Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-16
] Die !

throbbed at it's cry of pain is the receiving instr1-
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 as you read he call is not to
me; cannot need not respond this time; others
will give and the children will not have to die"
There are no 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
sald Il need not respond this time' During the
past four months not enough has been given to con-
tnue the care even of those children already gath
cred into the hospitals and orphanages while thou
sands more are waiting to be picked up from the
streets and countryside
There are no Others-if you refuse Armenia is
surrounded by bankrupt nations, or nations strug-
Cling to keep themselves from bankruptcy Europe
IS full OF suffering and need. Armenias only hope
is America. Christian race will die if America
fails at this crisis
There are others to love and care for
Armenia's little children-no others but you. The
vast majority are orphans. Father is dead; mother
too, is dead; sister-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 one in whose heart
the sad little wait can now find refuge
How splenddly you have given, perhaps, some
time IN the past, and have brought health and
laughter to Of Armenia's little sufferers! But
for every one saved then, at least one other was
lett 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 difficulties. Before 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 meager ration was dis
trlbuted. During those sad weeks who, there was
so little food at Alexandropol more than two thou
sand children died.
lfyou withhold your gift now, the boys and girls
you fed last year may be the very ones Sentenced
to die"
Revoke the cruel sentence! Stop the order to
reduce all relief work twenty five per cent! Thank
God it is in your power 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 its
new life with sunshine.
Two things will fill your Easter Day with
sweetest joy: the knowledge that Armenias 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, Eye have done it unto Me- Ye
have done it unto Me-
So deeply have we, representing Richmond's
strongest financial institutions, been stirred by the
tragedy impending among the innocent children Of
Armenia, that we would feel heavy share of re-
sponslblty for the needless death of countless little
ones if we did not do as we are urging YOU to do
and give, still again, substantial 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 i'm
medlatey another large gift to help save the chill
dren OF Armenia from the death that threatens