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The Washington herald., 1921-08-07

wished, and therefore had many In
nocent sufferers.
This is little part Of all the ead,
that we had in Russia We must
lament for the people. who had no
possibility Of coming here IN the pest
land with the greatest opportunities
in the world.
The greatest and best opportunity
that we have here is education. THIS
is on a higher plan than in any coun-
try Of the world. Every city and
town has public schools of expense
to the government, receive their
books. papers. pens and the best
teachers. For foreigners are sepa-
rate day and night schools, they can
choose and learn any profession as
they wish, they have here more op-
portunities than in their own coun-
tries. But the native Americans are
the happiest: an American poor TOR
rich boy and girl are equal, they can
go to the same school and play to-
gether, can learn and hope to be
President, too. We have already
fact in the history. Abraham Lin
coin, a son Of a poor farmer, had
no money to buy papers and pens,
must write on a fire shovel; but
when he grows and was a honest
and great man. he was President.
Every woman can learn as much
as she wishes, enter any profession
or business, can also hope to be the
wife of a President: this all makes
the life happy. I am very sorry,
was not born in America.
Here are the greatest States uni
versities for young men and WON
en-; law, medicine, engineering and
for other professions, schools for
blind, deaf and dumb, in every city
and town are public libraries for
free use of the people, Washington
has q Congressional Library-a ma
tional institution. In America il
not any girl or boy who Is not edu-
Gated well. poor or rich. The Bu-
reau Of Education improves educa-
tional facilities, that all shall bt
in good order.
America is a very great CONNER
cial country. Here are the riches,
mining fields of gold, silver, copper
iron. lead, zinc coal, and petroleum
The collection of raw materials from
the various parts of the United
States gives rise to a commerce
greater than that Of any two ma
tions in the world. The fitting o.
raw materials for use gives rise e
industry of manufacturing. the dis
tribution Of raw materials ant
MANUFACTURED products gives rise q
the industry OF commerce and trans
portation. Nearly every article wer'
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Is in my knowledge I will tell
When the Revolutionary War
ended, in America was about 4.ooo,-
900 people, now there are liz. 100000,
every day are coming thousands
more Of all nationalities. No one
country in the world has an immi-
grafton larger than America, every
one must ask q question.w ny is
this? There are still more
countries, which are big and
rich. but not any we can be
as free and good as in America:
a newcomer is for long time much
surprised at all that he sees and
hears, we think we come from dark
ness into the light. and this Is. in
deed, so. II a person comes to me now
and says, go back to your country,
there you will be very rich. will live
longer than here" / should not 60.
/ am more glad to live in the best
country of the world fewer years.
than there longer and richer. !
hope, that in only a short time II
will be possible to bring over my
| family; parents, brothers sisters,
uncles, aunts, and cousins. I have
already written them only in Amer.
lea We can live mentally and physic.
| ally well.
/ will tell a few words about Rus.
sia in the time before the war; al
nationalities have lived there badly
| because the Cars were despots. Il
one Gar was better, then the othel
heads OF the country were bad. Fol
money we could there do anything
even sell the government and tina
has even been done not only by th'
smaller rulers, but by the bigges
hea-s of the country, and even tn
Cars wife, too. A corrupt govern
ment makes bad morals
We Jews had there the worst o
all. We may live only in a few
countries: in the biggest and bes
we must not live. The children dit
not go to school because in the littl'
towns were no schools at all, il
the bigger towns it cost too much
the poor people had no possibilit.
to give their children an education
In the high schools there was onl!
} a small percentage allowed for Jews
who were happy to come in. and Z
finish high school. there was a per
centage allowed In university. Man.
young people murdered themselves
because they were not allowed {,
finish. many others, who have tn
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and an haA ~ thss avfuI ring. 30 gave
II b yoa
.Thsn yuu know what happsneA An the
women adznirtng n. and ve bes.n to hAvs
parties and get new clothes because Of IT,
And all The time / dsdnt know whether
Roscoe. whs w.s uad. had ts,d his wife ths
truth O not went to So him and We got
mad Il each Other beeanss thought he had
told his wifs and he thought was . four
nushsr Who haA got him tn bad With his wife
-Ev1ybody w.s sdnahtng the ring. and
yoa w9e % proud q q, and vas scared to
death IN ths tma was awful scared dar-
hnE. and am avfuIfy sorry. and I've tried
to make things Al right You can under
staaA n, eaat ysaf I DIDN'T mean to do any
harm. Its tust the way thing. turned out
EvxythinSs bean against me- Please don't
you 90 ag.inst me-. Nollis. rve been . prae-
tic.l joker, but I nsver meant any harm
I've bad IN awful time thess three montha.
