Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-20
NEAR EAST WORKERS
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To-day. he said their churches arc
destroyed, the schools Tazed, the millions
OF books burned or carried away and used
IS wrapping paper by Tur kish merchants,
the men DESTROYED or manned and the
women of the land slaves in Turkish
ha ems with the hated seas on the fore
head between the ewes and on tho chin
that indicate the fact that the female
has been an inmate Of q Turkish ha-em
We don't want your young men 10
come 10 Armenia 10 fight our battles,
said Dr. Yonaa All that We want j. your
support. Give Us arms and ammunition with
which TO fight our own battles and We viii
gladly do il The Turk hss always been s
Onward and he will flee when he finds that
America Is back Of US.
Eve don't want YOU to rebuild our
places OF learning and churches. But we do
want you 10 help Us get back our woman
kind. The Turks have taken %, 0im of
our Young women, and they sre now IN
Turkish ha-cTDs or prisons as we call
them. where they have to serve brutcs
and devils And we have many orphans
whose parents have suffered and died.
They need to be fed, clothed and edu-
Gated
Il myself was among unit that was
deported from our home sector. saw
the men taken 81 evening and brutsly
tortured. 20 fall dead, perhaps from the
results Of the torture
81 too, have seen the women auctI0ned
OF for ten, twenty and thirty dollars, and
carried awav. FIVE and SIX hundred miles
into the land Of the X kurd and Turk. /
have this week received letters from four
young women with whom | am related
who are now inmates OF Turkish haren.
The letter was sent 10 the American
consul in Armenia and through him to
ne, the girls asking for help and release
fTJ1n their Turkish captors.
AS he spoke of their sufferings Or.
! oman halted once OF twice as his grief at
conditions in ms home land for the
moment proved overDowering- He
apologized and said that it was because
he had seen all these things he had been
speaking about and realized the terrible
condition OF the land that be was SO
affected
Following DR. Yonans address, Mr.
Beebe explained that the national cam
paign this wear was not one of dollars
and cents precisely, but Of blood and life,
the saving Of 25) ),001 orphans. Sixty
dollars would feed a baby OF child; Sl20
would feed ard ciothe ard shelter child
and $50 would feed, clothe, shelter and
educate child.
Local spea.lers who spoke on various
organizations which they represented
were ] II Burns. for the Sunday school;
DR.. a. r. Spear for the public schools of
the State; Mrs A. ID. Warner for the
Woman Clubs; and John c. Saylor for
the labor unions.
Mayor William G. Taylor chairman for
Delaware presided at the luncheon this
afternoon IN the du Barry room. He
called upon the workers 10 aid him to the
best of their ability emphasizing the
need if the Delaware campaign was TO be
put through successfully.
The chief speaker for the luncheon was
Captain George 4. Hyde, 8 physician,
d man born ia Vermont, the son Of
Methodist minister and who had charge
of Red Cross relief work ia Palestine
During 1918 he was engaged IN Red Cross
work Ia Germany later in Belgium and
France and then went TO the Near East
Other speakers for this afternoon are
james c. ArroIl. Mrs Florence Spencer
Duryea Of New York City and DR. John
" Mace, field secretary for the Near
East National organization and il charge
Of all campaigns in the Last