New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 4, 1922, Page 12

P — S S o P - : I NEAR EAST REPORT SHONS MONEY SPEN American Government and People ¢ Feeding Starving Peoples * Washington, April 4 Ameri can people and the United Stutes gov e€rnment have contributed and the Near East relief has disbursed $63, §00,000 In the last six years for the relief of distressed peoples of thel Near East relief submitted to con gress today by Charles V. Vickrey, general secretary The amount includes $12,500,000 worth of flour obtained through the “United States Grain corporation and American relief administration Vickrey's Report Mr, Viekrey's report cstimates that at least 1,000,000 persons, chiefly Ar menians and members of exiled sub ject races are living in the Near East today who would have perished had *“t not been for American relief, There are approximately 100,000 children who have been kept alive and are safe today chiefly because they are! under the protection of American re llef workers, the report states | Mr. Vickrey and his associates in formed congress that conditions are worse throughout the Near Fast to- day than they have been at any time since the armistice. Th tribut- ed to the enforced exile of Armenian people from their ancestral homes in the warfare hetween sts and the Greeks, the cutting off of food supplies from the north and the influx of tens of thousands of Russian, Greek, Jewish and other refuges from the famine areas of Russia. Scores of Deaths Scores of deaths are reported to he occurring daily from the starvation in Erivan, Alexandropol, Karakliss and cities of* Russian Armenia; while hundreds of thousands of Armenian refugees from Cilicia and Anatolia are today homeless and dependent upon American relief. It is asserted in the report that there are at least 100,000 orphans or dependent chiidren in the territory where the Near Iast relief operates ‘who can not he cared for with its present resources. More than a thousand American citizen engaged in the distribution of Of these this $63,800,000 since 1015, 280 are now stationed in relief cen- ters in the former Ottoman empire ‘caring for the orphans, refugees and ‘destitute. Mzny of these are volun-| teers glving their services without pay or at a minimuin bas!'s of main- terance. Several of them have given their Jives by contracting contngious \diseases while at their work of re- Alef Refugees A disproportionately large number of the refugees are declared to be or- iphaned children whose parents per- £4ched in the massacres and deporta- ‘tions or subsequent hardships of the swar, Many of them have no living _rélatives to give them even partial “support and some of them were or- kphaned so young that they do not know their own names and have been given names by the American ‘relief workers. Fifteen thousand of ‘them, said to be the largest assem- biage of orphans in the world's his. Rory, are in one orphanage at Ale: andropol and the Near East relief hos 128 other orphanages in various portions of the former Ottoman em- pire. Besides it has two large or- phanages in Palestine and more than *2,000 orphan children are supported tn Syria.. The report shows that the Near ‘East relief maintains 29 hospitals, 59 elinics and conducts or supervises spe- citl dispensary or sanitary work. i Required To Work Wherever practical the refugees are required to do industrial work . either outside or within the institu- "tions. The orphans in the Alexan- dropol home recently produced 18,000 Upairs of socks in one week. ' American tractors and seed wheat recently have been sent under the di- _rection of experienced American agri- eulturists to enable the refugees to become self-supporting by farming. + In the past year, more than 2,000, 000 pounds of old clothing has been fsent to the refugee camps and the re | ies in flesh and blood. pest states that *an old suit from America is worth more in purchasing power than government notes for 100,000 rubles. NEWSPAPER RAIDIN IRELAND BIG PLOT Belief Is That Plan Was to Cap- ture Gity of Dublin London, April 4, (By Associated Press).—It is widely believed in Dub- lin that the armed raid on the plant of the Freeman's Journal yesterday morning was part of a project for the seizure of the whole city which failed through lack of forces, says the Daily Mail correspondent. The raid created a great sensation and there was considerable uneasiness last night, the people expecting some fresh colp by the republicans. The NEW BRITAIN Winding Up The A new recruit for Uncl Watch On The Rhin ; No fear of “entapgling European a]li_zmces” here. These are French and German brides of Am- erican doughboys arriving on the Cambrai with little German-American and Franco-American treat- DAILY HERALD, The first of the last, so to speak. These soldiers on the transport Cambrai being the first to arrive in America since the order recalling all U. S. troops from Germany. | brought back the last of the American dead coming from France. The Cambrai also TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1922, Year ’Round There is nothing better than the delicious stimulation of LIPTON'S TEA Largest Sale in the World EDUGATIONAL BODY OFFERS BIG PRIZE Claims Schools Are Only Solution to Problems of Democracy Washington, D. €., April 4.-—The right solution of the problem of de- e Sam arrived when Master Sergeant C. Stewart returned from Germany on the Cambrai with his war bride and bouncing baby boy. latter's claim of big sccessions from the free state section of the Irish republican army, including half the forces guarding the Bank of Ireland, has been given wide publicity and seems to have added to the nervous- ness throughout the city. The Daily Mail in printing the dis- patch appends a phone operators in Dublin cut theé connection during the trans- three machines were misslon of the message which is in- complete. Fquipment Ruined. Latest reports agree that, although rotary note that the tele-|preventing suddenly | from issuing a complete there was only slight and the fourteen linotype ruined in the raid, Freeman's Journal newspaper loss from fire, WHAT wWiLL 1 OH, MOTHER, WEAR TO THe THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME! and nearly all the damage is covered ening Telegraph is published the same plant and consequently about 450 persons have been thrown {out of employment by the raid. REPAIR WORK COSTLY Y O ds Work Done on Loco- motives on Two Lines Costs Three Million More in Outside Shops. Washington, April 4.