Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1922-07-07
CHARLES v. vIckREX.

than billions OF dollnrB spent Inter In
supprossin. International warfare and
strife"
MIR. Vickrcy considers tho need in
tho Near East and especially In Ar
monia greater than anywhere else In
tha world. because, ia he says, "In the
countries of Central Europe thore arc
going governments which have merely
been temporarily impoverished by war.
In the Near East on tho other hand,
there in no such thing aH atnblo gov
eminent Tho whole fabric OF tho
state has to be created from tho be-
ginning, and tho innocent nnd help
less children hive to DO trained to the
responsibilities OF future citizenship.
Pence In the Near lsnst md, In great
! measure. throughout the worlu, will
depend very largely on tho character
OF the citizenship Of the peoples Of tho
Near Enst."
lrrcsIatibo Appeal OF Orphans.
Describing tho orphnnngo work OF
the Near East Relief In tho Armenian
Republic. Mn Vickrey snld:
"We have mt Aloxandropol In tho
Caucasus. one orphannge where there
are approximately 10000 homeless
children. fntherlesS or motherless,
many OF them having 10 known living
relative. Some Of them do not even
know their own names or the plnco OF
their birth. They hive shown wonder
full recuperative powers. and 10 SEQ
them play their kindergarten or other
games undor he direction OF our Amcrl-
| PQn raliaf xpnrkura Ia,
lieye That they had pissed through
tho yenrs OF suffering that most OF
them have experienced since they. or
their parents. were driven from their
homes in Central Turkey Ave yeara
ago.
For tho accommodation OF these or
| phnns there are sixty splendid stone
buildings. erected MS barracks for the
Russian army. These buildings DIRE
now given to us by tho Armenian gov
eminent for period of ten yenrs and
lend themselves admirably to relief
purposes.
] "This orphanage at Alexnndropol Ia
but one Of tho 200 orphnnngcs thnt the
Near East Relief is now operating In
various parts Of the Caucasus, Anato-
lin, Cilicin. Syria and the CONSTANT.
uoDle-StraitB area.
Thirty miles from Alexandropol, at
Kars, there Ia another group Of Rus
sian army barracks, which wore giyon
us by the Armenian government for
relief purposes wns going through
the dormitories OF this orphnnnge at
Kars when the young American col
lege girl In charge turned to me and
. nh
me feel just little older thnn Mo-
thuselah to be called "AIother" by
5000 Of those Armenian Children
And that is exactly what she was
the only mother that these 5000 Ar.
menian children have. except us she
avails herself of tho organized assist
ance of native Armenian women. In
caring for this largo family.
I'm the hospital at Kars l found
1850 beds. which, the day / was there,
were occupied by 1908 patients, It
frequently being necessary to put two
or more children In single bed. At
AleIandropol We have In one hospital,
or group Of hospital buildings, 1850
trachomn pnticnts. At Kuraklig, forty
miles enst of Aexnndropol we hnvo
an orphanage devoted exclusively To
I the care aud trimming OF the blind
children. At Delljan we have another
orphannge, located on mountain side,
| for the care OF tubercuIar children
this segregation being MS much for
the welfare Of the healthy children IN
the orphanages as for the care OF the
(. unfortunate consumptIves. At ErIvan
we formerly had twcnty-slx distinct
! orphanages. though they have now
been reduced and consolidated to
seven in number. There are some
thing moro than 5000 orphuns In the
segion OF Harpout"