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New-York tribune., 1918-11-10

machine of a countrys veal, to gear in
and to operate. Such a machine should
require no fabrication beyond the liberal
application of brain power. Such a ma
chine should be incapable of waste mo-
ton, useless pretence, vain assumptions
or spirit of competition and rivalry,
and should smoothly grind out it's grist.
OF, failing to do SO, it should forthwith be
sent to the scrapheap of Mistaken ideals
and Good Intentions!
The Salvation Army is of all creeds,
and yet of none of them. Thus it was
entirely natural for the organization
have the honor to command in the United
States, and which, with it's millions of
officers and members is deep-rooted in
sixty-one countries on this earth, to fit
into place and begin, in its own sphere.
to do its humh1eSt mart
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why did you leave that house and
come to America" | gasped.
She smiled that melancholy, inscruta-
Bile smile of her race
"We are Christians" she said, "and we
had treasure stored away. Then, my sis
ter was lovely, and I was not thought ILL
favored. Still - the terrible Turks did
not live near US. For many years we
thought that we were safe. When my
father met them in business in the city he
made friends with then1-but he kept US
hidden. Little girls are never safe in the
Turks country.
"But one day Turk spoke to my faith
er in the market place, and he spoke of
us. My father parried, but it was too
late; some treacherous one had told of
my sister. Ny father came home and
said to my mother: Thou must always
keep things packed against our sudden
going away nown
"One night there was great knocking
at our door and my father rose from his
bed. In the rain stood one of our neigh
bors from the other side of the mountain
He had ridden half the night. A COM
pany of Turks had stopped at MS house
the evening before, and they were asleep
there now. They had asked the direction
to my fathers house.
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The House of
Swinging Doors

On day not long after that there was
talk Of an expedition to Syria, and she
knew some of the men and women who
were going. Her face lighted.
"They must occupy our house on the
side of mountain there" she cried.
ut is large and airy, there are barns and
outhouses, and fruits growing wild. The
doors are swinging in the wind and in
side all is in order, waiting our recoming.
The beds are made; the linen is newly
changed; the rooms are swept and busted
and garnished. Old neighbors do it," she
explained. "1n the cellar are dried herbs
and vegetables, fagots for fires, coal and
books. 1t will hold large company, this
house Of my father and my fathers faith
er, and our relatives and friends will bid
you welcome there!"
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Bureau of Information, the first Of %ss 4.
such training establishments wnlen ssr
British authorities propose to open ~ n
the education of women clerks 10. ~, A.
army. The pioneer school has pesn .,. !
ganized by the London County Oou,Ssi onS /
at the request of the War Once, sss sl,r;-
owes its inception to the fact ina. ,oIs mi
cal workers are wanted in eho'"s
numbers for the corps. n-
Many women and girls, IN tnsn .oI,u. 4
triotic zeal to be of service to tnels a,ss,f ssi
try, have volunteered for the ..a,a ap''sb sscb.
side of the corps when very lltsle - I'll /.
nical training is all they require = sstsf,
them for service on the clerica = Il
and this is now being provioeo hsok-
extensive course in office rout'ns, q no
keeping, English, typewriting e S;llns
least important, the intricacics "
up army forms.
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in mental sense they will never be fit
for It in a physical sense.

IN a mental sense they will never be fit
for It in a physical sense.
All personal and private leanings.
whether they pertain to the Church, poll
ties, social ethics or the imaginary lines
of caste, should be swept aside in the
crisis of war, and the guiding thought
should be-service! Common sense end
practcabilty are as essential to the right
sort of relief work behind the lines as
bullets and bayonets are in the first line
of contact with the enemy. War relief
that IS to command the respect and conf
dence Of armies must be rooted in a genu
inc determination to help without giving
hlndrance. 1t can best be done bv the
practical organizations, qualifying under
the rules OF common sense, as a unified
whole. If it was good for the Allies to
weld their giant armies and navies into
one vast unit and place them under one
control, it is good for the war relief or
ganizations to adopt the same policy-for
in unity there is strength.
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One Cause, One Wax,
One Issue-One Result