—Contracts with outside locomotive construction companies during 1920 for the repair of engines cost the New York Central and Pennsylvania railroads each ap- { proximately $3,000,000 more than the same work would e cost in their own shops, the inte te commerce comm on found today after an in- vestigation, The Atlantic Coast line railroad, however, which also contracted re- pair work out to locomotive construc- tion shops during 1920 was justified in so doing, the commission held, cven though it also incurred excessive costs. Five members of the commission dissented from findings of the major- ity censuring the sPennsylvania and New York Central. BRIDE IS KILLED Attempted to Light Stove, Gas Blew Up, Bride Blown to Bits York, April 4.—Mrs. David . a bride of four days was killed by an explosion of gas when she attempted to light a stove at her home in the Bronx. The police expressed belief that, inexperienced in cooking, she had left a burner on and had struck a match on returning to thé gas filled Kitchen. Her canary, blown through the bars lad dead beside her. of its cage ROSE COGHLAN ILL | Noted Actress is 71 Years Old—Ap- peared in Deburau, New York, April 4.—Miss Rose Coghlan, 71 years old one of the most noted actresses on the English speaking stage, is critically ill in her home here. A 3 Miss Coghlan appeared in “Deburau.” b and means designed to obta er moral results from L studies rather than a moral program | ucation, to be added to the curriculum, mocracy “can only come through the schools,” according to a plan for “better developed character training in the public schools” for which a | prize of $20,000 has been fl\\'Ul‘l](‘(]‘ under the auspices of the (‘hnl';n'll‘l“ Education Institution. The winning, plan was prepared by the following | research committee in Towa: Prof. D. ! Starbuck of Iow State. Universit airman; H. Blackmar, superin- dent of public schools, Ottumwa; B. Colgrove, president of Upper Inwa Unive Ifayette; Prof. Cram and Prof. A. C. Fulier o ers college, Cedar Falls; Prof, 17 . Horn of Towa State University; 17 H, Hus- | kill, former superintendent of schools | at Waterloo; Prof. Herbert Martin of | Drake University, Des Moines; J. D. Stoops of Grinnell college, Grin- nell, Prof. the Institution. The The winning plan proposes ways 1 great- regular the “The right organization of the school can alone go far toward solv- |of the ing the character training problems,” | Psychology says the plan. judgment of one's peers is the ]\mrt} national “To feel the collective Rotarians Unveil tions of the country attended. of moral impulse,” it continues, ing cases where school discipline was exercised by the group will rather than through the me authority of the teacher. "“A modicum of student participation (in school government) is a saving grace if it assures a feel- | ing of membership in the school com- munity and sets free pent up powers undertaken should be pression. The problems hy student government) 51’11{”\'5 size." - One chapter presents three rating | s for measuring improvement in character. Incorporated. Iducation Institu- re-incorporated. ite of incor- e mainten- The Character [ tion has just been According to its certifi poration it aims to inclh The competition was conducted be-;ance of itself as an cndowed national tween committees of nine appointed |institution with a special faculty vor by a committee of selection which in the development of character educa- turn was appointed by the exccutive tion of children and youth, under the committee of and leadership of professional control chairman of the winning committee | ediicators, receives $4,000; each of the other The membs ip is limited to the eight collaborators, $2,000. {chairman ¢ : institution, the chief ‘Ways Proposed. expcutive officers of education of the the United States Com- Ldueatio 1 member of f of the I"ederal Bureau of ed- 1 ted by the Commis- s the | sioner, the & ryv of the National Education ascocizfion, the chairman Division of Anthropology and of national research of the mothers, the seerela | council, congress ol nl'—: |that are wanting an avenue of ex-| Tablet To Hero Crawford C. McCullough, right, Rotary International Presi- dent, and Secretary of the Navy Denby, member of the Detroit Rotary club, unveil the Rotary tablet to the Unknown American Soldier in Arlington National cemetery. Rotarians from all sec- the dean of a school of ed- ucation within the District of Colum- bia or vicinity, the superintendent of public schools, of the District of Col- | umbia, and a member of the staff of the public schools of the District of Columbia, and the present life di- | rectors of the national institution for moral instruction, the parent organ- ization of the institution. WILL ENTERTAIN VETS ent Commander Of G. A. Ry Depa And Staff Will Be Guests Of Stanley Post Tomorrow Evening. Stanley Post, G. A. will enteme tain the commander, | Christian Swartz, of South Norwalk, and his staff tomorrow evening at 8 R., department o'clock. Members of Woman's Relief corps, Mrs. C. R. Starr, president, and of the Sons of Veferans' Auiliary, Mrs. E. I%.' Lewis, president, will furnish sup- Supper will be per for the guests. servad at 6:30 in the G. A. R. hall, at 160 Main street, The chairman of the local commit- tee in charge of arrangements is Past Department Commander 17 V. Street- Comrade Streeter has provided a sing entertainment for the even- er, ing. - The Magic Carpet OU could (sit on the fabled carpet of Bagdad and do was wish. t You can pick up this paper and in fifteen minutes know what the different shops are offering in the way of fabries, patterns, varieties and qualities of almost any- thing you want. The advertisements introduce you to the latest styles— Advertising is a sort of magic carpet. Read it and in the nkling of an eye you can review the merchandise of the world, pictured and displayed for your benefit. view the world. In the whisk of an eyelash it would carry you any place you wanted to go. All you had to the newest comforts for the home—the best of the world’s inventions. They tell you how to buy, where to buy and when to buy.- They keep you posted on things necessary to feed and clothe you and your family and make you comfortable and happy. Read the advertisements as a matter education. them to keep abreast of progress. Read Read the advertisements regularly. i