The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-05-10
not yet answered, not one can be

not: yet answered, not one can be
And now the cries Of terror and dis
may are reaching America: .A
Cablegram, via Paris: "Thou-
sands of deportees filling Near East
threshold, receiving crust of bread,
hoping for summer peace. Shall we
push them off our doorstep? Order Of
twenty-five per cent reduction neces-
sltates closing March first all general
relief"
Cablegram, Constantinople: Gap
palling. increase of need for general re
lief through Anatolia Caucasus.
Reduction in already inadequate ap-
preparations cuts of multitudes who
are hopeless without American aid"
Cablegram, from America Wo-
mems Hospital, Erivan: eve have
eight hundred and fifty two cases N
the hospital, and children dying in all
corners Of Erivan. All day long we
can hear the walls and groans of lit
tie children outside the office build
ings hoping we can and will pick them
up. IT the sun shines a little while
they quiet down; when it rains they
begin again. One day when the rain
turned to snow it was awful to listen
to them. The note Of terror that
SoiiiS iiiIo eliC ScIIcINl wall WAS pldln-
ly perceptible upstairs, and l had the
windows closed. They well know
what a night in the snow would mean
to them We are picking them up as
fast as possible, but it is fatal to
crowd them to such point that we
would lose even tho Sc already in or
phanage."
Erivan-that one time prosperous
city of Armenia, not far from Mount
Ararat, famous, in days of peace, for
the peach orchards and vegetable
gardens that surrounded it on every
side. Walk through it's streets today,
and here is what you will sec: "Chil-
dren walking through the muddy
cutters hunting for bits of orange
peels, apple cores, or anything that
once resemblcd food; little boys and
girls sleeping in stables, with straw
and manure spread over their bodies
to keep them from freezing to death;
or, in the early morning, deserted chill
dren lying in the doorways of the
buildings, wrapped in old burlap bags,
some silent, perhaps already dead,
others sobbing unconsciously in their
sleep. They have been placed there
during the night by their mothers
who, unable to feed them any longer,
have resorted to desertion as final
chance to save their children'S lives
There is always chance that they
will be rescued by the Americans, and
it is with this one hope that the moth
ers leave their little children, praying
to God that they will be saved by the
kind and generous Americans"
Has that story Of unutterablc suf-
ferlng, of passionate love and graft
tudc for what has been given, that
trusting, prayerful appeal for rescue
of children whose lives now depend
on us-has it all grown wcarisomc to
US? Are we tired of being "kind and
gencrous?" Is there no longer any
sacriiicial tenderness for little chill
dren in our hearts? Is it time to be
rid of the burden, to stop our giving,
and so, through the Board of Trustees
of the Near East Relief, who must act
as we dictate, to pronounce the sen
tcncc of death on these thousands of
boys and girls who have believed, to
the last moment, that we would save
them?
Mothers and fathers of America, it
is not true! You will not allow it!
Your hearts have not turned to stone!