The Prescott daily news., 1921-01-21

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. ernlnent. The whole fabric of the state has to be created from the be. gIhhing' 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 or 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 Mir. Vickrey said:
 "We have at Alexandropol in inc Caucasus, one orphanage where there are approximately 10000 homeless children, fatherless or motherIess. 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 recuperatiye powers, and 10 see them play their Kindergarten or other games under the direction of oug Amcrl. can relief workers. one could nCyar be- Heye that they had passed through tho 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- lia, Cilicia, Syria and the Constant. nople-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 l was going through the dOrmitories of this orphanage at kars when the young American col lege girl in charge turned 10 me and said: Mr. Nickrey, it sometimes makes me feel just a little older than Me. Inh fa hn nI 6,00o of those Armenian children And that is exactly what she was the only mother that these coco Ar menian children have, except as she avails herself of the organized assist ance of native Armenian women. in caring for this large family.
 Tn the hospital at Kars found 1,150 beds. which, the day was there were occupied by 1,26S patients, t frequently being necessary to put two or more children in a single bed At AlexandropoI we have in one hospital or group of hospital buildings, l560 trachoma patients. At Karaklis, forty miles enst of AleXandropol we have an orphanage devoted exclusively to the care and training of the blind children, At Delijan we have another orphanage, 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 consumptives. At Erivan we formerly had tWenty-six distinct orphanages, though they have now been reduced and cOnsOlidateu ue seven in nu,nber There are some thing more than 6,0OO orphans in the region of Harpout."