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PAGE SIX ; , ' ' : * ' * ■i ■ * Near East Relief Is World's Greatest Charity, Says An il nual Report to Coßfress. . \ , . --4 MILLION GIVERS DURING YEAR What Dawes Plan Did fer Europe, i Philanthropy Is Doing in Bible Lands. i•— 1 ■ The state committee of Near'East Relief has received from Washington a copy of the organisation’s aanaal report, which was laid before the Sen ate a few days ago by its preriding officer. Vice President Dawes, Who happens also to be one of the national trustees of the relief organization. This report is filed with Congress an nually in accordance with the nation al charter of Near East Relief, and einbodies a fall account of the work done during the calendar year. The report says in part: “In principle what the Dawen, Com mittee did in Europe (n 1924, Ameri can philanthropy has attempted to do hi the Near East. A demonstration * r *»•••;# e n N; THE WORK OF THE NEAR EAST RELIEF IS BEING DONE IN SIX COUN TRIES BORDERING ON THE MEDITERRANEAN AMD BLACK SEAS .of ways and means of international reconstruction was not only a prime essential of goed relief, bat it became peculiarly necessary in. 1924 to enable American philanthropy adequately to round out its work. “The chain of orphanges that Near East Relief has built up overseas is the most remarkable naacess of con tinuing charity that the American people has ever achieved; tor the rais ing of money in a spurt after some great catastrophe is child’s play com pared with the continuous support, year in and year eat, of children sal vaged from death In such catastro phe. <*> Volunteer Workers Everywhere "More than a minion Americans contributed $4,295,322 to New East Relief daring the past year. But even more significant than this financial re sponse was the large enlistment of volunteer workers throughout the United States. Local committees in every state of the Union included 12,000 persons in their active mem bership. The National Woman’s Com mittee had the organised assistance of 45,725 women’s organizations and clubs, More than a hundred nation wide Advisory Committees, represent ing various religious, political, social or commercial groups, co-operated in natien-wide promotion of Near East Relief. It has been this volunteer service on a large scale whlab has made possible the effective and eco nomical collection of funds necessary for the overseas operations. “The general policy in onr work abroad during the year has been to confine activities, as largely as prac ticable, to orphanage and child-wel fare work. In a war-ravaged, impov erished area, where 2$ per cent of the population are refugees and* where the wholesale exchanges of the popu lations are still In progress with an inevitable accompaniment of suffer ing, reduction of the, relief program has not been easy.” During the past year the service of Near East Relief abroad reached 654,- 978 persons, of -whom the great ma jority were women and children. This service included food, medical aid, education, clothing and personal serv ice, such as the release of Greek mili tary and civil prisoners and the sa pervUlon of refugee emigration. Chil dren In orphanages numbered 41,962 at the beginning of the year; children supervised and subsidized in families were 18,774, and children in special schools were 1,464. The institutions supported were as follows: 4* orphan age centers, 65 hospitals and clinics, and 28 special schools and other in stitutions. The report adds: f Children Placed In Homes ’ "Every effort is being mad# to de institutionalize the orphanage sad child-welfare work and to provide homes or self-supporting employment for all the children as rapidly as pos pVecedented placement During 1922 a total of 14,169 children were placed in houses, : apprenticed or otherwise brought Into comparatively normal, social and ooo nomic relationships. Durijsg 1924 an v placed. This means fte placing out foAISK day throughout tho turd u p,rw “ l consideration la given to the individ ual. child and the safeguarding of his future. Personal Inspection and la tor , supervision Is required in every home or environment In which a child is placed. - j “When one notes that the largest child-welfare -organisation in America I has placed only 2,225 children in the ' prosperous homes of this country la twenty-five years’ time, one realises the task involved in finding home* for 12,990 orphan children in a single-year in the midst of the social and polit ical chaos of the Near East. Tn the opinion of soma, the outplacing has been too drag tic for the good of the children, but it has been necessitated 'by financial limitations. Apparently the saturation point has<been reached, for the time being, in seme areas." Large Dottett From -Smyrna 9 The total disbursements during the year were $3,9€6,529, leaving g bal ance on the year’s ope nations of 2298,- 993, which has been applied to the de ficit