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The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-02-11
So per MONTH
feeds ORPHAN
Cleveland H. Dodge Shows What
Near East Relief Can Do in
Efficient Purchasing.

Buying in wholesale lots and under
the most favorable market conditions,
Near East Relief of | Madison avenue,
New York city, with representatives in
every state of the Union, has been able
to baflle.she high cost Of living so far
as relief supplies for the suffering mil
lions of the Near East are concerned.
Cleveland H. Dodge, treasurer, in q
statement shows that the committee is
able to provide food for the suffering
people of the Near East at prices much
lower than the average charge here.
a location of SIS per month will pro-
vide food for one orphan, $40 per
month provides not only food, but also
clothes and shelter for one orphan,
and for SIS per. month attendance at
school is assured to each orphan in adj
dition to food, clothing and shelter
In the appeal for funds to save the
starving remnants of the Armenians
and other western Asia peoples, Near
East Relief is inviting the American
public to adopt" an orphan at the
rates given here. Over 100000 home
less children are in need of help in the
Near East Women's organizations,
lodges, churches and social clubs are
responding to the appeal by adopting
quotas of orphans for support over a
definite period.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-02-11
CHURCH COUNCIL
ENDORSES N. {. R,
Federal Body Says No More
Compelling Need in All
the World.

Departing from custom. the FEEDER.
81 Council Of Churches has endorsed
the work being done by Near East
Relief. Madison Avenue. New York
City, the former committee for Ar.
menIan and Syrian Relief which has
essayed the task OF caring for 1880.
900 starving people In Western Asia.
Resolutions adopted by the executive
committee, as announced by Charles s.
Nacfarland. general secretary, are a
follows:
"Your committee recommends that
prayers be offered In all our churches
for the suffering children throughout
the world, especially those who are In
distress and peril as the result of the
war.
s'Ihey further recommend that we
renfiirm and emphasize our interest
and cooperation In the plans OF
Near East Relief We know OF no
need in the world that IL more com.
polling than that Of tho Armenian
Syrian and other peoples In the LIE.
want who have already received and
must still receive tho generous SYN.
ethy os lhs AmeFleap people"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-02-11
WOMEN ADOPT
10000 ORPHANS
Connecticut to Provide Foster
Mothers for Little Victims
of Turks.

Ten thousand little victims OF
Turkish brutality are to be foster
mothered by the big hearted women
Of Connecticut as the result OF ap-
peas by Near east Relief, the former
Committee for Armenian and Syrian
Relief Of Madison avenue, New York
city. The women at meeting voted
to adopt" that number as their share
of the 250,0o0 homeless and starving
boys ana girls orphaned In the massa.
ores and DECORATIONS.
Three hundred representatives of
wOmen's organizations attended the
meeting at Hartford, nj which Coy.
ernor Marcus II. Holcomb presided ana
pleaded the cause OF the stricken peo-
'ples Another speaker was Henry Nor
genthau, former u S. Ambassador to
Turkey.
Assurances that the example of these
noble hearted Connecticut women will
be followed by similar organizations In
NIL the other states have been received
at the headquarters OF the Near Eas,
Relief. Madison avenue, New York
city.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-02-11
BOY SCOUTS IN
YOUNG ARMENIA
Strangest Troop Of All in Con-
Stantinople Being Made Into
Good Citizens.

American Boy Scout training Is aid
ing prominently in. the rehabilitation
Of hundreds of little Armenian boy
refugees from the Turkish massacres,
who have been organized into scout
troop In Ccnstantinople us the solution
of one of the most troublesome prob
lens that confronted the Near East Re.
lief workers in that city.
Hounded and driven for four years,
having seen their parents and relatives
slaughtered or worse by Turks and
Kurds and themselves forced to beg,
steal or do almost anything TO eke out
the barest existence, these boys had
completely lost their moral sense when
they finally found refuge In the Near
East Relief orphanges
The boys had been clad In rags for
so long that they had forgotten how to
tnke care of clothes. This was tragedy
when the Near East Relief had need Of
every pair OF shoes and OF every suit
OF clothes for new boys constantly COM
Ing in
Then the boys were organized MS
Boy Scouts and given their uniforms.
They heRan to be careful OF their
school clothes as we'll as OF their uni.
forms.
Tley had been so often hungry they
had come to steal without conlpunc.
ton. When they first entered the or.
plnnagcs they continued to steal. One
boy stole purse from his American
teacher For two or three weeks after
he became Boy Scout he was obvious.
" uneasy. One dry he came 10 her
with the purse in his hand
II don't want 10 give II back he
said reluctantly. "Bnt have to. I'm
u Boy Scou, now"
To form more scout troops to trans.
form these little unfortunates into
good citizens, is one Of the reasons
why the Near East Relief, l Madison
avenue. New York city, is making its
appeal Cor fumes,
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-02-11

