Daily picayune., 1921-01-17

than billions of dollars spent later in expressing international warfare and strife"
 Mir Viekrey 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 Tn the Near East, on the other hand, there Is no such thing as stable gov ernment 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 orphanage work of the Near East Relief in the Armenian Republic, MT Ylckrey 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 al tnH urt1 at hAF 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 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 a period of ten years and lend themselves admirably to relief purposes.
 This orphanage at Alexandropol is but one of the 229 orphanages that the Near East Relief is now operating in various parts of the Caucasus, Anato- la. Clliela. Syria and the Constanti- nople-S Straits 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. I was going through the dormtories of this orphanage al kars when the young American col lege girl In charge turned 10 me and said; MT Nickrey, it sometimes makes me feel just little older than Me thuSrlah 10 he called Mother" by G,O0o of those Armenian children And that ts exactly what she was the only mother that these 6.000 Ar. menian children have, except as she avalls herself of the organized assist ance of native Armenian women. in caring for ihls large family
 Tn the hospital at kars | found 1.l10 beds. which, the day was there, were occupied by PCS patients. tt frequently being necessary 10 put two or more children In a single bed At AloNundropol we have in one hospital or group of hospital buildings. 1,560 trachoma patients. Al karaklis, forty miles east of Alexandropol we have an orphanaee devoted exclusively to the care and training of the blind children. Al DelijAn we have another orphanage. located on 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 Erivan we formerly had twenty-six distinct orphanages. though they have now been reduced and consolidated to seven in number. There are some thing more than 6O00 orphans In the rsgion of Harpout"