Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PlTIfUL SCENES IN SCOURGE-STRICKEN - twelve men, with grave faces, were niet to decido an issue of life or death. No burly criminal stood there to re ceive - punishment for his crimes, only a little child, begging for life. Her sin was hunger and nakedness. She trembled, and almost fell, as she stretched out thin, bare arms in supplication. "Hunger! Bread!" were the only words she spoke. A long time passed, while those 'nei fought to escape the verdict they must render. But then the words came: "We have not found anyone who will give you bread, little girl. We have told a great many people about you, but they have given to so many other boys and girls that they are tired of giving. There is not enough bread, now, to go around- no, not even a crust. We are very sorry, dear little girl, but---we must let you (lie." A cruel jest? No! A cruel fact, multiplied thousands upon thousands of times! If only one such pleading child were condemned to (lie because we are "tired of giving" it would be enough to blanch the cheeks of every man and woman who reads this page. But upon many thousands of boys and girls the sentence of death has just ...b ee.passed. In Armenia a Christian race is bow ing blotted out-while the world looks on. In Armenia peace did not come when the rest of the world stopped fighting. Last year 140 villages were destroyed; thousands of mothers and grown daughters were violated and slain; fathers were herded into build ings and burned; multitudes of or phaned children were driven into the wilderners to wander and die, unless perchance, they might be gathered like lost lambs, into folds of safety by the Near East Relief. Conditions are worse than at any time since the armistice. Frantic appeals for more food to ive the children, fdr more clothing to cover their naked bodies, for more hospitals 4and orphanages to give thea refuge come surging over the cables to "kind, generous Amer ica," the hoped-for savior of Armenia. And in the moment of this crisis, when the question of life or death for unnumbered thousands of children must be answered, the tender charity of American mothers and fathers has begun to fail. Their answer to the multitude of little orphans whose only sin is hunger, and nakedness, and immeasurable grief, has been, in December and January and Febru ary and March-not more money, and more clothing, and more food, but less. And, so the cruel order has gone forth from the offices of the Near East' Relief to reduce all expenditures twenty-five per cent. Twenty-five chil dren from every hundred now receiv ing care must be turned away. Amon the mane thousands whose wails of hunger, and sickness, and cold have 1 To M Growing old gracefully, s Richer in friendships o: Honor and reverence and( ,Best of my love to my c Growing 01(1 gracefully, s' Living for others has m Filling the world with the Beautiful, beautiful Mo In the sacred name of this tri NOTE :--Mother's Day First Natior W. C. DAVIS, P: A. C. BRADHA1\ J. T. STUKES, C pot yet answered, nlot one can be satisfied. And nosy the cries of terror and dis tmay are reaching America: Cablegram, via Paris: "Thou sands of deportees filling Near .East threshold, receiving crust of bread, hoping for summer peace. Shall we push them off our doorstep? Order of twenty-five per cent reduction neces sitates closing March first all general relief." Cablegram, Constantinople: "Ap palling increase of need for general re lief 'through Anatolia Caucasus. Reduction in already inndequate ap propriations cuts ofT multitudes who are hopeless without A merican aid." Cablegram, from America Wo men;'s Hospital, Erivan: "We have eight hundred and aifty-two cases :n the hospital, and children dying in all corners of Erivan. All day long we can hear the wails and groans of lit tle children outside the office build ings hoping we can and will pick them up. If the sun shines a little while they quiet down; when it rains they begin again. One day when the rain turned to snow it was awful to listen to them. The note of terror that came into the general wail was plain ly perceptible upstairs, and I had the windows closed. They well know what a night in the snow would mean to them. We are picking them up as fast as possible, but it is fatal to crowd them 'to such a point that we would lose evey thoge already in or phanage." Erivan--that one time prosperous city of Armenia, not far from Mount Ararat, famous, in (lays of peace, for the peach orchards and vegetable gardens that surrounded it on every side. Walk through its streets today, and here is what you will see: "Chil dren walking through the muddy gutters hunting for bits of orange peels, apple cores, or anything that once resembled food; little boys and girls sleeping in stables, with straw andn