The Penn's Grove record., 1923-12-07
THE NEAR EAST RELIEF
Sad Affections Because The U. S. Sen
ate Proved Traitors To Humanity

and crusade Is DelHS CdIileu OA'
in Churches to raise funds for
the many thousands orphans, OF
Christian men and women who were
killed in Asia Minor by the hend-
ish Turks because their people
took I'D arm during the World Wa
to help the Allied nations, of which
the United States was one. The
United States did not declare war
agains Turkey as urged by Theodore
Roosevelt and others, because those
interested in mission work thought II
would be better for those IN n mis-
sion field not to do so.
The crusade to raise funds Is made
under the suggestion for a Colder
Rule Sunday, for people to eat frugal
meals after Thanksgiving and to give
the difference in cost to feed the
orphan children.
The pamphlet containing the propa-
ganda to help some of the thousands
of orphans contains several thoughts
worthy of consideration, as follows:
Sat an international conference IN
Geneva, Switzerland, September, 1928,
representatives of twenty phllan-
thropic organizations for fourteen
countries were facing the perpleXlng
problems of the Near East. The fall-
ures of armies and navies of the
world wars and diplomatic conferences
were glaringly apparent. Could prac-
teal religion, as expressed through
the Golden Rule, solve the problem
that had baffled world powers?
"The suggestion at once met with
the hearty support of President Cool
idge, of former President Wilson,
Secretary Hughes, and leading off,
Goals of the United States.
Nations, like individuals, have souls
that can be scared and atrophied by
selfishness.
america today is a name to con-
jure with throughout the Near East,
chiefly because she has gone to the
Near East with a hand to ministry
and not with a mailed fist. She is
known throughout the Near East for
here colleges and educational institu-
tons, he r hospitals, relief agencies
and philanthropies. American has not
made the heavy expenditures that
other nations have made for military
operations.
"The Asyrian orphans in Persia are
the descendants of the old HISTORIAN
Christians dating back to the days of
st. Thomas. The Armenians, formerly
occupied the center of Anotobia, are
the remnants of the oldest Christian
nation in the world. Their king estab-
lished Christianity as their national
religion before Constantine accepted it
for the Roman Empire.
'The parents of these thousands of
Christian orphans and a majority of
their countrymen, because they be-
friended the Allied cause, have been
annihilated in connection with the
late war"
Whyl Why!i Why!!!
These Armenians and Assyrian men
were supplied with arms and ammuni-
ton by the Allies to help fight the
their oppressors for a thousand
years. At the time of the armistice
the Turks were driven out of Europe
and were a PROSTATE people as to
fighting.
American relief was taken at once
through the Armenian territory. Two
persons to go was Amiee, daughter of
DR.. William S. Vanneman, a native of
Penns Grove, and her husband. They
went and distributed food and cloth
ing and helped the afflicted.
What happened?
When the United States Senators
refused to take a mandate to protect
the Armenians with gunboats and
marines, as recommended by Woodrow
Wilson, the American relief had to
get out within a year. The failure to
stand by our Armenian Christian Al
lies permitted the bloody Turks to eX-
terminate the Armenian and Assyrian
Christians and the Turks came back
TO Europe.
Who are to blame?
Nations and Congress are composed
of individuals. So let US place the
blame on individual actions of those
who proved traitors to humanity.
JOS. S. Frelinghuysen, former U. S.
a vindictive enemy of
Woodrow Wilson's policy. He is the
man.
Walter E. Edge, now United States
Senator, an enemy of Woodrow Will
policy. Thou art the man who
permitted the Armenians to be mas
sacred by refusing to approve their
protection by the u. S. Navy and
after they had joined in the
fight to give political and religious
freedom to all the world.
Those are two of the men who help
ed comprise the "Nations actions, like
individuals, have souls that can be
scared and ~athropied by s~elfshness."
Nh. Frelinghuysen has been de-
servedly put out of the Senate. He
was the strongest pro-German in it,
he refused to vote to take over
alien enemy property.
Who is responsible for Walter E.
May New Jersew men hang
heads in shame for such a mar
the U. S. Senate.
At the signing of the Armistice, DIR.
Vanneman was a prisoner of war to
the Turks. He was released and re-
turned to America in 1919. He re-
to Tabriz, Persia, in 1921,
where he has been a medical mission
,ry for thirty-three years.
We asked him what would be the
effect if U. S. gunboats had been in
The Black Sea and marines sent into
Armenia to protect the people where
his daughter and s~on-in-law went to