remaining from .the Smyrna dis aster. The balance /sheet at the end of the year shows sj remaining deficit of 629A229. Total expenditures by the Near East Relief aince*tts organisation hare been $99,827,829, of which $54,090,099 waa spent in Amenta, $20,000,000 in Turkey, sllfi9Moo« in Syria and Pal estine, $7,500,090 in Mesopotamia and Persia, and $34000,000 in Greece. Dur ing the same, period, the “national headquarters including ad ministration. publicity and supervi sion, was $4(586,090, or approximately fire per cent, of which more than half was met by special contributions for expense and interest on bank bal ances. Anti-Malaria Campaign “The outstanding corse of the Near East Is malaria," says a report. “Dor .lng the peat year the Neat Bast Re lief conducted a comprehensive dem onstration of anti-malaria tecnique at Corinth, Greece, where the disease was making heavy inroads la tha American ortftmaagea. The American director had succumbed to the disease and several of the American nurses were likewise victims. Children were ill by the hundreds. “A survey of the local surroundings at the orphanage showed that 54 per cent of the native population were In fected. The Near East Relief mobil ized sanitary engineers to find the root et the epidemic. The source was a vast swamp covering more a square mile, and acres of vineyards from which the malarial mosquitoes swept’ over the whole valley at Oprtoth. sag mm am *» *" on Riimfuiiocg "With Greek government support, the Americans obtained authority to drain the swamps and enforce rigid sanitary regulations in the town. Ninety orphan boys did the work, assisted by sqaada of refugee labor ers. After two months* work the swamp was dry; fifty miles es Irri gation ditches had been completed; 783 open wells had been covered; 20 reservoirs were sited biweekly; 200 houses were under constant inspec tion, a small river channel had been deepened, and 2,000 pounds of petro leum . was being used weekly for oil ink stagnant water. “Thus the mosquito id ague was get under central, and Instead of 14,000 cases of virulent malaria per month, ee In the previous year, not a single new case of materia was reported in August. The percentage of children ill tram malaria dropped from 56 to 4 per cent "The government of Turkey, hear ing of the succees of this experiment in Greece, has asked (he Near Bast Relief to give advice and assistance in a similar campaign at Angora, the MW Turkish capital." Homes for Refugees *•“ Discussing the refugee problem la , Greece, the report says: “When the rilled nations sought a i solution of the greatest human prob lem since the days of Moses—the re planting of a million Turkish-speaking ’ Greeks, who were refugees from Tur key—America provided the man to lead the effort in the founder and executive commltteeama es toe Near East Relief, Henry Morgenthau. > '“Near Bast Belief la nomfeatiM i one of Its own officiate to this high t International task waa showftig no ,1m - modesty. It was essential tost Amiris i xrsa’ssit'ss: r “-? rW g* . children could eventually leave toe • "Beyond the high sentimental value i es participating in toe giving of work r, to refugee familiss, it was a plain t case es necessity for stabilising toe i regions surrounding the American or> 1 [of child reUri." Woman Produces the Best II \ Ear of Com in United States [ 'A 9 r 'V 1 j I I 'jSSB HiHV Wf Jtm k iMf%i * 11111111 f Its Ir Ir 1 J|—l l 'T ■ * \ America’s beet ear of corn has been produced by a woman farmer «f •. 1 Illinois, for which achievement she won the SI,OOO prize offered by tito National Seed Corn show, held under the auspices of the Seara-Reebuoß Agricultural Foundation. The feminine champion corn grower Is Mrg, Elsa M. Paluska of Waverly, 111., who received toe announcement at hag l victory over more than 27,000 farmers of 45 states on her fifth wedding i anniversary. The judges* declared that the test Showed the ear was 100 1 per cent perfect , Ptre years ago Mrs. Paluska and her husband started farming Ifi Morgan bounty, with only $25 In the family coffers. Now they are wore* i lug a' 100-acre farm, and that they are good farmers la evidenced by the ( fact that they test all their seed corn for germination power and disease < resistance before planting. _ The winning ear waa a hybrid, toe result of a cress between yellow < corn and red corn. Back In 1846 James B. Reed, an Ohio farmer, taoved < to Tazewell county. Illinois, and began to grow com. It wag be who made the cross and 'toe prize-winning ear was a deartndznt of the* mating. ' Dawes and toe Senate Philadelphia Record If the country were in desperate need of more laws every obstacle in the way of legislation ought to be removed, debate curtailed or entirely cot out, and sus pension of the rules should be permanent instead of occasional. If, on the other hand, the country is in dire need of bet ter legislation, ntore .carefully consid ered. more fully