beautiful impulse
The more I think of this incident, the bigger this
looms in my imagination. honestly envy his SUBJ
lime courage.
Robert Graf was not giving away his money because
he didn't realize what it cost He did realize it, He said
"You know, mans got to stick his face up against the
wind good times to win fifteen hundred d4a1s
Herbert Hoover, after careful investigation says:
*The Near East presents the most desperate situa-
ton in the world.'
The Turks have tried to annihilate the non.Turksh
population of Armenia, Syria and adjacent territory
Two million two hundred thousand were killed or
Four million Armenians Jews and Greeks are abso.
lutey destitute.
Four hundred thousand orphans left when relief
work started.
One hundred and fifty thousand died last year be-
the relief lacked means to them from star
wing.
The other quarter of million will also starve unless
help is forthcoming in a large measure
GREWSOME FACTS
HUMAN FLESH EATEN
In some localities bodies have been taken from
and eaten keep life in the poor starved bodies of
the survivors.
In Erivan recently relief workers found family roast
ing half the body of a baby.
Human bones cracked to get the marrow.
Near an i'll supplied relief station, children gather in
droves to receive morsel of food They sleep in the
open, as there is no other place.
Each morning they sorted and the dead put