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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-01-10

Distinguished American, Many ears
Resident OF Turkey, an Eye-Wit-
ness OF Deportations and
Massacres.
Today, after over three years Of
terrible war, thousands of Christian
congregations are scattered, schools
are closed, churches and other prop
erty lie in ruin and millions have been
masSacred, while the wrctched rem
nants OF the martyred nations scat
tered everywhere, homeless, naked
and starving, are refugees whose con-
ditions beggar description.
We can never forget that this great
martyred throng died for their faith.
This awful storm has been a test Of
their fidelity and loyalty 10 Christ and
millions have proved faithful.
Again, no massacre or human
cruelty has been able to crush the
spirit OF many who have suffered SO
terribly. They are wonderfully brave
and patient in their suffering. | have
heard many say: Never mind what
has gone, what we have suffered, II
only such things are made impossible
for our children in the future"
Many have gone back to their
homes, where all is ruin, and are
ready to begin again and rebuild, if
satisfied that they will be protected
l have heard Christians with
streaming eyes asking God to forgive
those who had so cruelty wronged
them and outraged their loved ones.
and Mohemmadans standing by have
walked away awed, and saying, What
kind of religion is this that enables
them to ask God to forgive us:'
Dr. J. P. McNaughton, for twenty
five years a resident Of Turkey, ad-
dressing the annual meeting of the
Spokane Chamber Of Commerce, said:
The ancestors Of these people
contributed more OF the rich content
that has entered into the warp and
wool of our civilization than all othe
nations combined. Our prophets and
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-01-10
INCIDENTS TO STIR ONES
SOUL


Ii gives some idea of the appalling
catastrophe that has overtaken this
people when one considers that out of
population of about 100000 refugees
in this province, fully 10000 are
fatherless children To these must be
added also many more in the Baku,
Kars and Erzroom regions.
An American doctor coming down
I the mountain side from the Lebanon
noticed in the distance a throng of
children and wondered why so many
were gathered in one place. Upon
coming near he discovered that a
camel had died by the roadside and
these famished children were in dcs-
flesh from the skeleton of the fallen
beast Children eagerly picking grains
from the dung of animals in the street
have become a common sight.
Tender-hearted American women
have been compelled to steel them
selves against the sight of children in
the street dying for lack of food-to
pass by without helping. having nc
resources to warrant adding one more
A hard task is assigned the mission
aries, that Of practically signing the
death sentence Of children For ex-
ample, in one case there were 430 chill.
dren with funds sufficient for only
seventy The missionaries were
forced to select the seventy and say
no to the equally or possibly more
destitute 800.
So far as Syria is concerned Beirut
Palestine and the Lebanon have suf-
fered most. Many villages have be-
come depopulated An American pass
ing through village last summer saw
only one house open. The people had
either emPrated or persisted In one
doorway sat a little girl, apparently
alone in the world She kept saving
over and over, Pm hungry I'm
hungryp The children in all the viii
lagos look like old men and women
In Alcith no grapes are expected be-
cause children have eaten the shoots
and young leaves The mulberry
orchards we're planted with wheat but
in many cases children have plucked
llt wheat ~ Gdl the SCCuS NtlllSHiB
TO the roots.
Great as is the tragedy Of massacre,
a greater tragedy was the forced de
portations, 100000 women and chill
dren from one district alone 1t is ter
rible to contemplate their fate after
the war The nations should provide
means for searching out and restoring
any survivors to their homes and
loved ones.
1t is hard for decently fed Ameri-
cans to conceive Of the horrible depths
to which helpless Armenian children
have had to go for food" that is not
food American consuls have seen
them in crowds quarreling over the
diseased flesh left on the carcasses of
dead animals in the streets Discarded
Feelings and we'll nigh unspeakable
garbage are prizes
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-01-10
sacres.

