The Dolores star., 1921-01-14

than billions of dollars spent later in
suppressinx 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, rs 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 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"
irrsslstIbIs Appeal Of orphana.
the Near East Relief in the Armenian
Republic. Mr.. vlckrey said:
I'VE have at Alexandropol in the
CaucasuA ono 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 recuperatlve powers. and to see
them play their kindergarten or other
games under the direction Of our Ameri-
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 Ave 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 orphsnage at Alexandropol Is
but one Of the 229 orphanages that the
Near East Relief is now operating In
various parts of the Caucasus. Anato-
liza, Cnicia, Syria and the Constanu-
uople-Straits area.
Thirty miles from le1andropol, at
Kars, there is another group OF Rus
sian army barracks, which were given
us by the Armenian government Tor
relief purposes. was going through
the dormitories of this orphapage at
| hn American col
lege girl In charge turned to me and
said: Mr.. vickey, 1t sometimes makes
me feel just little older than Me-
thuseIah to be called Mother by
5000 Of those Armenian children
And that is exactly what she was
the only mother that these 6.ooo Ar
menian children have, except as she
avsils herself OF the organized assist
ance Of native Armenian women, In
caring for this large family.
I'm the hospital 1t Kars / found
l,150 beds, which. the day was there
were occupied by L26S patients, II
frequently being necessary TO put two
or more children in n single bed. AZ
Alexandropol we have In one hospital
or group of hospital buildings. 1,o6e
trachoma patients. At karaklis. forty
miles east Of Alerandropol we have
an erphanage devoted exclusively te
tho care and training OF the oiiho
children. At Delijan we have anothe'
orphansge. located on u mountain side
for the care OF tubercular children
this segregation being as mnch fo'
the welfare Of the healthy children II
the orphanages as for the care OF TN
unfortunate consmptives. At EriVs'
we formerly had twenty-slI distinc
orphsnages. though they hsye nov
been reduced and consolidated u
seyen in number. There are some
thing more than 8,00o orphans In I'll
rsxion Of Harpoul" - - ~