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PiIFUL SCENES IN SCOURGE-STRICKEN ;..; welve men, with grave faces, were' met to decide an issue of life or death. No burly criminal stood there to re ,eive ' punishmaent for his crimes, only a little child, begging Jor 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 nen 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 giv'ng. 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 timesl If only one such pleading child were condemned to die 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 .bye" passed. In Armenia a Christian race is bas 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 wildernets 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 save the children, fMr more clothing to cover their naked bodies, for more hospitals aind orphanages to give them 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 mo'e food, but less. An' so the cruel order has gone forth from the oflices of the Near East- Relief to reduce all expenditure3 twenty-five per cent. Twenty-five chil dren from every humdred now receiv ing care must be turned away. Among the many' thousands whose wails of hunger, and sickness, and cold have ,ii 46 Growing old gracefully, s Living for others has nm Filling the world with th< Beautiful, beautiful Mc In the sacred name of this tr NOTE :-Mother's Day First Natioi W. C. DAVIS, P A. C. BRADHAl J. T. STUKES, C po e answered, ot one can be satisfied. And nosy the cries of terror and dis may 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 off multitudes who are hopeless without American aid." Cablegram, from America Wo mel;'s Hospital, E~rivan: "We have eight hundred andi dfty-two cases on 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 :hines 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 woul(d 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 even those 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 and l manur 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 bags, some silent, perhaps already dead, others sobbing. unconsciously in their sleep. They have been placed there during 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 Americans, and it is with this one hope that the moth ers leave their little children, prayin to God that they will be saved by the "kind and geneyous Americans."' Has that story of unutterable suf fering, of passionate love and grati tude for what has been given, that trusting, prayerful apileal for rescue of children whose lives now depend on us--has it all grown wearisome to us? Are we tired of being "kind an' 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, throngh 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 A merica, it, is not true! You will not allow it! Your hearts have not turned to stone! - -Si *f alwhmyu et ~4I wrhpIly leaMth r' feet. / "otherwred' weter ah ly iwshay 14th. eresidethe' et adoyo die-reine-t "Mher" ered CYPRESS SASH DOORS BLINDS 0 MOULDINGS AND MILL WORK What are, a fe w paltry miles of ' dis tance! They can not separate you from that famine-stricken land, where lead and (lying 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 (lay 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 coming 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 sands 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 comes a voice sweet and solemn, saying: "These are MY little ones; ye are My 'F pherds; Feed My Lambs." To catch these messages, every American heart that has thrilled at the baughter of -a littlle child or throbbed at its cry of pain, is the re ceivingt instrument, and the messages are broa'lcasted to is from the very throne of Heaven. No mistake can be more tragic at this monent than for you to say, as you read, "The call is not to me; I canitot-- I need not responfd this time; others will give, and thle chil dren will not have to (lit." There are no others-if you ttrn away. 'lhe appeal has gone through out the length and breadth of this ereat land, and these "others" have heard 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 continue the care even of those children already gathered into the hospitals and orphanages, while thousands more are waiting to be "picked ilp'" from the streets and CoultrysiIe. 'T'here are no others-if you refuse. Armenia is surrounded by bankrupt nations, or nations struggling to keep themselves from bankruptcy. En rope is full of suffering and need. Ar menia's only hope is A merica. A Chit tian race wvilI l die if A merica fauils att this crisis. lThr ai' re njo ot hers to lo 've and ca re f or Armeniia's little childIren-no ut'wrs but vou. The v'st. najority aire irphans liaer is. dead; mot her. too, uni :in unci'i-illei ,ra nfahior d moyed, mlie lonely little girl or~ ha as nod 0on-e-but v'ou. Yiou are famh'i:re and olher ainl sishand brother- -he onily onte ill whose honirf the .,ol little waif cain now find I low ' jlci tll you have givent, per haps, somiet ime( in the past, maol have brouight health at:nd laughiter to some of Ar ::wn :ia's suflereis! lHut for tvery wne sav it hhon, at. least, one or* iriend. And11( the childi to whomi y'ou eave 'ine meal a d:ey last year' (:annot liv no ~w if that meail is stopdff(l. A yeai ago the dleliveiy ori suiphlies forn the Alexcandriopol oirphani ber and .