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Famous Women Adopt Armenian Waifs mmum flgtfmeia s~z .:::::. ..::::.: . .. : cu'mt . SMRS.CAP2.RiE CHAPMAN CATT MRS. OLIVEP. FARRIMAN i!":i ... .'. i.:. i .. '~~: ::?." .9.:::.,. ...ir... ADOPTED 'ARMENIAN 'WAIFS There are at least three happy little Armenians in this 'holiday season among the more thtan a quarter of a million pitiable little waifs who are nllo'en t vietins of Turkish barbarity. These three have found fairy god mothers in Itese' famous Aileriean women, Mrs. Woodrow Wils, , wife of the President; Mrs. Oliver Harriman and Mrs. Carrie C'lpmnnn Catt. It is hopled that tlhousanils of other .\merican wo lien will follow these distinguished leaders and signalize the 'ind hbdidlay se:son in America by ma;in ig lhappy in the satfle way thoiusaniids of other little orphans in the far-off stricken laun where they now are being cared for by Near East ilelief, 1 Madison Ave S 1'. ..I a . . ean a ft a an Aia1en# Burlap Bag His Only Garment ive the chance. .9 .. ..4 '. . • ,.:. .. : SPOSTER BASED ON ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN AT ERIVAN, AR MENIA, BY DR" M " LITTLEFIELD He is only one of 2£50,000 helldess child vicltims of Turkish cruelty and oppression in W\estern Asia. Clad just as he stands in thle picture this forlorn little fellow, with hunger-strickeni cheeks, hopeless wont I and fniil, starvedl body, was found wandering hi the streets of Igdir, Arnoiaeiii, by Dr. Multon S. Littletield of the Near East Relief. He wts taken to a Near East Relief orphanage, where it was found that his only earthly possession was the single garmeunt in which he stdotl--a worn, patehed blanket made flrom a lburlaI sack. 'I saw this ragged little feliew oii one of the lush'st lnisine'ss st reels of Frian not far from the orphanage" said Dr. Titleti 1e was wandering ailieQly about and no one was paying the slightvst at lent ion to him. I did not pose hini the picture shows just the way he stood when I backed him up against a nearby wall." The photograph Is the basis of a striking poster now being distributed by Near East Relief. I·:.·j-8Sli..".: ·..: •::~:~:: :~ ..R :: i< :,, ,,. " ., :i ~ i!:i.iii~ ~::.:) : ::/]i :!iiii i!!i . . ~horn' ··,;·i 9::~;~:r::lik ::: "::~:::::··Y POTE BAE NATA HTGAHTKNA RVN R MEIB R . .LTLFED .·e· isolyoe f25,00hlpPseih icis f'luk:hcretyat opprsioni (senAi.Ca ut:~ e trd ntepvueti olr litle ellwwit htl~gr-tl'ekol elek.%llo~ol. notlh ;l~ frilstqvo hody wasfotld w~l~ltril} In he sreet of g~li, Ari:3:iia, :y r. Mlto 8. ZTthfil f.teNarEs Rlo'.lP ' ·· taken : to ·· a : NerFstRle o.'pltaagt,, were it as foud that is onlyearthl l.s::inwt tesnh v~u'ent n w ich e stod -tl V~l3, l:tcod ~lal~t~tllluh, 'i')111I1 b rla) s .('k "Isa tisragd itlefehw i neofte us~s I|.ql,.qrol f by 'er Eas Reief An 4merican.$2 Bill Did This Motherless, fatherless, homeless. nameless, hungry a.d clad gnly in rags, the pathetic little three-year-old shown at the left wandered into a Near East Relief orphanage In Ar menia. Another photograph of the same child, shown at the right, was taken a week later, this time showing him happy, well clothed and well fed. Somewhere in America is the happy man or woman who contributed the $2 bill which wrought this miracle. More than a quarter million other helpless little victims of Turkish cruelty and oppression are knocking at the doors of the Near East Relief orphanages in Western Asia. Many more American $2 bills are needed, now to let them in and to care for them until they can SEFORE, or themselve AFTER. an fo t, .. . _ . . t1 ...."A WOMEN WAR WORKERS, EAGER TO SERVE, GO TO AID ARMENIANS Mary Vail Andrees, Only Woman to Receive Distinguished Serv ice Medal, Heads Party. Dissatisfied with uneventful civilian life, after two years' vivid experience as workers abroad In the world war, a party of young women, led by Miss Mary Vail Andrees, of New York City, have just gone to the Near East, MISS MARY VAIL ANDREES, Distinguished Service Heroine Who Now Gots to Near East. where nearly a million people are suffering from disase and starvation. Miss Andrees had returned to this country after serving for the Red Cross, but when she read of the sad plig~lt of the Armnenians, she at once offered her services to Near East Re lief, the former American Comlittee on Armenian and Syrian