NAL husbandry work; p, G. Wood
ward, succeeding A. B. Nystrom in
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-01-10
HUMAN INTEREST STORIES

The Kurds had looted and pillaged
until one man had % rooms full OF
plumber. He soon found he couldn't
buy from the distributors and he was
hungry. The loot would not serve as
bread, and at last he came bringing all
that he had stolen to the relief agents.
Some OF these Kurds instead OF being
robbers became helpers.
Mother" sobbed little child lust
outside a relief station, don't God
send us bread?" Yes, my child, God
makes the wheat to grow and that
means bread. Don't cry; the kind
Americans will give It's Gods bread.
we'll have to wait in line"
Persia committees ask American ap-
proval for the inclusion Of special re-
lief work for another group Of 10000
driven from home by war. Villages
destroyed. Extreme restitution, Al
least children should be saved. No
hope except America. Wholesale re
het Is most strategic measure for
pacitication and settlement of the local
race problem. This the most abiect
case OF suffering we have seen. They
come pleading for work until it seems
sometimes as though we must go
crazy from being constantly compelled
to refuse them. 1t is one constant
stream OF ragged. forlorn women with
drawn faces, begging with tears, and
demanding work. 1t is impossible for
the people to return to their old
homes; conditions are too uncertain.
Local farmers and merchants feel the
stress of the times too much to en-
ploy help, so the refugees are depend
ent almost wholly on charity. 1t is
pitiful to see people once we'll now
begging.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-01-10

through the use of more land and
through the adoption of improved
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-01-10

foundations which were eventually
sought out by allied aeroplanes and
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-01-10

In AIeppo the largest single relief
measure has been an orphanage car
ing for 1000 children. 1t cost about Is
piasters per day per child, and even
then the children work from morning
to night. The orphanage uses its own
flour mill and makes its own bread.
There are shoe making and repairing
departments. Cows are kept and but
ter made for sale. Children peddle
about town the vegetables they help
to garden. Children are learning lace
making, weaving and carpentry.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-01-10

,-s., oetInrnS UUIIJf dsr Ue-
tween the strenuousity of this life
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-01-10
MOHAMMEDANS MOVED BY
CHRISTIAN ACTS
BY DR.. Frederick c. Coan

Distinguished American, Many Years
Resident OF Turkey, an Eye-Wit-
ness OF Deportatious and
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-01-10

1t seems inconceivable that in this
day and age, human beings could
cruelty, drown, tear to pieces and
burn by wholesale other human be
ings.
| have taken over the wool and cot
ton carding and spinning industries
here in Erivan. We now have 1850
women and about fifty men in the
Erivan carding and spinning alone.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-01-10

Ernest f. Lazy writes from Bagdad
The stories of horrors, etc, are SINH
lar from all quarters. There is no
need for one to say over again what
has often been said before. But it is
impossible to eXaggerate the cruelty
and tiendishness of the deeds perpe-
trated."
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-01-10

The historical status of the Jews
and their contributions to the civiliza-
ton are we'll known A great many
Of the inhabitants of Palestine and
syria are Jewish.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
Lumber Dealers Fetcd
New Corporation Gives Banquet
to Men Who Sail TODAY

Wholesale lumber dealers of this
vicinity gave dinner at the Waldorf
Astoria last night to committee
which will sail for Europe to-day as
representatives Of the American Ex-
port Lumber Corporation. The cor
poration is n cooperative association of
the Wholesale lumber dealers of the
country and was formed yesterday
afternoon. It's president is Thomas
r.. Cole, Of Philadelphia.
"This organization" said Joseph f.
Davies enc of the speakers at the
dinner, "will enable the wholesale lum-
Der distributors Of the country to OBJ
tain the great economics Of cooperative
action. Representing as it does dis
tributers of all kinds of lumber and
forest products, it is in an especially
fortunate position so far as efficient
marketing is concerned 1t will react
to the benefit of the American lumber
industry by affording it n great dis
tributing agency and stabilizing com
pctitivc conditions so far as foreign
markets are concerned"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
Silas p. Hubbell Estate
Appraised at $68,452

The supposed $2,OO0,0OO estate of
Silas P. Hubbell. over which long liti-
cation followed his death in 1913 at
Daytona Beach, Fla. had a net value
at his death of S68,452. Appraisal by
the State Transfer Tax Appraiser fixes
the gross value CT the estate at $685.
919.
Among the deductions was debt of
$21S,927 to Sharp & McVcar, brokers.
Several years before his death Mr.
Hubbell attracted attention by giving
away more than $1,000,000 to Miss
Martha S. Hill, who at the time lived
at the Virginia Hotel, Chicago. Later
he brought suit to recover the gift,
alleging Miss Hill had used fraudulent
means to obtain it,
Three nieces and two nephews con-
tested Mr.. Hubbell's will.
One of the contestants, Mrs. Ruth
M. Holden, niece, also sued in the
Supreme Court. Mrs. Holden said her
uncle, Silas P. Hubbell, promised her
one-half of his estate if. she would re-
train from revealing the alleged dual
life of her father Sidney Hubbell She
accepted the offer of her uncle. who
left her only the income from a trust
of $4,000.
MIR. Hubbell owned stocks and bonds
valued at $293,360 at the time of his
death. The appraisal shows that the
!egacles to twentynine hcnefic:aries
had to be prorated because of the
smallness of the estate. The trust
fund created for Mrs. Holden was pro-
rated to $5,SO4.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
Rodeheaver Lauds 'Y' Work
Says All Organizations Gave
Valued Aid at Front

