Evening journal., 1922-06-02

No mistake can be more tragic at this moment
than OryOu to say you read The call is not to
cannot-I need not respond this time; others will
give, and the children will not have to die
There are otherS-if you turn away The
appeal has gone throughout the length and breadth
of this great land and these Others have heard it and
have given gladly; but too many have said. 81
need not respond this time" During the past four
months not enough has been given to continue the
of those children already gathered into the
hospitals and orphanages, while thousands more
waiting to be picked up from the streets and
countryside.
There are no otherS-if you refuse. Armenia is
surrounded by bankrupt nations nations Strug
CLING to keep themselves from bankruptcy. Europe
is full of suffering and need. Armenias only hope is
America Christian race DiH die if America fails at
this crisis
There others to love and care for Armena's
little children-no others but you The vast majority
orphans Father is dead mother, too is dead;
sSer-if not dead is praying God for death; brother
is dead; aunt and uncle grandfather and grandmother
all dead the home destroyed, and the lonely little
girl or boy has no One-but you. You are father and
mother and sister and brother-the only in whose
heart the sad little waif can now find refuge
How splenddly you have given, perhaps some
time in the past and have brought health and laughter
to some of Armenia's little suferersl But for every
saved then, at least one other left without
food or shelter or friends. And the child to whom you
gave meal day last year cannot live now if that
meal is stopped. year ago the delivery of supplies
for the AleXandrOpOl Orphanage was interrupted
between November and May by transportation diff
cultieS Before April the children had to be placed on
half rationS and by the first of May the very morn
ing the supply train arrived the last meager ration
distributed. During those sad weeks when there
little food at AleXandrOpOl, more than tIUO
thousand children died.
Ifyou withhold your gift now, the boys and girls
you fed last year may be the very Sentenced to
die"
Revoke the cruel sentence! Stop the order to
reduce all relief work twenty-five per cent! Thank
God is in your pOLUer at this EaSerme to give life
in place of DEATH health in place of Sickness laughter
in place of tears You speak the word of ReSur-
reCtiOn which will call back little child from the
dark valley of shadow and flood its life with
shine
Two things will fill your Easter Day with sweetest
Joy: the knowledge that Armena'S children did not
wait for you and trust in you and appeal to you in
vain; and the voice of the Risen Christ the Lover of
little children, speaking to your SOUL and saying Ye
have done it unto Me- Ye have done it unto Me-"
SO deeply have we as publishers of THE LIT
ERARY DIGEST, been stirred by the tragedy impend
ing among the innocent children of Armenia, that we
would feel heavy share of responsibility for the
needless death of countless little ones if we did not do
urging you to do and give, still again. sub
Stanal contribution to save their lives Therefore,
although we have given several times before, we feel
that we cannot-we must not-do less in the present
crisis than add Immediately another five thousand
dollars to help the children of Armenia from the
death that threatens them.