wife, Lady Anne. and french Esther
Araxic Azgapetian, whose baby eyes
opened upon scenes OF horror and later
through them saw much Of the suffer-
tnes Of the people OF Armenia.
The family are making their tour UNI
der auspices of the Near East Relief,
the big organization which has saved
hundreds of thousands of the people
In that part of the world from death
by hunger and cold and Is soon to open
nation wide campaign for funds to
complete the work of saving the sur
vlvors, more than a half million Of
whom must perish Unless aid comes to
them soon. America Is their only hope.
General Azsapetian served CALAMITY
In the Russian armies In the Caucasus
against the Turks. His wife, who ac-
companied him TO the front, did noble
work for the wounded and sick, and
Il was while IN this service that her
baby was born In a hospital tent during
battle. An army blanket swung from
two poles In one corner of the tent was
the baby's crib during the rest of that
terrible winter campaign. With the
collapse OF the Russian armies after
the Bolshevist revolution the Azgape-
tians returned to Armenia for a brief
spell and did their best to alleviate
the suffering they found on every hand.
But with Turkish price on his head
the father finally made his way with
his family through Russia to Finland
and then to this country. What they
tell Of conditions and needs In Armenia
Is first hand evidence.
In the Caucasus, Armenia, Syria,
Turkey and Persia are more than 250,.
600 orphans, helpless little victims Of
war, massacre and deportation. and
for the great majority the only bar be.
tween them and absolute starvation
Is bowl of hot bean soup every day.
This soup Is supplied by the Near East
Relief now making an appeal to
the American people for sufficient
funds to increase this dole and to pro.
vide these suffering little ones with
clothing and give them IN education
that will help them to become self sup.
porting. 1t Is estimated that more
than 100000 In Western Asia will
die Of starvation unless American aid
n continupd
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-02-11
IFYOU WANT MONEY

It will be to our mutual advantage toryou to conf
suit before making any arrangements 1or securing IT,
We have connections with one OF the best ana Dig
pest loan companies in the United States and big loans
speciality. We make both real estate ana ch'le'
loans. Your property is good Tor loan Win u.s.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-02-11

