Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-09-04

cially your hospital organizations in re-
mote districts far from the big centres
Of population. was only one of the OBJ
jects of my expected visit.
WOULD STUDY CHARITY.
Next in Importance was to have been
the study Of your charity organization
and above all of your national, State and
municipal care of the unfortunate. Be-
ginning 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 advanced lines that have been de-
veloped. These We are certain we would
find In America. Your blind, your deaf.
your poor. your crippled. your mentally
deficient, We want to know hwo you
care for them. True, the number of our
unfortunate is not great. but this duty
OF the State toward them we want to
perform In the fullest manner that mod
ern method and science have devised.
And, then. the third and last great OBJ
ject of my visit was to have been the
study OF your problem of Immigrants
How that could be of service to Bulgaria
OF refugees must be very similar TO your
problem Of immigrants From the dis
tricts Of Macedonia, Thrace, Rumania and
Bessarabia, where the Bulgarian popu-
lation is In the majority, but which are
not yet united 20 the common fatherland,
hundreds OF thousands OF our country
men 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. am sure. is
analogous 10 the arrival In America OF
thousands OF immigrants, and that is why
desire to study your solution OF tha
problem. and especially OF your distri-
button OF them throughout the country.
What do you do with them? How do you
ind work for them? How do you keep
them from congesting communities that
cannot maintain them2
"of course. many of our problems here
have been a direct result OF war. Like
every other true woman II is my deapest
hope that the end Of the present conflict
which Is devastating the European eoun-
tries OF that greatest OF national assets
the men-wili eiye as a long IL not a per-
manent peace. This / am confident win
be accomplished by the elimination IA the
readjustment OF Europe OF the past causes
OF war and especially of that greatest OF
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nations OF Europe who have poured out
Their own blood In the present conflict for
the attainment OF their national ideals
VIII am confident, not leave unsettled
such problems that may at some future
period again reopen the conflict
"And 1t Is when that period of peace
mas come that l shall hope at last 10 visit
America. DO you know that every Amer.
iean visitor who comes TO study our peo-
pie declares that the Bulgarians are the
l,Iner,cans OF Europef And do You know
also that English Is one OF the most COM
mon foreign languages among our people :
Your American missionary schools hers
have rendered the language as common
among our poorer CLASSES. a. your Rob-
erts College and your College for Girls al
constantnople have rendered Il generai
AMONGST our more cultured people. Ana
with the introduction IN BuIaarIa a. alI
tnat - best Ia your American eysiefn of
chtriiy organisation, / am certain thaf
more lasting apa more Important ties lhan
ever viii have been established bst1esn