manure spread over their bodies to keep them from freezing to death; or, in the early morning, deserted chil dren lying in the doorways of the buildings, wrapped in old burlap hags, some silent, perhaps already dead, others sobbing unconsciously in their sleep. They have been placed there <huring the night by their mothers who, unable to feed them 'any longer, have resorted to desertion as a final chance to save their children's lives. There is always a chance that they will be rescued by the A mericans, and it is with this one hope that the moth ers leave their little children, praying to God that they will be saved by the "kind and geneyous A mericans."' Has that story of unutterable suf fering, of passionate love and grati tude for what has been given, that trusting, prayerful apliPeal for rescue of children whose lives now depend on us-has it all growns wearisome to us? Are we tired of being "kind ant generous?" Is there no longer any sacrificial tenderness for little chil dren in our hearts? Is it time to be rid of the burden, to stop our giving, and so, through the Board of Trustees of the Near East Relief, who must act as we dictate, to pronounce the sen tence of death on these thousands of boys and girls who have believed, to the last moment, that we would save them? Mothers and fathers of America, it is not true! You will not allow it! Your hearts have not turned to stone! -- wosi I ay lir Mohe'sfet veete inhat adFo iie .ov yo imat therof mne. "M te"werne ,Vieeident. ohe CYPRESS SASH DOORS BLINDS MOULDINGS AND MILLWORK What are. a few paltry miles of. dis tance! They cnn not separate you from that famine-stricken land, where dead and dying children litter the city streets. They cannot, shut out from your vision those hunger-pinched faces and outstretched hands! You can shut your windows, as they did, in very desperation, in the city of Erivan; but the wails *and moans of little children, waiting in rain and snow, by clay and night, to be "picked up" and clothed and fed, cannot be shut out of your heart. From far-away stations, by the magic of science, our homes are being filled with song, and story and music for the dance. But there are mes sages more wonderful than any con trolled by the wizards of wireless. They are comling now from far away, and the story they bring is burdened with tears. The music is not for danc ing, for those who make it can scarce stand upon their feet. The song, swelled to a chorus of woe by thou sanis of little voices that ought, to be musical with laughter, is always the same: "Hunger! Bread!" And with the pleading cry of the children, there comies a voice sweet and solemn, saying: "These are MY little ones; ye are My Shepherds; Feed My Lambs." To catch these messages, every American heart that has thrilled at the laughter of - a littlle child or throbbed at its cry of pain, s the re teivint" instrument, and the messages are broadcasted to uts from the very threne of Ileaven. No mistake can be more tragic at this moment than for you to say, as you readt, "The call is not to mc; I cannot-- I need not respond this tin-e; others w\ill give, and the chil dren will not have to dit.'' There are no others-if you ttwrn away. The appeal has gone through out. the length and breadth of this gLrent. Iand, and these "others" have heaird it and some have given gladly; but too many have said, "I need not respond this time." During the past four months not.- enough has been given to colltilue the care evel of those children already gathered into the hospitals and orphanages, while thousands more are waiting to be "picked up" from the streets and eromntr'yside. There are no others--if you refuse. Armenia is surrounded by bankr upt nati'nfS, or nations struggling to keep them selv's from bankruptcy. Et rope is full of suffering and need. Ar meni's only hope is Alerica. A ('rist inn race will die if' A merica fails att tiis crisi. Thereit areS lio iothersi Io love and1( en ie forI A rmleiat's lit H. e (ch ibiren'-no~ I irs hilt voiti. 'fil- va:st. nnijo-it y al-e is a o!: : t'r --if noit ffa.L. i r y nat and unll lranfa th fand! Iln n fhIther :ifl dei:il, the honli - I<b' t:riyed, :ai the lonelv little sirl or a !' anll 11111ther al11d S :11 altl rilller ---th I l y oneI fil iln whel' heari tile s:i1 l ittle' waif ennl now'. filtd re'flitr. I low jilt didjly you have 'tie, peri If il\rl12 ia's~ ~ ti a ffers'h ut forli ('very1 In i aved thf en, if t lst , onel 5h1 r wts iiit iitt'ihot food,1 Nor shler o'il f''s. And~i the1 fhlu tolwho cannt lives oway ii tht nweryi lstopied. Ahts yeao ~vthes dlivery ortfl 5upplit tfor f0 the tle androntlopan ie~f s 14 ilt errutied lst vialn Novim cultikes tlloe Aprtiel sith'ne chibtrn hto e fiplace of' halfth ratis and bylithe (f sies o Maylt n ple ver tornin. Youca .supeay the orrivd