The Owosso times., 1921-01-07

than billions Of dollars spent later In
suppressing international warfare and
strife"
Mr.. vickrey considers the need In
the Near East and especially In Ar
menia greater than anywhere else In
the world, because, as he says, "In the
countries Of Central Europe there are
going governments which have merely
been temporarily impoverished by war.
In the Near East, on the other hand,
there Is no such thing as stable gov
ernment. The whole cfabric of the
state has to be created from the be-
ginning, and the innocent and help
less children have to be trained to the
responsibilities of future citizenship.
Peace in the Near East and, in great
measure, throughout the world, will
depend very largely on the character
Of the. citizenship of the peoples of the
Near East"
Irresistible Appeal Of Orphans.
Describing the orphanage work Of
the Near East Relief In the Armenian
Republic, Mr.. Vickrey said:
Caucasus, one orphanage where there
are approximately 10000 homeless
children, fatherless or motherless.
many Of them having no known living
relative. Some of them do not even
know their own names, or the place Of
their birth. They have shown wonder
full recuperative powers, and to see
nj hni lyi, nj 9th
games under the direction of our Amerl.
can relief workers, one could never be.
lleve that they had passed through
the years Of suffering that most Of
them have experienced since they, or
their parents were driven from their
homes in Central Turkey FIVE years
ago.
For the accommodation Of these or.
phans there are sixty splendid stone
buildings, erected as barracks for the
Russian army. These buildings are
now given to us by the Armenian gov.
ernment for period of ten years and
lend themselves admirably to relief
purposes.
"This orphanage at Alexandropol is
but one of the 900 orphanages that the
Near East Relief is now operating in
various parts of the Caucasus, Anato.
lia, Cilicia, Syria and the Constanti.
nople-Stralts area.
Thirty miles from Alexandropol, at
Kars, there is another group of Rus.
sian army barracks, which were given
us by the Armenian government for
relief purposes. ! was going through
the dormtories Of this orphanage at
Kars when the young American col.
lege girl in charge turned to me and
said: Mr.. Vickrey, II sometimes makes
me feel just little older than Me.
thuselah TO be called "Mother" by
G,000 OF those Armenian children
And that Is exactly what she was
the only mother that these 6,000 Ar.
menlan children have, except as she
avails herself Of the organized assist.
ance of native Armenian women, In
caring for this large family.
'In the hospital at .Kars found
1,150 beds, which, the day was there,
were occupied by 1,26s patients, II
frequently being necessary to put two
or more children In single bed. Al
Alexandropol we have In one hospital
or group of hospital buildings, 1,56C
trnchOma patients. At Karaklls, forty
miles east Of Alexandropol we have
an Orphanage devoted exclusively to
the care and training of the blind
children. At Delijan we have another
orphanage, located OH a mountain side
for the care OF tubercular children
this segregation being as much for
the welfare Of the healthy children In
the orphanages as for the care of the
unfortunate consumptives. At Erivar
we formerly had twenty-six d.stlnc
orphannges, though they have now
been reduced and consolidated ts
seven In number. There are sofiie
thing more than 6,000 orphans In the
region Of Harrout"