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Show NORTHWEST FLOUR -REAL LIFE SAVERS . Provides Food and Clothes for Destitute; Milk Cans Become Tin Cups. .... f:l The accompanying photograph of a bright Near East youngster, clothed in a Walla Walla. Washington flour sack, is strikingly significant of what aid given by the people of this northwest north-west has meant to the sufferers from homelessness and want in Asia Minor, and to what far distant points Northwest North-west products have gone on their errands er-rands of mercy. This picture was snapped at Erivan, capital of Armenia, hy Dr. Sherman i L. Divine, 722 Peyton building. Spokane, Spo-kane, during his recent trip as northwest north-west chairman of the Near East Relief, Re-lief, to investigate conditions in the heart of that country, Southern Russia and Bible lands. It is in that vast region of famine, disease and death, that the Near East Relief, backed by publicly subscribed funds, is battling to save the remnants of once powerful power-ful races from final extinction by starvation, star-vation, and training the orphans for self-support. With other big supplies of flour, purchased with Northwestern contributions contri-butions from the mills of Washington, Washing-ton, Idaho, Utah and Montana, the original content of the sack in the picture was dispatched to Armenia -. ;: . -... I f - y IV ' I i " 4 v 3 ( , W2iF A reminder of Northwest philanthropy philan-thropy a once-starving boy in the heart of Armenia, clothed in a Walla Walla flour sack. several months ago. There, with milk from the condensaries of these same districts, and with other Northwest food, it helped to save this little fellow fel-low and thousands of others like him, who were nearly dead of hunger. Then, while the milk tins were fashioned by the rescued children into cups for the orphanages, hospitals and clinics of Near East Relief, the flour sacks became their own new "spring suits." It was a simple operation, requiring re-quiring only the cutting and hemming hem-ming of a hole in the bottom for the head to stick through; cutting off the corners and sewing meal sack sleeves to them. Rather breezy and not very stylish, but warmer and far better in every way than the filthy rags in which they were found starving in the streets. "In our orphanages we now have about 120,000 little boys and girls who would have died of hunger and exposure exposure long ago but for America's timely aid, much of which has come from out here in the Northwest," North-west," states Dr. Divine. "Outside, without food and without even so much as a flour sack to protect pro-tect them from the biting blasts of winter, there are more than 300,000 others, just as worthy, pleading at our orphanage doors for admission crying cry-ing for something to eat, something to wear. We must have more funds, more food, more clothes if we are to save them." |