Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1920 — 120,000 STAND IN BREAD LINE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

120,000 STAND IN BREAD LINE

More Than ' 1,000,000 Face Death Is Message Brought by Miss Dakesian. Imagine a bread line of 120,000 famished people waiting for twenty-four hours a day for the dole of food that Is the sole barrier between them and death from starvation. That Is the situation In Alexandropol, a city In Russian Armenia, according to Miss Hermlne Dakesian, a pretty Armenian girl," one of the survivors of four years

of the horrors of Turkish massacres and deportations. Saved by an American woman, she has come to this country and entered Oberlin College. With her came fourteen other Armenian girls in charge of Miss Adelaide S. Dwight, a Near East Relief worker, who has been Instrumental In helping to save hundreds of thousands of theli people from death by starvation. Mis* Dwight, who is not given to exagger atlon and has seen conditions at flrsl hand, says more than a million people are facing death by starvation in Ar menia and will perish unless America aids. Herself an eyewitness to the slaughter of hundreds of helpless women and children by the Turks and a victim of the deportations, Miss Dakedan, an unusually pretty girl, sayi there is untdld suffering In Armenia and Syria. She praises the efforts,.ol the Near East Relief, formerly tb< American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, to save as many ol these people as possible. At Erivan, the capital of the Armenian republic, one hot meal is given out dally, and bj this relief alone the city’s death rat< has been cut from a thousand dally tc an average of twenty. At Alexandrapol, where the refugees from Turkls! Armenia were driven by thousands, th< situation is appalling, Miss Dakeslar says. It is to avert these wholesah deaths that Near East Relief Is making "a nation-wide appeal for funds.

MISS HERMINE DAKESIAN.