The Salvation Army has been fighting
evil and poverty since the day the organ
ization was founded nearly sixty years
ago. 1t is in war work now because its
duty calls it wherever there is human
suffering to relieve. 1t has furnished
over 100000 actual fighters for the Allies
IN the trenches, and has but small force
back OF the red line which marks the
shifting edges of contact 200 uni
formed workers. But each and all will
be proud to lay down their lives if
that is necessary-which is, as we see it.
the spirit Of service.
There is still more to be done at the
front for our men than we can ever do.
We owe it to the mothers and fathers of
America to cast aside all thought of d.
vislonal lines; of imaginary boundaries
and barriers OF ambition and of preiu
dice 1t behooves us to dig right in and
do the things that will best serve the
fighters, all within military regulations
and upon common sense basis. and TO
stay there with the troops until they re-
turn. Nobody should get any credit
which means that everybody should get it
This is the spirit of the seven great
war relief organizations our President
has commissioned to do this big thing
the spirit in which they have stuck along
side the boys sent to do the battling. and
helped them materially and spiritually
to withstand the greatest ordeal in the
worlds history-to overcome the great
est monster of evil that has ever reared
its head. We seven will do the iob
mothers and fathers! Trust us! Help
u.s. We are seven---we are one.
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The Turk Is Conquere,
But His Hn,ec,
Remains

These children, when they had T.
sold, were sent, shrieking and berr;,. !
release, in great train loads toward = r.. "
stantinople. Heaven alone knou, ssa' =
many more than 5000 are to-day in Nv NV
ish harems! The German officer, A. ~
selves made no secret of the it'll. sa' u,
destination. guy
Turkish women are emancina,ss.
have grown beyond the harem -
They refuse to be shut up in room. = !,
gardens, however beautiful, to \. : !
playthings of a man. They are firm !
levers in monogamy now.
But the Turk is unchanged. Anaa
war, with the help of his arch-con.,.. -
tor, the German, has filled his harn.
for the time being, anyway.
That they have been filled with ,;.,
girls who should still be at their DAN.
with mere babies as white and c;v;l;..,
as those who play in your own and ,.r.
neighbors' yards-must strike horn, =.
utterable to the heart of every one WI,
reads!
The Serbians have not been duly ~,
preciated and pitied in this war. ns,
are coming into their own at last. Can u.
bring back their little girls from Turks,
harems-those who have not died a.
grief and shame? II is not 700 late !,
try to atone for our selfish inditfenn,.
to these horrors that we ignored hn.
the war.
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you have large family, them"
ventured.
"Immense!" she answered promptly
There is always crowd; and new
baby. We have twelve children and six
grandchildren my brothers aoould
maryland a grandmother and mother
and father"
Houses" said 7, "are small for a
family so large"
She fixed me with her great, sombre,
beautiful eyes Rooms, not houses" she
returned quickly; "two of them in the
back yard of a tenement are indeed small
for any family"
covered my impolite astonishment as
best / could.
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Turk Traffic in Little Girls

CRY and frightened, for there was dam
ger until we should be upon the ship and
we'll out from land.
''But, you see, what was treasure and
wealth in our mountain home was moth
ing-in America! We live-as l told
you. But some day we shall go back"
''When will you go?" I asked. ''Will
you go with the expedition?''
She shuddered. eve cannot 60" she
sighed, "while the Turks are still there"
All this was said before the war, be-
fore the Turks had massacred her cou-
sins, the whole Armenian people, and
carried little Serbian girls into slavery.
She said it while she and and others
still thought we'll of those clumsy, pains
taking Germans who were deciphering
tablets and columns that had been un-
earthed in ancient lands and were writ
ing ponderous volumes about them.
l do not know what she would say to-
day, for do not know what has become
of her. But / do know that there has
come, between that day and this, a time
when little girls cannot be wrested so
easily from the grasp of the terrible
Turk. In 1915 Germany and her allies
set out to annihilate the whole Serbian
male population - and did not succeed.
But they did clear Serbia of them and
took possession of the country-left a
country Of women and children.
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What To Do
To Adopt a Child

