The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1921-09-08
J.J HANDSAEER WRITES
Of NEAR EAST RELIEF
..Don't BlRme Them, Pity Them" Are
Words OF Admiral bristol, as Party
Leaves COnstantinOpe for Caueasus.-
More Money Needed TO Garry on
Work.
On the Black Sea, August l. 1891.

On the Black Sea, August l, 1921.
To the Editor:
Don't blame these people. pity them
help them" These words OF Admiral
Bristol ring In my ears as we leave
COnstantinople for the Caucasus after
week spent in and near CONSTANT.
nople, studying the work done by Am.
orleans who are attempting to heal this
open sore OF the world"
/ have seen poverty, 30 called, al
home and l saw poverty of what ]
thought an extreme type during my
residence in Kingston, Jamaica, but
suffering here Is 80 widespread, Is
caused by such vast movements OF
great peoples, Is so picturesque II you
dare apply such a term to poverty
Constantinople is regular Sargossa
Sea where the flotsam and jetsam of
the seven seas is gathered, not In In
dividual cases as in other cities, nor
by ship loads, but by fleets and almost
by nations. Oppressor and oppressed,
capitalist and communist, Christian,
Mohammedan. Jew and pagan are one
W their distress.
saw a Petrograd millionaire, now
Near East stenographer, gratefully
working for a pittance keeping soul
and body together. Incidentally, ]
may say his work was most carefully
and painstakingly done. A general Of
the Cars army is watchman at the
personnel house Of Near East Relief
R.ln -
OF Bend may know that she and others
are guarded by this man who takes his
duties as seriously as when he COM
manded thousands OF men, These are
but the commonplaces These are the
fortunate ones They ask and need
no pity for they have what everybody
in Constantinople seems to want and
few can find. a job. II hitherto virtu-
Gus women are selling their bodies foI
a pittance openly on the street in
many cases 1t is the only alternative
to starvation for themselves and loved
ones
Many in Oregon will remember Mrs
r. S NJ. Emerich who visited Portland
In 1918 at the time of the first Armen-
ian campaign. | spent two mornings
with her In investigating cases OF need
In the Armenian and Chaldean sections
of the city.
To my unpracticed eye. every case
presented was worthy of Immediate
and generous relief. but the care with
which only the most deserving and the
most desperately needy were sifted out
would give pointers to welfare workers
at home In true Oriental style we
were blessed by those who were to be
helped and Mrs. Emerich explained that
we were compared In beauty to the
sun. moon and stars Ito the great de-
triment OF those luminaries) and that
we and our children would live for
thousands Of years II their prayers
were answered Well, II somebody
brought life to you. you might be ex-
cused for being over enthusiastic
Mrs Emerich's work is confined ex-
cluslvely to children or to widows with
more than one child under IA. You
have to draw the line somewhere.
Those who remember Mrs. Emerich will
know that she occasionally transgress-
ed the rule | was about TO say fire.
quently, but the amount Of money at
her disposal does not permit that Still
when soldier with hands SO deformed
that he couldd no work and no
NAL" porter. in need OF an operation