\lay be transportat ion dilli cutit ies. Biefore A pril the chibirent had to Ie filacedf on hal f rat ions, and by the Iirist. of May, on the very iorning the supply train arrived, the last moeager ration was d istribuited. I )u ring those sad wveeks, when there wais so little food1( at.Alexandriopof, imorie thant i two thoutsiand clhiiren dIied. If you with hold your gift now, the boys and girls you fed last, year may le thIei ver y ontes "'seniteniced to die.'' Revoke the crtuel sentence! Stop he ordcer to redutce all relief wvork vewtnty- five per ceit ! Thanuk God it is ini your powver at this Easter time to give life in ptlace oif dleath, health in place of sickness, laughter in place of tears. You can speak the wvortdl of Rlesurrec'tion, which will call bacek some littlle child from the (lark valley oif shadow and flood its new life with sunshine. Two things will fill your Easter Day with sweetest joy: the knowledge that Armenia's children did not wait for you, and trust in you, and appeal to you in vain; and the voice of the Risen Christ, the Lover of little chil dren, speaking to your soul, and say ing, "Ye have (lone it unto Me. Ye have (lone it untQ Me." So dleeply are we, publishers of the The Manning Times, stirred by the tragedly impending among the inno cent children of Armenia, that we would feel a heavy share of responsi bility f'or the needless dleath of count less children, in that land, if we did not (10 what we could to save them. Send your contributions'(and make it for as large amount as possible) to William M. Gibbes, Jr. No. 211 Lib erty Bank, Columbia, S. C. EXPERT GRADING ASSURED BY 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 Growers' Co-operative Association in South Carolina assures the organized growers of this state the services of one of the outstanding tobacco men of the South in the grading of their tobacco \?his 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 more than fifty million pounds of tohacc by the Kentucky Burley Crn.vers' As sociation which has t n r ion i b - been an importr at f tef or ia brinyin them higher tic :s than1 the unuor ganized growers of Len .1tkv have received upon the open market 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 Corn pany made suit to me 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 BEFO) This is t pencil fo any build buildings very first youwillb There's c For firm hoi g)allery suJ~pp and all "ex1 lumber o-ive Cy press, the Here is som .For many i just as well Your lumbe calls for and "Buy the WArite us for list of FR E and no Substituteq" frC YOUR LOCAL DEALRa Wit .,rage a nree + ::::::u s::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::: Figures Speak for Themselves Virginia Tobacco Growers Association 112 East Cary Street Richmond, Va. Account of Sale ANDREW TIMBERLAKE Bell's Cross Roads Grades "f. Orde BC 810 728 .6;1.97 CIIAItGES: Redrying' and Packing _....-$18.20 Storage and Insurance _-- ---- --- _-- - 4.00 Commission aend operating expenses - .. 4.72 Freight paid . - ----3.43 -$30.33 NET PROCEEDS --- ----- -----------------$39.62 (A photographic reproduction of the above bill of sale appeared in the Southern Tobacco Journal of February 21, 1922). NOW LISTEN Had 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: 60 lbs. at $20 - --------- -- -- -------- ---- -----.$12.00 195 lbs. at $11 --------- ---- ---- -- - --- ---- - --- ----..$21.45 555 lbs. at $8 --- ---- ---- .----. _ ---- --- - ------_. _ _ $44.40 810 $77.85 CHARGES: Weighing ---- -------------------------.-- .85 Auction Fees __------- -------------- - .65 Commissions 2%/2 per cent. 1.95 -$3.45 NET PROCEEDS ------ ---- ----- ----- -------------.$74.40 -'tttttss2ttittittitittitttttitt2itttt2s22tttit22titittitttittttstitit2tittittstsstttitti W HE LEAPS BUILDS OF CYPRESS AND BUILDS FOR KEEPS." he time to sharpen your r some close figuring on Ing jobs ahead of you, new or repairs to old ones. The uestion that will confront e-"What lumbershall I use?" only one answer to that DDL NW4ATL-JI ID -"OF COURSE." ises, barns, outhouses(2,fnces, walks, >rts9 columns, rails, floors and steps, >osed -to -weather" uses, no othe~r such ever.- /ast ine satisfiietion a1s "prized wood of the Southland." ething else to remember, too. Lses tihe lower grades will answer and save you some real money. r dealer will know what your work will advise you to Grade That Fits the Job." PLANS for farm buildings--but in the mneantime insist on "CYPRESS *m your local lumaber dealer---no matter for what purpose you buy. Address IUTHERN CYPRESS 'nsit..on " inufacturers' Association I i'y"II 177 Graham Bldg., .Jacksonville, Fla. L SUPPLY YOU. IF HEl HASN'T ENOUGH CYPRESS L.RT USe KrNw~ A T ONCE.