The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1921-01-06

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
count ries 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
eminent. The whole fabric 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 orphansge work OF
the Near East Relief in the Armenian
Republic, Mr. vickrey said:
1--WE have at Alexandropol in the
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 recuperRtive powers, and to see
them play their kindergarten or other
games under the direction Of our Amerl-
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 Eve 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 a period of ten years and
lend themselves admirably TO relief
purposes
This orphanage at Alexandropol Is
Near East Relief is now operating In
various parts OF the Caucasus. Anato-
liza, Cillcia, Syria and the CONSTANT
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 dormitories OF this orphanage at
Kars when tile young American COL
lege girl in charge turned TO me and
said: Mr.. vickrey, It sometimes makes
me feel just a little older than Me-
thuselah TO be called Mother" by
5000 Of those Armenian children
And that is exactly what she was
the only mother that these 5000 Ar
menian children have, except as she
svails herself Of the organized assist
ance Of native Armenian women, In
caring for this large family.
"In the hospital at Kars found
1,15O beds, which, the day was there.
were occupied by 1.268 patients, 1t
frequently being necessary to put two
or more children In single bed. AT
Alexandropol we have In one hospital,
or group Of hospital buildings, 1880
trachoma patients. At Karaklis, forty
miles east OF Alexandropol we have
an srphsnsge devoted exclusively to
the care and training Of the blind
children. At DeliJan we have another
erphanage. located on 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 consumptiyes. At Erivan
we formerly had twenty-slx distincl
orphsnages. though they shave now
been reduced and consolidated t.
seveh In numbers There are some
thing more than 1000 orphans in tn,
region Of Harpeut"