Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1922-10-25

ands. In the issue of the Digest oi
October Fl, we find the following:
FIRST AND-IN YOUR NAME 4.
Monday, September 25th, while the
fearful details of the Smyrna tragedy
were still crowding the cables, a COM
mittee came to our Offices from the
Near East Relief, the Y M, c. A., and
the Y. w. c. A.. those splendid or
ganizations of great-hearted men and
women, who are always in haste to
reach helping hand to suffering hu-
manity. A ship was that day entering
Gibraltar, they said, loaded with food
for Russia. At no sacrifice to its or
iginal purpose its cargo could be
bought and diverted to Constantinople.
But no funds were then available.
"Will you help us?" aske dthe COM
mittee. "Will the Literary Digest 90
something in this awful emergency
to stave off the utter annihilation Of
100000 people?"
At that moment it seemed to US
that we could feel the heartbeat of
the American people; we could foresee
the warm surge of quick compassion
that would sweep tlA nat ian zeRt
NOW YOU would have us answer and
III your behalf, and for you, we bor-
rowed one hundred and seventy-six
thousand dollars and bought the en-
tire cargo. That food was rushed at
once, as first aid, to feed the hungry
mouths of famished refugees"
"Yet this is not tithe--a merest
r. 4. IL r..
loads of food must follow as quickly
as you can send them, We have al
ready discounted our faith in you. We
have told the Committees to buy and
to keep on buying food, and to send
a veritable fleet of ships, until not
one aged man or helpless woman shall
cry out in agony of despair over a
family dying before their eyes, until
not one innocent child shall moan
with hunger which none can appease.
Do you know what has happened-I
wha.. Is still happeing while you read
these woras.
Here is what IS happening as the
Digest says:
OF FIRE AND SWORD.
Driven from their homes by fire,
sword beaten, trampled, robbed-more
.han a half million men, women, and
title children are being swept along
% starvation, madness, and selt-de-
'truction In the Near East.
fIerded in the streets, like cattle for ,
he slaughter; huddied on the brink
If the sea, and casting themselves,
,razed by hunger and fear, into the
lark waters; dragged from the bfrlng
1ell of Smyrna, only to be thrust by
heir rescurers into the slower hell
If Mitylene, and Saloniki, and other
navens of refuge" which now are
centers of starvation and
ounds of pestilence-these
who are suffering such martyrdom
rave only one hope of salvation from
heir nightmare of crucihxion. That
1ope is YOU-Americansl
thousands perished when Smyrna
vas bathed in torrents of blood. Now
he city is a vast sepulcher OF ashes.
1ou can do nothing for the dead. But
he lives of half million others are
ours to-day for the pnrchase. They
re stretching their hands to you now
'ut Of the horrible pit. Lift them up
9 lifel
",Thc appeal in their behalf which I
ONES to you from the President OF I
ne United States is to be needed, be-
ause you are one OF the great hearted
americans to whom his letter is writ 5
en-. The appeal from the Near East
$el;ef and the American Red Cross L
their chairmen is to be needed
,ecause your ears are open to such q
All for help in this terrible emergency.
Int stronger than the call OF Presi- i
lent, or Relief Committees, stronger
han any urgent words The Literary
)irest can say to you, knowing so
veil your unfailing tenderness and =
u;ck generosity when the hunger, and
orrow. and gaunt suffering OF mothers
nd babes cry out to you to comfort
nd to save them alive-stronger than