ORPHANS ARE HOPE
OF THE NEAR EAST
Oreqen Teacher Tell» of the
110.000 Children la American
Orphanage» **0ver There.”
Tbe hope of the auttre Near Kam
country, aorordtug to Miss M*t|are
Held, teacher la Jefferson High School
of F-rtlaad. who roxwaUy returned
from a term of aarvlce la tbs Near
East Relief orphanage« la Keaelan
Armenia, la bound ap la tbe 11S.0M
orphans b-lng fed. clothed, edv.wtej
and trained for farmlag aad tbe In
dustrial trad«.
7 hr continuous war# which have
tv pt thia unfortunate country since
1S14. she says. have loft it dovaatatod
and Its p. -pie helpless, starving and In
u-spalr before tbe Maggertag *«ak of
r<-. oust ruction.
“They are plodding •“
beat they
can. says Miaa Held, "but are con
tr mg all their bopea fur tbe future
ef the Armenian and Syrian races up
on llu.OoO children la the American
orphanages who are receiving careful
American training Oulatdr tbe orph
aacg-s there la practically no school
In»: or training to be bad
Rvery ef
fort must be directed towards the dif
ficult objective of tnorr physical sur
vival Many 12 year old children can
neither read uor writs This la be
cause war has swept that country ever
Tbsoe boya and girla are
since 1»H
fri m well educated families, and real
lilng how handicapped they are. they
cotne to the orphanages and offer to
glv up part of tbelr food if they can
b. given schooling. From tbe dsetl
tut
families come mothers ta rags
and tatters, thin and hollow eyed from
hut x. r, offering to make any sacrifice
If w will only establish schools for
th. Ir children • • • la all the orph
atu ><-s the children are being taught
to t nd. write and figure In tbelr own
language Tbe older and brighter chll-
<Jr. n receive Instructioa in geography,
bls ory and English Because bread Is
needed so much more than education,
w- cannot afford a sufficient number
of teachers to teach personally all tbs
children, so our few teachers give tbelr
extra time to ths bright pupils, wbo
ar- able, in a short time, to serve as
teachers tor tbe others. Tbaee sbll
driu are marveloualy Industrious
Practically all ths worb of my orpb
aiiagn was carried on by tbe children,
who did all tbe cleaning sewing, cook
ing and laundry work, also helping In
the hospital work and allalaal treat
n
r nine that every penny of
American money must go f»r tbelr sup
port and to help other children hasp
alive, co the boys of our orphanage
wb. ti they wanted a ewlmmlag pool.
du> the hole the
SpringHats
For men are here
Men who understand the
distinction between auth
entic style and temporary
fads buy our hats r ot only
because they look so well
but because they look well
SO LONG.
See the new shapes.
prices $2.45 to $7.
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At 10 per cent Below Other Dealer’s Prie es
Until Further Notice
14 inch Chilled Plows, $1 7.00. 10 per cent off for cash, $15.30
All machinery at prices in proportion, horse and tractor driven
tools included. I have them in stock.
/\lso 1 he
10-18 CASE TRACTOR
Including 2 14 inch plows or disc for $835 F. O. B. Scio
rhoroughly equiped with belt pulley, fenders and every thing to
do farm work. Your choice of lugs, angle iron or spoke lugs.
Come in and get prices, no matter what make of tractor you have
N. I. Morrison
Hardware
without supper twl-e a week for many
weeks In order to buy the cement and
the labor of the workmen to finish IL
"When the little refugee children
come into our orphanage« they are
always la a moot pitiable condition—
dirty, covered with vermin, clad only
tn filthy ruga, and many of them af
flicted with »cable«, trachoma and oth
or diseases resulting from starvation,
exposure and lack of cars Tbs first
task la to clean tbe child thoroughly,
shave Its head and treat the eyes and
scabies sores
Next comes a system
of careful feeding, last tbe food prove
fatal to the famished and emaciated
little bodies la about two weeks the
little waifs are able to rua about, but
it takes a year or more to make them
ever into normal, wholesome children.
