The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-24

chase 1heyare stretching their hands to you now out
of the horrible pit Lift them up to life!
The appeal in their behalf which comes to yoA
from the President of the United States is to be needed
because you are of the great-hearled Americans to
whom his letter is written The appeal from the,Near
East Relief and the American Red Cross through their
chairmen is to be Needed because your open to
such call for help in this terrible emergency. But
stronger than the call of President or of Relief Com
mttees, stronger than any urgent words The Literary
Digest say to you, knowing well your uniailing
tenderness and quick generosity when the hunger, and
and gaunt suffering of mothers and babes cry
out oyou to comfort and to save them alveStronger
than all written or spoken appeal is the hot eager de
mand of your own sympathetic heart that can not
regard such bitter pain and need without Sraning to
the utmost for their instant relief
The picture is SO full of terror and anguish words
can not portray it. Mark o. PrentiSS for the Near
East Relief, cables Il have seen terrible sights until
my senses numb but the sight of 100000 people,
mostly Women and children, being penned up and
burning and those escaping being driven to barren,
devastated country for starvation, past all compre
hension." That was in Smyrna. Hundreds of thou
sands more, both Christians and Jews, fleeing from
persecution and the sword, are Crowding the other
ports of Asia and the nearby islands of the await
ing rescue or death. In Saloniki hundred thousand
are herded in deporabe confusion. The city has been
in ruins since the great fire in 1918 and affords little
more shelter than Smyrna. In the iSlaTh of Mitylene
another hundred thousand penniless fugitives have
sought refuge only TO find there danger of pest
lence and more convenient harbor of starvation.
Panic has seized upon the frightened wanderers.
Many have even cast themselves into the flames of
their own homes Food is gone, even water to drink
is at premium, Families are broken up, while parents
in frenzy of despair seek their lost children. Hun
dreds of mothers have given premature birth to in
fants i'll the midst Of terror and death. Half-fed
babies, covered with scurvy try in vain to draw
iShment from their mothers empty breasts.
Quick compassion is needed; delay means death
for scores of thousands who might be saved Some
thing heroic in giving is needed You are not there in
the midst of the terror and the frantic cries for help
brave the ames the sword the plague to snatch back
from death some helpless woman or little child You
would not see them perish in agony before your eyes II
you could them, even at the risk of your life.
Here, in this smiling land of comfort where your home
is safe, and your loved ones dwell in peace that same
terror and anguish of helpless women and children
to you the and call to all that is heroic
and generous in your heart.
Whose hath this worlds goods and Seeh his
brother have need, and shutteh up his bowels Of com
passion from him-ah but the Master did not mean
you. Your heart is warm with compassion and you
hand will be open wide with help Perhaps you will
feel moment of shudderng pity for those shriveed
souls if there be any such in this land of plenty who
Money Orders, etc., Payable to "Near East
Nail Them to Either of the Following Treas
Treasurer THE AMERICA