The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-01-14

than billions Of dollars spent later IN
suppressing international warfare and
strife"
Mr.. Yickrey considers the need in
the Near East and especially in Ar
nenia greater than anywhere else in
the world, because. as he says, I'm 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
Republic, Mr. Vickrey said:
I'VE have ut AleXandropol In the
Caucasus. one crphanage 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 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 Eve years
ago.
For the accommodation OF these or
phsns there are sixty splendid stone
buildings, erected a. barracks for the
Russian army. These buildings are
now given to us by the Armenian gov
eminent for q period Of ten years and
lend themselves admirably TO relief
purposes.
but one Of the 229 orphanages that the
Near East Relief il now operating In
various parts OF the Caucasus, Anato-
liza, Cihcia. Syria and the CONSTANT
sopie- Straits area.
Thirty miles from AleIandropo' at
Kars, there IN another group OF i:HS-
sian army barracks, which were gwen
Us by the Armenian government Tor
relief purposes. ! was going through
the dsrniteries Of this orphanage at
Kars when the young American col
llege girl In charge turned TO me and
said: Mr.. Vicfrey, II sometimes makes
me feel just little older than Me-
thussiah to be called Mother" ~
1900 Of those Armenian children
And that Is exactly what she was
the emily mother that these 1900 AT.
nenian children have. except as she
avails herself Of the organized assist
ancc Of native Armenian women. In
caring for this large family.
In the hospital at Kars I found
$50 beds, which. the day / was there,
were occupied BY 1.26S patients. It
trcQuestly being necessary 70 pat two
Or more children In q single bed. At
AleKandropol we have in one hsspitsi
or group OF hospital buildings, 1859
;rachoma patients. At Karablis. forty
miles east OF Alexandropel we have
an orphanage devoted exclusively Ia
the care ssd training Of the blind
children. At DeliJsn we have another
orphanage. located on q mountain aide.
for the care Of tuberculsr children
this Segregation being as much for
the welfare OF the healthy children in
he orphanasss ~ for the care OF the
unfortunate csnsumptives. At Erivun
We formerly had tventy-siI distinct
,rphanagss. though tAsy have now
zen reduced and consolidated to
ssysa In aunbAx. TAsre are seine
rAiAS 1aes tAaa Geo ssDAaAs In the
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