The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-02-10

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, an 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 beginning,
and the innocent and helpless chill
dren have to be trained to the re-
sponsibilities 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
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
games under the direction of our Amer.
lean relief workers, one could never be
lieye that they had passed through
the years of suffering that most OF
them have experienced since they, or
their parents, were driven from theil
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
eminent for period of ten years and
lend themselves admirably to relief
purposes.
"This orphanage at AleXandropOl is
but one of the 229 orphanages that the
various parts of the Caucasus, Anato
liza, Cecilia, 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 fol-
relief purposes. | was going through
the dormitories of this orphanage at
Kars when the young American col
lege girl in charge turned to me and
said: Mr.. Vickrey it sometimes makes
me feel Just 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 Armenian chill
dren have except as she avails herself
of the organized assistance 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 1908 patients, it frequent
ly being necessary to put two or more
children in single bed. AT Alexan.
dropol we have in one hospital, or
group of hospital buildings, 1860 ira
choma patients. AT Karaklis, forty
miles east of Alexandropol, we have
an orphanage devoted exclusively to
the care and training of the blind chill.
dren. At Delijan we have another
orphanage, located on mountain side,
for the care of tubercular children, this
segregation being as much for the wei
fare OF the healthy children in the or.
phanages as for the care of the un.
fortunate consumptiyes. At Erivan we
formerly had twentysix distinct or
phanages, though they have now been
reduced and consolidated to seven In
rumber. There are something more
fhan 5000 orpAHns in the region OF
.nr1 ut +"