He did not ~ anything Of his most dos-
perats MEASURE. ths robbery, but he con
fessed everything elss
his VIE sasd nothing, and did not % much
~ move to indicate that she bad heard him
Theroupon hs became ansry. developed his
sense Of injury afresh, and walked sullenly
into the dining room. where he drank more
whisky. He Ut down and brooded. drink
ing frsln time to tina. These was no sound
frum ths bedroom. no msvement IN II The
nat srew DARK. and hs at in . sullen. silent
mood
Il vas 3 o'clock in this dark. Silent op-
pretve .tmosphsrs when the tslephons bell
rang and hs answered t. Their hostess
wanted 10 know n anything was the mattsr.
JeDup said that Mrs Jessop had been taken
M suddsniy and that he had bean too busy
With her to Telephone their regrets.
Ira sorry." aid he hostess. -It's not
about the ring. b 1T"
Jessop hung mp the receiver without reply.
The story w.s on its way throughout the
circle of people who knew them. and IL was
proved In IT. truth BY their failure 70 rally
in the taos Of II with the new ring. even II
It were not nks the old one
He went into the bedroom again and turned
on the light HIS wife was lying a. he had
left her. He stood and looked st her with
out speaking. Once he. saw her shoulders
move eenvuistvsiy. a. Il she were restraining
in Lii presence sobs which shook her when
he was not present He turned out the light
and went back to his chair In the dining
room. where he passed the night HIS wife
did not arise. but spent the night where she
had thrown herself on the bed
Early in the morning Jsssop made himself
cup oe coffee ana ate some broad and but
ter. his wife came out Of the bedroom. but
she did not speak to him OF look at him, and
presently she returned to the bedroom and
. closed the door, When he left the house
Hs hegrs later shA bad not xsappsaxed.
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aThe committee, Examiner
Itoore recently wrote Justice Sid
|pns, was very much impressed
,ith the character OF the essays sub
|,itted in that IL seemed most re-
sarkable that foreign-born people
rho have SO recently arrived in the
Knitted States should so quickly ac-
pire the spirit expressed in all OF
reese essays. Although many Of the
EXPRESSIONS used were quaint, the
haracter of the grammar and the
xtent OF the vocabulary, particular
" in some Of the essays Of those
sho have been in the United States
Isss than a year. was nothing short
lf marvellous. In fact. it is believed
hat each contestant is entitled to a
certificate of merit"
Tho committees selections were
he work of Rena Lopaiko. Lithu-
1piar girl. aged &c. and but I'VE
months in the United States; Ham
iton Der, youthful Chlnesei ana
J. SoIon, an East European. of more
.ge and longer residence in the land
u his adoption. Most Of the es-
ays had for their subject the op-
,ortunities afforded Immigrant
here. but a number were of a more
bowel nature, including translation:
INTO English Of native folklore, pro
Ferbs. together with poetry and briel
ketches.
The Herald reproduces herewith
Hiss LopaikO's essay, together will
IN Armenian poem. and a legend
translated by Dekran Azadian. Tn
egend possesses an elusive charm
EeemfnEly heightened by the quaint
bess of speech remarked on by tn,
committee on awards.
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possibility OF coming, left their ma
tive countries and all whom they
love, and went to America. / think
this Is the best that they have done.
After this Russian government
gave no privileges, but murdered.
made poEroms and did many worse
things, then when boy was 81 years
old, the government called him to be
q soldier three years. In the army
the young peoples suffer offences
and punishments.
