Evening star., 1922-04-16
Cut in Relief Funds viii Bring Death
T0Arnenian Children, Unless i. S. HELPS
.Cor,bing Muddy Gut
ters for Apple Cores
or Orange Peel.
Little Figures in Rags
Weep in Sleep for
Hoped-for Food.

,, Thousands of children. in Armenia
who could otherwise be saved from
death by starvation and exposure.
were 1t not for the recent twenty-five
per cent cut in relief work ordered by
the executive committee of the Near
East Relief because of insufficient
funds, will be sentenced to die IL the
American people do not respond to
the frantic appeals Of the children
for food
Therefore at this season Of the year,
when Christians are rejoicing over
the anniversary of the risen Christ,
the Near East Relief committee
places before their eyes the figure Of
child in rags, weak and trembling
and with outstretched hands. crying
for food as loud as the strength in
Its little body will permit. This child
is on the outsidde OF the gates. while
those that were fortunate in gaining
admittance before the funds were
depleted are in danger Of being forced
back into the jaws of death from
which they were snatched. At this
Easter time Americans are asked to
pause for moment, view the sftua-
tion and then dig down in their
pockets and avert these fearful con-
sequences that are certain to result
challenged.
Erivan Horrible Example.
A horrible but typical example Of
conditions in Armenia today is given
In the city of Erivan-that one time
prosperous municipality of Armenia.
not far from Mount Ararat, famous
In days OF peace for the peach or
rounded it on every side. Walk
through the streets today. and here
Is what you will. see, according to an
appeal sent out by the Near East
Relief organizations:
Children walking through the
muddy cutters hunting for bits of
orange peels, apple cores or anything
that once resembled food; little boys
and girls sleeping in stables with
straw and manure spread over their
bodies to keep them from freezing to
death; or in the early morning de-
sorted children lying in the doorways
of buildings, wrapped in old burlap
bags, some silent, perhaps already
dead, others sobbing unconsciously
in their sleep.
"They have been placed there dur
ing the night by their mothers, who.
unable to feed them any longer. have
resorted to desertion as a final
chance to save their children's lives.
There is always a chance that they
will be rescued by the Americans. and
mothers leave their little children.
praying to God that they will be
saved by the kind and generous
Americans
Dying in All Corners.
From the American Women's Hos
pitai in the same city comes this
terrible message: I'VE have s52 cases
in the hospital, and children dying in
all corner of Erivan," the message
says. "A1l day long we can hear the
walls and groans of little children
outside the office buildings. hoping
we can and will pick them up. If the
sun shines a little while, they quiet
down; when it rains they begin
again. One day when the rain turn
ed to snow 1t was awful to listen to
them. The note of terror that came
into the general wall was plainly per-
ceptfble upstairs, and I had the win
dows closed. They well know what
a night in the snow would mean to
them We are picking them up as
fast as possible. but it is fatal to
crowd them to such a point that Wet