Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-03-31

destruction, wrought by a war that
has never ended and that today is not
even ended. It is starvation following
pestilenee, and stalking hand in hand
with death from exposure, from vso-
lence Or from disease.
Tn the mountains between Kars
and Alexandrspol there are 263,0OO
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 cpd 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
land where they have dwelt and -four
ished for 1,6N0 years, and to become
pitiful fugitives, dependent upon the
generosity of strangers for life itself.
In Cilicia, $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 by
the Near East Relief. Scattered
throughout the Near East, there are
some 7,790,490 Armenians, the re-
mainder of a nation of 10000 600, who
have neither government, country,
homeland, shelter or hope of regenera-
ton, save that which lies in the great
heart Of America.
1T is a tragedy so ~stupendous that
it is difficult for us to grasp it's mean
Ing. A whole nation, a living, Christian
people, face to face with eXtermina-
ton today, unless we help. We shall
see an entire nation disappear from
the face of the earth before our eyes
if We withhold our hand now, when
the call comes to us to save by giving,
or by inaction to condemn to death.
Save the Children!
Perhaps we cannot save all the
grown people of this Oldest Christian
nation in the world. But at least we
a save the little children who hold
the future in their hands. They have
wronged no one. They have harmed
no one. And they have suffered
through the precious years Of child
hood a calvary of agony and wretched-
ness. For three years the Near East
Relief, an American organization, in
corporated by Congress, has built up
the nucleus of Q new generation in the
Np2r 4 An ct with, tho I5tflo nhilIran
that it has taken in from the roadside
and barren places, and nursed back to
health, fed, clothed, housed and edu-
Gated. in the name Of the American
people who have furnished the funds
for this great work.
This has been our signal contribu-
ton TO the worlds future peace-that
tens of thousands of these little ones
shall all their lives look to us with
gratitude and faith. 1t is a seed of
world brotherhood that we have sown.
Shall we let 1t die now?
'"rhe Near East Relief Is appealing
to the American people for the money
to go on With this work--to keep these
little ones alive and to save this
inartyred Christian people. Sixty dol.
iars per Year $40 per month--feeds a
child. We have taken this great re.
sponsibiiftN unan MS, A whole nation
looks To iis IN faith and trust,
.'We rnnnnl betras them now. i
Contributions may be sent TO Cleve.
land Il. Dodge, Treasurer. ! Madison
avenue, New York City.