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MONSTER RULES
IN ASIA MINOR
American Woman Physician Tells
of Osman Agah, Known as
“Tyrant of Kerasoom.”
ACKNOWLEDGES NO MASTER
T hreatena to Kill Anyone Who Aids
Suffering Armenians In Any Way-
Dr. Norton Contracts Trachoma
While Treating Children.
New York.—lf science eventually
succeeds In checking the ravages of
trachoma, the scourge of ancient
Egypt, and since the beginning of his
tory one of the most baffling of human
nilments, the achievement will be due
In no small measure to Dr. Blanche
Norton, an American woman physician,
who herself contracted the disease
while treating Greek and Armenian or
phans in the Near Bast relief orphan
age In Kerasoom, a little village on
the Asia Minor coast of the Black sen.
Though suffering severely from a
virulent attack of the malady, Dr. Nor
ton came to Constantinople, and dur
ing her treatment —one of the most
painful known to physicians —she con
tinued her efforts In behalf of the tra
chomous thousands of the Levant. As
a result, a hospital has been opened
In the Sultan's capital capable of car
ing for nbout 400 Greek and Armenian
orphans at one time.
In recognition of her service at Ker
asoom, where her patients were large
ly orphans of Greek parentage, the
Greek government conferred on her
the War Cross of King George—the
first woman to be so honored.
25 Per Cent of Children Afflicted.
“Trachoma is more prevalent and
a greater menace than we realize',”
Dr. Norton declared on returning to
New York to complete her treatment.
"In the Armenia and Greek orphan
ages in Constantinople an extensive
survey revealed more than 25 per cent
of the children suffering from the dis
ease. In addition, there are thou
sands of adults and Turkish children
tn the city who become infected.”
Tlie high degree of contagion of tra
choma, according to Dr. Norton, is one
of its worst aspects. She caught it
when one of tlie children she was
treating was seized with a violent fit of
sneezing and shook a tiny molecule
of the discharge from his eyes Into
hers.
“Maybe it Is a good thing that I
caught the disease, however,” she said.
“I begin to think that sometimes it
Is well for a doctor to suffer from the
disease he or she treats to any ex
tent. Until I had to undergo the treat
ment I never realized the pain that I
Inflicted on those tiny little waifs in
the damp sclioolhou.se cellar in Kera
soom where they were segregated.”
“Tyrant of Kerasoom."
It was while treating these orphans
that Dr. Norton met Osman Agah, “the
tyrant of Kerasoom,” an erstwhile fish
erman who fought In the World war,
returned with a wooden leg, and be
enme a hero in the eyes of his towns
people.
“He is the most fearful creature I
ever saw,” she said. “Tlie native
Christians that have so far escaped his
wrath live In abject terror of him and
of the band of mountain robbers that
he has surrounded himself with.
“Few Armenians are left in the
town. Most of them died of starva
tion in the streets, with no one to help
them. For Osman had promised to
have killed immediately anyone who
might dare to feed or aid them in any
way. He has placed oil and gasoline
all about the outskirts of tlie town
and had threatened to set It afire and
drag all the Greek population to the
mountains If allied warships or allied
troops attempt to move against him.
lie is holding the leading Greeks of
tlie city as hostages. No Christian is
allowed to leave the city. Mustapha
Kemal lilmseif could not move him,
for Osman acknowledges no one to be
his mnster. He Is the most absolute
tyrant that, I believe, has existed since
the days of Imperial Rome.
“The brigands that this creature lias
gathered about him are at once the
most fearful and the most wonderful
group of men I have ever seen.”
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Travel 8,000 Miles So
Child Will Be American
Omaha, Neb. Fearing to
leave any question as to the
citizenship of their expected
child, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton
Byam came to Omaha from Mon
tevideo, Uruguay, and little
Joeann first blinked her eyes In
an American hospital In this
city. Mr. Byam is manager of
the Morris Packing company
plant In Uruguay and accom
panied his wife on tlie 8,000
mile trip.
Death In the Midst of Gayety.
