The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-12
LOEHR SKETCHES
 HIS RECENT TRIP
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many camps within the city. Water was scarce, even for drinking. Water for sanitation was almost impossible. Hy- giene was forgotten. Contamination from tuberculosis had spread so rapidly that it was estimated eonservatively that one out of every five>of the entire population of Greece has been touched by the dread White Hague.
 Money was scareeI The only coin was an aluminium piece of the value of for $1. All paper money had been cut in half by the ali-but-bankrupt govern ment, which, by this measure, had forced public loan of 50 per cent.
 In it's efforts to alleviate the suffer- ing of it's refugee population the gov ernment was distributing about 50 cents a month for the feeding of each child and not all camps could get that dole Greece, itself overpopulation with D. 100000 people, had managed to absorb 50O,000 into the avenues of trade. More than a million remained to be public charges with no hope of an opportunity to find employment. In Macedonia, the government was seeking to open up farm lands for colonization. Americans were also assisting in that work but it was slow. all too slow. Greece hopes for an international loan. In the mean time her people starve, but for the as- sistance rendered by America and Euro pean countries as well as China, Ja- Tan, India and Korea.
 Mir. Loehr also visited the classic ruins of Athens, Eleusfs and Corinth, as well as other places of interest, but he says that the problem of the future of the people of Greece made even the ruins of that ''glory that was Greece" pale into insignificance.
 From Greece he went to Egypt and caught boat in Port Said for Bey- rout, Syria. The boat was carrying back Hundreds of returning Arab and Syrian pilgrims from Mecca On acs count of the intense heat and lack ,ef sanitary precautions, 22,000 Moslem pilgrims had died during the summer in and around Mecca.
 In, Beyrout, and on the slopes of the Lebanon range north and south, MT. LOehr visited Armenian refugee camps and Near East relief orphanages. The oldest city in the world, Dam9scus, and the most wicked city in the world, Baal- Deks were FlSiItu Dy LuOtOFs AlcdbtHB the seashore the road ran over the 6,000- foot high Lebanon pass, down into a desert valley and across it up the anti Lebanon range down to desert table land and foothills taht lead to Damas- GUS, white domed oasis sheltering the most fanatical sects in the world, and the most brilliant bazars outside of Cairo. A few hours away by motor
 IL s.L Ca-1N n.s.sl bellished to rival Damascus and in which he had erected temple to Baai as gift to one of his wives. There MT. Loehr climbed over the largest building stones in the world, one of which is over 75 feet long and 16 feet square and weighs over 1,500 tonss How they were quarried and moved into po- sition is a greater mystery than the Pyramids.
 Mir. Loehr's trip carried him through the entire length of Syria and Palestine and across them and took him through such places as Jebeil, Ghazir, Tyre, Si- don, Acre, Haifa, Nazareth, Tiberias, Cana, Nablus, Jerusalem, Jericho, Beth lehen,S Ludd and Kantara.
 In addition to the refugee situation and the splendid work being carried on by the Near East relief and other agen- cies, Mir. Loehr made a study also of the Zionist movement and speaks very highly of the improved conditions re- sulting from the Zionist colonies, being established in the various colonies.
 Mir. Loehr remarked that "the land- scape backing some of these settlements was desolate and savage, like huge groundswells of stone topped with vast gray. and tawny stone pillows ;; in the , shimmering heat the stone topped hills