Homer Rodeheaver, the Rev. Billy
Sundays slide trombone artist who has
been Frightening corners in France in
the uniform of the Red Triangle, told
last night of the difficulties the Y. M
G. A. had met abroad. His address
Followed concert given by the Sunday
Campaign Chorus at Carnegie Hall
II could talk for a long time" he
SAID, "about the mistakes which the
Y NJ. c. A. and similar organizations
made in France, but it would take me
forever to tell you the things which
they did right and mighty long time
to tel! you the possibilities they ac-
complshed."
He praised all the war welfare or
CARNATIONS highly, but he spoke par
ticularly of the Y. NJ. c. A., with whose
work he was most familiar. One of the
"lr~possibilities" it graprled with and
eventually overcamc, he said, was the
taking over of the canteen.
"Seven hundred of the Young Mems
Christian Association boys were right
up with the front while it was being
pushed through the Argonne Forest
he said. "When the soldiers said.
Let's go!' those field secretaries s
ambled right along with them. Seven
ty-six Of them were killed, wounded
or gasscd."
Tall Essen Morgan was director Of
the concert. The soloists included Mil
drcd Reardon, Hans Kronold, Edna
White and Howard A. Murphy. Edith
Morgan Savage was the accompanist.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
2-Year Jersey Assembly

TRENTON, Feb. ia rcsolu-
ton providing for constitutional
amendment increasing the terms of
members OF the New Jersey House OF
Assembly from one year to two Years
was presented in the Assembly tonight
by Asscmblyman Underwood Cochran,
Of Atlantic County. The purpose of
the bill is to prevent, in the future.
a deadlock such az occurred at this
session and held up the election Of the
Speaker Of the House until the fifth
week. The resolution provides for the
election Of only one-half Of the mem
bcrship Of the House each year. i'm
stead Of the entire sixty members each
November.
The people Of the state will have an
opportunity on March 3, at 2 o'clock
in the afternoon, to say whether thcy
favor the ratification Of the national
prohibition amendment. This announce
ment was made tonight by the Senate
Judiciary Committee.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
facking House Employees
Granted 10 p. G. Advance
Decision Is Retroactive 10 No.
sember 10; 85, 900 Workers
Are Affected

NhitAIO, Feb. 17.-Packing house
employees we're given a 10 per cent ad-
,ehce by the decision Of the arbitrator,
'1oge Aschuler. who announced the
award to-day.
counsel for the packers estimated
s,'a' the award would cost the packers
'Eooo,oo0 a year. About $4,000 en-
y''yes will receive the retroactive ad-
Vance.
ssadse Alschulcr said that while
49,. ~ waz slight decline in some
xsne up. ~ ''' =
,.lss TIE advance is retroactive to No
yyans ,.,off 10 In addition, the award
salss sa,l IN cents an hour raisc TO all
asas's under twenty-one years of age
ss tes,. sarhings are less than 42M
s''ae and q half IL given for over
s,ss, WIN double time in certain in
ts,,arss' Overtime begins after eight
Ia ana there is compensation also,
Wa. ~sh Who are required 10 be ut
~ Defore 8 o'cIoek in the morning.
"sftime scale becomes effective
plsn.a T. The award applies to the
No. " Armour Il Co., Swift b. Co.,
fassam o.. wilson e. Go. ind the
sse ssg ~! faekinx Company throughout
IL Il. H. aaYane. ~ based on the advance
a<sss@ ~ err Of living, The award also
E1.snt. "isn number of minor com
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
East Side Starts
Drive i'm Favor of
English Language

