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Editorial From The Literary Digest
of April 15th.
Twelve men, with grave faces, were
met to decide an issue of life or death, j
Mo burly criminal stood there to receive
punishment for his crimes,?
enly a litt'e chilu, 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!
men 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 i
have told a great many people about
you, bat they have given to so many
ether boys and girls that they are i
tired of giving. There is not enough i
bread, now, to go around?no, not
even a crust. We are very sorry, I
dear little girl, but ?we must let i
you die." 1
A 1 i *4 XT A I A /.n.sl fo/?t
a cruci JC5V; iiv. xi W uvi *mwj
multiplied thousands upon thousands j
of times! If only one such pleading
child were condemned to die because
we are "tired of giving" it would be i
enough to blanch he cheeks of every ]
man ard woman who reads this page. (
^ But upon many thousands of boys and ?
girls the sentence of dea?h has just ;
teen passed. i
In Armenia a Christian race is be- <
ing bottled out?while the worid looks j
on. In Armenia peace did not come j
when the rest of the world stopped ]
fightin.Last year 140 villages were <
destroyed; thousands of mothers and ,
grown daughters were violated and ?
slain; fathers were herded into build
ings aid burned; multitudes of or- ]
phaned children were driven into the )
wilderntss to wander and die, unless j
perchai .ee, they might be gathered <
like lost lambs, into folds of safety i
by the Near East Relief. Conditions '
? are worse than at any time since the j
armistice. Frantic appeals for more i
food to save the children, for more (
f ' clothinjT to cover their naked bodies, .
for more hospitals and orphanages to ?
give them refuge come surging over t
the cables to "kind, generous Amer- t
ica," the hoped-for savior of Armenia. ^
And in the moment of this crisis, t
when the question of life or death for (
unnumbered thousands of children ?
must be answered, the tender charity (
of American mothers and fathers has ]
begum to fail. Their aj swer to the
v multitude of little orphans whose i
cnly sin is hunger, and nakedness, |
and imnieasurabie grief, has been,? i
in December and January and Feb- j
.ruary and March?not more money, l
and more clothing, and more food, t
less. And so cruel order has
* gone forth from the offices of the t
Near East Relief to reduce all ex- \
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Twenty-five children from every hundred
now receiving care must be
^ turned away. Among the many
thousai.ds whose wails of hunger, and
sickness, and cold have not yet been
* answered, not one can be satisfied.
!?<? And Liow the cries of terror and dismay
are reaching America:
- Cablegram, via Paris: "Thousands
cf deportees filling Near East thres%
hold, receiving crust of bread, hoping
for summer peace. Shall we push
t them off our doorstep? Order of
* twenty-five per cent, reduction necessitates
closing March first all general
relief."
Cablegram, Constantinople: "Appalling
increase of need for general
relief throughout Anatolia Caucaus.
Iieruction m already inadequate appropria
tions cuts off multitudes who
are hopeless without American aid."
Cablegram, frcm American Wom'p
en's Hospital, Erivan: We have eight
hundred and fifty-two cases in the
I 0 hospital, and children dying in all
fcii^ffoMiers of Erivan. All day long we
the wails and groans of lit?
WT cM dren outside the office buildkl^^mgs
hiping we can and will pick them j
up. If the sun "bines a little while
they quiet down; when it rains they
begin again. One day when the rain
LM?6ttrned to snow it was awful to listen
? to them. The note of terror that
[ came into the general wail was plainly
perceptible upstairs, and I had the
I windows closed. They well know
1 what a night in the snow would mean ]
I to then- We arc picking them up as 1
v fast as possible, but it is fatal to
? crowd them to such a point that we
would lose even those already in orj
phanage."
Erivan?That one time prosperous
| city of 'Armenia, not far from Mount
I Ararat famous, in days of peace, for
| the peach orchards and vegetable j
gardens that surrounded it on every
\ side. Walk through its streets today, i
t " . and here is what you will see: "Chil- 1
f dren walking through the muddy gutters
hunting for bits of orange peels,
L apple cores, or anything that once reT
sembled food; little boys and girls :
sleeping in stables, with straw and
[ manurt spread o\er their bodies to
I keep tsem from freezing to death;
or, in the early morning, deserted
children lying in the doorways of the |
buildings, wrappeu in old burlap bags,!
some silent, perhaps already dead, i
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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 mothers
leave their little children, praying
to God that they will be saved by the
'kind and generous Americans.'"
