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(From tho Literary Digest, issue of
April Is, 1929
Twelve men, with grave faces,
were met TO decide an issue OF life
or death.
No burly criminal stood there to
receive punishment for his crimes
only little child, begging for life.
Her sin was hunger and naked
ness.
She trcmblcd, and almost fell, as
she stretched out thin, bare arms in
supplication.
er!-Bread!" were the only
words she spoke.
a long time passed, while those
men fought to escape the verdict
they must render. But then the
words came:
1--WE have not found any one who
will give you bread, little girl. We
have told q great many people about
you, but they have given to so many
other boys and girls that they are
tired Of giving. There is not enough
bread, now, to go around-no, not
even crust. We are very sorry,
dear little girl, but-wc must let YOU
Gio."
a cruel jest? No! A cruel fact.
multiplied thousands upon thousands
OF times! If only one such pleading
child were condemned to die because
we are tired Of giving" it would DO
enough to blanch the cheeks Of every
man and woman who reads this page
But upon many thousands Of boys
and girls the sentence of death has
just been passed.
In Armenia a Christian race is
being blotted out--while tho world
locks on. In Armenia peace did not
come when the rest Of the world
stopped fighting. Last year 40 vii
lagos were destroyed; thousands Of
mothers and grown daughters were
violated and slain; fathers wore
hcrdcd into buildings and burned;
multtudcS OF orphaned children
were driven into the Wilderness to
wander and die, unless, pcrchancc,
they might be gathered, like lost
lambs, into folds Of safety by the
Near East Relief. Conditions arc
worse than at any time since the
armistice. Frantic appeals for more
food to save the children, for more
clothing to cover their naked bodies,
for more hospitals and orphanages
to give them refuge como surging
over the cables TO "ltind, generous
America" the hoped-for savior Of
Armenia.
And in the moment Of this crisis,
when the question Of life or death
for unnumbercd thousands Of chill
drcn must be answered, the tender
charity Of American mothers and ia
theirs has begun to fail. Their an
swcr to the multitudcs Of little or
phans whose only sin is hunger, and
Eakcdncss, and immcasurable grief,
has becn--in Deccmbcr, and Janu-
any, and February, and March--not
more money, and more clothing, and
moro food-but less. And so the
cruel order has gone forth from the
Offices Of the Near East Relief to re-
ducc all expenditures twenty-five
Per cent. twenty-five children from
every hundred now receiving care
must be turned away. Among the
many thousands whose walls Of hum
ger, and sickness, and cold have not
yet been answered, not ono can be
satisfied
And now the cries of terror and
dismay are reaching America:
Cablcgram, via Paris: "Thous-
ands Of deportecs filing 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 ne
ccssitatcs closing all general relief"
Cnblcgr'm, Constantinople: ZAP
palling increase Of need for general
relief throughout Anatolia Caucasus.
Reduction In already inadequate ap-
preparations cuts Off multitudcs who
arc hopeless without American aid"
Cablcgrnm, from American Wo-
mems Hospital, Erivan: "We have
eight hundred and ffty-two cases in