debated, with greater op l>ortunities for reflection, there should be he least possible restriction on debate, and time spent on consideration should not be deemed wasted, even if some members of Congress are undeniably prolix and oc casionally some member should engage in the cheerful task of talking, a measure to death. Vice Presiden Dawes, imbued with the idea that if he can make himself a suffi ciently dramatic figure In onr polities during the next three years he can get the Republican Presidential nomination, is now engaged in an attack upon the rules of the Senate, of which body he is not a member, though be presides, and in which ire may vote on a tie if he happens to be present. But his talk about the unconstitutional veto of legislation by a single Senator is a grotesque exaggera tion, and as he admits that the rules arc the grouth of 119 years they are entitled to more respectful consideration that he gives them, than he gave hem when, upon taking the oath of office as Vice-President and never having had the experience of being a member, he had the curiousness bad taste to launch a diatribe against them. Mere age gives some title to res pect. The House of Representatives is a large body. 4.35 members at present. In so large a body the means of checking de bate are necessary, and a suspension, of the rules to close debate is comparatively easy. This restriction has been abused more times than the right of every Sena tor to unlimited debate has been. It is true that the Senate is a much larger body than it used to be. and many of its members are very slightly amenable to the considerations that once restrained every Senator from holding the floor unreason ably. But it remains true that the Sen ate will never be much larger than it is. 96 members, and it is of enormous im portance that there should be one body where debate may be full, and where a two-thirds majority cannot gag the mi nority and rush a measure through with out full consideration. Vet there is a restriction upon Senate debate. Eight years ago, in consequence of the determination of a handful of “wilful men” to obstruct the call which the nation felt to save the \vr#ld from German domination, a rule for closure was agreed to. It is a somewhat difficult pro cess, but it can he effected in an emergen cy, and it never should be used except in an emergency, a very great one. Oau canses, party rule, the tyranny of ma jorities, emphasize the need of afford ing the minority ample opportunity even, if on rare occasions, they make an un reasonable use of it. The fact of “talking -a bill to death” can only be accomplished when the ad journment in very near, and thg eases in which an obstinate man performs this act are very few. They afford no justi fication for the raid which the cham pion of “brass tacks” has undertaken. A number of years ago Senator Carter talked a river and harbor bill to death because it was not balanced by a huge appropriation for irrigation in the arid States. But a delay of a year in river and harbor works was not vital, and the arid States got their measure at the next ees ! sion. When Congress ended ita session i last summer t eeveral measures failed be . caue one Senator held the flow against . them. But the bills were not especially , important, and they merely went over to . the next session. Nothing in the public welfare justifies the heat of the Vice-Presi dent and his picturesque exaggerations in 1 denouncing the parliamentary practice of ( 119 years. “Why do you call that a one man l dog, Sam?” asked 00l Culpepper, in i specting the savage looking mongrel that . hts colored retainer waa leading dotyn 1 ■“ ■“ THE CONCORD DAILY, TRIBUNE I The Rising Tide of Crime < The Pathfinder s It took the murder of a relative of a New York official to drive home to authorities of that city the meance of its gun-toting taxi drivers. Many crime was laid at the door of Manhattan’s army of public chauffeurs but no general clean-up was attempted until someone dear to the higher-ups chanced to fall victim to a taxi drivers gun. Then the police made a surprise inspection of the 18.000 taxis, stopping them at a certain time all over the city. They found many weapons and arrested many drivers. The raid brought to Ught some old offenders in the guise of backers. Some taxis were deserted in the middle of the streets by drivers who fled. There has been much criticism of Chicago for making a hero out of a gun man and head of a vice, bootlegging and gambling ring, who was shot by his ene mies there * recently. Thousands of per sons, including public officials, honored his memory by attending the funeral. The crime wave has reseller such pro portions in Boston that Mayor Curley has asked newspapers to stop' exploiting crime by printing crime news. He wants more publicity ter jail sentences and less attention to {fruitless search for offenders. State’# Attorney Crowe of Chicago, however, defends