Has that story of unutterable suffering,
of passionate love and gratitude
for what has been given, that
trusting, prayerful appeal for rescue
ot children whose lives now depend
on us?has it all grown wearisome to
us? Are wc tired of being "kind and
generous?" Is there no longer anysacrificial
tenderness for little children
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 sentence
of death on these thousands of
boys and girls who have believed, to
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them?
Mothers and fathers of America, it
is not true! You will not allow it!
Your hearts h?.ve not turned to stone!
What arc a few paltry miles of distance?
They can not separate you
from that famine-stricken land, where
iead and dying children litter the city
streets. They cannot shut out from
your vision these hungcr-pinched
faces and outstretched hands! You
:an 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 Jay and night, to be "picked
up" and clothed and fed, cannot be
shut out of your heart.
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magic science, our homes are being
filled with song, and story and music
[or the dance. Dut there are messages
more wonderful than any con:rollod
by the wizards of wireless,
rhey are coming now from far away,
?nd the story they bring is burdened
vith tears. The music is not for
lancing, for those who make it can
scacre stand upon their feet. The
ong, swelled to a chorus of woe by
housands of little voices that ought
;o be musical with laughter, is always
the same: "Hunger! Bread!"
\nd with the pleading cry of the chiliren,
there comes a voice, sweet and
solemn, saying "These are My little
>nes; ye are My Shepherds; Feed My
[^ambs."
To catch these messages, every
\merican heart that has thrilled at
he laughter of a little child or throb>ed
at its cry of pain, is the receivng
instrument, and the messages are
jroadcasted to us from the very
hrone of Heaven.
No mistake can be more tragic at (
his moment than for you to say, as
fou read, "The call is not to me; I
annot?I need not respond this time; ,
others will give, and the children will
:ot have to die."
There are no others?if you turn
iway. The appeal has gone through;ut
the length end breadth of this
jreat land, and these "others" have
leard it and some have given gladly;
jut too many have said, "I need not
espond this time " During the past
'our months not enough has been
jiven to continue the core even of
;hose children already gathered into
;he hospitals and orphanages, while
housands more are waiting to be |
'picked up" from the streets and
:ountryside.
There are no others?if you refuse, i
Armenia is surrounded by bankrupt
lations, or nations struggling to keep
;hemselves from bankruptcy. Europe
Is full of suffering and need. A
[Christian race will die if America
Tails at this crisis.
There are no others to love and
saj-e for Armenia's little children?no
>thers but yov. The vast majority are
orphans. Father is dead; mother, too
is dead; sister?if not dead is praying
God for death; brother is dead;
aunt and uncle, grandfather and
grandmother?all dead, the home destroyed,
and the lonely little girl o?
tx>y has no one?but you. You are
father and mother and sister and
brother?the only one in whose heart
the sad little waif can now find
refuge.
How splendidly you have given, perhaps,
sometime in the past, and have
brought health and laughter to some
5f Armenia's little sufferers! But for
pvery one saved then, at least, one
other was left without food, or shelter,
or friends. And the child to whom
you gave one meal a day last year
cannot live now if that meal is stopped.
A year ago the d/elivery of supplies
for the Alexandropol orphanage
was interrupted between November
and May by transportation difficulties.
Before April the children had
to be placed on half rations, and by
the first of May, on the very morning
the supply train arrived, the last
meager ration was distributed. During
those sad weeks, when there was
so little food at Alexandropol, more
than two thousand children died.
If you withhold your gift now, the
boys and girls you fed last vear may
be the very ones "sentenced to die."
Revoke the en el sentence! Stop
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the order to reduce all relief work
twenty-five per cent! Thank God it
is in your power at this Easter time
to give life in place of death, health
in place of sickness, laughter in place
of tears. You can spftak the word of
Resurrection, which will call back
some little child from the dark valley
of 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 children
speaking to your soul, and saying,
"Ye have done it unto Me. Ye
have done it unto Me."
So deeply are we, publishers of the
County Record, stirred by the tragedy
impending among the innocent children
of Armenia, that we would feel a
heavy share of responsibility for the
needless of countless children, in that
land, if we did not do 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 Liberty Bank,
Columbia, S. C., or to this office,
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