This Is the greatest reason why
they leave their best and loved ones
and come tosAmerica; and when one
branch Of a. family is in a good and
free land, the rest must come too
The Jewish people, are very indus
trious and wise, they thought to find
a way OF their own. to free them
selves Of the bad. How can a very
sick person whom the greatest ply.
sicians have resigned to death, he
helped by one little physician who
says, he has medicine but IL Is very
dangerous, he will live or die i'm.
| mediately. He must take the medi-
cine, because he has not much to
losei So It was with the Jew in
Russia, they thought Bolshevisn
shalt free them, this was a danger
! Gus play; they lost not only the free.
dom. but all that they had. and nov
they must come to America. broker
inside and outside, lost their wives
children, mothers, fathers, sisters
brothers, and properties. by tn
| frightful pogroms that were there
many had found a hunger, whicl
killed them. I believe, the histor.
has no such frightfulness than til
last few years, in which the peopl
had fought only for freedom.
| America Is a democratic republic
II Is democratic because the peopl
rule 1t, 1t Is a republic because tn
people rule II through the represen
tatives. The people elect the Presi
dent. legislators, Judges and tn
highest law OF the United State,
the Constitution, begins with tn
words: we the people OF the Uni
ted States"
We have in the United State
three branches: the law. making
which has two bodies, the law car
rying and the law defining. there
is good for every one to live: befor
law. goes out, II goes throug
many branches, the wisest peopl,
who are in Congress, try to max
the best that is possible. In som
governments are only one branc
the one makes, carries and define
the laws, and therefore the peopl
suffer SO much there.
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the United States nearly half Of the
world. More than half Of our ex-
ports consist OF raw cotton, iron,
steel manufactured, petroleum
meat. and bread stuffs. Our chief
import are raw silk. wool clotn,
sugar, coffee, drugs, chemicals. hides,
and India rubbers. The greatest part
of our merchandise were transported
by railroads, a part also by boats on
the ocean, lakes, rivers. and canals.
In the southern part are the larg-
est cotton, rice and sugar planta-
tions, in the central Of the country
are the greatest wheat fields.
sNow I have seen in the short time
Of my being here, that America is
the youngest but one Of the greatest.
most highly civilized and energetic
Of nations, all speaking the same
language. Every one can find all
that he Is most eager to attain.
America gives his citizens all the
best that is possible, and We must
I not forget, We must be good citizens
and do all the duties that are to be
done. myself will do my ybest to
be a good citizen for the best coun-
try OF the world whose nag Is red
white and blue stripes with stars.
THE SPIRIT OF THE ARMENIAN.
What Is the spirit of the Armenian?
I asked myself.
Once wept. and once smiled my
spirit.
Wept without hope. and cherished
with hope.
Like a whirlwind. my spirit arose
high above.
And Afterwards. il asked sadly.
What is the spirit the spirit Of the
Armenian"
What is the spirit the spirit of the
Armenian" still asked my
And IL appeared TO me as a cloud.
That descends. and becomes a fog
slowly.
And now and then white and rosy
sheet by sheet.
Spreads on the face Of the whole
The great spirit, the spirit Of tbs
Armenian.
What is the spirit. the spirit of th'
Armenian" Still l am asking
. myself.
I And find II half buried in the mud
But when a soldier fights continu
ously,
III say. the mud can not soil him.
? And / fearfully through the mu'
: kiss the tired and holy spiri
II of the Armenian.
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ICsnttuusd frsm preceding pAsa1
did not move. He suggested hat u w.s time
for them to dress. There w.s ns response
He walked about the living room . while
longer and took . drink Of whisky. Then
hs rallied and went determtnediy to her bod
.sde, sat down beside her, and told her the
truth
-hoIlie,- hs hid. II bad bsen wanting b
suy this WY ring 700 hays. q enc tust
Hhs IL 1 bad been thinking ot n f~ months.
bot tns price made mo hssftata- One night
I seopped By . window where thsy bad f.hri-
Gated 1evelx and nv The VIZ ring 1
wanted for you
Il ddn1 think. MnIis, how terrible sv~5-
thing might b. only thought et the joke I
ntxht phy. I thought you'd iaugh about II,
MoIliA I went in and bought II II cost
twenty douara rust wanted b play prse-
de.l toks with n was ashamsd TO pay -
much noosy, but I'm . damned fDol MoIiie-
-Tust aft.r got out Of tho piacs ran
tnto Rnscoe and hs knew where Ne could got
u eoupas drinn. So - went and sot them
/ showed him the ring and we TALKED about
how marvellous II vas they could DO things
Hks thta Then he sid bis VITO bad driven
The car aswa for him and he would drtvs me
home
-whsn - v9e h ths zr hs nd: Don.
nhow Emily ths ring yoa bought your vita
And I showed II to her, and she started TO
r.xa vas trying to ten her that Il vas .
phuny ring. but couldn't Then she aid
how happy you'd bs because h was our anni-
urzRJ, and she raved some more and said
that hsr husband nsvsr did such things and
she wtzhsd hs did
-Then Roscoe began to get surs beeauss
his wife v.s bawiinE him out by praistns me.
