The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-10-20
Draw Out Thy Soul to the Hungry,
and Satisfy the Afflicted"

OF ashes You can do nothing Tor the dead. But the
lives of half million others yours to-day for the
purchase They are stretching their hands 10 YOU
now out of the horrible pit Lift them up to lifel
The appeal in their behalf which comes to YOU
from the President of the United States is to be
needed because YOU are one Of the great-hearted
Americans 10 whom his letter is written The appeal
from the Near East Relief and the American Red
Cross through their charmen is 10 be needed because
your ears are open 10 such call for help in this ter
rble emergency But stronger than the call of Pres-
dent, or Of Relief Committees stronger than any
urgent words The Literary Digest can say to YOU,
Knowing SO well your unfailing tenderness and quick
generosity when the hunger and sorrow and gaunt
suffering of mothers and babes cry out 10 YOU to com
fort and 10 them alive stronger than all writ
ten or spoken appeal is the hot eager demand Of
your own sympathetic heart that can not regard such
bitter pain and need without strainng to the utmost
for their instant relief.
The picture is so full of terror and anguish
words can not portray it. Mark O. Prentss for the
Near East Relief cables 9" have seen terrible sights
until my senses are numb but the sight of 200 900
people mostly women and children being penned up
and burning and those escaping being driven TO
barren devastated country for starvation, is past all
comprehension. That was i'm Smyrna. Hundreds OF
thousands more, both Christians and Jews fleeing
from persecution and the sword are crowding the
other ports OF Asia and the nearby islands of the sea
awaiting reScue-or death In Salonild a hundred
thousand are herded in deplorabe confusion The
city has been in ruins since the great fire Of 9lS and
affords little more shelter than Smyrna In the island
Of Mitylene another hundred thousand penniless
fugltives have sought refuge only to find there new
danger of pestilence and a 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
Hundreds OF mothers have given premature birth to
infants in the midst of terror and death Half-fed
babies, covered with scurvy, try in vain TO draw
nourshment from their mothers empty breasts.
Quick compassion is needed; delay means death
Tor scores OF thousands who might be saved Some
thlng heroic IN giving is needed You are not there in
the midst OF the terror and the frantic cries for help
II you were you would leap into the sea- If need be
or brave the flames, 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 i you could save 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 come to you across the sea and
call to all that IS heroic and generous in your heart
Whose hath this worlds good and seeth his
brother have need and shuteth up his bowels of COM
passion from him -ah but the Master did not mean
hand will be open wide with help. Perhaps you will
feel moment of shudderng pity for those shriveled
Money Orders, Etc, Payable to "Near Eos
Nail Them to Either of the Following Trea.
, Treasurer THE AMERICA AN
Near East Relief the Cross contributors h. Fund one cent