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burlap bag His Only Garment f ^49.999 home'®" oroh. POSTER BASED ON ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN AT ERIVAN, AR. MENIA, BY DR. M. 8. LITTLEFIELD. He Is only one of 250,000 helpless child victims of Turkish cruelty and oppression In Western Asia Clad just as he stands In the picture this forlorn llttl* fellow, with hunger-stricken cheeks, hopeless mouth and frail, starved body, was found wandering In the streets of Igdir, Armenia, by Dr. Milton 8. Jttlefield of the Near East Relief. He was taken to a Near East Relief orphanage, where it was found that his only earthly possession was the single garment In which he stood—a worn, patched blanket made from a burlap sack. "I saw this ragged little fellow on one of the busiest business streets of Erlvaa, not far from the orphanage,” said Dr. Littlefield. "He was wandering aimlessly about and no one was paying the slightest attention to him. I did not pose him; 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. An American $2 Bill Did This Motherless, fatherless, homeless, nameless, hungry and clad only 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 womt i who contributed the $2 bill which wrought this miracle. More than a quarter million other helpless little victims of Turkish cruel'y 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 care for themselves. BEFORE. AFTER. 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 ■« 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 Goes to Near East. where nearly a million people are suffering from disease and starvation. Miss Andrees had returned to this country after serving for the Red Cross, but when she read of the sad plight of the Armenians, she at once offered her services to Near East Re lief, the former American Committee on Armenian and Syrian Relief, whicn already has saved thousands of lives in Western Asia. Miss Andrees Is the only American woman war worker who was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by Congress. Most of the other members of her party like wise served with honor for the Red Cross and other war service organi zations. Among the other members of the group are the Misses France# and Betty Anderson of New Canaan, Conn., who were decorated with the Croix ae Guerre by the French Govern'r^-nt; Miss Margaret Milne of Washington, D. 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 yours with the British Relief Commission in Serbia. Miss Doris Nevin, another member of the party, is a daughter of the late Ethelbert Nevin, the com poser. Col. William N. Haskell, commis sioner to the Near East for the Parts Peace Commission and official repre sentative of the Near East Relief, has cabled that the relief workers now In the Held are overwhelmed by the mag nltude of their task. Col. Haskell says 800,000 Armenians will starve before the next harvest unless they are given aid and 120,000 orphan children face death from hunger and exposure. Thousands of refugees are daily be ing brought to the relief centers from the deserts. Famous Women Adopt Armenian Waifs MRS.CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT MRS. OLIVER HARRIMAN .. _. ADOPTED 'ARMENIAN WAIFS There ere at least three happy little Armenians In this holiday season among the more than a quarter of a ■Alton pitiable little waifs who are Innocent victims of Turkish barbarity. These three have found fairy god ■others In these famous American women, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the President; Mrs. Oliver Harrlman and Mia. Carrie Chapman Catt. It la hoped that thousands of other American women will follow these distinguished leaders and signalize the glad hellday season In America by making happy In the same way thousands of other little orphans la the far-off stricken land where they now are being cared far by Near Bast Belief, 1 Madison Are NOTED PIANIST TO TOUR COrNTRT (Special to The Monitor.) Washington. D. C., Feb. 26.—Of un usual interest to students and patrons of music throughout the country is the projected tour during June and July of Roy Wilfred Tibbs, head of the piano department, Howard University Conservatory of Music. The itinerary now being worked out includes most of the cities of the eastern, central and mid-western states, and extends as far west as Denver, Colo. 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