Stripped of prolixity, the following
document recently filed in the Surro-
gates Court of New York City shows
the simplicity of the proceeding:
The petition of John Blank and his
wife, Mary Blank, respectfully shows:
That both are more than twenty
cne years of age and reside.
That the minor the petitioners want
to adopt was born in 1905, the day
being unknown, as he was abandoned
and placed in .. founding
asylum of Palermo, Italy, as shown
by the memorandum from the said
asylum annexed hereto.
That your petitioners have had Gus
tody of said child without interruption
since its infancy. That neither the
father nor mother Of the said infant
has ever inquired about him. That
your. petitioners lived in Portnico.
Italy, for three years after assuming
custody of the child and then came to
this country to live.
That your petitioners are good,
home-loving people, have small farm
and $4,000 in the bank
of adopting the said minor as their
lawful child.
That there is annexed hereto the
instrument required by Section 112 of
the Domestic Relations Laws of the
City Of New York, signed and exc
cuted by those whose consent is neces-
sary.
Wherefore, petitioners pray that
the Surrogate Of New York County
entertain the proceedings for adop-
tlon of said minor and that an order
be granted, filed and recorded al
lowing and confirming said adoption
and directing that the said Giovanni
Blank shall hereafter be known and
treated in all respects as petitioners
lawful child.
TO this petition was attached an afli-
davit of the petitioners, their covenant
to care for and educate the child, and
the written consent Of the minor (being
more than twelve years Of age) to the
adoption.
BY this simple proceeding the orphan
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from Palermo became the legal son and
heir of his parents by adoption
That there arc many persons who seek
children to adopt is shown by the wait
ing list" at orphanagcs. There arc at pres
ent two hundred persons whose names and
addresses are listed at single institu
ton maintained by the city who wait an
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Treasure and Wealth.
Then Terror in the Night

$50 he called our mother and we were
reused. while my oldest brother and the
neighbor ran to harness the horses and
put them to the wagons We dressed in
great haste and caught up what treas
ures we might. But we had no time to
spare, and our good ncighbor himself was
in grave danger Long before daylight
we were on our way to a seaport and new
life in America. We were cold and hun
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in homes instead of institutions, there
being at that time 10000 dependent
children cared for, at an annual expense
of more than $5,OOO,0O0 Thereafter,
and until the present administration
went back very largely to the old man.
ner of placing children, the younger
dependent children of New York were
given over to the case of foster mothers.
The placing out of dependent orphans
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The Allies Are
Under One Head

When the armies Of the Allies were
placed under General Foch, and the
strategy of war was left, so far as the
Allies were concerned, to a single war
council it was not found necessary TO
erase the marks of identity from any
unit. French soldiers remained Just as
French as ever they had been. The Brit
ish Tommies are still their old selves
The Americans, assuredly, forfeited none
of their individuality as the most ms, vel
lous fighting machine, put together over
night, in the history of mankind.
Yet they suddenly became cogs in a
vast machine. They toiled and struggled
for common purpose. And when Gen
eral Foch finally was cloaked with the
authority and power which enabled him
to direct the forces of Righteousness. each
contingent working in its place without
duplication or confusion, that instant
Germany was beaten.
President Wilson, early in the war.
pleaded for, toiled for, contended for co.
ordination. He knew it meant increased
efficiency He did not encourage one am
bilious element to swallow up or obliter
ate another and lesser element lust to
make a unit. He insisted that each or
ganized force locate itself in the vast
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the hardships and sufferings that newt
ably befall combatants in war.
To such task it is the solemn duty of
all right-thinking and loyal persons to
dedicate their hearts, their hands, their
heads-and their lives. If they cannot
go as far as that they should never enter
upon war relief work, and if they cannot
organize themselves for the undertaking
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Eight Thousand Sold
At Auction in
One Week
By MAY BOSNIAN

4 FEW years ago, in the University
~ of Pennsylvania Museum in Phila-
delphia, / met a young girl who
might have stepped off cne Of the cracked
old vases from some ancient Biblical land.
She was true Oriental type; looking at
her, one wondered how many thousands
and thousands Of years the strain in her
extended backward that had caused to be
born again so definite and pronounced a
cast of features.
She was only twenty and had come to
this country in the steerage when she was
ten years old. She had had only such
education as free America gives in its
public schools; yet she was custodian of
tones used only by erudite professors and
bespectacled -graduates-and she
knew her books.
Because she had been a distinct help
to hurried newspaper writer I was
grateful and asked her to visit me. She
cried: "No, no! cannot, for none could
come to see me at my house! 1t is so
crowded, so small and dark. And there
are babies. You fall over them on the
floor Or if not babies, it is my grand
mother. She is ninety and blind And
the house does not smell clean, and it is
never quiet"
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Little Girls
Sold at Auction

