The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-23
Clergyman Describes !Condi-' tions Of Want And Anguish He. Saw In Asia Minor Where Turk Was Ruler

Birmingham's observance of Col den Rule Sunday December 2, when citizens of 14 nations have been Relief fund the difference between the cost of their normal Sunday din ner and that of a menu consisting of hominy, soup and other foods served Christian orphaps cared for by that organization, is sponsored by com mittee of civic and religious leaders who attended a luncheon in honor of Bishop James Cannon. Jr., of Wash ington at 1 o'clock Thursday at the Tutwiler hotel.
 Bishop Cannon, who is chairman of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, commission on social work, has been lent to the Near East to further the cause of the orphans. He Alabama, his daughter being Mrs. Herbert c. Stockham. The bishop presided over the North Alabama conference in 1921.
 The Committee.
 Birmingham Golden Rule commit tee was named on motion made at the luncheon, with Dr. Henry M. Ed monds, state chairman of the Near East Relief, presiding. Among the members are Mrs. Glenn Gazzam, Mrs. Erie Pettus, Mrs J. L. Haley, Rev. Dr. c. B. Glenn, oscar Wells, Dr. Henry Edmonds, Rev. E. E. Cava- lierf, Rev. James E. billiard, pr. Guy F. Snavely, Rev. w. E. Morris, Dr. Oscar de Wolf Randolph, Rev Will liam M. Sentell, pr. George Stuart and Dr. L. E. Brubaker.
 Bishop Cannon extensively re- viewed events leading up to the care of orphans by Americans having been made necessary through the bloody hand" of the Turk. He de- nounced the treaty of Lauzanne as disgrace, in which the Christian na- tions share. He urged his hearers to aiG in maintaining the orphan charges of the Near East.
 Bishop Cannon scored the Turk as ever being a force of destruction. He referred to the Turkish conquests, always conquests, with no attempt a constructive work. Atrocities of the "bloodless massacre" perpetrated by the Ottoman leaders when the French withdrew from Cilicia when S00,00O Armenian men, women and children died on march through the Meso- potamian desert were recounted by the bishop who happened to be in Constantinople in the early fall of 1922, the time of the tragedy
 How the Greek patriarch in Con- stantinople was turned over to the brutal, frenzied populance of Stam- bout, to be tortured and torn to pieces before being dragged through the streets until his body became disffgured how Armenian women were outraged and slain, and their daughters torn from their arms and carried off to Turkish harems, chil- dren crying for water heartlessly de- nied, the burning of smyrna when the French aid Italian troops and sailors withdrew, all were high lights in the bishops sketch of con ditions of the Armenians and other Christians in Asia Minor as the Turk sought to wipe out Christianity there.
 Bishop Cannon declared all the all lied nations have broken a promise made at Versailles 10 protect the Armenians, even denying then ad mittance to the conference which led to the treaty of Lausanne. He de- nounced the French particularly for having made secretly the treaty of Angora, which led to the withdrawal of French troops from the mandate of croilia and the subsequent "blood- less massacre"
 It Is to aid the helpless victims of the Turks murders, the Christian orphans of Asia Minor, that the Near East relief is working and asking