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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, "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
Republic, Mr.. Vickrey said:
I'VE have at Alexandropol In the
Caucasus, one orphanuge 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 five years
ago.
For the accommodation of these or
ohans there are sixty splendid stone
erected as barracks for the
Russian army. These buildings are
now given to us by The Armenian gov
'rnment for period OF ten years and
end themselves admirably to relief
This orphanage at Alexandropol is
'ut one Of the 229 orphanages that the
Year East Relief is now operating In
arious parts Of the Caucasus, Anato-
la, Cilicla, Syria and the CONSTANT
ople-Straits area.
Thirty miles from AleXandropol, at |
lars, there Is another group Of Rus
ian army barracks, which were given
s by the Armenian government for
elief purposes. ] was going through
le dormitories Of ~this orphanage at
.ars when the young American COL
gee girl in charge turned to me and
lid: Mr.. Yickrey, It sometimes makes
e feel just little older than Me-
luselah to be called Mother" by
900 of those Armenian children
nd that is exactly, what she was
lie only mother that these 5000 Ar
enian children have,i except as she
rails herself Of the organized assist
ice Of native Armenian women, In
ring for this large family.
I'm the hospital at Kars found
100 beds, which, the day / was there,
ere occupied by 1,26S patients, It =
equently being necessary to put two
more children In single bed At
exandropol we have in one hospital,
group of hospital buildings, 1880
ichoma patients. At Karaklis, forty
les east Of Alexnndropol we have
orphanage devoted exclusively to
e care and training of the blind
lldren. At Delljan we have another
phan9ge, located on q mountain side,
: the care of tubercular children,
Isl segregation being as much for
} welfare Of the healthy children in
: orphanages as for the care of the 'p
fortunate consumptives. At Erivan
formerly had twenty-slx distinct n
damages, though they have now
sn reduced and consolidated to
zen In nunfber. There are some
ns more than COCO orphans In the
zion of Harrout" -