Thereupon the German military officers
in command of the Turks went into the
Serbian houses and collected the prettiest
of the little girls - 5000 in one week,
from ten to fourteen years of age-and
sold them in the market places to Turk
ish buyers.
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with paid by -thc-month mothers is no ex-
pertinent, for in 1909 there was held in
Washington, D. c., conference with
two hundred representatives of the sew
cral religious faiths, to which asylums,
aid societies and juvenile courts brought
their experience and observations, and
after the welfare of children Of all kinds
and conditions had been given consider
alton, the following conclusion was an
nounced:
AS to children who for sufficient
reason must be removed from their
own homes, or who have no homes,
it is desirable that, if normal in mind
and body and not requiring special
training, they should be cared for in
families wherever practicable. The
carefully selected foster home is for
the normal child the best substitute
for the natural home.
But the dependent child to-day in New
York City is very lucky indeed if he
chances to be placed with a paid-by-the-
month-mother, instead of finding a per-
manent crib and home in an institution.
Tested-Tagged-and
Given a Faith!
The physical being Of homeless babies
who come to the city for support is the
first object of attention, for, be it un-
derstood, waits are committed to Belle
vue, there to be subjected to certain
blood tests and weight standards and
other theoretical and practical routine
very mysterious to the medically unin-
formed, but necessary to establish the
kind of tag and number to which little
John Doe is entitled in order to be prop
erly card-indexed and historically placed.
Not only does the city weigh and test
and measure and clothe the waif, but he
is given religious brand thusly: One
baby IS christened Catholic and the next
Protestant in never varying alienation,
and the path along which the little soul
is started toward Kingdom Come de-
pends on whether his predecessor drew a
Catholic or Protestant faith card in the
lottery.
The infants who are sent from Belle
vue to the institution previously men
toned are as clerically we'll kept as so
many accounts Of a good merchant.
There are five visiting nurses, who regu-
larly call at homes where the children
are sent, and the clerk who has charge
of filing case filled with records" can
Immediately tell the shistory" Of any Of
her wards by reference to the index.
She shuffies the cards and there fash
lines; Blond baby, plump, cheerful"
Infant emaciated and cross. Dark eyes
and black hair, very irritable" cred hair
and brown eyes, healthy" and so on,
! proving that babies without real moth
ers to note each smile and vail NAV
still be sure Of reaching health stand
ards.
The Tallnud" says: "The blessed man
that doeth righteousness at all times
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
BY EVANGELINE BOOTH

Commander Of the SalCotion Army IN
4 Americd
TNllERE is ono task and only one for
war relief organizations to per-
form at the battlefront: 1t is the
task of minimizing in every way possible
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Our Children Whom
We Never See

