i- pitppgp '-'.* "r* tuesr*' g. A «v -*vtr ^-•',- "V '•"",*' INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE TWC •J PRESIDENT GETS 110,000 Starving Children Five Minute Chats on Our Presidents LETTER FROM HEAD OF ARMENIAN CHURCH By JAMES MORGAN (Copyright. 1820, by Juaei Morgan.) Washington. Archbishop Khoren, A SECOND-HAND PRESIDENT whose archepiscopal see is Erivan, cupitaJ 12Z of the Armenian Republic, journeyed 1800—Jan. 7, Millard Fillmore, seven thousand miles to present CJELL-0 born in Cayuga county, President Wilson one of the quaintest New York. and mostvtouching documents in :he 1829-31—Member of New York archives of the State Department. It assembly. is illuminated Ly the monks of Etclimiadzin, 1833-35, 1837-43 Member of the seat of the Armenian congress. church since its separation from the Like the one in this photograph, too weak to walk when brought to the 1848—Elected vice president. Greek church, after' the Council of Near East Relief orphanage at Erivan, the capital of Armenia, are being 1850—July 9, sworn in thirteenth Chalcedon in the year 451. nursed back to life and health through the generosity of the American people, president, aged by contributions to the Near East Relief, 1 Madison Ave., York. The Encyclical Letter, which the New HAVJfi fifty. Sent Commodore YOU A LITTLE ORPHAN IN YOUR HEART? Archbishop presented to the President, Perry to Japan. ARMENIAN GIRL 1852—Defeated for nomination. reads: 1856—Nominated for president "GEORGE. Servant of Jesus Christ High Commissioner by Knowhothings and and by the Omniscient Will of God, HEADS FOR SISTERS Whige, and defeated. Mrch-Priest and CATHOLICOS OF Praises Near East Relief 1874—March 4, died at Buffalo, ALL THE ARMENIANS, Supreme aged seventy-four. Patriarch of the highest Armenian See Constantinople of Ararat and of the Apostolic Mother Everybody Tragic Tale of Harem Victims' Church at Etchmiadzin the Holy. seems to have The Genesee Pure Food Company M1 ILLARD FILLMORE, the second I a good word to "To the NOBLE CITIZENS OF THE Sufferings. vice president to be promoted by Le Roy, N.Y. say for the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. death, was the most commonplace "AFFECTIONATE GREETINGS president even in a twenty-year period work being AND BLESSINGS from the CATHOLICOS More than ten thousand Armenian when the presidency remained at lowwater done by the OF ALL ARMENIANS and girls have been rescued from Turkish mark. Tall and with magisterial $- more than 500 Apostolic Chief of the Holy Church of harems through the help and gener front, but cold and hollow, he looked American men Armenia. osity of America. This is the statement the part which he played—the dummy and women "With placid, profound feelings of given out by the Near East Re of northern trimmers in politics and workers of the devotion, we desire, through this En- of southern traffickers In slaves. lief, which is making the. saving of Near East Relief. these tragic victims of Turkish cruelty In a puba A fable of the day hit off the truth. POINT OVERLOOKED a one of the most important features of re The new president must have carriage, Rear Adm'l Bristol Rear Admiral and "Old Edward" Moran, a Its work. Mark L. Bristol, U. S. Navy, High White House attendant in many administrations, That It is a work which In itself thank a Commissioner to Turkey, who has took him to see handsome justifies the millions that America has charge of all American Interests in outfit, whose owner was leaving GOODNESS spent in tills stricken land is testified the Near East, went on record a€ Washington and would sell it a Vt FINALLY to by little Miss Eliza Dodurian, a whole-heartedly in support of the bargain. twenty-year-old Armenian girl recently GOT IT American relief organization. "This is all very well, Edward,* arrived in this country. Miss Dodurian, 9UIET0D "If I have been able to encourage Fillmore mused, according to the pop* through the intervention of American the workers of the Near East ular yarn "but how would it do for missionaries, was herself soared Relief or give them assistance in the president of the United States any way," the Admiral said, "I feel to ride around in a second-hand carriage?" that I am more Jhan repaid in keeping with the success that has "But, sure," argued "Old Edward," attended the efforts of the Near "Your Ixellency is only a second-hand East Relief Committee in this part prisident!" of the world in the past. I hop^ In Fillmore we