The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-01-08

than hltI.UHS Of dollars spent later IN
suppr"sSii.G international warfare and
strife"
Mr. N:ohIcy considers the need IN
the Near Eu>; ami especially in Ar
men;a greater thau anywhere else IN
the world because, as lie says. ''In the
countries OF Central Europe there are
going governments which have merely
been temporarily impoverished by war.
In he Near East, en- the other hand,
There Is 10 suCH rTT-TTg as sIIiTiG Z0S~
eminent The whole fabric of the
stare has 10 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
If the citizenship If the peoples of the
Near East"
irresistible Appeal of Orphans.
Describing the orphunase work Of
the Near East Relief in the Armenian
EepuhItc, Mr.. Vickrey said:
We have at Alexandr0pol in the
Caucasus, one crphanage 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
FIJI reCuperatiVe powers, and to see
IL IL,
games under the direction of our Ameri-
can relief workers, one could never be-
lieve 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 Ave years
nEO.
For the accommodation of these or
phanS there are sixty splendid stone
buildings, erected as barracks for the
ltussian army. These buildings are
now given to us by the Armenian gov
crnment for a period Of ten years and
lend themselves admirably 10 relief
purposes.
This OrphanaGe at AleXandrOpol Is
!.Yt one Of the 229 orphanages that the
Near East Relief is now operating In
various parts Of the Caucasus, Anato-
la Clicia, Syria and the CONSTANT
nOpIe-Straits area
Thirty miles from AleXandropOl, at
Kars. there is an0 her group of Rus
sian army barracks. which were given
US by the Armenian government for
relief purposes. | was going through
The d0rmitOries of this Orphanage at
Nars when the young American col
!tge girl in charge turned to me and
said Mr. Yickrey. it sometimes makes
inc feel just little Older than Me-
thusplah TO lie called Mother" by
6 900 Of those Armenian children
And that is exactly what she was
the only mother that these 5000 Ar
menian children have, except as she
uvnilS herself of the organized assist
ancc of, native Armenian women, in
caring for this large family.
I'm the hospital Mt Kars found
1850 beds. which, the day was there,
were occupied by 1,2GS patients, 1t
frequently being necessary TO put two
or more children In a single bed. At
Alexandropol we have in one hospital,
or group of hospital buildings, 1850
trachoma patients. At Karaklis, forty
miles east IT AleXandropoI we have
an orphanage devoted exclusively to
the care and training of the blind
children. Al Delljan we have another
crphana2e, located on q mountain side
for the care of tubercuIar children.
this segregation being as much for
the welfare of the healthy children In
the orphan&g&S as for the care of the
unfortunate consumptives At Erlvan
we formerly had tWenty-six distinct
Orphan-,% though they ~, now
been = ...rel and conso, "a to
seven in Guml or. There are some
thing more thun 5000 orph0us in the
region of H=gI out"