Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-02-18

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
menla 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
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 orphanage work of
the Near East Relief in the Armenian
Rcpnhlic, Mr.. Yickrey said:
I'VE 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 recuperative powers, and TO see
them play their kindergarten or other
gaines under the direction of our Ameri-
can relief workers, one could never be-
heve that they had passed through
the years of suffering that must 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 ms barracks for the
now given To us by the Armenian gov
ernment for n period of ten years and
lend themselves admirably to relief
pnenesea
This afphanase ut Alexandropo Is
but one Of The 30 orplanaees that the
Near Fast Relief is now operating in
various PARTS of he Caucasus. Anato.
LA, Cilicia. Syria and the Constant.
nople-Straiis area
"'rhirty miles from AleNandropol. NJ
Kars, there is anoher grenp Of Rus.
sian army barfacl>, Which were given
us by the Armenian government for
relief purposes Was going through
the doriai.nseS Of this orp'anage ~
Kars when the young American col.
lee airl in char&e turned to me and
said: Mr.. EiekreH. il sometimes makes
me feel inst Il little nt,ler than Ale.
thNselah 10 he Called Mother" by
6,uaO of those .Arn.s'5an children
And that is exactly what she was
tile only mother that these Coco Ar
menian children have. except ms she
avails herself of the organized assist
anee of native Armenian women, in
curing for this large family.
In the hospital ut kars | found
1.laO beds, which. the day was there
were occupied by lies patients, II
frequently being necessary to put two
or more children in Il single bed Al
Alexandropol we have in one hospital
OF group of hospital buildings, l.560
trachoma patients. At Karaklis. forty
miles east of AleNandropol we have
an orphanage devoted exclusively to
the care and training of the blind
children. At 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 consumptiyes. 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 5000 orphans in the
region of Harpout."