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BVjBNING FUBIilO LBDOBR-PHILADBtPHIA, FBIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1922
Editorial Reprinted from TUB LITERARY DIGEST, October MleLI
Draw Out Thy Seul te the Hungry,
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and Satisfy the Afflicted
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A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES
THE WHITE HOUSE
Washington
October 9, 1022.
Gentlemen
Net tine the greet war Iim the whole civilised world been se shocked
ad startled as during tha put four weeks. The terrible and appalling
tragedy which has been enacted In the Near East, leaving In it vraka
hundreds of thousands of shelterless! famished nan, woman and children,
makes a call te tha heart of tha American paepla which cannot ba ignored.
Frem East, North, Seuth and Watt have coma te no evidences of tha deep
seated desire of our paepla that something ba dena te gire tham an oppor
tunity te crystallise thalr widaapraad sympathy Inte a Ufesavlng aarvlce.
I am reieiced te knew that tha great machinery of your organisatiens
haa already bean ttarted lata action te tha and that thla great body of auf-fering-
souls may ba rescued promptly from tha threatened starvation and
death which they face thU winter.
A tha people of America have given, and given generously In every
great crUU that haa occurred In China, Russia, India and all parts of the
world, se thev must give, and give a great 'turn new million of dollars
if the lives of these victims are te be saved. Ne appeal of real need from
whatever part of tha world baa ever been made la vain te America.
Very truly yours,
WARREN G. HARDING.
Judge Jehn Barten Payne,
Chairman, American Red Cress.
Dr. James L. Barten,
Chairman, Near East Relief.
A LETTER FROM THE NEAR EAST
RELIEF:
New Yerk, September 26, 1022.
Mr. R. J. Cuddihy,
The Literary Digest,
New Yerk City,
Dear Mr. Cuddihy t
In the face of the unprecedented tragedy of Smyrna, we turn te you
and the Literary Digest for Help.
It is net for the thousands of dead that we pleads they are past our
aid. It is for the living, crushed with despair of spirit and anguish of body,
that wa turn te you and through you te the benevolent heart of humanity.
Mera than a half million absolutely foedies, shelterless, helpless and
hopeless refugees are landed upon the Islands, or huddled along the shores
of the Aegean Sea In abject despair. Terrer-stricken groups are awaiting
death in Smyrna and ether ports in Asia. Innocent, unprotected girls and
woman and children by tens of thousands are being carried Inte captivity.
Pestilence stalking among the living adds its horror te starvation.
Many In tha nightmare of their crucifixion seek relief In self-destruction,
while ethers find release In insanity.
While baffled by the perplexing political situation we can be true te
our divine Instinct of sympathy. Our sympathy, however, will become
poison unless we transmute it into action.
The starving ask for bread shall we respond with a heart of stone?
Sincerely yours,
JAMES L. BARTON,
Chairman.
A LETTER FROM THE AMERICAN
. RED CROSS:
Washington, D. C, October 9, 1922.
My Dear Mr. Cuddihy
I have received from the President an earnest appeal te use the
resources of the American Red Cress In meeting the distress and suffering
resulting from the recent disaster in the Near East. I need net assure you
that the Red Cress, as always, will put its large and Influential membership
back of this appeal. We, however, feel keenly the need of that type of
co-operation which the Literary Digest Is peculiarly able te give, and in be
half of the American Red Cress I request you te de everything that you
,can through your pages in placing the burden of this appeal before the
American public.
Cordially yours,
JOHN BARTON PAYNE,
Chairman.
Mr. R. J. Cuddihy,
The Literary Digest,
354 Fourth Avenue,
New Yerk City.
In immediate response the following editorial was
published in The Literary Digest, October 21st:
DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES by fire and sword
beaten, trampled, robbed mere than half a mil
lion men, women, and little children are being
swept along te starvation, madness, and self-destruction
in the Near East.
Herded in the streets, like cattle for the slaughter;
huddled en the brink of the sea, and casting themselves,
crazed by hunger and fear, into the dark waters;
dragged from the burning hell of Smyrna, only te be
thrust by their rescuers into the slower hell of Mitylene,
and Saleniki, and ether havens of "refuge," which new
are crowded centers of starvation and breeding-grounds
of pestilence these who are suffering such martyrdom
have only one hope of salvation from their nightmare of
crucifixion. That hope is YOU Americans!
Thousands perished when Smyrna was bathed in
torrents of bleed. New the city is a vast sepulchre of
ashes. Yeu can de nothing for the dead. But the lives
of half a million ethers are yours today for the pur
chase. They are stretching their hands te you new out
of the horrible pit. Lift them up te life!
The appeal in their behalf which comes te you from
the President of the United States is te be heeded, be
cause you are one of the great-hearted Americans te
whom his letter is written. The appeal from the Near
East Relief and the American Red Cress through their
chairmen is te be heeded, because your ears are open te
such a call for help in this terrible emergency. But
stronger than the call of President, or of Relief Com
mittees, stronger than any urgent words The Literary
Digest can say te you, knowing se well your unfailing
tenderness and quick generosity when the hunger, and
sorrow, and gaunt suffering of mothers and babes cry
out te you te comfort, and te save them alive stronger
than all written or spoken appeal is the het, eager de
mand of your own sympathetic heart that cannot regard
such bitter pain and need without straining te the utmost
for their instant relief.