'chmond, Tnd.—Myrtle Biddle, aged
n, tried on her Halloween party
i show It to her two little
arks from burnt cork she
cken her face set fire
'>umed to death.
Caught,
marsupial,
hut re
in a
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CHILD SAVING WORK
IN ARMENIA TOLD
BY AN AMERICAN
Charles V. Vickrey Gives Facts
of Near East Relief Pro
gram for Orphans.
Charles V. Vickrey, general secre
tary of the Near East Relief, has re
turned from a trip of Inspection
throughout Central Europe and the
Near East, and made n report to the
trustees of the Near East Relief in
which he covers in detail the actual
work of child saving now being con
ducted by the great American relief
organization in the Near East. Mr.
Vickrey believes that “a few millions
of dollars wisely expended at this time
In the education of the children of
the Near East, in character building
and in moulding these young lives,
will be wortli vastly more to the world
(I J
CHARLES V. VICKREY.
than billions of dollars spent later in
suppressing international warfare and
strife.”
Mr. Vickrey considers the need in
the Near East and especially In Ar
menia greater than anywhere else in
tlie world, because, as he says, “In the
countries of Central Europe there are
going governments which have merely
been temporarily impoverished by war.
In tlie Near East, on the other hand,
there is no such tiling as stable gov
ernment. The whole fabric of the
state has to lie created from tlie be
ginning, and tlie innocent and help
less children have to be trained to the
responsibilities of future citizenship.
Peace In the Near East and, in great
measure, throughout the world, will
depend very largely on tlie character
uf the citizenship of the peoples of tlie
Near East.”
Irresistible Appeal of Orphans,
Describing the orphanage work of
the Near East Relief in the Armenian
Republic, Mr. Vickrey said:
“We have ut Alexnndropol In tlie
Caucasus, one orphanage where there
are approximately 10,000 homeless
children, fatherless nr motherless,
many of them having no known living
relative. Some of them do not even
know their own names, or the place of
their birth. They have shown wonder
ful recuperative powers, and to see
them play their kindergarten or other
games under the direction of our Ameri
can relief workers, one could never be
lieve that they had passed through
the years of suffering thnt most of
them have experienced since they, or
their parents, were driven from their
homes in Central Turkey five years
ago.
"For the accommodation of these or
phans there are sixty splendid stone
buildings, erected as barracks for the
Russian army. These buildings are
now given to ns by tlie Armenian gov
ernment for a period of ten years and
lend themselves admirably to relief
purposes.
“This orphanage at Aiexandropo! is
but one of the 22!) orphanages that the
Near East Relief is now operating in
various parts of tlie Caucasus, Anato
lia, Cilicia, Syria and the Constantl
nople-Straits area.
“Thirty miles from Alexandropol, at
Kars, there is another group of Rus
sian army barracks, which were given
us by the Armenian government for
relief purposes. I was going through
tlie dormitories of this orphanage at
Kars when the young American col
lege girl in charge turned to me and
said: ‘Mr. Vickrey, it sometimes makes
me feel Just a little older than Me
thuselah to he culled “Mother” by
6,(MX) of those Armenian children.’
And that is exactly what she was—
the only mother that these 6,(MX) Ar
menian children have, except as she
avails herself of the organized assist
ance of native Armenian women, in
caring for this large family.
“In the hospital at Kars I found
1,150 beds, which, tlie day I was there,
were occupied by 1,208 patients, It
frequently being necessary to put two
or more ehildren in a single bed. At
Alexandropol we have in one hospital,
or group of hospital buildings, 1,500
trachoma patients. At Karaklis, forty
miles east of Alexandropol we have
an orphanage devoted exclusively to
the care and training of the blind
children. At Delijan we have another
orphanage, located on a mountain side,
for the care of tubercular children,
this segregation being as much for
the welfare of the healthy children In
the orphanages as for the care of the
unfortunate consumptives. At Erl van
we formerly had twenty-six distinct
orphanages, though they have now
been reduced and consolidated to
seven In number. There are some
thing more than 6,000 orphans In the
rsglen tf Harpout”
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