He began hooking around - II ought to sx-
plain. and tried to. but couldn't When he
dropped NE at the house he was pretty sore
better . husband than he was and hadn't
come acrus TO Ay that want
Il w.s afraid then, but you remeEnber
what happened didn't intend 10 give you
the ring then. but had forgotten that II
was our anniversary until Mr.. Roscoe men
toned u. and didn't have any present for
you wss going to eat dinner and then
msak out and ry to ind something In one
ef the stores around here.
-rhen. you remember. MrA Roscoe called
you up and congratulated you On the marvel
Gus present I had brought home for you
Don't you remember that talk you had. and
the v.y you turned 10 me- with your eyes
beamfnE7
what could DO thenf 1 had b give you
the ring. was % scared and ashamed, bat
Nrs. Roscoe knsw had present for you.
- she IA sssa Il a.A e xAs mzryslsus-.
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Author. Vahsn Tekeian- Trsas
lated into E.Elish by Dikrss Am
diaa. WsshinEtea. ID. c.
THE SAHAG BIRD.

AAAA N<LAA<ho DAAkDs
Beginning from the FIRST day OF
spring and the whole summer after
the sunset in the vineyards, you hear
sad voice through the wind cur
rent as. Sahag! Sshag!
No one could understand from
where is coming this voice. when
ever you go IN the vineyard, il can
be heard. But as you think you are
nearing to the dice IL goes fsrthei
from you. repeating in the same mel
ancholy voce. SahaE! SahAg.
They say the voice is the tragi
cal voice OF a bird which has been
a human being IN remote times
Once there was a mother. a com
passionate mother who had only on,
son named Sahag, a fsir-compIex-
ioned boy. who was the light Of his
mother. Because the mother had
nothing else and was loving so much
that ! cannot expires II with words.
The mother and the son were
happy together.
But alas! in that time they had
a a custome that when they had TO
I construct a bridge. They had TO
sacrifice the first man who crossed
the river over the new-built bridge.
( They had TO make this TO win the
| favor OF the rivers. II they did not
DO this sacrifice the water would get
mad and destroy the bridge.
The fair Sahag did not know this
| inhuman habit a BLACK" day hs
went to see the new-bUilt bridge
When he saw that IL was completed
he joyfully passed over.
Alas! the custome was so bad that
Sahag became the unlucky sacrific''
of the new-built bridge.
The mother not knowing the ter
rible fate OF her son. was waiting
for him to come home. And mean
time she did not know where he had
gone. But in vain! The fair Sahag
did not return home any more.
And the mother. half crszed. start
ed seeking her beloed one but could
not find him any place.
Who knows how long this unlucil,
mother searched her lost son in tie
mountains, forests, and in the val
leys.
One day. we do not know how. she
took wings and few in the air.
And since then, covering hersei
in the dark. crys her tragic fate
and stiu seeks for her beloved sol
continuously crying in her melan
! choly voice, Sahag! Sahag!
Tran.lstet i.ts EaEIish BY Di
kr.n Arstisn, Washington. ID. c.
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Her lips ssd ehtn Suivsrsd again
Haven't you any money!

Her lips and chin sutvsrsd Again.
Haven't you any money!
He shook his head and then turned troru
her to hook out Of the window. Al his head
was avertsd the EXPRESSION Of her f.ee beg.s
10 soften She arose and left the room BE
thought their moment Of explanation hAh
come and Eona
She returned presently and out Of hs
despair he made another rally which he
thought must b the Last be could attempt
-Mollie," he said. please. dear. won't you
let me Try 10 take you to the Blue RdsS
where You ean forgive and Ne can forget
She went TO his side and rested her hands
on the back Of his chair.
