Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-03-18

destruction, wrought by a war that
has never ended and that TODAY is NOT
even ended. 1t is starvation following
pestilence, and stalking hand in hand
with death from exposure, from VIC
lence or from disease.
In the mountains between Kars
and AlexandrOpol there are 263. 600
human beings without clothing. food or
shelter in the bitter winter. who are
wandering from place to place like
people In a nightmare Unless they
are succored before the end of an
other month, they will all be dead.
In southern Persia, the remnant of the
ancient family of Chaldean Christians
have been forced to renounce forever
all hope of ever returning to the home
iand where they have dwelt and flour
lshed for LOGO years, and to become
pltiful fugitives, dependent upon the
generosity of strangers for life itself
In Cillcia $4,000 Armenian refugees
have crowded into the coast regions
seeking safety from the anarchy which
reigns In the interior, in terror for
their lives. They live from day TO
day on the food which Is given them |
In the soup kitchens established nv
the Near East Relief. Scattered
throughout the Near East. there are
some 10000 Armenians. the re-
haihuer of nation of 100000. who
nave neither government, country,
homeland, shelter or hope of regenera.
lion, save that which lies in the great
heart Of America.
1T IS a tragedy so stupendous that
II Is difficult for us to grasp its mean
ing. whole nation, a living. Christian
people, face to face with extermina-
non today. unless We help. We shall
see an entire nation disappear from
ne lace OF the earth before our ewes
! we withhold our hand now. when
ne eau comes to us to save by giving.
II by inaciion to condemn to death.
Save the chlldrenl
ferhaps we cannot save all the
'r"wn people of this oldest Christian
'atl"u In the world But at least we
AN save the little children who hold
ne future In their hands They have
no one They have harmed [
q one. And they have suffered 7
through the precious years of child. I
"od a calvary of agony and wretched- l
eSs. For three years the Near East r
eiel. an American organization In. )
orporated by Congress. has buiIt nm Is
~ nucleus of new generation I'm tho NJ
ear East, with the little children a
nat 1t has taken in from the roadside X
ld barren places, and nursed back to M
'a'th, fed, clothed, housed and edu- u
ited' IN the name of the American =
'ople who have furnished the funds NJ
r this great work. G.
ms has been our signal contrihu. II
On TO the worlds future peace-tbat OF
ms OF thousands OF these LITTLE o,as M
laii all their lives look TO ne ,,,th eli
a,ituoe ana faith. 1t is a seed of wv
oriu brotherhood that we have sowp n
'all We let II die now? ha
me Near East Relief Is appealing III
the American people for the monav Sc
go on with this work-to keen tbasa no
tie ones alive and to save tbJs FIR
Hrtyred Christian people. SIrtx doI. les
~ per year-Slo per month-feeds q 10
no. we have taken this great re-. w
''s'oi'i'y upon lis. A whole nation 10
'sf 10 us In faith and trust Ed
We cannot betrsy them now liza
! ohlrloutioas may be sent 70 ci.y. HI
~ H. Dodge, Treasurer, / MsdIson ne
snue, New York City. Br
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