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MORGENTHAU PLEADS FOR HELPING HAND IN THE NEAR EAST Former Ambassador to Turkey Says America Should Not Let Armenian Allies Starve. By HENRY MORGENTHAU, Former Ambassador to Turkey and Leader in Near East Relief. If they were good enough to fight and die for us when we needed their help so sorely, they are good enough now to share some meager little crumbs from our plenty when they have nothing, when hundreds of thou sands of them are homeless, unclad, foodless and threatened with extermi nation by their enemies and our own. Not far from a million Christiana have beer murdered by their Turkish oppressors. Hungry, terror stricken hundreds of thousands of refugees now look to the United States for suc cor. Have Trust in America. We cannot refuse. Next to theii faith in God is their trust in the dis interested good will and generosity of Copyright by Underwood A Underwood. HENRY MORSENTHAU. the American people. They look to u* as the human agency to extricate them from the frightful situation in which they have been left as a conse quence of the war. If we should fall to aid them, starva tion and the winter's cold would go far to completing the work done by the unspeakable Tnrk. I have not seen with my own eye* the misery in which the Armenians now exist. I have been spared that. But the reports which have been brought In by agents of the Near East Relief and by representatives of th* Peace Conference paint a picture ol wretchedness Inconceivable to those who have not a first hand Impression of the savagery of the Mussulman. Exiled From Homes. Since the beginning of the war the Turkish Armenians have been largely refugees from their homes. A simple agricultural people, they have been exiles from their farms, deprived ol all opportunity to support themselves Tear by year their sufferings have In creased. Now, a year after fighting has ceased, they are still living the life of nomads, able to continue te keep alive only by virtue of American philanthropy. These homeless people—"filthy Infi dels" to the Turk—were good enough to exert their poor might In our be half while the war was still In th* balance. Massacres of a half century had not so broken their spirit that they dared not fight for right and foi democracy when Justice was the issue, We accepted their aid then. Surely we shall not pass them by without compassion now. The day has passed when any sell respecting man dares permit absorp tion in his own personal affairs to ex clude consideration of bis neighbor1! well being. No honorable man can knowingly allow his neighbor to ban ger or to go unclothed. The Chrlstlaa peoples of the Near East are ooi ■elghbors. The money needed to re lieve them can be spared without causing any man, woman or child la the United States to suffer. Must Not Rest on Past. In other years of our own free will ws sent missionaries to Turkey. Out schools and colleges and hospital! have played a wonderful role In ha manlzlng that dark spot In the world Our ideas, our educational resourcea our material equipment, have bset leaven In the Near East. Because wi have done well In times past we havi this great opportunity for the present The Armenians have been treated si perhaps no people in history have bees treated because they are the spiritual brothers of western races. Will America help them? Then can be but one answer. Their necea ■tty la dire, but our power Is great We are wealthy. We are 1 member oi the family of nations. Our brother! call us. Food, clothes, money, are lm mediately wanted. If ever unmerltet suffering called for succor the plighi of the Armenians should be heedei now. A few months more and It m«] be relief will be too late for thosi myriads whom only we can save. Wi ■ball not fall them. j RUTOJ EVENING ■ FAiuriMi agg SALT, PEPPER, SUGAR. "The Sugar Bowl doesn’t appreciate us,” said the Salt Cellar, i “Who do you mean when you say ‘us’?” asked the Sugar Bowl. “1 mean Pepper Shaker and myself." said the Salt Cellar. “And why do you not think I ap preciate you?” asked the Sugar Bowl. “I’m sure I don't know why you don't,” said the Salt Cellar. “Any thing would think you ought to. Any one, with any sense, appreciates us.” “Of course,” said the Sugar Bowl, “I expect you to be a little rude at times. 