The sun., 1919-02-04
PLANS LAID TOSAVE
SERBIAN ORPHANS
Unit Will Leave
Here Next Week to Ex-
tend Relief.
$4,000 IN NEED OF HELP
Establishment Of Series OF
Asylums Is the Object Of
the Committee.

IpillS lot aSSlstUB SeTpld III bhe N'i .
Of some OF the $4,000 orphans the war
has made for her were discussed yes
terday at a meeting called by the Ameri-
can Committee for Relief in Serbia at
the home OF William Jay Schieffei!n,
5 East Sixty-sixth street. A unit headed
by Miss Helen Losanitch of Serbia and
Miss Elisabeth s. williams of the Col.
lege settlement. Including nurses. teach
ers and other workers, will sail next
week for Belgrade. to start an orphan
age which will shelter 100 little ones
and which. Il Is hoped, will be but tho
first OF many.
Or. Samuel T. button. acting presi-
dent OF the committee. made strong
appeal for more supporting member.
No one, he said, could estimate TIE
gratitude due Serbia from US for her
courage in standing ont against Aus
tria's ultimatum.
Miss Loss mitch. who has been N
America four years working for tho
relief committee won the audience with
her naive speech about her country and
its needs.
"ln Belgrade. the capital, there are
1000 children between the ages OF
and 10 who have TO one to take care
of them. whose fathers have fallen In
too poor TO care for them" che said.
And there is no food. No rnilk-that
IS the worst--no sugar no bread. TEere
are no shoes-I am told that even II
one has money to buy there are no q.
shoes or clothes to be purchased
VIII Take Portable House.
80 we are going. our little unit, ard
we are taking powdered milk, other
,;-,,r s'A.
a little portable house I am Yer"
curious 10 see how we shall fare with
that house. for Serbia Mas never see'
anything like that before. 1t will hold
twenty children and 1t is very nice. TIE
gift of a member OF our committee.
The orphanage Will be establishes
under the Serbian Government. and soon
IL is hoped. We can secure from the GOV
eminent some land. go that a real home
can be started on the cottage system.
BY and bye we hope that experts vii
come from America and teach the boys
how to farm IN the modern American way
and to train the girls in, domestic sci
ence.'
Miss Williams. vino is to be superin-
tendent Of the first unit, made a brief
speech. and Or. Albert Shaw. editor of
the Rcuier Of Repiers, talked OF tie
heroic history OF the Serbs. He then gave
Miss Losanitch 800 TO buy powde-cd
milk for the orphans.
DR. NJ !. Papln of Columbia, native
Serbian, explained that the reason "a
country needed not only money but per-
sonal service and advice in caring Tor
her orphans was that she had never had
orphans on such a scale before.
No Experience TO Aid Them.
Until the war there were only very
few fatheriese in that country, and they
were distributed among relatives" ne
said. Dealing with children in ins.i.
tutlons as in this country is not known
there they have no experience 10 aid
them in this crisis. and America must
help them"
The Rev Daniel Couve Chaplain in me
French army. tail man with upturred
Tnustache and n uniform bearing marr
deco tons. talked OF the great service
Serbia had rendered the Allies by he-
courageous stand.
If they had not fought as they did 7
do not know what would have become
Of the liberty Of Europe he said ~
cannot express what we owe them and
II | we're 70 try TO tell the gratitude
of France to America" he added. ~
would have 20 keep you till o'clock n
the morning, there would be so much e.
say"
Mr.. Schieffelin called attention 20 t-r
fact that with all the orphans In Serb
there are none. or almost none. that a-e
illeetimate. That country may NC:
educate It's women but Il honors thei.
ne said