The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 15, 1919, Page 8

PROMINENT MEN INXMAS APPEAL FOR ARMENIANS Former President Taft Leads in Eloquent Plea for Support of H Near East Relief. To save the lives of 800,000 people in Armenta and other western Asian countries and to care for more than 250,000 orphans who are homeless there former President William How- ard Taft, Henry Morgenthau, former ambassador to Turkey, and Alexander J, Hemphill, the New York banker, as members of the Executive Committee ot Near East Rellef, the former Amer- ican Committee on Armenian and Syrian Relief, have issued a Christ- mas appeal for continued support of this organization and its work. Near East Relief fs now operating = All Is Serene on the Championship Shores = \ | sti? Pressorf] own tc aeSineeachsataeny Stain eA aes BISMARCK. DAILY TRIB' HOUSEWIVES THINK COST OF LIVING IS NOT BEING HELPED Rsolutions Adopted at,St. Louis , Convention Put It Up to A. F, of L. St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 15.—One hun- dred and fifty represontatives of St. Louis women's organizations, who met here recently to devise ways in which they could combat the mount- ing cost of Nving, compiled a list of questions which have heen forwarded to the president, the governor of Mis- souri, congress, the department of justice and, the American Federation of Labor. Among the questic ns are: “Why are prices fixed by ‘fair price’ organizations something higher than those charged in stores? “Why is coffee 45 to 55 cents a pound and going’ higher? “Why is sliced ham 90 cents a pound? “Why has tenderloin of beef ad- vanced so greatly? “Why are landlords being permit- ted to use the brutal process of evic- tion when there are no places for WOMEN WAR WORKERS, EAGER TO SERVE, GO TO AID ARMENIANS Mary Vail Andrees, Only Woman to Receive Distinguished Serv- ice Medal, Heads Party. Dissatisfied with uneventful civilian life, after two years’ vivid experience as workers abroad in the world war,’ & party of young women, led by Miss Mary Vail Andrees, of New York City, bave just gone to the Near Nast, —_ for men who care Rosen’s Clothing Shop Fashion Park Clothiers and the CONCESSIONISTS AT CAMP hexe sclapeed, leases con: [ahs tained a clause extending the privi- } FUNSTON HAVE KICKS lege or renewal, all concessionists have tbeen ordered to vacate, The gov- ernment intends to utilize the build- ings in the future operation of the camp, it was stated. under a government charter and {s practically alone in the western Asian field, the Red Cross several months ago having announced tts withdrawal. The Christinas letter, a classic of its kind, {s as follows: “Dear Friend—Another little child has shriveled up and died. “The mother, creeping back, gaunt and cold, from the desert, has put down the thin little bones with those the evicted person to reside? ‘Does the wholesaler sell at a higher price to permit the retailer to sell at a higher price? “Why does ont the American Fed- eration of Labor pay as much atten- tion to reducing prices as it does to jnereasing wages’? Affidavits, specifying names and vlaces, tending. to prove that condi- tions exist as indicated in the ques ‘Camp Funston, Dec. sionists who built and occupied or renied buildings on the Zone, the business and enterta‘nment center 0% ; Camp Funston, are looking to the é j department for reparation as a re! Not as Interesting. 2 lot the cancellation of their leases. Al To know thyself Is better than try. though but two years on fhe five) tng to find ont all about the nelghbors, year leases granted the concess' that strew the road and has sunk be- side them, never to rise again, “Only a little child and a mother out on the bleak Armenian road! But what ts that vision hovering there and what ts that voice the cold winds bear to the ears of our souls—‘I was hungry and ye gave me no meat; 1 was naked and ye clothed me not.’ “Today—yes, today—while we are preparing our gifts for Christmas, many more of these little chitdren— not a hundred nor a thousand, but 250,000 of them—are still. wandering uncared for and alone In that dead) land, ‘their weazened skins clinging tn} fear to their rattling bones, and they | are crying out with gasping breath, ‘I am hungry, [am hungry!" And the voice of one who watches us as we prepare gifts to celebrate his birth- day comes again to the ears of our! souls—l am hungry! Lam bungry!! 1) am hungry ti? “Now, the children and the mothers in."Armenla are drending the winter.! ‘Just huaan remnants they are, not protected, many of them,.from the ele- menfs by even the dignity of rags. ‘The’ most favored have merely shred- ded rags? How shall we sing our Christmas songs and laugh and light the candles and give beautiful gifts while that pleading votce cries fn the ears of our souls, ‘I am naked and cold naked and cold? “But we can’ feed and clothe these perishing ones—some of them—before it I# too late, Herbert Hoover has ca- bled from the Caucasus, ‘It !s impossl- ble that. the loss of 200,000 lives can at this day be prevented, but the remain- ing 500,000 can possibly be saved.’ They need not ‘starve and freeze and die if we will save them. In the name of ‘him who saw the multitude ‘as sheep not having a shepherd and was Moved: with compassion toward them,’ who exclaimed when his disciples tions, were inclosed in the letters. BUTTER PRICES SET NEW RECORD Spread For Daily Bread Is at _Highest Point Known Chicago, Dec. 15. 