1 expect you would be a scrap sharp and all of that. But I do not mind. I am sweet enough to forgtre you.” “But you haven’t told me whether you appreciate me or not?" said the Salt Cellar, “and 1 do want to make the Sugar Bowl say that it does ap preciate the Salt Cellar and the Pep per Shaker. It would show that the Sugar Bowl had something else be sides sweetness." “What else could 1 have or would I want to have besides sweetness?" asked the Sugar Bowl. “Isn’t It enough that I am always sweet?" “No.” said the Salt Cellar. “It Is not. There are lots of sweet creatures who never say adything mean and who never do any harm, but at the same time they don't do anything especial j ly kind and they don't do anything especially helpful. “They're sweet enough but they r haven't much character. Now you j will show character If you not only I smile sweetly upon me but If you will _ \ C> _ J "I Will Admit It." ' ; admit that the Salt Cellar and the ! Pepper Shaker have good work to do I in the world." "Ah. yes,” said the Sugar Bowl, “I ; will admit it, and I think i should I appreciate other creatures and things ] more than I do. I am glad we’ve hod ‘ this talk. “It is true—I have felt that I was no ) sweet I didn't have to do anything. ; Just because 1 never did anything j which was sour and mean I thought j I was gcod enough. But I wasn’t. I I understand that now. “Creatures and things aren’t to be admired who won’t take the trouble j to go out of their way to do nice j things. And as the Sugar Bowl can't | go walking atound looking for nice | things to do at least it can admire the Salt Cellar and the Pepper Shaker | for the work they do in seasoning ami I making things have a good taste.” “Ah, Sugar Bowl,” said the Salt | Cellar, “I am glad to hear you talk this way. For some time I have been afraid that you didn't have enough I character. I was very much afraid that | you were becoming too sugary and too weak! “The Pepper Shaker would tell you ! too how much he thinks of you but If i he comes about too much be is apt to make people sneeze. He doesn’t like to do that. He can’t help it if too I much of him Is used, but he hate* to i be used like that. He likes to add to i the taste of things, but not to be made oui a cruei creHiure. “Yes, he had a terrible blow once He was treated so badly! It wasn't fair to him at all. "Some very mean boys and glrli thought It would be fun to put sneez ing powder in the flowers which they would give to their friends to smell Then as their friends began to .sneeze they would laugh. "Well, a great deal of my Peppet friend was used then. He made those people sneeze and be didn't want to In the least. Oh, he did feel so badly about It, It wasn’t funny he said, It war mean, straight and out mean! The people who sneezed were miserable Their noses hurt, their throats hurl i and they couldn’t Bleep for several nights. "One little girl who had sneezed so hard and so much lost her voice for several days for the sneezing pow der got down in her throat, and bei throat has never been quite so strong since. "So ! think we should all be used In our places and not too much of any of us, for if too much sugar is used things will be sickish and if too much pepper or salt Is used the poor peppei and salt creatures are taken a mean advantage of!” The Greatest Change. “When water becomes Ice,” asked the teacher, "what Is the great change that takes place?” "The greatest change, ma'am,” said i the little boy, “is the change In j price.”—our Dumb Animals. I 1 ■' =♦ CUPID’S CAR 1 By RALPH HAMILTON 1 -- —♦ (Copyright, ItSt. W**t«rn N*w»pa.p«r Union) “A wilful, ungrateful girl!" ex claimed Miss Maria Ward, "but I trill bend her, even If I break her!” Thus to an old spinster friend, soul less and crabbed as herself, and the latter voiced entire approval of the system and designs of her double In primness, prejudice, and, as it was bow turning out perfidy. The subject of discussion was Miss Ward's niece, Druallla North. Since she was twelve years of age her aunt had been her guardian. In charge of a small estate left by her father. A girl of less gentle mold would long since have resented and abandoned the strict discipline and kill-joy meth ods of the soared old maid. There was an Innate sprlghtllness and op timism Inherent with Drusllla, how ever. that sustained her mightily. She submitted to exclusion from the coveted companionship of other young people, she sat patiently In sewing cir cles, dreary lecture rooms and uncon genial meetings of a club of which Miss Ward was secretary, and which comprised