Relief, whlic, already has saved thousands of lives in Western Asia. Miss Amdrees is the only American woman war worker who was awarded the I istinguished Service Medal by ('mm,-ress. :tLost of the other umembers of her party like wise served vilth honor for the ie(l Cross and ether war service organi zations. Among the other members of the group are the .Misses Frances and Betty Anderson of New Canaan, Coun., who were decorated with the Croix tie Guerre by the French Government; Miss Margaret M~lne of Washington, I). C., who was a member of the Hoover Relief Commission for Ru mania, and Miss.Alex Sidney, an Eng. lish woman who served for three years with the British Relief Commission in Serbia. Miss Doris Nevin, anotheri member of the party, is a daughter of the late Ethelbert Nevin, the com poser. Col. William N. ITaskePl', commis sIoner to the Near East for the Parls Peace Commission and official repre sentative of the Near East Relief, has cabled that the relief workers now In the field are overwhelmed by the mag nitude of their task. Col. Haskell says 800,000H) .\Armenian. will starve before the next harvest unless they are.given aid ahd 120,000 orphan children face death fromn hunger and exposure. Thousands of refugees are daily be ing brought to the relief centers frot the deserts. •~~~~· . , ,/.;. DESRBLEt UCHRISTMAS GOODS Old Ivory [t(oilet r,,1 Complete or by the single article. Traveling Cases In leather and fully equipped. Ivory Picture Frames J Clocks Ever go along the str Perfumes cursing inwardly at a pai of shoes that squawked 4 In fancy bottles. every step? They didn't come fro Fancy Stationery here. We don't make shes to Linen and Silk Handkerchiefs make music--our shoesn made to wear well, lookwel At various prices. and feel right--with neys a squeak or a.squawk. Silk Elastic We're here every day - For Fancy Garters. sell you the right kind _ shoes. Leather and Velvet Handbags The latest mode. Beautiful Christmas Boxes All sizes. Decorated Powder Puffs All the above and numerous other articles appropriate for gifts, s to be appreciated for usefulness and daintiness. Do your Christmas shopping EARLY, when you will have time and opportunity to make c. good choice. LOVE BROS., Inc., FA CRIPPLED SCHOOL CHILD SAVED BY RED CROSS SECRETARY. A strange lady stopped a group of chillren who were on their way to the :.ountry school. She had noticed them iragging a young boy along the rough road. "You musn't do that," she told them. "Why don't you let your little 3laymate walk?" One of the boy's bright-eyed little .aptors spoke up: "Aw, lady, can't ya see Willie's a :ripple? He can't walk." The lady did see, now. And she ac om:,panied the children home. It was i home of poverty, of wretched squalor. The mother of the crippled boy in. .ormed the visitor she had no money :o h:,y crutcher for her son, who was t victim of infantile paralysis. That was three weeks ago. Today ;he boy is walking again, feebly and incertainly, but successfully. The itrange lady was a Red Cross Home Service secretary, and she sent the boy from the town in Mississippi. where she found him, to the Crippled Chil iren's Hospital in Memphis, where a successful operation was performed. The Peace Program of the Red Cross provides for the continuation of such activities as this. The local Red jross organization will conduct a irive November 2 to 11, for the pur pose of extending Red Cross service in tl : community. Sheriff Sale.-No. 3317. D. D. McElveen Va. G. H. and Mary Creel. Notice is hereby given that by vir tue of an order of seizure and sale issued out of the 26th tJudicial District Court of La., in and for Wash ington Parish, in above entitled cause, and to me directed, I will proceed to sell at public auction to the last and highest bidder, on Saturday, January 17, 1920 at the principal front door of the court house at Franklinton, La., between the legal sale hours for judicial sales, the following described property, be ing and situated in Washington Par ish, Louisiana, to-wit: The north half (ni) of the south west quarter (swi) of section three (3); in Township two (2) south, Range eleven (11) east, St. Helena Meridian. Terms of sale-Cash without benefit of appraisement. This the 9th day of December, 1919. J. E. Bateman, Sheriff. 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