"In the Hollow of Your Hand!" - appeal by E.P. Butler

Context

Companion piece to "The Empty Bowl," issued in the same long-format appeal series. A pen-and-ink illustration shows an emaciated child standing on the open palm of an oversized human hand. The headline runs in two parts: "In the Hollow of Your Hand!" by Ellis Parker Butler, with the secondary caption "The Slaughter of the Innocents" beneath. The body invokes a metaphor of American jurors passing a death sentence on the orphans by withholding the next contribution, and lists cabled reports from NER staff in Alexandropol, Beirut, Cilicia, Constantinople, Asia Minor, and the Russian Caucasus.

Ellis Parker Butler (1869–1937) was an American humorist best known for the 1905 short story "Pigs Is Pigs"; his name on the appeal was a recognizable draw for middle-class American readers. The footer again lists Cleveland H. Dodge as Treasurer at 151 Fifth Avenue, Room 1602, anchoring the appeal to the early-1920s period of reduced funding when NER's New York office was actively rationing relief.