have another fron- the future will bring you greater success. It will always give me pleasure to render any assistance possible to the Committee as a whole, to any of the workers, and to the great work of humanity that the committee represents." When 139,000 Russian refugees from the Crimea arrived off Constantinople, ARCHBISHOP KHOREN. Admiral Bristol immediately cabled the Near East Relief cyclical Letter of Ours, to place before for help, and the Near East you and to make known to you Reiief bakeries fed these refugees the expression of Our deep gratitude and N. E. R. workers helped the for the liberal help which, inspired by American sailors to get the sick to a spirit of philanthropy, you have extended hospitals. \SwlSON to Us both by individual personal Admiral Bristol Is in intimate donations and through the sustaining touch with all the work being conducted assistance and alleviating in* by the Near East Relief strumentality of the Near East Rellel and speaks from personal knowledge Organization. Individually and Collectively, of its accomplishments. combined in one body as It WANT .ROOSEVELT ACTIVE IN HARDING REIO were, you gave and you brought to Us DODURIAN. the fruits of your offerings, to the f-alvatlon and protection of Our Flock INVESTIGATOR INDORSES the sufferings of exile and the horrors during the most bitter days of theii of slavery but she knows all too well NEAR EAST RELIEF suffering—sufferings which We attribute the terrible fate of her sisters and to the rigours of the War of Liberation, friends. It is for them—the soft-eyed and to the cruelty of Our Implacable During the Peace Conference In ParIs Oppressors. little girls of fifteen and sixteen whom the American Commission to Negotiate "In expressing Our thanks for youi last she ssw being torn from their Of Peace, appreciating the Importance generosity and for your evangelical mothers' arms and carried off on the of accurate, first hand information Millard Fillmore. commlsseration, We, as the recognized saddle bows of the Turkish soldiers— about the Armenian situation, sent Head of Our Spiritual Children, comprising York tier president. For western New that she makes her plea. Capt. Benjamin Burges Moore of the the entire Armenian Nation, was an outpost when he was born American Red Cross as head of a special What their lives have been since would be glad to view your aets oi there of New England parents. After mission to study and report on then may be guessed by a look into the mercy as tokens of your continued assistance receiving about the same kind of conditions. Captain Moore's findings faces of any of the ten thousand who In the future, and that it Is schooling as our other log-cabin presidents, have passed through the .Rescue Hornet va'ue work done by the to your purpose to continue to assist Us he was bound out to learn the of the Near East Relief. Their heads Part offi" foT1? Near East Re,5ef of Ms In Our regeneration and complete liberation, cial report. trade of wool carder. bowed In shame, they creep Into the In the habiliment of a selfgoverning "Armenians are sincerely grateful to The one enduring act of the Fillmore American relief stations, trying vainly Nation. With these things us," Captain Moore states, "since it Is administration was^taken when to hide the tattoo marks which proclaim In mind, We appeal to you all to the no exaggeration to say that they would it sent Commodore Perry to knock at to the world their story. Prelates of your Churches to your have disappeared as a nation had it the long-closed gate of Japan, and, Thousands of these girls have been devout Bishops, Our Brethren and beloved not been for this splendid help given brought back to life and hope through with the gift of a toy railroad and a in Our Lord Jesus Christ to men them by the Near East Relief and Tie the work of the Near East Relief. It toy telegraph, to tempt the Japanese endowed with political and civil acumen American Food Administration. The Is to rescue the one hundred thousand to come out of their hermit seclusion. to those who have been called American best that sympathetic Americans can Legrioneerswant a Roosevelt in the Harding admit. more still held captive that the Near The rest is politics. askw., upon by the Lord in the Conduct ol Oration looking for out tbeif interest. The legion members are do is to continue and enlarge the present East Relief is making its appeal this Public thought and to every soul in president-elect Harding to one As American men struggled to rise place Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, admirable work of the Near East year. fraraers c.