The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-12
Recent Tour Is .SketcF,ed By
 Dr. Loehr

nNE of the most interesting person
 ages in Birmingham is Prof. Allen
 G, Loehr, who, aside from doing other worthwhile things, is head of the department of public speaking at Bir- mingham-Southern college and instructs the classes in salesmanship and foreign trade.
 Professor Loehr has recently returned from a stay of several months in for eiRn countries and when asked the mast week to tell something of himself and his recent travels and what inter ested him most said, Principally folks and the way they live. Folks interna- tionally.p He believes firmly that you can get on with anybody in the world If both try hard enough to understand each other. Dr. Loehr was born m China. is the grandson of Dr. Young I. Allen, pioneer Methodist missionary from Georgis. He received his educa- tion in Europe (Italy, Switzerland, Aus tria and Germany)
 He spent from 1915 to 1921 in China, serving under the department of com merce as assistant commercial attache at Peking; under the department or state in the consular service at Shang-
 
 flee in handling enemy trading matters. Served three times as general manager of American import and export houses. He is a recognized authority on foreign trade in the far east p
 MT. Loehr went to Italy the past summer to visit his mother and sister who are now living in Florence. While fin Italy he made a detailed study of so- ciaI and economic conditions, interview ing A number of prominent Italians and resident British and Americans. He also made a special study of fascism and it's great leader, Mussolini
 Mir. LOehr was during last year one of number of volunteer speakers who filled engagements for the Near East relief in Georgia, Alabama. Mississippi and Louisiana. Consequently his visit in Italy was cut short to enable him to see at first-hand the actual conditions in Greece, Syria, Palestine and Egypt. In the fashionable Island of Corfu he found adult refugees 'quartered in the Achilleion, the former winter palace of Emperor William, and orphaned chil- dren in the old Grecian royal palace. In Patras, formerly flOurishing com nercial- port but now, with the cOnges- tion brought about by the influx of ref ugees. typhus fever and bubonic plague the dread scourge of Asia-were talk ing their daily toll. The old army bar racks At Corinth were flying the Amer ican flag and sheltered, instead of sol diers. close to 5000 motherless and fa- therless orphans under Near East re- life suDeryisiOn. In Piraeus the water front and main streets, factory build ings. school houses and several churches were swarming with thousands of the human flotsam and jetsam of the se- ries of Turkish storms that burst upon unsuspecting and unprepared Greeks and Armenians. living in Asia Minor. Few men and young women. but thou sands of old women and children were living herded together under shelters to get out of the intense. sun.
 In Athens the conditions were but lit tie better. A population of 25O,OOO was trying to take care of an increased pop ulatiOn of close to a million. The for Tner royal palace was great Near East relief center, directed by Americans un- der the leadership of Captain Day. The great exposition hall. the ZappeiOn. was . refuge for over 2,000 orphans picked out of the slow death of the nearby refugee camps.
 On unoccupied ground, not only on the outskirts but in the heart of the city, the refugees not able to get shel- ter elsewhere had built villages of sun dried mud brick. Death under such congestion became a matter of course. Typhus and malignant malaria were in tContinued on Page 5).