SOO Sewn itdan Bellefonte, Pa., January 9, 1920. A CLEAN FIGHTER. $30,000,000 Campaign for Near East Relief, January 1 to February 22. “The Armenian is a high type of man, a clean fighter and anxious for an opportunity to establish himself on a self-supporting basis.” Mr. James Arroll knows what he is talking about when he says this. He and John Elder, cut off—along in the Caucasus—took a leading part in the government the Armenians set up to fight for the Allied cause against the Germanophile Turk. The Armenian army was scantily clothed, poorly fed and armed with antique weapons, and the people of the country were suffer- ing from hunger and cold and unable | to find work. The two young men set | the young republic on its feet. What | they did after Russia’s separate peace | with Germany is related in “A Hero | of the Caucasus” in the November | New Near East. “We begun our work January 1st, | 1916. It went on very nicely until Russia went to pieces. The Consul had to leave. He sent word down to our workers in the Caucassus that they too must leave. They at first refused. Most of them however, had families | and children and the American gov- ernment absolutely commanded all American citizens to get out of that area, and by command of the govern- | ment most of them left. But there | were two young men that had been down in Y. M. C. A. work who had af- | filiated themselves with our Relief committee—Mr. J. O. Arroll and Mr. | John Elder, who in some way, know- | | to have it.’ occupied soon after—cholera, slow starvation, fear and disappointed hopes of the coming of the English. “And then again the news came that there was peace—it was simply life to all those people. But when the Turks went out they took with them everything that had been in that dis- trict in the shape of food. When the refugees went back to their homes they came back to find what was worse than a desert. “I just want to tell you of one inci- dent. For about four months there we had paid the workers on Saturday. I remember particularly the day be- fore the Armenian Christmas. The previous Saturday it had been almost impossible to get the money. We fi- nally had to borrow it at a high rate of interest, and this week it seemed even more impossible. And then a ' man walked into the office, with whom we had done quite *a little business, and who had not been very pleasant. If ever I knew a skinflint, that man was he. He sold us wool that had been soaked over night, to make it heavy. In fact, every time we en- countered the man, he was trying to put something over on us, and then, on top of this, we owed him thirty thousand rubles, and he came in to collect. Before he opened his mouth the manager said to him, ‘Can’t you lend us twenty thousand rubles?’ His jaw dropped about a foot. ‘What! he said,” ‘You owe me thirty thousand! ‘Well,’ the manager said, ‘we have got He looked over at me to see if he heard right. ‘Yes, I said | ‘tomorrow is Christmas, and we need that money.’ he said, ‘all right.” ” ‘Well, A Natural Strengthener. The value of iron in medicine has long been known, but never more appreciated than today. People are learning that in Peptiron— ! ing that lives, thousands upon thous- | y real iron tonic—this most useful metal is ands of them, were at stake, managed go happily combined that it is acceptable to stay behind and evade that order. | to all, even those who, for some reason or Then darkness came over that section other, have been unable to take it in the ! of the world. We did not know a thing | of what was transpiring except we | knew something desperate was taking place. We had no way of transfer- ring money. Arroll and Elder saw themselves face to face with whole- sale starvation. They believed that | if the American people knew it they would not allow these people to starve and they continued to draw drafts when it was impossible to send official authorization to them. I speak, I be- lieve in behalf of the donors when I say that nobody is more grateful than the donors are that these men had enough faith in us to draw against us for large sums. “Two names are going down in Ar- menian history as two men who, in a time of great trial helped to save the remnant of a nation. I was told that, had Mr. Elder been willing to accept it, he could have had almost any posi- tion at the command of the new Ar- menian republic—they love him so.” In his brief address Mr. Elder de- scribed the misery of the Armenian refugees from the districts the Turks i iron, nux, pepsin, Overcoats---You Want the Best! 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