« which the spirit of Christian philanthropy th* of the American Legion, as first assistant to some from the bottom in the more primitive Relief." net position The photo shows a meeting of the presidentelect glows. Come to our defense days of the country, their women often Cuiuinjl Roosevelt at Washington recently. and to the cause of the Freedom of failed to keep up.with them. By Our Flock. Come from the pulpits of the time half of Fillmore's predecessors YOU Are Keeping Them Warm! your Churches from the seats of your gained the presidency, their Council Chambers from the platforms wives were either dead, worn out or of Public Associations from the sano lagging behind. turn of your journals. Raise the mighty Mrs. Fillmore, finding herself without voices of your Nation and of your sympathetic UNCLE JOE HAS SERVED IN CONGRES strength or ambition to reign with LONGEST people, as those of unfailing her husband, her place was taken by and unfaltering friends. We need them a daughter. This girl of eighteen, for the. salvation of Our Flock, tortured Miss Mary Abigail, was enough of a in body and soul through centuries new woman to have insisted on fitting of suffering. And Our people herself by a course in a normal school will forever stand in history as wit JL ft** to earn an independent living. Being ness that a Great Nation, prolific of obligated to teach a certain length of welfare, stretched its helping hand and time after graduating, she went on mighty arm to raise them up. teaching school even after her father "The Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ, became vice president. She kept at it and Our thankful Blessings be with until her mother summoned her to you all, evermore, Amen. "GEORGE V., preside over the White House, where she promptly induced congress to install "Cathollcos and Supreme Patriarch of All Armenians." a library, the mansion having During the VIH. year of Our Patriarchate been until then a bookless desert. at the Mother See of Ararat. month after the end of her husband's Etchmipdzin the Holy. term Mrs. Fillmore was dead. Next Miss Mary died of cholera, and then, after a tour of Europe, the MAJOR GENERAL HARBORD pathetic loneliness of a retired president SUPPORTS ARMENIA was relieved by a marriage with a wealthy widow. 'jnrr'f Photo international. Ne^r York.—At a mgss tp^etlng re ^lllmore hatl trfed to avert tfcis' re» In the mile square of former Rasslan barracks in Alexandropol, Republic cently hel|d hei$ to consider 'the peed ti^ment by unsuccessful effort to #ji of Armenia, are housed 5,347 little Armenian orphans under care of the of Armenia in the appalli]^ disaster be! jippiipAteg tp «i|,cee8d tymself. Is Near East Relief. Every bite they eat, every stitch they wear, the gift of tl^ht jiifs pyert^e^ th^t unhappy tynd 'jMSjirs afterward fce attempted the people of the United States, through the Near East Relief. Jn addition, the fpltowilBf: tflegyajn w,as received to break the retlreqigfit '.ftp# rpttjriJ •sim-«i"nii 11 hi luuuuii the Near .East Relief hospital has a daily average of l,2il children patients, fnm tfre cftitygppnder of tjje Secqnri to the presidency. Although he had ronfinement while 1,049 others are given medical treatment which does not requlre vwti» Jot cuMifJw«m». omt Dlvisipp: both the J^o^qthityg P}?d Wtyg riomigajtloqs, for a a N to hospital beds. Over 54,000 little Armenian children «re housed, "Trye to their religion, language and. he ipn third Jp electiqp. clothed and fed by the Near East Relief In Armeniaxand Syria. rewrd UncJe Jo*-III b. SESSBP*«rgy" through thousand years of persecution. race Hp Uyed on fa his Buffalo home until mfm mfrvr- mfcfa In all over 110,000 little children are being kept alive by American aid. the Armenians must not be nt «ko sim4 41 ymra. I •onitka «ii 14 4ays The pietun Sow»Ua*le je** IOU am doing it! KEEP IT UP1 pOrnjitted to perish. Americans shoul| Joe with t*onow "bahfP «f lte Howe of Ropramui Ave.. New Gwver gieirel^ftd, stfrjed fflt Subscriptions to Cleveland H. Dodge, Treas., 1 Madison York aid them with moral, financial and po* tivea, Charles-J McLeod of Mlehigaa, who at It of age ha t&e WJtfte Hopse .for of t&t City. .. V. ymn Utical 8up!»!'*. been appointed to »or»e oof as vnexi^e# t^p feoa |bo FW Du shrievalty of E^fe. cpwity. "rioED.- Uiet