w ~ ~ wv
Women whose hearts are biz and
whose incomes can be stretched to do
a little more are ''adopting" daughters
and sons in Europe whom they will
never see, but who will wear warm
clothes, and go to school, and be enabled
to go on living in the wreck Of their
homeland because of the monthly re.
mittances sent by their godmothss
And the only recompense to these god.
mothers will be occasional photographs
of their wards and the certainty Of a
recordation of their good deeds, which
must have been carried heavcnward on
the prayers of these little ones.
/ These are what might be termed sen
tlmental adoptions, for the children 50
adopted will have no legal claim on The
good men and women who are thus
reaching out to them q helping hand
But the problem of saving as man!
children as possible from the unhappy
fate Of institutional life can be SOLVED
only by broad campaigning for hOns
for homeless children. There is root
IN good houses, comfortable if not luxu
rious homes, for thousands of waits and
dependent children, and those who
would acquire ready made family Will
find the court proceeding for legal sdep
tion one of the simplest forms KNOW 70
the law. Women's clubs might Do an
immense and generous work for humanity
by discussing adoption and rubbing from
it the absurd dislike and almost supsf'
stitious fear of it's legal aspect.
There might be found some better
way of bringing together the chlldren
who need homes and the homes wnca
need children, thus curtailing the way
ing lists now rather hopelessly filed WIZ
public institutions.
For there seems as much need Of
way to get the children as finding nome
for them. Mrs. Brown wakes up to sf
selfishness of maintaining a big hoas
filled only with furniture and servane'
and concludes she will adopt son o. q
daughter. Full Of high resolve, shccs,ls
on her friend, Mrs Smith. and connoss
her resolution, only to be told that sm
needn't mind, for she, Mrs. Smith. as'
been on the waiting list" OF an nv,
tuition for six months Or a year hop'H
to be given child to adopt.
Mrs. Brown may do the next Oe.'
thing: she may "adopt" one OF the "
phans in France and get little comla..
in sending assistance to child who ns:u =,
and deserves it; but her home reIis;r 's;ss
empty, and somewhere in an inst'1usss:; s:
in the great City Of New York GU"
is being kept who could enjoy 1t.
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is the man who brings up an orphan
Regiments in France are adopting" IT.
tie OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES children, 1850
Citations in America arc adopting" lit
tie folk in France and Belgium, who will
remain in their loved, if ravaged, hon,
surroundings, and who will be cared 70,
and educated there by funds sent from
here by the adopting associations.
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opportunity to adopt a child or children.
Boarding OUT
Versus Institutions

In June of 1916 the Department of
Charities of the City of New York es-
tablishcd Children's Home Bureau, in
order better to carry out the provisions
Of the poor law, using it as clearing
house through which to place children
New-York tribune., 1918-11-10
By ROSE FALLS BRES
Attorney at Ln1r

Editors Notc.--Jn the mad.st of ,Udr or
peace there still remain the children to
be Thought of-tlnd here in Ne.o York q
pathetic group of them noao claims your
sympdthy. These are the hundreds of
little ones left orphaned by the Influenza
epidemic. Many Of them arc very Ill
themselves, and do not cvcn knoaD that
they haze lost their parents; for the epi-
de1nic attacked adults first, AID then be-
gan it's slaughter among the children
At a conference of managers of child
caring institutions held recentlv ut the
request Of DR.. Royal S. Copeland, city
Health Commissioner, it sUus decided ttnt
these small conpuIescents will be kept IL,
Bellevue Hospital and IN the hospital
ship of st. Johns Guild, anchored in the
East Riucr off Ttcenty-third Street, until
they haze recovered sufficiently to be
take7 to Seaside Hospital on Staten ISL
and. Those who haze beer, crposed to
the disease, but hare not contracted 1T,
9vilI 90 TO Seaside Hosp5tul on Co1,ey Isl
md until the dna.gey Of infection is over.
And Them Then, if no one wa,,ts them,
they svH hare to be committed to insti-
t,tttors.
But Commissioner Copeland wtu first
rake q strenuous effort to find ready
made families for the orphans. He is
reeciving applications now from those
auho vish- to adopt them, and acnnts
at the some time reports to be made to
him at his office i7a the Board of Health
Building, Walker and Centre streets, of
any children left homeless or destitute By
the epidemic.
There IS a aoord for notherless, fath-
erless children; bat no expression has
cuer been coined for the childless mother
or father. And there are many of then,
those aOho haze lost their sons and
daughters and those aUho 1uapted and
should hnve had children, and ,,ever did.
Here IS 7oor,derfaL chnmce for both
the chsldless and the orphans to come
INTO their otC7,. NJ. de NJ.
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Waacs-and Others

THe war services Of British women
have been recognized by the award
of many foreign orders and decora-
tions: A recent issue Of "The London
Gazette" recorded that King George has
granted permission to Miss Henrietta
Fraser to wear the Cross of the Legion
OF Honor and the Croix de Guerre con-
TERED upon her by the President of the
+ french Republic. to Miss Muriel Thomp-
son to wear the Cross of Chevalier Of tho
Order of Leopold II conferred upon her
by the King of the Belgians, and to Miss
FRANCES Lathem to wear the Insignia of
the Fifth Glass of the Order OF st. Seva
conferred upon her by the King of Serbia
TINE members Of Queen Mary's Army
Auxiliary Corps now have their own
school in London, says the British