East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-09-06

| ern warfare have demonstrated tina
It IS quite Inadequate.
Here In Bulgaria we are now soIv
ing the problem IN the manner ii
which our experience has taught u,
1t can best be met This is BY the
establishment OF training schools fol
nurses and the organization OF aux,
| iliary societies 10 the Red Cross
Why indeed should not every WON.
an in the world have an ADEQUATE
training for this service. Is II not q
duty that woman owes to the state
Just as much as the military service
that is rendered by the man? But
II It Is asking too much that all WON.
en- should be prepared for this work
there are thousands at least Of Young
women In every country who car
well undertake H. For these an nj
the strictness and requirements OF
me full Red Cross service are per.
maps too much, but there Is nothing
70 hinder a preparation that will en-.
able them to contribute their full
snare towards the alienation of the
horrors Of war should the momen,
ever come when their services NAV
be needed
II was largely the desire to study
your own American schools for the
training Of nurses that prompted nv
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
a dream which / expect vet to real.
ize and in the meantime through the
aid Of the Red Cross unit which the
American society as sent us we are
proceeding rapidly with our reorgan.
ization in Bulgaria.
"of course my plans to study at
flrst hand your American hospitals
and especially your hospital organiza
lions 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 nation
al, state and municipal care of the
unfortunate. Beginning as Bulgaria
Is, an entirely new country, we want
to establish its charity system. which
OF course has become a recognized
duty of every state. ~on the most ad.
Vanced lines that have been develop
ed. These we are certain we would
| ind in America. Your blind. your
deaf your poor, your crippled, your
mentally deficient, we want TO know
how you care for them. True the
number ow our unfortunates is mo-
great but this duty of the state to.
wards them we want to perform il
the fullest manner that moderr
method and science have devised.
And then, the third and last grea
object Of my visit was to have beer
the study of your problem of immi
grants. How could that be of ser
vice to Bulgaria you perhaps do no
see. But eur problem of refugee.
must be very similar to your prob
lem Of immigrants. From the dis
tricts OF Macedonia Thrace. Rouman.
/ la and Bessarabia where the Bulgar.
/ ian population is in the majority
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 l am sure Is
analogous TO the arrival in America
of thousands of immigrants. and that
is why l desire to study your solution
Of the problem and especially your
distribution Of them throughout. the
country. What do you do with them /?
How do you find work for them /?
How do YOU keep them from con-
gesting communities that cannot
maintain them?
''Of course. any of our problems
here have been a direct result Of
war. Like every other true woman
it is my deepest hope that the end Of
the present conflict which is devas-
tating the European countries of that
greatest of national assets-the men
will give US a long if not a perma-
nent peace. This I am confident will
be accomplished by the elimination in
the readjustment of Europe of the
past causes of war, and especially OF
the greatest of all causes, the lack
of national unity. The nations Of
Europe who have poured out their
own blood in the present conflict for
the attainment of their national
ideals will | am confident not leave
unsettled such problems that may at
some future time again reopen the
conflict
And it is when that period of
peace has come that / shall hope at
last to visit America Do you know
that every American visitor who
comes to study our people declares
that the Bulgarians are the Ameri-
cans Of Europe? And do you know
also that English is one of the most
common foreign languages among our
people. Your American missionary
schools here have rendered the Ian
guage as comon amongst our poorer
classes as your Roberts college and
your College for Girls at CONSTANT
nople have rendered it general
amongst our more cultured people,
And with the introduction in Bull
garia Of all that is best in your Am.
erican system of charity organization,
am sure that more lasting and morg
important ties than ever will have
been established between us"
colonel Asked TO Fight