the printing of crime news but he doesn’t want the papers to hurt the public’s confidence in the machinery used to. enforce law. Illinois bankAO. have organized their own police force to cope with the in creasing number of bank jobberies. They have purchased several thousand rifles, revolvers and thousands of rounds of ammunition for the use of bank guards. In Philadelphia 35 armored “bandit-chas er” oars have been put on 24 hour pa trol duty because of many bold robberies. The spread o icrime is a “condition that alarms us,” declared Gov. Silver of New Jersey in urging Jersey justice to be extreme, e finds -a similarity be tween present conditions and the times of Dick Turpin, the only'difference being that “where there wll one Dick Tur pin we npw. finds *ud some of them bobbed-haired.” Rev. I. M. Margarett of Kansas City lays some of th ecrime in that city to the influence of burlesque shows. “These shows,” he says, “are IO times more demoralizing than the saloons were.” Most of the men and women who attend such shows he calls “moral degenerates and morons.” "The Chicago appellate court brands as “immoral’ ’and a fitting subject for the censor’s ears. “Wild West movies or other pictures where a character kills for personal revenge or some similar motive.” “There is no excuse for a man going nut to rob with a pistol; such a man in tends to shoot rather than he frustrated,” says Frank Brooks, of Boston, president of a payole board, in appealing for atlffef sentences. Thomas Mott Osborne, former Sing Sing warden/ contends that in creasing the severity of sentence merely increases the violence of crime. . Anyhow, there are-about 10,000 muf flers in this country 9 year. About $3,- 000,000,000 in goods and money is stolen annually. Chicago has a murder a day. New York has 12 time* as many n-ur derq as London and hcld-upe are every day occurrences in almost every state. Over 8,000 persona were reported “miss ing” in New York eity last year. The Los Angeles crime commission finds that l seven per cent of the/county jail inmates are college graduates as against six and one-balf per cent in ordinary civil life; , J 2% per cent had college training and 45 per cent are high school graduates. In the old day* engineers used to be ' bard-bitten individuals, grimy of f Ist ; and gnarled of countenance. Nowadays • they are sometime* girls with bobbed i hair, ready to take on every and any r job connected with engines. Such a one in Miss Annette Ashberry, who la cred ited with being England’s woman en i gineer. Not oßly has she established a - successful engineering business of her t own, but her merit has been recognised i by the Society of Ktojdneen, who bare its formation in 1&04* 1 VISITING JUDGE ISSUES EARNING •Judge Watkins Says Fathers Are Fay ing Price With Souk of Boys and Girls. I Statesville, April 21—Judge H. H. Watkins, of South Carolina, who is holding federal court here this week in the place of Judge E. Y. Webb, who is exchanging courts with Judge Watkins, preliminary to his charge to the grand jury yesterday in opening court, made complimentary remarks concerning the citsenship of Statesville, and said thitt hSs first impression of North Carolina had been gained about 30 yearn ago when he used to spend part of‘the sum mers in one of the mountain sections of the state. Then he was impressed with the lahk of roads, with the pre valence of poverty and ignorance; with the universal lack o's observance of the whiskey laws. However, he stated, that he • was impressed wth two distinct qualities of the people—hospitality and bravery—the two most essential quali ties on which to build a strong citixen sbip. , C Recently, he stated, he had revised his opinion. North Carolina is mqkng more progress than any of the states. He finds as a reason for this that,the peo ple are true Anglo Saxons and happy. They are beginning to build right.. But he finds that our progress in wealth and civilisation is ahead of our observance of the law. This is especially true ns to the violation of national prohibition laws. Men in most respectable, positions of state and society keep a ,litt> for their own use. They are warnfd to atop and think of what they are doing. Heir children know what they are doing; they know their fathers are violating the laws. The fathers -are paying the price With the boy’s soul and the daughter's virtue. The court and officers cannot make a proper show of correcting the' situation without a • strong, healthy public senti ment to back them, he 'said. ' A » In addition to fifteen relay races there will be nine special track feild events on the program of the University of Kepsos relay carnival to be held April 18. It will be the first time that distance running events havtA been in cluded in the program. The credit of having formed the first women's club in America a ; sometimes claimed for Anne JlntchinSon, who gathered the women of the euny Massa chusetts colony together to discuss the sermons of the ministers. 