Poor DON she said- and he ~ alnes
stupened By the TENDERNESS of her tone
you really have been thinking q me- sn<
doing all these things for NE and suffering
for me and. you poor bog. yeurs NJ
She put one hand Lightly On his hair. Be
did not dare move or speak. She continues
to spesk, slowly At nrst bot with tocrs>dns
emotion
Nj Roscoe told me you had lost you
position. He said n was shsmeful and 10
was ashamed and II you would tAfs II As.n
it would be ycurs. have pst unoerstooe
Don. / thought you DIDN'T cara th0oSht
Won h.d made me some cheap thing th,a
men could Soie about IN . saloon sod I'D
shamed me before everybody. oousdnn
stand n. O, I couldn't stand q hsd -
everything. had loet you had ha y0w
tenderness and your respect and your proes>
ton. You bad exposed me-. But you % o.rs
Don. You have suffered ~ much ~ hsv&
You have lost everything for me md hs~s
done everything for me- You might hv
left me. Don, Il you hadn't o.rsd You d
cara you do care Don I'm happy ssstn
She sosdsniy put both srns about bis neck
and pressed her check tightly Against his
The cheek which pressed his w.s wet Hs
twisted about suddenly IN his chair 10 pot
his arms around her and drew her int his
embrace.
-Molne,- he cried -Mollse, you1 - b
the Blue Ridge. III get the noosy
~The Blue Ridge 10 right here D0v. shs
said In . tone subdusd BY smouoo- wen
STAY here and work Wen work ana %
happy becauss I havsnt iost YOU I eea''
care for anything else"
HIS emerEsncs IRON misery v.s - -
den he was inart3cu,ate.
He felt her hand placing somsthins within
his palm
There is the money for our frssh start
abe said-
He looked down wondertngiy, nstHnf nm
head to look beyond her bod which rests<
on his shoulder. In his hand v.s sps1flins
the diamond rinE.
touussAA; xsaa: n ozsss AaraA
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He passed . dark and terrible day down
town, aimless and, he felt, isolated tn his
unhappineas.
In the evening when he returned home,
having no occasion for not going there and
no occasion for doing 50, his wife was NOV
ing listlessly about the nat She did not hook
at him when he spoke to her or answer
him. She later placed some dinner on the
table for him. as II for some one who was
expected but not there, and again went to
the bedroom. closing the door.
Jessop made UP . bed for himseh on the
couch in the Iva 3 room. In tbs morning
he again endeavored to talk TO his wife. ap-
peaiins b her reason not to permit radical
Disturbances Of their life to now from what
she must perceivs was an Insignificant Incl
dent It seemed to him for . hopeful min
ute that he must have sincerity and earnest
ness enough to be eloquent In his appeal. but
his wife merely stood still. listened to him,
said nothing. and continued to keep her
face averted from him, except for one in
stAnt, a. he paused, with the thought that
he might be prevailing. when she turned to
him with an expression Of 30 much hate
and contempt that he realized the complete
futf1ity Of his effort and desstsd, dismayed
and frightened.
This atmosphere, created in the home,
continued Mrs- Jessop refused to see her
friends. refused to admit them when they
came to the door, refused to answer the
telephone, to speak to her husband or to
recognize his existence by more than getting
his meals for him. She. did not join him at
meals. He continued to sleep on the living
room couch She wore dressing sack and
never went out Of the nat
Jessop thought her appearance grew more
hstless day BY day. her expression harder,
wearier, and deeper craven with the lines Of
fixed misery and despair. He found that he
could not preserve q protective sense Of
injury. That had carried him through the
acuter distress, but in the sustained monot-
ony Of unhappiness he perceived that even
II his wife were % unwise as to raise dis
agreeable episode to tragedy, he. neverthe-
less, was the author Of the situation.
His wife's health was giving way under
the poisons Of her mental state and he knew
that their future was in jeopardy. In his
perpiexity and distress he was unable to
command the vigor needed to obtain en-
ployment, and his days were wholly aimless
and resaltiess. His money was spent. he
could not pay his bills. and mere was moth.
ing In the future.
He and his wife had lived in this fashion
for month and their prospect was to con.
tinue doing 10. Her health was obviously
failing. He decided to 60 to = doctor for
advice.
He apolcgised to the physician for the ap.
parent triviality Of the disorder, but said
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