Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1921-11-18
DRIVE FOR WHEAT
Is NOW UNDER WAY

i"iHS up with the hun
SCI tortured people of the Near East
"here unknown thousands rendered
homeless by war that lasted long af-
ter peace came to the rest of the
world are facing winter without
1000, practically without cIothes
ana many without even a shelter
Under the leadership of COM
mlttee composed of Rev. II. J. Rev
nolds, Rev. w. A. Spaulding. Rev
John q. Law and j. S. Klemgard q
farmer, everyone in this section is
Delng called upon to give something
TO help tide the destitute populations
OF Armenia, Southern Russia and the
BlDIe lands over until next summer.
when an improvement in their CON
dition is promised.
War that continued until late
spring this year, prevented the seed
ing of grain throughout the major
part of this vast territory, where
helpless women and little children
nave been kept on the move in search
OF safety and food for nearly six
years. Hence, there are no crops.
Frosts that herald the approach of
winter far colder than the Inland
Empire knows, have killed the
grasses and herbs upon which the
desperately hungry have fed for
months. The only remaining hope
is Americas willingness to share her
blessings.
From the foothills of the Caucasus
to the Turkish border and from the
Black sea to the Caspian, there is
nothing but death, despair and mis-
cry. Conditions are growing worse
daily, according tog F. S. Sturges,
field representative of the Near East
Relief, who has been here during the
last week arranging for the aid
gathering program. Unless drastic
measures are taken before the cold
weather begins, the resulting situa-
ton threatens to be without parallel
in history.
Cholera, typhus and starvation
have already carried off large num-
bers. With the bitter temperature
of the Transcaucasian winter added
TO these, the daily death toll will run
into the thousands, it is feared
Special concern is felt for the or
phan children. More than 100000
of these. saved from starvation by
( Americas past benevolence, in which
Pullman and Whitman county have
given literally, are now practically
restored to normal within the or
phanages of the Near East Relief
But for every child within those ha-
yens, there are declared to be at
I least three emaciated, pitiful, moan
ing little things clad in filthy rags,
beating upon the doors for admission
that has to be denied for lack of
room.
Every orphanage is filled to ca
pacity," Mr.. Sturges states. THE
children are sleeping four in bed.
Food supplies are decidedly limited,
Without more funds and more food
there can be no more orphanages, no
more beds. Nothing can be done
for those children outside, who are
being trained to self-support and for
their places in the new civilization
that must rise from the blood-soaked
ruins of the old Near East, will have
to be turned out again into a world
already surfeited with pain and sor-
row.
These children. both inside and
outside the Near East Relief orphan
ages are from that hardy, high prin-
cipled stock that comprised the COM
mercial and intellectual backbone of
that vast territory before the war.
They are of those steadfast families
which, generation after generation,
reaching back into the early cen
turtles of the modern calendar, gave
their blood in the defense of Chris
tianity, and which, finally, in the
World war, CALAMITY threw the rem
nant of their manpower into the bal
ance and saved Asia to the allies, af-
Bolshevik Russia had deserted.
"As for that great gaunt line OF
men and women out beyond, who
have sacrificed everything, given
their all, that the children might
live, there is little chance. Only a
miracle in generous giving can res
cue them. Most of them have
ceased to hope.
but those children in the orphan
ages, they can be saved merely with
the crumbs that drop from America
table, and there is still chance foI
those hungry, forlorn little fellows
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