The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1922-01-17
Worker in Far East
Relief Comes Soon
For Visit to Maui

Word has been received that Wal
luku is to entertain Miss Mabel Far.
rington, graduate of the University of
California and expert dietitian who
has been connected with the Near
East Relief in Armenia for some time
past. Miss Harrington is no relation
to Governor harrington, but she is
looking forward to meeting her distin-
guished name-sake upon her arrival
in Honolulu, January II. She is eX-
pected or Maui February l.
The Near East Relief CAMPAIGN for
Hawaii this year has $4,000 for its
aim. Last year more than S35,O
was raised without much difficulty,
according to officials of the Territorial
branch with headquarters in Homo
lulu. Mrs. w. ID. Westervelt of Ho-
nolulu is the chairman of the island
headquarters.
Mrs. Westervelt had a letter from
Miss Harrington recently in which
some of the experiences in Armenia
were recounted. The first thing Miss
Harrington saw upon alighting from
the train at AleXandropol was the
body of a tiny starvation victim on
the station platform, according to the
letter. She asked why it had not been
removed and was told that the dead
wagon had not made it's rounds that
morning.
Daily Dead Wagon
81 found out later that the dead wa
gon came around through the streets
every morning" writes Miss Earring
ton, and collected the bodies of the
starvation and p~estilence victims of
the proceeding "a hours"
At AleXandropol, where Miss Far.
rington spent most of her time the
largest orphanage in the world is To-
Gated. Throughout Armenia the Am.
erican relief forces have established
o%rphanages in which more than 100,
600 youngsters are cared for, but
there are thousands of children with.
out fathers or mothers, without homes
and without food or clothing for whom
there is no DON in the institutions,
Miss Harrington says that one of the
most difficult tasks she was asked to
undertake in Armenia was to go to
the gate of one of the orphanages and
face a hundred children assembled
there, and tell them that there was a
vacancy which would admit one OF
them.
She says that when she finally
screwed up her courage enough TO tell
the youngsters the news there was a
feeble shout of joy and then a silence
as each famished child looked at its
neighbor. They finally decided to
choose for themselves who should en-
ter and after while, when they an.
nounced that they had made up theil
minds, Miss Harrington was surpris
ed to see them pushing the strongest
boy in the lot toward the gates. The
others explained that he was the most
likely to live of any of them and that
they wished him to grow up to be a
strong healthy Armenian.
Tells of Misery
"The city of AleXandropol itself is
a city of dependency and death
says the letter. zone sees bodies ly
ing about on the side walks; bodies
that are scarcely protected from the
raw, biting winds by any clothing
whatever. They are huddled in door
ways, crouched in corners everywhere
Some of them are dead. Others are
simply so weak from lack of food and
privation that they do not care whe
Their death comes or not.
Il have seen hords of men and wo
men, boys and girls, grubbing in bar
rem fields for a few roots to eat. Oh
you Americans who throw away
enough in a week to keep an Armeni
an child alive for a month, | wish
could show you these things so you
could believe. Words are poor things
to express what | have felt.
Miss Harrington will bring a film
with her entitled "Alice in Hunger
land" which will be shown in the 10
cal theater. 1t is to be shown in Ho
nolulu later. The leading role is TAX
en- by a real Armenian girl who es
capped from the Turks and came tC
America.