New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-13

ment, and the messages are broadcasted to us from
the very throne of Heaven.
No mistake can be more tragic at this moment
than for you to say you read The call is not to
me; can not need not respond this time; others
will give, and the children will not have to die
4 here 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 some have given gladly; but
too many have said, L need not respond this
time. During the past four months not enough
has been given to continue the care even of those
children already gathered into the hospitals and
orphanages while thousands more are waiting to
be picked up from the streets and countryside
There others-if you refuse Armenia
is surrounded by bankrupt nations, or nations
struggling to keep themselves from bankruptcy.
Europe is full of suffering and need. Armena's
only hope is America. A Christian race sviH die
If America fails at this crisis.
There others to love and care for
Armenia S little children-no others but you. The
vast majority orphans. Father is dead; mother
too, is dead sister-if not dead is praying God for
death; brother is dead; 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 wait find refuge.
How splendidly you have given, perhaps
sometime in the past, and have brought health
and laughter to OF Armenias little sufferers!
But for every saved, them at least one other
was lett without food, or shelter or friends. And
the child to whom you gave one meal day last
year not live if that meal is stopped
A year ago the delivery of supplies for the Alex
andropol orphanage interrupted between Nov
ernber and May by transportation difficulties Be-
fore April the children had to be placed on half
rations, and by the first of May, on the very
morning the supply train arrived the last rneager
ration distributed. During those sad weeks
when there was so little food at Alexandropo
more than two thousand children died.
If you withhold your gift now the boys and
girls you fed last year may be the very ones
sentenced to die
Revoke the cruel SENTENCED Stop the order
to. reduce all relief work twenty-five percent!
Thank God it is in your poaver at this Easter
time to give life in place Of death, health in place
of sickness, laughter in place of tears. You can
speak the word of Resurrection which will call
back some little child from the dark valley of
shadow and flood it's new life with sunshine.
Two things will fill your Easter Day with
sweetest joy: the knowledge that Arnenia's chill
dren 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, I'VE have done it unto Me.
We have done it unto Me-
So deeply have we, publishers of THE
LITERARY DIGEST, been stirred by the tragedy
impending among the innocent children of Arne-
MIA, that would feel heavy share of respon-
sibty for the needless death Of countless little
if we did not do as we are urging you to do, and
give, still again. substantial contribution to
their lives. Therefore, altho we have given several
times before, feel that not-we must not
do less in the present crisis than add Immediately
another five thousand dollars to help the chill