all the long-haired male theorists of the district and most of the female faddists. Meantime. Drusllla dreamed. She loved poetry, sentiment BDd all that was true, good and beautiful. She an ticipated her twenty-first birthday, when the ban would be lifted and she could enter into real life and Joyous neas. Then one day she met Irving Thearle on her way to a town two miles distant, whither she was sent weekly to carry messages and dainties to an incapacitated old lady friend of her aunt. He came into her life so charmingly, so naturally, that It seemed to Dru silla as if It was all predestined. He was stopping only incidentally at Mill ville In the property Interests of a relative, was young, handsome, chival rous. The winding country road was lined with flowers, and beyond were bird-haunted stretches of timber and rose-spangled reaches of velvety sward, where they roamed at will, and that one day in the week when they met became a sweetly beautiful idyl j to both. No word of love was spoken, but its expression came forcibly to both when Miss Ward made the dis covery of this stolen companionship and like a destructive hurricane crossed the paradisiacal path of love and beauty. Meantime Miss Ward had Intro duced Into the household as a trl-week- j ly visitor a Professor Jeremiah Black, whose cult was antiquity and whose efTorts to court Drusllla were persls tent, but repelled. He was a long, lank youth, whom, Drusllla discerned, Miss Ward was Intent on marrying her to, possibly Interested as to Dru sllla’s little fortune. There was a picnic vine bright July day which all Millville usually attend ed, and Drusllla consented to accom pany her aunt and the professor, be cause she believed Irving would be tuere and was prepared to get some word to him. Arrived at the festal scene Miss Ward selected an Isolated spot, and. lynx-eyed, kept Drusllla from conversing with any one except herself and the professor. Drusllla. however, was so uncongenial and dull that the latter wandered off by him self In a somewhat disgruntled mood. Her heart was beating high, however, for she had seen Irving arrive In an automobile and later lurking In the woodland near by. Then she caught sight of him gazing directly at her from a near covert. “I wish you would treat the profes sor with more attention and respect,” spoke her aunt. “When there Is danc ing I wish you to retain him as your partner. “I am not prepared to Join In the dancing," returned Drusllla with art ful mildness, and removing her hat she disclosed several wisps of her hair done up In papers. “You might try to oblige me for once !** observed Miss Ward tartly, and Drusllla proceeded to remove the curl papers. Her aunt was busy primping, with a hand-glass assisting. Drusllla twisted several tiny wisps of paper free. She turned a quick glance In the direction of her lurking lover. She suspended a larger piece of curl paper, wadded It and flung It Into a hush nearby. Irving saw and understood. When Drusllla and her aunt started for the dancing pavilion he gained the bush, untwisted the discarded curl paper and read: "Meet me at the spring In an hour.” It was that length of time later that Drusllla. breathless and excited. Joined him there. “I Just managed to get away from my aunt,” she fluttered. “Oh, Irving! they are trying to marry me to that horrid professor and I am going to run away from home.” “Grand I” commented Irving cheer fully. “I’m going to, likewise. Drn sllla, dear, let us go together. My auto Is handy; I know a convenient clergymen not five miles away. Shall we hurry to him and then begin a Joy ous, truunt honeymoon?” “Do you care for me so much, then 1” faltered Drusllla, and his earnest, loyal gaze gave an assuring reply. “1 trust my future all to you,” she murmured, and his strong arm encir cled her as ihey bastrwed to the wall ing automobile that was to them a veritable Cupid's car. J SEASONABLE FOODS. To «arh man is given a day, and his work tor the day. And once, and no more, he Is given to travel this way. And woe If he flies from the task, whatever the odds; For the task is appointed to him oa the scroll of the goda —Edwin Mark ham. For those who enjoy kidney* the following dish will prove worth a trial: Beefsteak and Kidney Pie.