Tombstone epitaph., 1919-12-28
ADOPTION OF ORPHANS
 IN STATE OF ARIZONA

F. Willis. director in charge. and with the acceptance by Prof Byron Cum mings of the University of Arizona of the state chairmanship. active plans are on foot calling for the adoption through the relief committee of a large number 0. orphans by residents of this stare.
 The Near East Relief in incorpor- ated under special act of congress approved August $, 1919. to assis, in the repatriation. rehabilitation and rees;ablishment Of suffering people in the Near East and adjacent areas and especially 10 provide for the care of orphans and widows. The incor- porstion is made directly responsible 10 the United States government by clause in the ac; requiring annual re- ports on a! receipts and d;sburss- ments
 Arizona is represented on the board of directors by Cleveland F. Dodge and Cleveland H. Dodge is treasurer of the organization Other sponsors for the movement are William II. Tait, Charles Evans Hughes. Elihu Root. Abram | Elkus. Charles w Eliot and a sco-e or more of other nalonal fig ures
 The following official statement si;- en ou; by the state director today ind,- ca:es the presen; demora;ized con i- tion :n ;he Near East and tells some thing ot wha; has been accomplished and what ]; $ hopei 10 accomplish:
 By massacre, deportation. confsca- ton. and other methods of persecu- tion. he Turks have tried 70 aanih:- late U. non-Turk:sA population Q. Western Asia I; is estimated that Of the survivors. 4.cOO.0Go Armen!ans Syrians, Jews, Greeks and Persians are destitute. Of ;h,s num6er i00. .O0a are orphans.
 To say merely that they are des:i- tute is not enough Except where help from the outside has reached reached. they are dying by hundreds every day Of starvation and disease. They have no homes and no clothing. They exist !n novels and caves They have 70 fight for single grains oi wheat; they scramble for refuse to eat. They have been so tortured ard they are SO desperate Of them -tha; they have dug human bodies from their graves and eaten them.
 Nowhere .s history is there rec ord of human suffering on such scale
 Since October 1915. the American Committee fer Armenian and Syrian Relief CThe American Committee fo- Relief in he Near Eas:) has been ,ha channel Of relief for these sufferers.
 Prior 10 Dcember. 1918. the con- mi:;ee distributed relief 10 a tot1I value of abcu; ss,O0a 900: its budze; for 1919 is s3O.0o0. .009. a large part of which already has been transmitted 10 the destitute territory Ia the form of cash CT relief supplies. the latter consisting Of food. clothing, medical supplies, transport equipment. sup plies for industrial relief and other stores
 Mere than 900 relief workers were sent ou; between aJnuary and June Of this year Included in this num- Der were medical units Of doctors and nurses. with full equipment for I5 hospitals Of loo beds each: agricul- tural experts, orphanage workers, re construction aids. Kindergarten work CTS, and other skilled helpers.
 Orphanages are maintained in con nec;ipn with the relief centers. The s:a:e!nea. is made by Howard Heinz. MT Hoover's representative in the Near East, that the committees or phanages in Russian Armenia, which is but assmall part of the territory in which it is administering relief, have saved the lives of thousands of chi- dren."
 Industrial work on a large scale has been provided for refugees. notable example being at the great refugee camp a; Port Said Fifteen