"A movement to make English the
universal language on the East Side
was started yesterday. Posters were
ulspIayed in every street east Of the
Eowery and south of Fourteenth Street.
Ihey We're printed in Greek, Yiddish
Russian, Ladlno, Polish and Hungarian,
and SAID: Learn English. join the
Englsh classes nearest your home.
appiy at the Educational Alliance, 1877
East Broadway, for particulars.
A strong local feeling. which has
grown largely out of the war is back
OF TINS movement they say at the Edu-
catlonal Allli>ce. The demand for
Enghsh classes comes directly from
me people, according to Dr.. Nathan
feyser executive director, and the
campaign which started yesterday is
the hrst step in supplying this demand
we are putting this campaign IN
a basis of benefit to tie individual. -
DR.. Peyser said Yesterday There
must be something concrete as an in
centlve to learning. We must crystal,
hze those benefits which the people
vaguely feel. We point out to them
that they will be better able to use
hospitals, dispcnsaries and other public
welfare institutions if they know Eng
ilsh. We show them how they can
better keep in touch with the interest Is
OF their children
There are about 10000 persons in
this one district Dr.. Peyser said. who
cannot speak English. During this
week an intensive publicity campaign
Will be waged. In schools. moving
picture theatres. churches and settle
ments Information is being distrib-
uted. Placards have been spread about
and in library and school books leaf
lets have been placed telling about the
classes.
On Thursday q circular letter will
be handed to every child in the public
schools: This letter is in Yiddish and
IN English and is to be taken home
The foreign language newspapers, Dr.
Peyser said, have given every possible
aid to the movement.
1t is planned to open classes when
ever a group of at least fifteen asks
for them. The pupils Will be allowed
to choose both the time and the place.
Children will be cared for while moth
ers are studying. The method of
teaching will be extremely elementary
treatment of the parts of an object or
thing. This is necessary because many
Of the students are illiterate. IN three
or four months fair working knowl-
edge of English will have been ac-
qulred by the average student
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
Conferrees Reject
Pn cum attic Mail
Tubes for New York
Weeks Deadlock on Post
office Bill Ends; 3-Year,
100000 Roa a d
Building Plan Is Retained

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-Senate and
House conferees reached an agree
ment to-day on the 100000, 900 post
ofIice appropriation by eliminating the
Senate amendment providing for pneu-
matte tube mail service in New York
City and Brooklyn and retaining the
senate amendment appropriating $780,
OOO,OO0 for road construction during
the next three years.
lhe pneumatic tube amendment.
over which the conterees have bean
oeadiocked for a week authorized tho
postmaster general 70 contract fo,
tube service in New :ork and Brook
lyn and prohibited removal Of the
service from postotfices in other cities
~ "hlcn IT formerly was used for mail
eiaiis nnlSslon; continuance Of the tube
service has been a source of confi;ct
Tor many years in Congress and the
last Postotficc appropriation bill was
VeoGea by President Wilson because
Oh postmaster General Burleson,s onS
position to its appropriation for tbe
tube service. WIG
me Senate provision for road-
oullding ou programme provides s5O,O0O.-
wv 1or this year and $75,OOO.00O for
qacn q} OF tn etwo following years. The
aouse confcrrees also yielded on the
senate appropriation Of 100000 for
motor truck service. The House bill
set aside 100000 for this service
ne conferrees voted to retain the
provision granting salary increases for
postal employees, but accepted the SEN
ase recommendatlon limiting this in
tablishment of commission to inves.
tlgate the salaries of postal employees.
which the Senate inserted, also was re,
tanned, as was the Senate provision
appropriating s850,5OO for the airplane
mail service. The House bill appro-
prlated 100000 for this service.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
Hays Sees Chance to
Break s'Solid South
Republican Chairman Reports
Enthusiastic Meeting Held
in Greensboro, ". G..

publican National Committee, who u re- re-
turned yesterday from a largely at
tended meeting of Republicans in
Greensboro, c., held last Saturday.
said the next big Republican gather,
ing will be in Minneapolis on March
T. He win attend and make an ad
dress
The state convention in Greensboro
on Saturday drew 1000 Republicans
from all sections of the state. North
Carolina Republicans never had a big
ger convention. The purpose of the
convention was to register a protest
against the dishonest election methods
employed in North Carolina and to
pass resolutions petitioning the Legis-
lature for an honest election law. The
North Carolina Legislature is now in
session.
The leading Democratic daily news
paper of Greensboro said it was the
opening gun in pivotal state to break
the Democratic solid South, and warned
lts readers to keep an eye on Chair
man Hays and the Republican organ
ization both in state and nation.
Among Chairman Hays's callers
yesterday were Ex-Governor Chase S.
Osborn, of Michigan, and his son,
Chase, Jr, of Fresno, Cal: John T.
Nng, of bridgeport; A. r. Hcrt, of
Louisville; George A. Glynn, chair
man Of the Republican State Commit
tee, and Rudolph X. Hynicka, Of Gin
cinnati Discussing the situation Mr..
Hynicka said:
Had Roosevelt lived he would have
been nominated in 1920 by acclama-
tion and elected with ease. With the
colonel gone it is difficult to predict
upon whom the choice will fall. The
party is united and enthusiastic. and
we stand to win. The Republicans
win control Congress after March a.
/ believe they will meet their new
sponsibilities courageously."
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
Shermar1's Ire Reused.
He Bursts Into Poetry

