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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1921)
DAILY EAST OKECONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1021- TEN PACES II. 11 PACE EICHT ' ' , : .rrmTrrtiiTmimmmiiiiiiiiii rniTirTTnnTnnmrnmTrrmiTmTMTTnflTn 111 i MM I I II I I I i; j mmmimmm t MMHWW IMIMMOHWW; 3 DIE -1 1 . , , J v j ? . ; ; j l! '" 1 " ' ' 'H- ' Ml" i 1 I mm . . ,,lwrmm. r 3 :. 1 1.1 M y i 1 f'.l t3 i fc t 3 3 fa ). : 1 .trii, .. n ir l i Hi ii A Terrible Death Every Hour We Wait! .','"'': ! Those million of starving Armenians and Chinese are our brother men. Can you bear to think of human beings tearing desperately at the ba'rk of trees, blades of grass, groveling in the very bowels of the earth for an atom of food with which to revive the spark of life? ' - ' ; "" 1 ' "' v . ' ' '' Can you bear to read of your fellow men hurling themselves into rivers to drown out a miserable, starved existence? Can you imagine desperate fathers and mothers poisoning their babes to save them the tortures of death by starvation for want of food which we have m such a plenty? ' u) 1 i . . i . . , . Compare Your Table With Theirs Despite the comparative depression in'America' following reconstruction necessi ! .ties of the post-war period, the American family table is loaded with the good things to eat and in almost every instance with necessities in abundance. ' ' -v But picture- in your mind's eye the- ' '- 24 Miles of Empty Plates in Armenia and China How many of us have given ta charity funds to keep the life within the bodres of our fellow men in such measure as to actually feel it? Not one. To give until it hurts is true generosity. " ' . ... . ;. ;. Pendleton and Umatilla County has had its share of a burden of drives during the past four years, yet this last call of the afflicted in the Near East and China cannot go unheeded. The quotas must be met Better far to sacrifice some unessential move ment here at home in the land of comparative plenty than to be guilty of selfishness when human lives are at stake- Respond to the Call 1 1 ;; ; r-. . - Greet the Armenian and Chinese Relief Fund committee with a smile and a check dedicated to confidence in the application of the Golden rule. This Space Paid for hy the Pendleton, Rotary Club f III 1 ,".n:,i,i.,TV,",:h,ll,'y?vi-7i". 1 .... . . 3 MRiMiiMnfTniiiiMiiiiiniiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH 4' J 51 " - I