East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-07-04

TT IS hard to imagine child of ten who has never tasted
candy. 1t is harder to imagine thousands OF them who
we never put tongue to a confection.
Yesterday speaker before luncheon club who had visited
holds told of distributing few pounds of hard candy
among the little tots in orphanage OF Armenia the first and
only candy they had
If that the whole story there would be cause for
candy essential child But that merely
incident the tale of witness of the countless
tragedies which daily year in and out being enacted
in that far Christian country.
The candy undreamed of luxury which only few
could share but outside the walls of that orphanage and
children dying like flies of starvation exposure and disease
The ophanages We're full overfowng and there scarce
enough food and clothing to for the needs of
The speaker who was an Oregon man connected with the
neareas relief told of securing permission to pick out 20 more
children for which he had brought clothing and bring them
already crowded orphanage He had step outside
the walls and there he found but times children
begging pteousy to be taken inside Most of them stark
naked their bodies swooen from eating grass and dirt their
bulgng from rachoma and their limbs shrunken. He
better be imagined than described
difficult to believe his statement that the cries and walls
which went heaven when he turned his back the 80
nchosen ones still ring in his ears and that the sight of those
helpless hapess children with their pleading still rises
before him to haunt his waking and sleeping hours
There thousands of these orphan children through
out the lands where the barbarous Turk makes Chris
an people Their fathers and elder brothers have been killed.
their mothers buchered and their older sisters taken into
slavery worse than death IL is part OF the cruel plan OF the
Some of these waits of the war have been rescued by relief
workers by America and it has been the food and
clothing contributed by charitable Americans which have
tanned them 1t is keep life in them that anueas be-
ing made for funds and clothing.
The Amenians fought the side of the allies during the
great and they did heroic service The however did
end for them with the amisce The and aroc
which have been their portion for generations because they
worship God instead of Mohammed still continue and the
world looks and permits a world that boasts of its Chris
tian civilization it
America offered mandate that suffering country
the and American mandate would have given the
protection which these people needed would have permitted h
them pursue the of and security and relieved
of the necessity of living charity An American president
his country accept the mandate but his request was
because not good politics to accede Therefore m
the renewed their warfare and
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time In
Unless citizens this country want this appeal for relief NJ
perpetual behOoves them to sentiment h
for action which will stay the bloody hand of
the ruthless Turk.-Astora Budget IM
timely to remark that relief extended should be HI
the under auspices The raising M
strictly private funds for such relief work Objectionable
or several reasons the situation in Armenia described for
should hand it did in connection with Rus
ian relief work me
Dave Davender experience the old point that the
ay for an offender avoid trouble not TO use ora
reaen TO do When brought into play by law Mo
raker he can scarcely complain the officer shoots first and
rrests him afterwards Ito