Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-09-04
Bulgarian Women to
Women of America

service are perhaps too much, but there
is nothing to hinder preparation that
will enable them toscontribute their full
share towards the aleviation of the
horrors of war should the moment ever
come when their services may be need
ed.
"It was largely the desire to study
your own American schools for the
training of nurses that prompted my
plans last year for visiting the United
States but which the clouded interna-
tional horizon at the time forced me
temporarily to abandon. But that is n
dream which expect yet TO realize and
in the meantime through the aid of the
Red Cross unit which the American So
ciety has sent us, we ore proceeding
rapidly with our reorganization in Bull
garia.
"Of course my plans to study at
first hand your American hospitals and
especially your hospital organizations
in remote districts far from the big
centers of population, was only one of
the objects of my expected visit.
"Next in importance was to have
been the study of your charity organ
ization and above all of your national,
state and municipal care of the unfor-
tunate. Beginning as Bulgaria is, an
entirely new country, we want to estab-
lish its charity system, which of course
has become recognized duty Of every
state, on the most advanced lines that
have been developed. These we are GER
tain we would find in America Your
| blind, your deaf, your poor, your Grip
pied, your mentally deficient, VIC want
to know how you care for them. True,
the number Of our unfortunate is not
great but this duty of the state towards
them we want to perform in the fullest
manner that modern methods and sci
ence have devised.
"And then, the third and last great
object of my visit was to have been the
study Of your problem Of immigrats.
How that could be of service to Bull
garia you perhaps do not see. But our
problem of refugees must be very SINH
lar to your problem OF immigrants.
From the districts Of Macedonia,
Thrace. Rumania and Bessarabia where
the Bulgarian population is in the ma
iority but which are not yet united to
the common fatherland, hundreds Of
thousands of our countrymen flock to
us to escape the foreign yoke. They
come to us without money, without
work. without trades and with only
the few clothes that cover their poor
bodies. Their arrival I am sure is anal
ogous to the arrival in America Of thou
sands of immigrants, and that is why l
desire to study your solution Of the
problem and especially of your distri-
button Of them throughout the country.
What do you do with theml How DO
you find work for themY How do you
keep them from congesting communities
that cannot maintain themR
"Of course, many Of our problems
here have been direct result Of war
Like every other true woman IL is my
deepest hope that the end Of the pres
ent conflict which is devastating the
European countries Of that greatest OF
national assets-the men--will give NJ
long IL not a permanent peace. This
/ am confident will be accomplished BY
the elimination in the readjustmcnt Of
Europe of the past causes Of war, and
especially Of that greatest of all causes
the lack Of national unity. The nationi
Of Europe who have poured out theii
own blood in the present conflict foi
the attainment Of their national idcal
will. / am confident, not leave unset
tied such problems that may at som'
. future period again reopen the conflict
, "And IL is when that period of peace
I has come that ] shall hope at last Il
, visit America. Do you know that ever.
! American visitor who comes TO stud!
our people declares that the Bulgarian
{. are the Americans Of Europei And d
: you know also that English Is one o.
! the most common foreign language