The picture is se full of terror and anguish words
cannot portray it. Mark O. Prentiss, for the Near
East Relief, cables: "I have seen terrible sights until
my senses are numb, but the sight of 200,000 people,
mostly women and children, being penned up and burn
ing, and these escaping being driven te a barren, devas
tated country for starvation, is past all comprehension."
That was in Smyrna. Hundreds of thousands mere,
both Christians and Jews, fleeing from persecution and
the sword, are crowding the ether ports of Asia and
the nearby islands of the sea awaiting rescue or death.
In Saleniki a hundred thousand are herded in deplor
able confusion. The city has been in ruins since the
great fire of 1918 and affords little mere shelter than
Smyrna. In the island of Mitylene another hundred
thousand penniless fugitives have sought refuge only te
find there a new danger of pestilence and a mere con
venient harbor of starvation.
Panic has seized upon the frightened wanderers.
Many have even cast themselves into the flames of
their own homes. Feed is gene, even water te drink
is at a premium. Families are broken up, while parents
in frenzy of despair seek their lest children. Hun
dreds of mothers have given premature birth te infants
in the midst of terror and death. Half-fed babies, cov
ered with scurvy, try in vain te draw nourishment from
their mothers' empty breasts.
Quick compassion is needed; delay means death for
scores of thousands who might be saved. Something
heroic in giving is needed. Yeu are net there in the
midst of the terror and the frantic cries for help. If
you were, you would leap into the sea, if need be, or
brave the flames, the sword, the plague, te snatch back
from death some helpless woman or little child. Yeu
would net see them perish in agony before your eyes if
you could save them, even at the risk of your life. Here,
in this smiling land of comfort, where your home is safe,
and your loved ones dwell in peace, that same terror and
anguish of helpless women and children come te you
across the sea and call te all that is heroic and generous
in your heart.
"Whose hath this world's geed and seeth his
brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of com
passion from him" ah, but the Master did net mean
you. Your heart is warm with compassion and your
hand will be open wide with help. Perhaps you will
feel a moment of shuddering pity for these shriveled
souls, if there be any such in this land of plenty, who
revel in abundance and refuse te share it, te whom the
Master said, "Wee unto you that are full! for ye shall
hunger. Wee unto you that laugh new! for ye shall
weep." And then you will seize gladly upon that ether
divine word of the Christ and send it across the sea
with your speedy gifts te comfort and save, and your
gifts will make geed the message: "Blessed are ye that
hunger new; for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that
weep new; for ye shall laugh!"
The Literary Digest well knows your geed works;
it well knows that you are tireless and always ready
te save and te comfort. Yeu will new respond in
stantly te this call. What The Digest has done while
waiting te tell you the facts has been done in utter
faith in you and in your overwhelming response. The
great ship Clentari has discharged its lead of feed,
and the starving fugitives have already eaten the bread
baked from the flour in that cargo. It is you who did
this, because when, en September 25th, a committee of
the Near East Relief, the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A.
called upon The Literary Digest te help in this awful
emergency, and no funds were then available, we dis
counted our iaith in you and borrowed the $176,000 and
bought the entire feed cargo of the Clentari. We told
the committee te keep en buying ether shiploads of
feed until the pitiful need was satisfied. "He gives
twice who gives quickly," and we are confidently de
pending upon you te make this act your own by a great
outpouring of gifts te pay for this first cargo of feed
and te fellow it with ethers. We appeal te all the
churches in America that have been the depositories
of the sacred ideals of our nation; we appeal te the
thinking and working classes of our bread land, te all
the institutions and organizations that have for their
object the safeguarding of human rights and human
lives. As Ged has blessed you, as He has given you
happy homes and laughing children, as He has been
merciful te you, have mercy upon these, His people.
The Literary Digest, standing shoulder te shoulder
and heart te heart with you in this urgent task, will
start the fund with its own contribution of $10,000 te
help feed these starving fugitives. And new we urge
all who read these words te send a perfect storm of
checks te provide fepd, and shelter, and medical care
for the half million sufferers in this awful inferno of
the Near East.
They can never repay you these homeless ones,
these tortured women and pitiful children. Yeu will
never see them face te face, nor leek into their eyes
shining with gratitude never? Yes, perhaps you will.
But new, the blessed Christ bids you give, and He will
repay, for it was He who said, "De geed and lend, hoping
for nothing again, and your reward shall be great, and
ye shall be the Children of the Highest."
President Harding has appointed as a Special Com
mittee, with Will H. Hays as Chairman, the following
representatives of eight national organizations who
will co-operate in this great work of relief: Dr. Jehn
R. Mett, of the Y. M. C. A.; Mrs. Jehn French, of the
Y. W. C. A.; James A. Flaherty, of the Knights of
Columbus; Felix Warburg, of the Jewish Joint Distri
bution Committee; Dr. Rebert E. Speer, of the Federal
Council of the Churches of Christ in America; Dr.
James L. Barten, of the Near East Relief; Herbert
Hoever, of the American Relief Administration; Judge
Jehn Barten Payne, of the American Red Cress; and
R. J. Cuddihy, of The Literary Digest.
Make all Checks, Meney Orders, etc., Payable te "Near East Emergency Fund
and Mail Them te Either of the Following Treasurers:
NEAR EAST RELIEF, Cleveland H. Dedge, Treasurer
151 Fifth Avenue, New Yerk, N. Y.
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS, Eliet Wadsworth, Treasurer
Washington, D. C.
ThU announcement doe, net cost the Near East Relief, the Red Cress, or the contributors te this Fund, one cent-Publishers of The Literary Digest.
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