Their Joy and bappluoea In the pern
dlao of an American orphanage Is the
thing that makes It puoalble for an
Americas worker to eadurv the sights
that moot be seen on tbe outside of tbe
orphanage walls every day But happy
as they are. these little ossa never
seem to forgot tbe awful things they
have been through We had one llttlo
boy earned Joha. four years old. who
for weeks after being admitted, would
steal the shoes of the other boys, tbelr
books, food from the kitchen, every-
thing This was because the only wap
be had of keeping alive all kia life,
bad been by steeling Another boy of
six years would sit by tbe door, for
dsys after be came, with hie hands out
begging for food, despite the fact that
be was receiving three meals a day
It was hard to make him understand
that he still did aot have to beg for
food
A touryear-old boy wbo had
spent tbs previous winter begging la
a ruined village and sleeping at night
among tbe sheep had a perfect horror
of being seat away from tbo orphan
age Ono day bo recognised two women
visitors wbo cams frees tbo raised vll
lag« where be had begged when scarce
ly more than a baby, aad be raa to
me sobblag aad In terror, pleading
with me not to let them take him away
Tbe boy wbo ran my errands was 11
years oM an Armenian Hr had seen :
bis entire family killed before bls eyea
la a Turkish massacre Hiding among
tbe mlns be -craped tnasesers. but
I day was found by some Arabs,
took him lats the dr sort and
Oelr slave for u»e year#
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he was ree. Urd by
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and
brought la our orphsna
“Tbe personal hlsiory of • .< h llttle
srphan ta a tragedy In I - r and no
eae bei thooe in ciooe toui-h wlth th-ee
MtUe oae« can know thelr I- p grell
tude and reverenc» for *
hing Amer
ican Thia gratltude and r-v-r n<-> la
ualvereal throughout all that land ot
eerrow. where the heip x hand ofj
America. Ihrougk th-
.r Kuet Re-
lief, haa aaved hundr—ta of houMUda
from death by otarvatlon and i day
öftere the oaly hop. for n «urvival
and rehabllltatlea of ibese traglcally
strichen racea"
DO NOT BE IN HURRY
IN STORMY V/EATHER
Some Drivers Have Real Fear
Something May Happen.
ralba, ara (t- no venae a clanger, yet
It la well to observe proper precaution
and play safe The reason for driving
at a elower speed In the winter
months than during the summer Is thal
a motorrar raaaot be brought to an
abrupt atop as easily on a »et i>ave
mein as la the caae no a dry at ret ch
of roadway. The brakes may ha ap
piled but If the car la going at a high
rate of .peed It la not at all certain
that It will not elide just enough to
raune a rnlllaina at a curve or a rail
r.>ad crooning "
Hibler
Last Oheoa-ve Use of Arrow#.
The last oflViiatve use of the h-w
wra» to have wcrorred In 1701. alirti
turn gentlemen fought a duel trim
bows ami arrow« at Edinburgh. shoot*
llig three arrow« each without dam-
»«Ing each other
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furi I« an ••X'Wllent thins an<f
mu« have facta to write about ;
you should realise that even a
fact l-rf-re It la ready for presentation
mu«l he mt and i-ollahed llhe a din-
tumid— Jame« Bryce
Gill Co
General Merchandise
Careful Incpoclien af Car Safara Sa
finning Lengthy Journey and
Uaa af Plenty ef Cammon
Sanaa Ara lasontial.
gems automobile driver« have a reel
fear eg driving in UM •• " rains
along city pavements ami country
highways There la a cotmtant dread
la tbo mind that something adverse
may happen at a critical moment . the
«ar may skid, Cometh Ing may go
wrung with tbe electing gear or the
automobile stay fall to perft-na up
tbe proper standard In neg<>«|»ting a
«teep grade
-pears of winter driving would h-
greatly lessened,’ declared K E Oslo
ter. director of sole« f<>r fb- Slender
'Meet Automotive ewrporatWa, “If th.
motorist would use plenty
commm
•cnee In the matter nt actual driving
together with a careful Inspectl«m o
hie automobile before a lenrthy jour
nay la undertaken one of the really
great errors that a driver ran make
la traveling during the winter months
la to Imagine that he can pr-ce- d at
the mn»e rate of speed ft- it Is p»e
Bible during tbe dry ' -
■Of rouree the pavement* after the
wastje-1 off b> th« early
Hibler & Gill Co.
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