Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-02-20
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BY MRS. w. H. FELTON,

cneefleSS ana with promise or bitter
freezing weather very soon, decided
to answer today's letters in this man
ner. I am a virtual prisoner to my
house when the weather gets too
bad for me to venture out, so 1 have
answered today's correspondents
thusly. I get similar letters on many
other subjects day after day, but the
fatigue of the task of replying one
by one would be entirely beyond my
physical strength. The spirit is will
ing but the flesh is weak. The let
tiers that come constantly from school
girls and boys, asking for data in
their school contests and essays per-
haps number more than any other
kind. It would give me great pleas
ure to comply with all these re-
quests, but it is an impossibility,
when there is so much that cannot
be neglected or put aside for lighter
work, and which are also fatiguing
and sometimes perpleXing.
All the same [ respect and appre-
ciate the letters which crowd my
mail box. May Heaven bless and
keep them in peace and comfort.
Who's to Blame?
When I was less than twenty
years old the Crimean war happen
ed. Car Nicholas the first, and by
long odds the greatest of his name,
undertook to suppress the Sultan of
Turkey who was nnassacreing Ar
menians because they protested
Christianity and were avoiding the
we'll trodden paths of Mohamedism.
After it appeared that the Russian
emperor was about to suppress
these bloody Turks. England and
France, butted in on the side of the
Turks. 1t was an outrageous thing
to do and painful to remember-to
this day.
The fear that Russia might be-
come a first-class ruling power in
Europe-induced Great Britain and
France to aid Turkey.
The Crimean war ended in a
somewhat draw game. Car Mich
olas never forgot to hate them all
for it. Turkey was brutal, had no
mercy on it's prisoners, and atrocicus
as ever.
Some years 1ater-the British gov
eminent undertook to discipline
the Impossible Turks 1t was in
Mr.. Gladstones time, and he scourg-
ed his own government in the pub
lie prints fer it's aforetime shelter
and attention to the Turk.
For reasons of state policy
Great Britain cooled down and the
thing seemed to go by default. 1t
proved a fizzle.
Then came the World war. Tur-
key took sides with Austria and Ger
many and got a whipping-a thing
long time deserved and long time de-
layed. But Turkey never fails to
massacre Armenians and demon
strate mans inhumanity to man.
It's her creed and greed. There is
at this time a deluge of propaganda
literature in the United States di-
recting this country to take a hand
and rescue Armenia. If we had
signed up with the League of Ma
tions, Armenian soldiers would be at
this time fighting the Turks-under
British and French commanders.
AS it is, there are United States
battleships over there trying to res
cue and protect the people that Eng
land and France have dickered with
so many times and always connpro-
missed with, wrong as it appears to
me.
There is not week passes that
land old lady who could do moth
ing if she tried-is not deluged with
newspaper clippings abusing the
Turk and calling on the people of
this country to push in and donate
money and send soldiers to help
England suppress the Turks. May
God help us to see the trap. In this
presence I am entitled to say, Eng
land is NOT sincere in this matter.
That country has proven it's insin-
certify time and tine again. L pray
that our people will not be led away
by sentimental gush to get entan-
gled in this war with Turkey.