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About Albany daily democrat. (Albany, Or.) 1888-192? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1920)
WAR NURSE FROM 1 120,000 STAND ; ARMENIA ASKS AMERICA'S AID Soldier Husband and Battlefield Baby Tourng Country With Her for K:ar East Relief. A mother, father and daughter, th latter born In a tattered lle.1 Crow lent tn the Icy Cauranui while gun roared all around and Turkish abells, Ifnoring the merry emhleiu, burst near It. are touring America In behalf of their native Armenia. They are Oeo entl Mesrop Nevton Aigapetlan. hla lev LADY ANNE AZOAPCTIAN. rife, Lady Anne, and Ireneb Esther Araxle Aigapetlan,. whose baby eye opened upon scenes of horror and later , through them saw much of the suffer tap of the people of Armenia. The family are making their toor un der auspices of the Near East Kellef, the big organisation which has saved hundreds of thousands of the people ta that part of the world from death by hunger and cold and Is soon to open a nation wide campaign for funds to complete the work of saving the sue vivors. more than a half million of whom must perish unless aid comes to them soon. America Is their only hope. General Azgapetlan served gallantly In the Russian armies In the Caucasus against the Turks. His wife, who ac companied him to the front, did noble work for the wounded and sick, and M was while In this service thnt her baby was born In a hospital tent during a battle An army blanket swung from j two notes in one corner or tne.rem was the baby's crib daring the rest of tlint terrible winter campaign. With the collapse of the Russian armies after the Bolshevist revolution the Azgape tJans returned to Armenia for a brief pell and did their best to alleviate the suffering they found on every hand. ' Bat with a'Turkh price orr his head the father Anally made his way with bis family through Russia to Finland and then to this country. What they tell of conditions and needs In Armenia ' la first hand evidence. In the Caucasus, Armenia. Syria, Turkey and Persia are more than 2-V.-. 000 orphans, helpless little victims of war, massacre and deportation, and ' for the great majority the only bar be tween them and absolute starvation Is a bowl of hot bean soup every day. I This soup Is supplied by the Near East! Belief now making an appeal to the American people for sufficient funds to increase this dole and to pro Tide these suffering little ones with clothing and give them an education that will help them to become self sup-j porting. It Is estimated thnt mors than 1.500.000 In Western Asia will die of starvation unless American aid la continued. CHURCH COUNCIL . ENDORSES N.E.R, it Federal Body -Says No More Compelling Need in All the World. , Departing from custom, the Feder al Council of Churches has endorsed the work being done by Near East Relief, 1 Madison Avenue. New Tork City, the former committee for Ar menian and Syrian Relief which hat essayed the task or caring for t,230, OOO starring people in Western Asia. Resolutions adopted by the executive committee, as announced by Charles 8. Macfarland, general secretary, are as fotlowi : - "Tour committee recommends that prayers be offered In all our churches for the suffering children throughout th world, especially those who are la distress and peril as the result of th scar. "They further recommend that w reaffirm and emphaala our Interest and cooperation In the plans of 'Near East Relief.' We know of no need In the world that la mora com pelling than that of tha Armenian, Syrian and other people In the Le vant who have already received and must still receive the generous sym pathy of th American people." IN BREAD LINE More Than 1,030.030 Face Death Is Message Brought by Miss Dakeslan. Imagine a bread line of I'JOiOOO furn ished people waiting for twenty-four hours a day for the dole of food Unit la th sole barrier between them and death from starvation. That la the sljuntlon lu Atexandropol, a city In Russian Armenia. -rrd!ng to Ulsa IK-rnilne Dukeslnn. a pretty Armenian girl, on of th survivor of four year (Si MISS HERMINE DAKESIAN. of the horrors of Turkish massacres and deportations. Saved by an Ameri can woman, ahe has come to thia coun try and entered (merlin College. - With her came fourteen other Arme nian girls In charge of Mt Adelaide Si Dwlght, a Near East Relief worker, who haa been Instrumental in helping to save hundreds of thousand of their people from death by starvation ilia Dwlgtil, who IS not given to exagger ation and has seen conditions at drat hand, says more than a million people are faring death by starvation In Ar menia and will perlab unlvas America Ida. Herself an eyewitness, to the slauch ter of hundreds of helpless women and chlldreo by the Turk and a vic tim of the deportations. Miss Dake slan. an unusually pretty girl, say there la untold suffering In Armenia and Syria. She praises the efforts of the Near East Relief, formerly the American Committee for Armenian ami Syrian Relief, to save as many of these people aa possible. At Erivan. the capllal of the Armenian republic, one bot meal Is given out dally, and by this relief alone the -city1 death rat has been cut from a thousand dally to an average of twenty. At Alexundro pol. where the refugeea from Turkish Armenia were driven by thousand, the situation Is appalling, Miss Dakeslan says. It la to avert these wholesale deaths that Near East Relief Is making a nation-wide appeal for funds. Women teachers in the puLMc schools of Himilton, Ont., have been (ranted a wage increase of $200 a year. jjPllll1 Cffieade Opto. rn&trist. ALBANY. Oft CO. In England, in the sixteenth cen- tury, it was a common pracitce for tha men to smoke in church. I A COLD RELIEVER . 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