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Show I Northwest Couple Braves Death to Help Armenia MiiitiJ.Miwai'.qniawii'.ui.-''iJiiiiwmiiBiMMMiMMipi Mt. Newman and American funds will help Armenia solve her own food and reconstruction problems. According to advices received by Miss Z. Fay Fowler of Boise, South OA SON of the Nonnwesi; has fallen one of the biggest, most gratifying jobs connected connect-ed with America's great-hearted great-hearted task of helping her valiant, but ill-fated ally bleeding, starving Armenia back to health, strength and self-support. Samuel E. Newman of Middleton. Idaho, a graduate of the College of Idaho at Caldwell, an army chaplain during the war, and last year in charge of West Washington headquarters head-quarters of Near East Relief at Seattle, Seat-tle, has been picked by Near East Relief Re-lief to superintend a huge educational and auxiliary relief farm at Alexan-dropol, Alexan-dropol, Armenia. Mrs. Newman, his wife, formerly Miss Ethel Long, a South Idaho girl, who is a graduate of the college at Caldwell, too, and also of the O. A. C. with the class of 1920, has been placed in charge of the ilief society's offices of-fices in the same city. The Newmans left Seattle early last summer for the actual relief field. For the last few months they have been surrounded by maddening scenes of suffering and menaced by all manner of personal perils at a big orphanage center in Alexandropol a death-haunted death-haunted hub of colossal human misery, where every day tney see dozens die in the streets from starvation, cholera and typhus for the want of food and care. Here. Mr. Newman is witnessing the actual relief which food and funds he, personally, - helped to gather, have made possible, while his successor, S F. Hazzard. 339 Burke building, Seattle, Se-attle, with fellow directors of Neat East Relief in the Northwest are driving driv-ing hard for additional aid needed to curb the harvest of death Just outside Alexandropolon a 2000-acre 2000-acre tract, with American seed, American Ameri-can machinery and a "battery" of good, tough American mules for motive Dower, tiis big relief society, through grain donated by American farmers. This is. but one of several vast patches comprising more than 180,000 acres of once fertile soil of Armenia and Southern Russia, laid waste by war and Ottoman vandalism, to be brought back into producfion next year by America's aid through Near East Relief. Re-lief. Mile upon mile over this great expanse and littering millions of acres more, leading back into old Armenia, now a desolated country of blackened ruins, lay the unburied bones of countless count-less victims grewsome relics of massacre, mas-sacre, war, deportation and famine, which have followed each other in a tragic procession during the last seven years. j Nearly all labor upon the Alexan-! Alexan-! dropol farm and the various others, is being done by boys from the orphanages orphan-ages of the Near East Relief, who are being carefully trained in all phases of successful farming in order that they, with the thousands of others, being tutored in business and indus-I indus-I try, good citizenship and self-govern-i ment, may help salvage their country from ruin. Armenia's men were practically exterminated ex-terminated holdjng the eastern front in the World War against the Turks and saving Asia to America and her allies after Russia had deserted. Most of the remnant that survived have since perished in massacres and deportations de-portations that followed the coming of peace to the rest, of the world, and in Armenia's final struggle against Bolshevism and Turkish invasion that ' continued till late last spring. So, these orphanage wards, their , sons and their brothers who are alive today only because of America's care, with those thousands still outside j pleading for help, which people of this i district are helping to provide through ' their support of Near East Relief, must shoulder the burdens of men in bnild- ing a new Near East over the blood-1 blood-1 soaked ruins of old Asia Minor. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Newman, photographed at Alexandropol with orphans salvaged from ranks of hunger. hun-ger. Twenty thousand orphans are cared for in this one city by Near East Relief. Idaho's director for Near East Relief, Mr. Newman succeeded in getting about SOT acres of the Alexandropol farm In winter wheat, and will select seed for the remainder from spring |