Bile winter In the mountains" he says,
''and the existing food supply is entire
ly inadequate for the great number Of
refugees without resources Of any
kind.
by recent agreement between the
premiers Of the republics of Armenia,
Azerbadjan and Georgia to cease hos.
tilities and settle all differences by
arbitration one obstacle to relief work
In the Caucasus has been removed and
makes accessible a great number of
destitute people who otherwise would
perish this winter.
1.-TWO hundred thousand destitute
reached i'm the districts of Karabagh,
Shusha and Nakhichevan, in the south.
east section of the Trans Caucasus, and
we are planning to extend our work
there. The economic situation is SO
desperate and food supplies so scanty
that the GeOrgians have ordered 100,-
600 persons, mainly Russian refugees
without employment to leave the city
of Tills About $1,000 workers in the
oil fields of Eaku have been ordered by
the Azerhaidiahese to leave the city
because there is no work for them and
food Is scarce
Around every station along the rail-
way are gathered groups of hundreds
of homeless people lying huddled to.
gether on the ground, the majority of
them too weak even to try to help
themselves. From time to time the
stronger ones climb on freight cars and
move elsewhere, always seeking better
conditions, which do not exist. Two
hundred and siXty-three thousand
homeless refugees from Turkish Arme-
mia thus are constantly milling about
throughout Russian Armenia, MAX
ing the relief work conducted by the
Americans problem requiring infinite
patience and organizing ability.
This is especially true in view of
the existence of 2iS,000 destitute in.
habitnnts of Russian Armenia who pos
sess homes, but 10 food, as well as
10000 Greeks. Russians, Perslans,
Syrans and Yezidis who have been
driven out OF parts OF Transcaucasia.
"One hundred and forty thousand
Moslen,s, whose villages were destroy
ed In the course OF five years OF con-
slant warfare, are helplessly encamped
in the open around villages of their
former enemies, begging lntinltesimal
quantities OF -four, which they mix with
dirt to give the illusion of nourish.
ment.
"Tbcse hundreds Of thousands of SUI.
ferlng adults, mostly homeless and
lacking every necessity Of life, having
nothing more 10 lose, are concentrated
In Il country as yet inadequatcly po-
Heed or governed They constitute a
fertile FIELD for the seeds OF Bolshe.
ylsm or any form of anarchy, the
spread OF which once loosed would be
impossible TO predict.
ut Is generally admitted In the eau.
casus that tile Americans of The Near
/ East Relief already have saved the
lives of NJ least 10000 babies and chill.
dren and Of 100000 adult refugees and
destitute. This work stil is continu.
Ing"
In an'cffort Il procure funds to car.
~ on the work and save the lives rof
these hundreds of thousands who 9th.
crwlsc will die of starvation and ex.
posture Near East Relief, of which
Cleveland II. Dodge Is treasurer, Is
making an appeal to the American peo-
pie,
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-02-11

inc near East
Relief VIII make to the country In
February for funds to support its
work among the starving peoples of
that stricken land. TO the Wash
ington meeting he wrote:
"Adviues and information coming
from the Near East cannot be doubt
ed. There is great actual suffering
and famine. These people, recently
become Independent and released
from bitter thraldom, cannot sup
port themselves. And the Christian
and common instincts Of humanity
which have prompted the people Of
the United States during the last
two years to relieve the distress
and needs, especially of the Near
East, must not be allowed to grow
cold and be diminished
II hope we shall all unite in this
present emergency and be able to
collect sufficient funds to enable
these peoples to live and work until
next summer brings them perrna.
nent relief and subsistence. call
upon all to respond generously to
the appeal now being made and
trust that the committee will be
gratilicd with the results"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-02-11

Of the horrors of Turkish massacres
and deportations. Saved by an Ameri-
can woman, she has come to this coun
try and entered Oberlin College.
With her came fourteen other Arme-
MAN girls in charge Of Miss Adelaide
S. Dwight, Near East Relief worker,
who has been instrumental in helping
to save hundreds of thousands of their
people from death by starvation. Miss
Dwight, who is not given to eXagger.
alton and has seen conditions at first
hand, says more than million people
are facing death by starvation in AR
menla ana will perish unless America
aids.
Herself an eyewitness to the slaugh
ter of hundreds of helpless women
and children by the Turks and vic
tim of the deportations, Miss Dake-
sian, an unusually pretty girl, says
there Is untold suffering in Armenia
and Syria. She praises the efforts of
the Near East Relief, formerly the
American Committee for Armenian and
Syrian Relief, to save as many Of
these people as possible. AT Erivan,
the capital of the Armenian republic,
one hot meal is given out daily, and by
this relief alone the city's death rate
has been cut from thousand daily to
an average Of twenty. At Alexandra
pol, where the refugees from Turkish
Armenia were driven by thousands, the
situation is appalling, Miss Dakesian
says. 1t Is to avert these wholesale
deaths that Near East Relief is making
nationwide appeal for funds.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-02-11

HUNGER KNOWS
NO ARMISTICE
IN CAUCASUS
Colonel Haskell Reports to Near
East Relief on Desperate
Needs Of Helpless.

