Pueblo chieftain., 1921-11-07
For the Ar1nenians
BY Alua A. Swain

by 4Ava a. SWAIN
Just this time America is called upon to show
that she appreciates what the Armenian people did dur
ng the This nation that has been Christian peo-
pile since two hundred and thiryfour years after Christ
and by of lis Christianity has been reduced from
twenty-five million TO three million souls, When the
war broke it contributed two hundred and fifty
thousand soldiers from its three million people and that
two hundred and fifty thousand soldiers kept the enemy
out of the oil fields of Baku- German, well as
Turkish generals, say that the work of the Armenians
in keeping the enemy of these oil fields saved the
day for the Allies.
During the later months of the Armenia
over-rm by the Turks, and for another
in the final peace settlement the country was not
returned TO its people and the Turks still mtest It,
There in Armenia today thousands of children that
starving If these children permitted to die the
three million Armenians WILL within the next genera
ton, be reduced at least one-third
just this time Lady Anne Azgapetan is in Colo
rado making plea for her people Lady Azgapetian
is the daughter of an Armenian nobeman who in 1895
was banished from Armenia by its Turkish rulers on
account of his liberal ideas. At the beginning of the
she accompanied her husband, Mezrop n. Azgapet-
ian, Russia, where he became general in the army
of the Caucasus and she attached herself to a Red
Cross unit She spent two years in the Red Cross
organization and only gave up when daughter was
horn to her Just behind the firing line.
Her story of Armenia, its people and their suerings,
told in stragh forward simple sort of way, is in
truth the history of martyr nation for the last two
thousand years. In the year 234 King Fradates
accepted the gospel of Jesus Christ national religion
Immediately the Turks began their work of e1termn
ang the Armenian people.
The Armenians called their church the Gregorian,
and its worship is much the the Protestant
churches OF America They established their headquar
ters the foot of Mount Arara and since its inception
one hundred and thrty-seven Patriarchs-as they call
the Head of their Church-have lived and died in the
cause of Chrstendom. Many Of them have been
buchered at the hands of the Turks another would
be elected and did the Armenian people neg
lect their Christian faith. Time and again
they told that all they had to do would be to accept
the Turkish religion and they would be left alone.
In the two thousand years that have elapsed since
they accepted the Christian Religion approximately fifty
of the Turks martyrs to the Christian religion. No
land in the world has been bathed with much blood
rs Armenia. When the recent started the Turks
notified the Armenians that if they would remain neutral
the Turks would not bother them Armenia realized
that a Christian principle at stake and declined
remain neutral In 1915 four hundred and sixty
thousand of them slain in extending
over week by the Turks because they preferred to
acknowledge Christ as their religious teacher.
When the peace treaty signed the Turks agreed
10 evacuate Armenia, but they did and none
of the powers has proven able TO make them do it. The
result is that today Armenia is suffering country
has suffered Her grown-ups willing to get
along best they can, but her children are dying;
hence Lady Anne Azgapetian has come to Colorado to
ask us to remember those children with gf-oferugs
of money and food.
It is worthy worthy any the
Master ever cspoused. 1t is indeed what He had in
mind when he said "Feed My Children"