15.—Dutter prices this year. are higher than hey ever were before the armistice w The high price for the during the war-time period was 67 1-2 cents, wholesale, while 72 cents has been reached this fall.and the present cost is 70 cents. This ‘brings the re- tail cost to 80 cents. ‘Dealers estimate that people in the Chicago district use about 5 per cent butterine, 23 per cent storage butter and 72 per cent of the strictly fresh product. “They have lots of money it seems,” said M, L.. Friedman, vice president ot a wholesale butter and poultry company. “They buy very little but- terine and not much-storaage butter, though the finest June ‘butter from the coolers cost. almocst..10 cents. per pound: less than the ‘best creamery product. _ Most: of the “storage butter goes to Kurope.”., “You hear a lot’ about the high cost of ‘living;’" W. ‘S.Moore, anotier dealer, said, “but when the working- man’s wife goes shopping she will not buy ‘anything but thebest2' England's food ministry and Bel- gium are. the largest: butter customers of this county. ‘though Sweden, Nor- way, Italy and Switzerland are also on the’ list, the wholesalers say and about 40,000,000 pounds have already been sent overseas this ‘season and 29,000,000 more will be sent. There are more than 16,000,009 pounds in Chicago’s: storage coolers at present and half or more than half of this is the property of foreign gov- of the late Ethelbert Nevin, the com: sloner to the Near East for the Parts MISS MARY VAIL ANDREES, | Distinguished Service Heroine Who Now Goes to Near East. where nearly a million people are suffering from disease and starvation. | Miss Andrees had returned to this} country after serving for the Redj Cross, but when she read of the sad; plight of the Armenians, she at once offered her services to Near East Re- lief, the former American Committee on Armenian and Syrian Reliet, whicn already has saved thousands of lives| in Western Asia, Miss Andrees ts the! only American woman war worker who was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. by Congress, Most of the other members of her party like- wise served with honor for the ea Cross and other war service organi- zations. Among the other members of the group are the Misses Frances rnd Betty Anderson of New Canaan, Coun., who were decorated with the Crolx ae Guerre .by the French Government; Miss: Margaret Milne of Washington, D.C. who was a member of the Hoover Rellet Commission for itu- mania, and Miss Alex Sidney, an Eng: sh woman who served for three yenrs with the British Relief Commission in Serbia, Miss Doris Nevin, anotaer member of the party, is a daughter poser. Col. William N. Haskell, commis. Peace Commission and official. repre. What would be more sensible and more ap- preciated than a hand- some pair of Shoes or Slippers? over. Other suggestions: Felt Slippers for the whole family, Red Top Boots and Buckskin Moccasins little folks. —Toledo Pade. sentative of the Near East Relief, has cabled that the rellef workers now tn ‘As nearly as experts can figure it, the field are pverwhelmed by the mag- Chicago uses 2,000,000 pounds weekly.| Bitude of their task. Col, Haskell says ‘Most of .the fresh butter shipped| 800,000 Armenians will starve before here comes from Iowa, Nebraska and| the next harvest unless they are given ‘Minnesote. It totals a quarter of a} ald and 120,000 orphan children face million pounds daily, death from hunger and exposure, . — ha Thousands of refugees are daily be- DEATH RATE DROPS Ing brought to the relief centers froin WHEN RELIEF ARRIVES) “Se ig TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY i uy ernments or companies, according to would turn them away, ‘They need not estimates, depart, give ye them to eat!’ open your heart and purse and give to these Christians whom he loves, who are suffering for him and with whom he is suffering. They need not die. Give ye them to eat. “Fifteen dollars a month will pro vide food, clothes, shelter and educa- tion toward self support for one or phan child. “Ten dollars a month will provide food, clothes and shelter for one or- phan child, “Five dollars a month will provide Lives of thousands of Armenian children already have been saved by | @. the Near East Relief taki food for one orphan child ‘ i over ie FOR SAI | bmacically new: a i a Armenigo orphanages, according to de- hone in or Miss i Niede at} “He fed 5,000 hungry people tn the talled fapertar ales have dna reacheo [ete pat Phone 370 for advice on wilderness and said to his followers, "The things that I do shall ye do also, and greater things than these shall ye do.’ Today nearly 800,000 destitute Armenians—his people—need food and the headquarters of that organization. | heat. 4 ‘These {nstitutions tad been run by the | ¥O8 RENT— Pi Armenians since the beginning of the | WANT: ORI war to care for ‘the children whose parents bad been murdered by the the care of Storage Bat- - teries. Questions cheerfully NT--Foun, or Would t and ask f9 clothing. f 4 pies “ i A itonicdnek us| Turks. Because of lack of food, | HANDSOM ‘He took little children in his arms George Carpentier him. My work in France brought us clothing and medicine, the death’ rate Siighty iued answered. and blessed them, Today will you take one or more of these sad, cold, hungry little children of Armenia into your evenings. together many times, among the children in these tnstitu- RENT—Modern | NS, fiaies after ae me pee tions averaged as high as twenty or FOR s BY JIMMY ONSON his hand and pas prevented from tak-| thirty w day in some cases. arimey and beartiin’ Wisipame anc give): {By ey IE BR ) ing part in the inter-allied tourney, 1] when Armenian funds became tn- eel : them food and warmth and lite? ‘eorges Carpentier, French soldier se jim at one of the bouts. His adequate the Near East Relief took | ui ANTED 70 ex f “What a joyful Christmas It will be/and fighter, in popularity vies with na- jana was very sore and hevaily tape, charge of the orphanage, Since that firnianee i. ae na Fe couple when with. your songs and your laugh-jtional characters like Clemenceau, th2 put he offered it to me just the same. 4 i References. BE. ‘ ;,| time the death rate has been greatly ver yau hear a voice of wondrous statesman, and Foch, tae strategist. But I insisted on shaking other—his reduced, Given good food. and care sweetness speaking ‘to: you, ‘O, ye He is intensely popular with every left. He's a game fellow. as I Knew Him| WILLARD SERVICE STATION 408 BROADWAY night, a\ purse con- taining pills and change, between Bis- | blessed of my Fathe:,,I was hurgry and ye gave me meat, I was naked and ye clothed me; inasmuch. as ye have done it to these, my brethren, ye have done it to me.’ “In his name, “Faithfully. yours, “WILLIAM H, TAFT, “ALEXANDER J HEMPHILL “HENRY MORGENTHAU.” \For® Bxecutive Committee, Near East Relief. BANDITS ATTACK HARBORD, THINKING:HIM_- ARMENIAN Because he and members of his party were: inistaken: for. Armenians, Maj. Gen. James G. Harbord, head ot [the Ametican Mission to Armenia, (narrowly escaped déath at the hands of a band of marauding bandits a few ‘mtlee from Mount Ararat, Major jGeneral. Harbord hes just returned |to the United States and made a re jport to President Wilson on the dis i tressing conditions in the Near Rast, where American charity {s saving thousands of lives through the Near \ Kast’ Kellof, - Symbol of Firmness,' “can’t, push a mule® std. you im., ‘Ag an example of firm: better do you want. & lelass of jon the hattlefield liké hundrec Frenchmen, a chap \ through four years of hell gave hi country all he had.. He took the gaft thousands of Joyal Frenchmen. te! saw his entire fortune swept away by the relentless fire when his coal mi at Lens were ruined and the counties devastated, but still smiled. | Personally he is a wonderful fellow, well-educated, handsome, a great dresser and polished to his finger tips. Professionally he is: the most mar velously fast-and clever fighter of bis weight and inches I ever have seen. | Around no other fighter of hte ring has there ever heen so much color, glamour and roma He is quite a figure in France- aresque fellow who often is seen and recog. nized on the boulevards and in the with killing He referred for me once ,too, but he wasn’t much of a success int that line. TRIAL BEGINS, Dee, 12.— Triai Lewistown, Mont., of one of the most sensational murder ses in the annals of Montana was to begin here today. Joe Jocque, the defendant, is a boy nearing his majority. Hé is charged W. 4H, Flanigan, a rancher, in cold blood, for the sport of it. The crime occurred last. summer. Josque, it said, rode up to Flani- gan, who was advanced in years, and, after a few words of banter, pulled a pistol and killed him, It is said the defense will plead in- sanity. Jocque, who is a cowboy, and Flan- spots where Parisians congregate. \igan had hada trifling dispute bfeore He is the most beloved athiiete: in the history of that country. He stands for something besides ‘hw boxer. He is a national hero, must have permeated all of France when Georges won from Beckett in the European title fight af London. YX can see and head now the wildly cheering Parisians, He is idolized in England, too, and by the boys of the A. E. F., but of ‘course, Bob Martin is the prime fivor-} ite with the latter. ~ In France be: mingles wth the hest society, a charming fellow. who feels at home in. any company.” He often a: tends the theater, fi But in the uniform-of the soldier he was ® really great fighter and those gue have spoken to the contrary: per” ps Never were in: close contact with I can understand the feeling that) | nicipal management and- the the tragedy, but it had not been sup- ‘posed it would lead to murder. PUBLIC SAWMILL LATEST Alten, IL, Dec, 15,—A public saw mill will bevoperated in the city hall square of this. city as a means. of providing fttel to homes, ‘The mayor is working on a plan to have wood ‘brought into the city, sawed’ and de- livered into homes where there is no coal. The sawmill will be under mu- wood will be sold to the needy at cost, Shows Smatiness of Soul. The man who cannot forgive a Wrong, like a dog oppressed of a bru- taticmustet, cannot claim. superiority the children are quickly returning to normal physical and mental condition. It {s estimated by persons who, have made a survey of Armenia that 120,000 children will die during the next year unless they are given food and cure. Near East Relief is the only organt- vation now operating in Western Asia and {t is. making am appeal to save these Christian children, wa THe ‘D—Competent girl or woman for marck theatre and Olympia, also call=| ing cards inside of purse with name on. 12 >—A bunch of keys. 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