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-Tht
~ "pork- ba,veW bill has d,,iver
Senator Sherman, of Illinois, to verse
With apologies to Walt Mason" he
offered the folloaoing IN the Senate
to-day:
Every one can see by The dawn's
early light the millions that CLEAN
in the log rollers sight, while the
creeks and the bayoux and frog
ponds galore make the taxpayers
swear and feel painfully sore, the
sandbars and sawyers, the snags and
scows, the Congressmen's schemes
and the engineers rows, the dredges
and shovels, the dikes and the dams.
spend enough cash to break two
Uncle Sans. The troop blithely
gathers from hill and from plain,
from mountain peaks snow-capped
again and again, down from alkali
dust, from sagebush and pine, thew
gather their cohorts, line upon line.
They move down together. One
seems but dab, but when all march
along to the lootstep Of grab, fear
fui procession gaining strength as
they come, it's the |. w. WIS the
Bolshevist bum of all legislation
that unravels our roll, depletes our
exchequer and gravels our soul,
hangs on the majestical rivers that
flow from the far North and their
nantes of snow, that run by the
wheat fields and the corn in it's rows
and rlpples along where the cotton
Doll blows, they sap and they bur
den. they dog and deface the great
Father of Waters in grating dis
grace Their impudent face in desert
and swamp is everywhere seen as
they brazenly romp from valley to
sea, from prairie to lake, the rivers
and harbors the lawmakers rake"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-18
Deportations
Of'Radicals'TO
Be Continued
Aliens Advocating Revolt
Or Sabotage Must Go.
Says Secretary Wilson
Brooklyn Union Rebuked
Machinists Who Protested
on Behalf of Enemies
Receive a Sharp Reply

WASHINGTON, Feb. II. - Aliens
found advocating destruction Of prop
erty or overthrow of the government
by force will be deported under the
provisions of the Immigration act of
FEBRUARY 8, 1917. This announcement
was made to-day by Secretary of La
Dor Wilson in a letter sharply rebuk-
ing Micrometer Lodge 460i Interna-
naUlonal Association of Machinists, of
Brooklyn, for protesting against the
deportation of tifty-eght "alien radi
cais. The Secretary denied that the
anehs were being deported without
due process of law and asserted that
they mad been given fair trials.
Mr. wilson reiterated his previously
announced decision that no person
would be arrested simply for Joining
the industrial Workers of the World
but that any alien advocating sabotage
or anarchy would be deported.
Anarchists an "lnvading Enemy"
His letter said:
1T is my intention, as Secretary of
Labor, now that the unusual danger of
sea travel is over, to carry out the
clear provisions OF the law; first, be-
cause 1T is my sworn duty to do so.
and. second. because any foreigner who
comes to this country and advocates
the overthrow of our form of govern
ment by force is an invading enemy
who is treated with great leniency
"hen ne is simply deported to the
land from which he came.
when our own citizens desire to
change the form of government, they
can do so pcaceably in the manner
provided by the Constitutions If we
cannot make progress by the peace
able process of discussing and voting
we are not likely tc make any prog
ress by the rlotous process of cussng
and shouting. The men who cannot
be depended upon to vote right can
not be depended upon to shoot right"
Mr.. Wilson called the unions atten-
ton to the fact that passage of the
immigration act was strongly supported
by the American Federation of Labor,
"of which you are part"
DepOrtees Treated Fairly
Discussing the deportations, the
Secretary said:
'Those you refer to as radicals are
being sent out of the country because
they have been found advocating t, c
overthrow of our government by force
They have had every possible oppor-
tunity, both at the places where they
were originally arrested some time
ago and at the department in Wash
jngton, to defend themselves against
the charges made under the immigra-
ton law
"All were freely granted the privi-