ohf las1.lttmeage rtifon tile ditribvaley. Durin th sdweeetsy thenwlege thtorenia't wchousadhbren died.ai fo you anitthll you, aitnw thpe drenseakngto youre soul, yar may ing the very one itenedto de."Y Raevdone ith ue entn !So the rdeerlyoredue lllief tork tragedyou ipoedn athis Eather tino plcetcide of esarmheria, thace wouls. feel ane searte ordofi lessrrhildren, ich wllrd caf wback nomed watte cdfoml the save thlem. ford your cndtriustins (oand mappeait toyo i vi: ndth oie f h for as large amount as possible) to William M. Gibbes, Jr. No. 211 Lib erty Bank, Columbia, S. C. EXPERT GRADING ASSURED 13Y TOBACCO ASSOCIATION Recent announcement of the ap pointment of J. H. Dixon of Mullins, S. C., as Supervising Grader of the Leaf Department of the Tobacco Crowers' Co-operative Association in South Carolina assures the organ i zed growers of this state the services of one of the outstanding tobacco men of the South in the grading of their tobacco \this fall. With a long record of successful sercice in handling the leaf Mr. Dix on has had ten years in the warehouse business at Mullins, formerly work ing with the Export Leaf Tobacco Co., and later with Reynolds, Mr. Dix on has bought tobacco for one or more seasons at Louisburg, N. C., Roxboro, N. C., South Boston, and Danville, Va. The successful grading of nu're than fifty million pounds of toh u by the Kentucky Burley CD"owers' '\ sociation which .hai 'm -Z ion th been an imuportra f' w r i in'in them higher ! rie s 1ihan t i unuor ganize(d growers o l ie nu-: have received upon the open narket this year seems certain to be repeated with graders of such ability as Mr. Dixon and the experienced tobacco men who will handle a majority of this years crop for the Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Association in the Carolinas and Virginia. CITATION NOTICE The State of South Carolina, County of Clarendon. By J. M. Windham, Probate Judge: Whereas Home Bank & Trust Com pany made suit to mhe to grant them Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of Theodora Sheriff. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said Theodore Sheriff deceased, that they be and ap pear before me, in the Court of Pro bate, to be held at Manning on the 22nd lay of May next, after publica tion heroof, at 11 o'clock in the fore noon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 9th day of May, Anno Domini, 1922. J. M. Windham, .Judge of Probate. "HE WHO LOOKS BEFOR This is ti pencil foi any buildi buildings very first( you will b< There's o IM E For farm hot g-alleriy suppc and all "ex1y lumber oives Cypre2ss, the HereC is som<h .For mnanyT u just as well Your lumnbei calls for and "Buy the Write us for list of FREE~ andl no subsitues fro y50 Ma YOUlR LOfCAL . nLR WILs ts rage Tnree Figures Speak for Themselves Virginia Tobacco Growers Association 112 East Cary Street Account of Sale Richmond, Va. ANDREW TIMBERLAKE Bell's Cross Roads Grades (" ) Orde BC .. ITCI "i l.a X 0 78Clil A G S : Redrying and Packing - .$18.20 Storage and Insurance . 4.00 Commission and operating (xpN orses - 4.72 Freight paid.......... 3.43 -.........$30 NET PROCEEDS - -- -..-...----.$39.62 (A photographic reproduction of the above bill of sale appeared n the Southern Tobacco Journal of F'ebruary 21, 1922). NOW LISTEN Ilnd the above tobacco been sold fresh from the wagon, on the floor of any Auction Sales Warehouse in North Carolina, there would have been no ten (10) per cent. loss in weight ,and had the price obtained been the same, Mr. Timberlake's sale would have been as follows: (0 lbs. at 0- --------------- ---- - - ----- -- -$12.00 195 lbs. - - . ------- --- - --- - - -.-- ----$21.45 555 lb--. at $8 -- ... _- _---------$44.40 810 $77.ba CIIARGES: Weighing ..-_ -__. --- -- .85 Auction Fees ------------ .65 Commissions 2% per cent. 1.95 -$3.45 NET PROCEEDS ---- ----- --- - - --------------_.$74.40 E HE LEAPS BUILDS OF CYPRESS AND BUILDS FOR KEEPS." ie time to sharpen your some close figuring on ng jobs ahead of you, new r repairs to old ones. The uestion that will confront -"Whatium/bershall I use?" nly one answer to that DL4 W7Ai wIdE* WOO EAxA'TRNAL" -"OF (COURSE." ses, barnis,ou11thoulses,fen vces, walks, rts,e Olumns,rl~s, Hoors anid step)s, 'osed -to -weather" uses, no other such ev'er-astingo saijsfaction as "prized wood of the Southland."' ething else to remember, too. ses the lower grade/s will answer and save you some real money. - dealer will know what your work will advise you to Grade That Fits the Job." PLANS for farm buildings--but in the meantime insist on "CYPRE~SS n your local lumnber dealer-no matter for what purpose you buy. Address 'UT HER N C YPRESS Insit..n nufacturers' Association it 177 Graham Bldg., Jacksonville, Fla. SUPPLY YOU. IF HEB HAsN'T ENOUG1 Cve ESS LE USe K rnw A-r n(r