'Peace may come elsewhere In the
world, but hunger knows no armistice
In the Near East" says Colonel VIII
liam N. Haskell, Allied high commits.
sion In the Trans Caucasus, In an np-
peal to Near East Relief, | Madison
avenue New York city, for feed and
supplies for the relief Of the starving
millions.
Colonel Haskell Is IN charge Of all
operations and Disbursements of Near
East Relief in tile Caucasus.
greater part Of them during the terri.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-02-11
10000 STAND
IN BREAD LINE
More Than 100000 Face
Death Is Message Brought by
Miss Dakesian.

Imagine a bread line Of 100000 fam.
ishcd people waiting for twcnty-four
hours a day for the dole Of food that
Is the sole barrier between them and
death from starvation. That Is the
situation In Alexandropol, city In
Russian Armenia, according to Miss
Hermine Dakcsian, pretty Armenian
girl, one Of the survivors Of four years
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-02-11
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WAR NURSE FROM
ARMENIA ASKS
AMERICAS AID
Qo6Aer husband and Battlefield
Raby Touring Country With
Her for Near East Relief.

A. mother, father and daughter, the
latter born In tattered Red Cross
tent In the icy Caucasus Willie guns
roared all around and Turkish shells,
ignoring the mercy emblem, burst near
Il. nre touring America In behalf Of
their native Armenia. They are Gen.
eshl Mczrop Newton Azgapetian. his
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-02-11
Cardinal Gibbons Asks Aid
For Starving Arnenians

This Is the
message from
James (Card!-
II n y Gibbons
read at the
big meeting in
Washington in
al q Of I h Q
Near East Re-
lief. The ven
cradle primate
Of the Catholic
G Ii ur c h n
America is in
tensely inter-
ested IN the
ont,nol which
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-12-30
YEAR 1920 MADE A
BETTER BR00K|NGS
THE PAVING OF FIVE STREETS
STANDS OUT AS GREATEST
IMPROVEMENT
NEW HIGH SCHOOL IS BIG ACHIEVEMENT
In Spite Of the High Building Costs
Brookings Makes Great
Civic Progress.

The year Of 1920 just closing was
one Of the best years in the city's
history for the civic health and growth
Of Brookings. Standing out above all
other public improvements in civic
Importance is the completed pave
ments on five of the important streets
of the city, and the erection Of a new
high school building. If no other
thing had been accomplished than the
sixty blocks of paved streets, the
year of 1920 could well go down in
the history of Brookings as a great
year. The paving filled a need that
has always been felt in this city which
has long been afflicted with muddy
streets. With the opening of spring
paving operations began on Eighth
street and when that street was fin
ished, the long stretch of Medary
avenue was covered with concrete.
Third street was the next TO be paved,
then Williams street and the alleys
in the business section. Just before
the close Of the season Sixth street
was paved throughout its entire
length. All this was done in spite
of scarcity of labor and material, and
constantly mounting costs.
The large new high school building
at a proposed cost of $3.50, 600 has been
erected and enclosed. The building
has been handicapped through ad.
verse conditions early in the season
when the construction work began but
splendid progress was made in the
fall and as the structure now stands
it is one Of the finest buildings in the
city on the exterior, and when the
interior is completed Brookings can
boast Of one Of the finest and best
equipped high schools in the state.
Main street has been built up con
siderably in the last year The fine
new two-story bank building of the
Midland State bank on the corner OBJ
pOsite the federal building is the most
striking Of the new buildings. The
ouIolue "olh was just recently COM
pleted but the interior will be finished
during the coming year.
James Bower completed the con.
struction of two new business blocks
on the west side of Main street. The
first was a candy kitchen that leaves
nothing to be asked for in the way
of sumptuous fittings and modern i'm
provements. the second was the brick
block now occupied by the American
billiard parlor, a building equally sound
and fine appearing. F. w. Heintz re-
modelled his hardware store building.
fitting out the second story Of the
Continued on Page S-Col. 81
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-12-30
BAD FIRE AT WATERFOWL

