Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-08-25
SPOKE ON ARMENIA TO WILD
WOOD AUDIENCES

A portrayal of Christian Armenia
was wildly portrayed to the congre-
cations of Holly Beach Presbyterian,
First NJ. E., Lutheran, Baptist and st.
Simeon's churches in Wildwood, N. j.,
Sunday morning and evening, August
10th, by Julian Zelchenko, state secre-
tary of the Near East Relief, who has
recently returned from there.
Mr.. Zelchenko in his remarks said,
"that Armenia's claim for justice and
liberty has been ignored. Armenia
cast her lot with the allies and gave
nearly 100000 of her sons During
their absence over a million women
and children were butchered and mas
sacred in cold blood by the Turks be-
cause they refused to deny their
Christ. The statesmen across the sea
are creating boundary lines not based
upon economic relationship. They are
grabbing, j~ockeying and exploiting in
the old slime. If these so called
statesmen across the sea would pay
less attention to the boundary lines
and more attention to the heart throbs
of the ONE and children, and even
if our own statesmen at Washington
would pay less attention to the patron
age and building up their political
fancies and more to the heart throbs
of the women and children of Armenia
and across the sea, we would have a
better America and a better world.
Last year about this time l stood
at the foot of Mt. Arrarat, the capital
of Armenia. l saw there naked child
rem with stomachs bloated from eating
clay and grass. 1 walked over dead
bodies; I saw groups of and
children with no clothing to cover
their bodies, which were covered with
sores, and they were so weak that they
could not eve brush away the flies
which were creeping On their bodies.
1t was almost a nightmare; it seemed
as though 1 was in the land of stalking
death.
How can we in America, living
in fairly comfortable homes, enjoying
practically every comfort and luxury
God given, understand poverty and
misery? 1t is true that there is a
feeling among a good many good
Americans that America has done
her share and that the time has
come for America to confine her
activities within her own boundary
line. If all of us accept that as final
decision I feel that America will fall
as Rome of old fell.
1.-THE future of great liberty-loving
America lies in her philanthropy. We
will never have peace in this world sc
long as women and children starve
America must be a torch bearer and
lead the world to peace. Not only does
the world need America but America
needs the world for the reconstruction
and REIMBURSEMENT of the recent havoc
wrought by the war. Men and women
everywhere are dissatisfied. We have
passed the stage of living for Jul
selves.
During the three years of its ex
istence the Near East Relief has gath.
cred in it's fold nearly 10000 orphan
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ing. But for every child inside the
orphanages there are three outside
who are starving, and unless America
continues her aid the 10000 children
in the orphanages will be thrown out
these coming winter months only to
freeze and starve and die, and il
seems to me it would have been more
just and more charitable to have let
them die a year ago than to turn them
out now.
Can we in America, proud of our
traditions, proud Of our history and
forefathers, who have given their lives
to make this land of ours a land OF
justice and liberty, afford to let these
thousands of little children die from
starvation? Should it be stated in
generations to come that we in the
hour of need and distress failed to do