, 1922-05-15
CASPERTO OPEN PURSE STRINGS
TUESDAY FOR NEAR EAsTRELIEF

Continued from PaEs onei
drive for -four for the starving Ar
menlans-
George Nelson. who with Jack
Scott IND George Campbell. Is repre-
senting tho chamber OF In
the northwest section Of Casper, an
nounces that his teams have been
carefully chosen and are eager 20 do
their part in proving hat the people
OF Casper are willing to contribute
financial -upport to a nation which
Is faced with determination through
starvation. plague and oppression.
From these Indications It Is evt
dent that tho local Organizations
which nave assumed charge Of tbs
drive for casper's quota Of 700 bar
rolls of -four for starving Armenia
viii put forth their best efforts and
prove that the Humanitarian spirit
OF Casper continues TO burn with a
strong. steady flame.
Interest shown in the was
manifested last night when the Metho-
dist church was packed with a large
congregation to listen TO the address
by Mrs. Yewis f. Carter on Armenia
and the that have been
carried on in that country.
Mrs. Carter was a teacher four
years in Harpoot Turkey, an Euphra.
ties college. She was there from 1908
to 1907 and uught tho orphans that
were loft from the Of 1895
and 1896. She o i what a progressive
and reliable cless OF people the Ar
menians nre. quoting Ambassador
Morgenthau. Lord Bryce and others
who have como in close contac. with
the Armenians in their homeland and
in America. Forty per cent of the
Armenians in America are skilled me-
chanics or successful professional and
busft:ess men. she pointed out Mrs.
Carter told that in their homeland
tho Armenians were the successful
farmers. business men. bankers and
workmen Of the country, and that
the Turks admitted that when
they massacred the Armenians they
wers killing their best citizens.
The two reasons that. the massacres
have heen carried out are religious
and economic. The Mohammedan re-
ligion offers a high state Of honor
in their heaven according as their
devotees convert or Kill the infidel
dogs" n name applied to all who
~ AON 1lNtPN iAt 4lOAisiIlDlCudn IhlI0. |
Armenians have been Christians since
the third century. when Gregory, the
"Iluminator,' took the Christian
faith to them. Armenia was the first
nation to accept the Christian faith.
1t is the purpose of h Turks to ex-
terminate the Christians or convert
them. The second reason for destroy
ing h Armenians is because OF their
superiority in intellect and business
ability.
Mrs. Carter told OF many men and
women whom she knew personally
who suffered horrible deaths in the
in the the great world war.
One refined. educated professor IN tho
college where she taught was taken
out, his hair and beard, and toe and
finger nails were pulled out with pin
GERS, then he was hung up from morn
ing till sunset by his arm. then from
sunset till sunrise by one leg. and
not being dead then. he was cut down
and compelled to march away from
the city till no was exhausted and shot
down in his tracks. That was only
n of thousands of similar cases.
Since the war has ended and the
American missionaries have gone back
to gather in the orphans there is not
room enough to contain tho starving
children. Mrs. Carter told of h or
phanage where she taught. II nor
ma'y accommodated 700 children. It
was lately crowded with $500 orphans.
day seven starving boys came and
asked to be admitted. Mr.. Riggs,
whom Mrs. Carter knows we'll, had
charge of the o~rphanage. He told the
boys he did not have the money or
the room for another boy. They stood
at the gate trembling with hunger
and begged to be admitted but he had
to refuse them. Then the seven boys
went off into h rne of the COM
pourd, conferred together and re-
turned, pushing m of the boys ahead