—for an ordinary pic use one pound of round steak and four or five lamb*’ kidney*. Cut th«* steak In to pieces an Inch and a half long and wide. Cut the kidneys through the center. Put the kidneys Into cold, slightly salted water and allow this to coroe slowly to the boiling point. As soon as the boiling point is reached, draw off the water, add cold, salted water and boll again. Then drain, rinse well and add the kid neys to the steak. In the meantime, roll the piece* of steak In seasoned flour, and brown nicely In a frying pan. Cover with water; add a pinch of marjoram, sum mer savory, and a few grains of nut meg. Simmer until the meat is tender. Add any further seasoning needed. Thicken the gravy with flour and but ter. Pour the meat Into a pie dish with gravy enough to cover and then add the pastry top. Serve either hot or cold. Pastry for Meat Pies.—Cream to gether one and one-half tablespoonfuls each of lard and butter Put this In to one cupful of flour which has been mixed with one-half teaspoouful of salt and one tea spoonful of baking powder. Add enough cold milk to make the particles stick together. Roll a id cover to the edge of the dish. Leave an opening for the steam to e» eajie. Serve from the dish after bak ing a golden brown. Lemon Honey.—Cream one cupful of butter, add one-half cupful of sugar and mix until well blended. Beat In two-thirds of a cupful of honey snd heat In a double boiler, beating until well blended. Beat four egg yolk* un til thick, add the rind of a lemon, turn Into the mixture and cook until thick. Add the juice of two lemons and stir until the mixture Is like thick cream. This will keep if put Into covered Jelly glasses. Is very nice for cake or sand wich filling. SIOl'X CITT, IOWA. Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Williams i entertained Mr. and Mrs. Henry Nel son. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Robbing and Mr. and Mrs. Grant at a whist party at their beautiful home, 305 West Twenty-fourth street, Thursday night. February 20. Mrs. Robbins and Mr. Nelson won the prize. Mr. Rasburn Curtis, who has been with the S. 8. Kresge Co. for the past ! eight months, has returned to his old : position as head janitor at the C. & [ N. W. depot. He will take charge j March 1. Mr. Ed Askew, 212 North Sixth ! street, spent Sunday in St. Paul visit- i ing Mr. Jerry Gee who is very ill with heart trouble. Mr. Walter J. Williams has taken charge of the shoe shining stand and porter work in the new barber shop in the Martin hotel. He is ably as sisted by Mr. VJ. 8. Grant. Mrs. Thomas Sturgess and daugh ter, Mrs. Roberts, are preparing to move to Cleveland, Ohio. T'ne little daughter of Mrs. Lillian Hubbard underwe tnan operation for j appendicitis at St. Joseph’s hospital j last Wednesday. Mr. Vernon Rountree has sold his interest in the taxicab business to his partner, Mrs. Howard Hill. Mrs. E. J. Curtis, 6101 Cook street, has fully recovered from her recent severe illnesB. Rev. Mr. Street of Topeka, Kaa., filled the pulpit at Malone A. M. E. church 8unday morning. February , 22. His sermon was very good. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Parker of Riverside were the guests of Rev. and Mrs. P. M. Lewis Sunday, February 22. Mr. Jesse Boyd reports the fact that a niece, a graduate of the Nebraska schools, Is now teaching In Wiscon sin In a white school district. In which her brother and sister are the only colored punlls. This Is her sec ond year, conditions are harmonious and she Is giving satlsfaction. All news left at the Poro Parlors receive prompt attention. Mrs. Susie Perry, formerly of Oma ha, Neb., a graduate of Poro college, St. Lewis, Mo., has opened a mani curing and hairdressing parlor at 50<5 West Seventh street. Mrs. Perry is a lady of high social standing and a ■ member of the Baptist church. The fir«t thing that Mrs. Perry did after locating In the city was to give The Monitor correspondent a subscription for one year. We wish for her suc cess In her business venture and com mend her work to all race women of this city. Diamond Theatre THURSDAY— ANITA STEWART in “A KINGDOM OF DREAMS" FRIDAY— JAMES J. CORBETT in “MIDNIGHT MAN" No. 14 .And a Good .Short Featnre Program. SATURDAY— WINIFRED ALLEN in “A SUCCESSFUL FAILURE" RUTH ROLAND in “THE ADAENTURES OF RUTH" SUNDAY— E. K. LINCOLN in “DESERT GOLD" And a Comedy EOYFTIAFI BEGULATOB TEA ■ C Mitt pi tin iei StMitl Disorders Price IM , ter ue ti.ae. THE EGYPTIAN DRUG CO , lit W. 31m 5<.. New York I! ALHAMBRA i The House of Courtesy. |[ 24th and Parker St*. < ' i > « . - , , ! 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