ON THIS DAY IN 1915, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Try to grasp the meaning of these facts, and bear in mind that they are understatements rather than exaggerations: Since March nearly 500,000 Armenians have been massacred by the Turks, and several hundred thousand more have been driven from their homes into the desert. Armenians in all parts of Turkey, including Constantinople itself, have had their goods and property confiscated, so that former wealthy people are now begging for their bread. Thousands of Armenians have been tortured into disclosing the hiding places of their arms, and have then been butchered although they had previously been promised immunity. No discrimination is made because of age or sex, except that the young girls are often seized by their Turkish persecutors and apportioned among them. The Armenians have only in rare cases been able to offer any resistance, and then with slight success. The present massacres far surpass the infamous massacres of 1895, both in extent and ferocity. German officers and officials in Turkey have paid no attention to the atrocities in Armenia, permitting them to go on unchecked. There is only one man in the world who can say the word that would save the remnant of the Armenian people from destruction, and that man is the German Emperor. There is only one nation in the world whose wish to end the massacre might influence the Kaiser, and that is the United States. If the Armenians are to be saved from total destruction, it will be through the agency of the United States, but we must act quickly or we will be too late.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1922, the Eagle reported, “ATLANTA, GA. (AP) — Mrs. W.H. Felton of Cartersville, Ga., was appointed by Gov. Thomas W. Hardwick today to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Thomas E. Watson until the people elect a successor in November. Mrs. Felton will be the first woman to become a Senator. Mrs. Felton announced she would accept the appointment,…
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