'Hereto a new thrill dor YOU PUT "Standard” Ethyl—the line—in your tank and come bounding" W up over die crest of the hill witfc plenty of power to spare. « j' .. ; The new fuel absolutely does away with "gas knock”, no matter what shape your motor is in. That gives you more power ' instead of less as you come to the steepest part of die hill. Try it for yourself «ifi see what a difference it niakes. ' . . I •. ' A number of dealers in this city carry the , new fuel—" Standard” Ethyl—as well as die old reliable "Standard” Gasoline. Both • * are on sale at "Standard” Service Stations and at several "Standard” Ethyl pumps throughout town. Try some today and add one more thrill to motoring. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New Jersey ) • ** "Standard” Ethyl Gasoline is a com bination of the old reliable "Standard” Gasoline and Ethyl—a scientific, fg&jla l thoroughly tested chemical product. \SSJKfI v Try the new fuel next time you fill your tank. You will immediately note \ » die following improvements in the op- Hp eration of your car: B HIB I : r3!r *■ Quicker act*leraiion g Lgl 1. 7. Easier handling in traffic if I ill JP I L Mpt 1 W U lift. II jjjjlujf rStemkmT is the trade mark of the Standard Oil do. (N. J.), registered ™ the U. S. and many foreign countries ■ • . ; : .y u-. “Go South, Young Mon- la Present-Day! Slogan, He Says, Returning From Tour. : Chapel Hill, April 20. “Go South, man, go South.” that in the coun-' try'e new slogan, Dr. H. W. ('base, presi dent of the University of North Caro-j lina, who has just returned from * two-! week’s visit of southern colleges and unl versites told the student body here in chapel today, in decrlbing impressions gained from his tour. That slogan bids: to replace the ‘‘Go West” urge of a 4 generation or two ago, President Chase,j said. ‘‘lt is increasingly clear that the (south is going to be tlfe laud ’of op-( portiinity,”'he said in telling cf’his visit. “Everywhere I was impressed by the faith I found in that, and by the way in which the people spoke of the leadership, of the state of North Carolina jn the whole movement. * • I, “If I were,, as'you men',are, on the threshold'of n career, I .would not hesi tate for fwo minutes to stag ip the south and play my part in‘the advances that are scheduled to take place here during your generation. I think it gives your work here added significance to realise that you .-are now preparing yourselves for taking part in such a great future. Trained men are one of the south’s great est needs; it' is your busines* to train yourself that you may do your full share in the splendid developments that lie ahead." President Chase made the two-week tour in company with Dr. Beardsley Hum), director of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller memorial foundation; Dr. Howard W. Odum, director of the school of public welfare of the university, and I ford" owners" 1 The Roaaon Automatic Oiler for Ford Can or Tracks absolutely P ? Insures the proper amount of oil in your crank case at aU times, nns. ' I all running condftltons. i Guaranteed to save 40 Per cent on oil. I will give you TEN DAYS FREE TRIAL, and absolutely guarnn- I tee Satisfaction. | L. E. BOQER j Room «, Maness Building £ UWOTm , , 1 Wednesday, April 22, 1925 [Leonard Outhwaifr, also of the Rocke- I feller foundation. The party viaited in [stitutinns in six'southern states; South I Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis- I' sissippi and Tennessee. “I have come back with an immense faith in the future of the south,” he con , eluded, ‘Tt is impossible to she within (few day’s time such a wide variety as is offered by the fertile fields of south * Georgia and Mississippi, the beginning of great industries in Alabama, With its immense future power at Muscle Shoals, jthe pasture lands of middle Tennessee, ‘without a sense of the enormous poten tialities of this whole southern territory.” Foreigners In Sweden Only One Per Cent. \ oT Population. Stockholm, April 21.—Sweden’s population as shown, by a report of the royal bureau of statistics is slightly More than 0.000,000, and'the entire Swedish nationality, wherever domiciled is esti mated at close to 9.000,000. It is shown that 780,000 native bom Swedes live-out side the country, of which 025,000 are in the' United States; 30,000 in Canada; 50,000 in Norway and 36,000 in Den mark. The Swedish rare in Finland, dating back 1 several centuries, numbers about 350,000, while the total Swedish stock in the United States, including Immigrants and their children, was 1,457,382 in 1920. . , The foreign born inhabitants of Swed en number 57,832, ,or less than one per cent. bf the total population. Another fact brought out by the report is that 99 per cent of the total population be longs officially to the Established State | Church.
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