Fire which broke out Monday morn
ing in the basement Of the Watertown
Daily News office, destroyed the Daily
News building and the Sporting shoe
store adjoining was badly damaged.
On account of the extreme cold the
firemen had a hard battle and it was
not until noon that the blaze was
brought under control. The whole Of
the main building of the newspaper
plant is in ruins and the roof and the
second story Of the Sperling store was
burned. 1t is stated that the Daily
News building was insured for $40, 900.
but the plant itself was not insured
and is a total loss. The Watertown
Daily News Is owned by Frank Cory, a
veteran newspaper man well known
over the state, and his loss calls forth
the warmest sympathy from the news
paper fraternity Of the state. The
WATERFOWL Public Opinion rendered
him the s Of their plant for the
publication Of the News until a new
plant may be secured. Whether Ed
itor Cory viii rebuild and resume pub
lication has not been announced. The
shoe stock oe the Sporting store wa,
greatly damaged By water. but he
lonn n -cQyQra4 hY insurance..
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-12-30
HUGHES To LEAD
HARDING CABINET
SEVERAL CABINET PORTFOLIOS
ARE CONSIDERED TO BE
ALL SETTLED
WALLACE ACCEPTS AGRICULTURE POST
Hoover Will Have a Place as Either
Secretary Of Labor or of
the Interior.

After weeks of elaboration, consul
tation and consideration, President
elect Harding has practically reached
a decision on several of his most i'm
portant cabinet appointments. OF
course no official announcement has
been made Of the selections, but he
has indicated clearly to those in his
confidence the men he holds upper
most for positions on the cabinet.
According to best sources the follow
ing are the appointments which may
be considered settled at the present
time:
Charles Evans hughes will be the
next secretary Of state. Gov. LOwden
is out Of the running for secretary
Of the treasury and will be given a
foreign post Of Importance. Charles
Grosvenor Dawes. or George M. Reyn.
olds. both OF Chicago, are uppermost
in h mind Of President-elect Hard
ing for the secretaryship Of the treas
ury. Herbert Hoover will be either
'~'' ~''' W iocob VI vi IL
interior, with the chance in favor of
his being asked to take the former.
Harry M. Daugherty will have to de-
eide the question Of who is to be at
torney general, for he can have the
place If he wants it.
Henry c. Wallace of Iowa, has been
asked to become secretary of agricul-
ture and has accepted. VIII Hays will
be asked to become postmaster gen.
eral.
The other portfolios, secretary of
he navy, secretary of war, secretary
OF commerce, are not decided on, and
il Mr.. Hoover Is asked to become Sec
rotary of interior. this would upset
calculations on the se%cretaryship of
labor.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-12-30
NEW PICTURE SHOW

Brookings is to have a new motion
picture theater. T. o. Haugen has
commenced remodeling his building,
formerly occupied by E. E. Haugen's
general merchandise store, to convert
it into a modern, comfortable, up-to-
date theater. Bert Shelp is doing the
work of r%emodeling the building. The
floor has been dropped to the correct
slant and the stage built. The car
penters are nov working on the front
which will be converted into a typical
theater lobby. The work Is being
rushed with all possible speed. but no
announcement can be made yet as to
the date Of opening. The new theater
will embody many features which will
meet the approval Of the public and
there is nc doubt but that the new
enterprise will be a welcome asset to
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-12-30
kUMLIEN is ROMOTED

w. +. Kumlien has been appointed
acting director of the extension divi-
sion at State college in the absence
of Christian Larsen, who has been
granted leave of absence for one year.
Mr.. Larsen is now acting as director
Of milk marketing for the Illinois Ag-
ricultural association with headQuar-
ters at Chicago. Mr.. Kumlien has been
county agent leader and assistant d.
rector Of the extension division for
the past year.
Director Kumlien is especially fitted
for this work by reason of his broad
experience and training in admins
trative work and in rural organization.
He has served successfully as a county
agent and his unanimous endorsement
by the comfy agents of the state for
the position of county agent leader
last year insures the hearty coopera-
ton OF the county agents and farm bu-
reaus in his more responsible work.
Mr.. Kumlien Is a graduate of Law
renee college. After graduation he
spent four pears in educational work
in the orient, returning to this country
to take special agricultural courses at
the University of Michigan. He came
10 South Dakota several years ago and
served successfully as agricultural
agent in Lawrence county until called
10 the state leaders, work. The posi-
ton OF acting county agent leader has
been accepted by E. w. Hall, for the
past seven years county agent in Sphinx
county.