The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-20
PRACTICAL WORK
 IS BEING DONE IN
 THE NEAR EAST
h Past Year S4,SO2, ,O0O Was Spent In Caring for Hun gry and Homeless Chil-
 dren-NO More Flour

Feeding more than half million home ss, people, tending more than 10000 ho were ill and housing more than 900 refugees, are among the practical nngs that have been done with the Inds raised in America for relief in be Near East.
 Speaking of the work of the Near asst Relief in Transcaucasia and other hstern countries, Judge Abram l. Elkus. prmer American ambassador to Turkey, bcently had the following to say:
 In the past year in Transcaucasia lone the American people have dis ursed S4, SOP. GOO in caring for homeless nd hungry children, the sick and starv- kg, and the destitute wanders from lace to place, who have been waiting pr six years for the near eastern sit ation to be solved before they can take p their lives again like human beings nder conditions even approaching the ormaL All of this money has been hised and expended by the Near East elief, which is in position today to go with the work.
 S1 ORPHANAGES
 According to the last detailed repor' Jade by Colonel Haskell, covering the
 
 hg housed, clothed fed, given medical reatment and taught in eighty-one or manages under the administration Of the ear East relief; forty-three hospitals Ind fifty-eight clinic and ambulatories hred for a daily average of 5,oS9 hospital hses and 3,037 clinical cases. In addition, 039 little children have been fed from xty soup kitchens scattered throughout he republic of Armenia Moreover, 56l, 70 homeless refugees have been Kept live by the distribution of food.
 Unless the $21,0l2, 900 so far contributed relief in this portion of the world, ac- prding to MT Hoover's statement, is ping for nothing, the work which has .een directed by the Near East reileI br the past year must not only be con- nued but be intensified. The Wlth- rawal of the flour supply hitherto fur ished by the American relief admins ration and the grain corporation only lakes the need more imperative.
 No immense improvement in the situa- on in Transcaucasia or the Near East enerally indicates that the hecessi's pr the continuation of this work has addenIy ceased Indeed, virtually every merican who has returned from Ar ,enia. including several of the United tates army officers who served under olonel Haskell, is agreed that the pres nit wheat crop now in the ground will ot see the destitute population Of Ar henia through the winter, much less trough next spring, until a new harvest an be gathered.
 REPATRIATION
 Absolutely nothing effective has. beer one as yet to repatriate the refugees yho are camped in hundreds of thous- nds all over the Armenian Republic nd certainly nothing can be done to this nd until political conditions in the Nea1 ast stabilizes Without some disposi- on by which these refugees will have heir own land to work. where they can row the foodstuffs they require, there
 no prospect whatever of permanent elief of conditions existing in the Neal ast.
 The Near East Relief has civilian \ersonnel on the ground to take on the ork which Cononel Haskell and the Tnited States Army officers of his staff re giving up. It will be under the d. ection of Dr. Earnest A. Yarrow. and i'll be conducted by American men and omen volunteers who are now in ranscaucasia, doing precisely that work. he funds for the work will come from he great heart of the American people, they have come up to now. It is not bnceivable that 75,S1S little children will left to die now, when American phil hthropy has kep- hem alive and well D long,