The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-25
Annual Meeting State
 Near East Committee
Barclay Acheson, Executive Secretary of the Founda=
 tion, Principal Speaker at Hartford Yesterday

Glastonbury; Mrs Walter c. Wood, New Canaan; and Captain E. A. Narrow, Haddam.
 America's ideal of charity has undergone a complete change in re- cent years, according to MT Ache- son. Modern philanthropists ad- init the failure of purely palliative charity and have built up a new theory based on helping people to help themselves" he said. Mod ern leaders are trying. to remove the causes, such as ignorance, poV- erty and disease, which make char ity necessary. Education in the fundamentals of sound living for everybody, everywhere, is the most effective and lasting way of elim- mating the distress which calls for outside help."
 Under MT Acheson's direction of the Near East Foundation has de- veloped a program of rural instruc- tion, disease prevention, leadership 1 training and recreation designed to serve the rural and underprlvlleged masses of the Near East. of which there are 33,000,000. eighty-hve per cent being engaged in wrestling a bare living from the soil. This Is being done by transplanting and adapting to local conditions and then demonstrating social welfare, health, educational and agricul- tural methods first developed in the United States.
 we have had assurance from kings, prime ministers. business men, missionaries. college presi- dents and United States representa- lives that the foundation is helping to meet the greatest existing needs,' said MT Acheson. King Feisal stated that the chief need of Iraq was school that would produce graduates who do not have as sole objective the securing or government jobs, but who would be willing to work for the better ment of rural life. President Dodge of the American University of Beirut, President Reed and Dean Vrooman of International college, Izmir, are cooperating with us in rural life extension work in Syrla, Palestine and Turkey, recognizing the significance of reaching class to which the colleges cannot min ister. In Albania, King Iog and his cabinet have made available 70o acres of land for farm demonstra- ton and are cooperating in the support of a rural school for girls and boys, to which the American minister, Herman Bernstein, Is giv- ! ing all possible assistance.
 "The Albanian-American 1nsti- ute at Kavaje, the Folk School at Pordim, Bulgaria, and tn eAntllyas Training school for pastors and teachers in Syria, are the principal phases of our institutional work. Rural extension work in fifty-four villages of Macedonia, which in cludes farm instruction and home making, is perhaps the outstand- ing piece of non-institutional work upon which has been based all our rural work in Syria, Palestine and Turkey. In addition, the founda. i tion program include clinics, school feeding and summer camps, with which we are helping Greece to combat tuberculosis, the death rate from that disease being twelve times that of the United States: a mobile medical service in the refu- gee villages of northern and cen tral Syria; welfare and educational centers for boys and girls in Egypt Syria and Greece; and training un- der scholarships as artisans. agrl- culturists, nurses, teachers ana welfare workers of boys and girls in many native and American schools in the various countries or the Near East"