| Show northwest couple braves death to help armenia 0 A SON ot of the lias bas fallen alien one of the biggest most gratifying jobs connected with americas greathearted task of helping lie hoi valiant but ill fated ally bloo blooding dlug starving armenia back to health strength and self support samuel E M Ne newman of middleton idaho a graduato of the college of 0 idall idaho 0 a it ca dodl IV ell an army chaplain during the war and last year ear in ili charge of west vat washington headquarters of near east relief at sept tle tic has haa been picked ly by near east ilo lief to superintend a huge educational I 1 find auxiliary relict farm at alexan doropol armenia mrs newman new man his wife formerly niles miss ethel long ft a south idaho girl who Is a graduate of tile the college a at it caldwell too and also of the 0 A C with alth tile the class of 1920 has been placed tit in charge of tile the relief socie tys of alices ilces lit in the same saidie city the ilie newmans Newrn ans left seattle early last summer bummer for the actual relief field F for or the last few months they have been surrounded surround cd by maddening scones scenes of suffering rud and menaced hy by all manner of personal perils at a big orphanage center in Alexandr opol a death haunted hub of colossal human tail misery sery where mery day they see dozens die in tile the streets from starvation cholera and typhus for the want of food and care here mr newman Is witnessing tha the actual relief relict which food and funds fundo he personally helped to gather have made possible while hla his successor 8 1 F hazzard burke building seattle with fellow directors of near east relief in the northwest are arty ins ing hard tor for additional aid needed to curb th ill harvest of death just outside Alexandr opol on a 2000 aero acre tract with american beed aeed american machinery and a bavery battery of good tough american mules for motive power this big relief society lilt and conie conic in youre just jn fit hie he stcl 1 0 bitne for breakfast while I 1 was vias vi as cudgel ruy my brain in miln ili effort to recall what if any lp ill estuary y association there here should be dixi jg tie in tilt me hv by the mention attention of tin nn ike person tills pitt isaice pro pre anted himself ut lit tho cabin door ond and clumped Inui ped lit in with the legged walk of a man who tills has ridden horseback horg eback aar will hard I 1 knew then why hy I 1 bould halve been able to dl dig that memory memry ry association tills this was air isaae isaac my lily angelic friend of the overgrown silver star and vie fie unshaven c I 1 I 1 litel hull I 1 lie he grunted grun td thern griddle likes shore to do loot mighty righteous to late I 1 been I sense tw two hours afore sunup sun up wild gonse clinso c 11 ev couple 0 prospectors blew into angels liny acore antl sold said beell that con lunt itic that pot got loose front froni us nil busted up tip a car rr fr lie railroad thecil said seen him in tilt the lost creek placers pincers A lo 10 looney ncy said daddy hiram as innocent as n two weeks old wall lamb yep jep 1 that that stole un an inspection spec tion car fuld rot nt it fc mashed up anil than took to it hills you yet habrat I 1 seen an of bilm auve ye i enry a lunatic said daddy I 1 calmly calmar I 1 ills rtin itera friend isaac no dis to tc hur hurry away much to my any chagrin chaprin ch aprin lie he took tok time to n a leisure blile with dadda allram and to ersk it a lot of if about tilt the drowned mine heard nj liln win y er owners yat have ye rain he be to know after ns it seemed to ino ili tilt subject lind been pretty thoroughly jall talked vill I 1 to death I 1 lienard daddes daddys reply milde ftp As to 0 one tilt with whom the matter hird been canvass before So Noth thin ln hut but that clip clappin pin from goine soini newspaper hack back mam tellin about mr Dud dudleyy Dudle leyl yf pres n hiir kind kinda a cur curious louit somebody dont ye rint it the marshal put in ill looks loks me all p the heirs d he be elther pit her ir r cutin cu tin bolt on tills this here layout not as it tj do lean em any rood goof if they tit did any letter come collie with the new newspaper shaper piece nairy a pen was the envelope posted ahat said anil I 1 to myself 1 I linae you cousin percy for some reason bet best known to yourself you want daddy to in 10 hold of bonind father jespers In proper adart address ss I 1 ills pipe smoked out the tha marshal prep tired to ink anke e horse daddy went with hini him to tile the far side of the lie dump and tit the murmur of their voices came to me in cadences after al hit bit paddy add came hack back bild and cal called led up to tile me in the singsong sing song of tile the miners the flak final blast hns hats been fired A a 11 l 1 over I 1 reckon ye can co me down now find and get you some breakfast veatrile served me im in silence waw I 1 took my place nt at table and the good old ann mood in he door doorway wely kp keln keeping ln Il tIl n fix I 1 blinde no doubt against second return of nd ild isna the bristle bearded hoi hoitt tile the working lay day which tie e never made the t lie he episode of the mori mon T think whole 1 benk an n hurled birli d in to be continued mr newman and american funds funda will wl help armenia solve tier her own food and an reconstruction problems according to advises advices received reached by 1 ailes bleb Z fay F fowler of noise boise south soul W ak e ja i t mr and mrs mr samuel E newman photos graphed at a Alexandr opol with wll orphans salvaged from ranks of hun hu ger twenty TA enty thousand orphans ara ai cared tor for in this one city by near nei fast east relief director for near east relief relic mr newman succeeded tit in getting about acres of tho the Alexandr opol farm in winter wheat and will select aele seed eeoc for or the remainder from spring grain donated by american far carmelis melis this to is but ono one of several vast patches comprising moro more than acres of once fertile soll of armenia and southern russia laid waste by WAT war and ottoman vandalism to be brought b back a e k 1 into n t 0 p production 0 ti u c t to n next year a r b by y lor nex ar aza americas A n i eric a a a aid 1 through t 1 ir a i g h near N 1 t relief 1 e mile atile upon aulle lulle over this great expanse and littering millions of more leading back bac kAnto into old armenia now a desolated country of blackened ruins lay the unburied bones of countless victims grew somo relics of massacre war deportation and famine which have followed each other in a tragic procession during the last seven years nearly all labor upon the alexan doropol farm and the various others la Is being done by boys train from the orphanages of the near east relief who are being cure carefully fully trained in all phases of successful farming in order that they with the thousands of others being tutored in business and industry good citizenship and self govern I 1 ment may help belp salvage their country from ruin Ar men were practically practical ily exterminated holding the eastern front in the world war against the turks and saving asia to america and her allies after russia if A d deir d ted most afoot of tile the remnant that survived hau haite since ile perished ria lied in massacres and d dw that followed the coming coining of peace to the rest of the world find and in Ar final struggle against bolshevism and turkish invasion that continued till late last spring so these orph orphanage anake wards their sotto sona and their brothers broth rB who are alive today only because becart e of Awe americas Amerl rIcas cia care with those thousands still outside pleading tor for help which people of this district are helping to lo provide their support of near east relief must shoulder Bh the burdens of men in building a new near east bast over the blood soaked ruins of old asia minor |
