The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, April 08, 1919, Page TWO, Image 2
GREEKS PERISH
6YJUNDREDS
Refugees Suffer Fearful HardL!
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THEIR CONDITION PITIABLE
Swarm Aboard Trains, and at Each
Stop Bodies Are Removed for Burial
?Children Stand Barefoot in Freez1?
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mg ntficr up 10 i neir Mnwes-"
' American Red Cross Doing All Possible
for Unfortunates.
' Between Constantinople and Saloniki,
along the route by which deported
Greeks are returning to their homes,
the refugees are dying by the hundreds
of cold and starvation. *
At every station crowds of thes?
refugees swarm upon every passing
train, filling eyery inch of space,
riding on the roofs, on the trucks, nnder
the guns of th'e trains carrying artillery,
under the field kitchens, oh the
ammunition?but chiefly crowding Into
freight cars, packed so closely that no
one can either sit or Lie down.
Americans, well provided with clothing,
blankets, etc., ana inside a closed
car, suffer severely from the cold. The
condition of those poor, unfortunate
by-products of the world's great war
?thinly clad or In rags, and traveling
on the top or In the open cars, can
hardly be imagined.
Suffer Fearful Hardships.
They have lived through monthsvof
privation and many of them have had
no food for days, except a little which
the American Red Cross has managed
to get up to stations along tne railroad.
The train crawls along slowly?
six days from Constantinople, a distance
of about 400 miles.
" When a train stops at a station and
the refugees unpack themselves from
the cars to seek food, nearly always
there are several dead bodies to be removed,
sometimes six, eight or ten.
At one station 45 fresh graves were
counted.
The weather approached the freezing
pointy but children stand barefoot
in water up IU Uieir stiuurs, itv luiur
ini* around the edges of the pools,
waiting for food.
Get Scantiest of Food.
If there are any laws in Bulgaria
regulating the labor of women and
children, they did not apply to these
unhappy Greeks. They were given the
scantiest food; many of them lived in
the open; and if they objected, or
Blackened their efforts, deprivation ot
X000, ana DQgJgQg, .were men: rewarw.
Under such conditions diseases
thrived and the number of Greeks rapidly
diminished. No one knows how
many of the 120,000 or so Greeks who
, were deported will ever return.
Apparently some are being detained
against their will. One investigator reports
that often the names of children
are changed by adding an "off" at the
end, so as to make them seem to be
Bulgarian children. It is hard to believe
the reports coming to Greece,
where one bears estimates that from
one-third to four-fifths of the entire
number have perished.
Red Cross Renders Aid.
Meanwhile the American Red Gross
is establishing feeding places along the
line of the railway to which these returning
pilgrims find their way.
. After they reach the Greek territory,
at each station groups leave the
/ trains to go over the plains or the barren
hills to their village homes.
In one such waiting group sat two
wirnon ooph with a small dead child
In her arms. If these people succeeded
In reaching their homes they were
likely to find them either completely
destroyed or stripped of furniture,
bedding and utensils, and without
doors and windows. t
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YOUTH DROVE AMBULANCE
Boy Saw Nine Months of Servioe
Despite His Tender Years.
Dever A. Patterson, an ambulance
driver for the American Red Cross,
passed through Kansas City the other
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day. Jfatterson is omy xu jcaia mu,
but has seen active service }-\ France
for nine months. He enlisted when
15. He now has orders 10 report
"snm'pwhere in the south" for early
service transporting wounded soldiers.
Patterson, who lives in Chicago, was
asked at the Union station what part
of France he had served in.
"Any place," he said. "When we
found the war ye worked, and when
that part of it was over we looked
around for another part."
Jacob Mertz of the United States
Marines also passed through. He had
suffered both gas and Grapnel during
his year's service in France and is
now spending a thirty-day furlough
from his hospital in the East. Mertz
wears the Croix de Guerre, with one
palm, and the French Legion of Honor,
awarded to his entire brigade.
Baby in Old Mission.
For the first time in more than
forty-five years a baby has been christened
in the old Saa Fernando mission
at Los Angeles. The baby is
Robert Ilafcsett Sullivan, the 7-weeksold
son of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Sullivan
of 1'JL'S West Thirty-eighth street.
The Itov. Father Iioure, pastor of
tile mission, who also had married the
parort:'. christened the child. Sullivan
Is a mining man and formerly
Lived in Maiden, Mass.
BLEND FAR FROM COMPLETE |
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Expert Finds Descendants of First j
American Families Little Affected
by the Melting Pot.
Through an e:.tensive study of mem- j
bers of some oJ the oldest American j
families, America as the "melting pot
of the nations" proves to be but a convenient
expression for writers and orators?merely
a picture drawn by those
who do not trouble themselves about
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j the precision of tlieir figures of speech,
i a myth without foundation of fact.
| For four years Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, a j
j curator of the division of physical an- j
, thropology of the United States Xa
i tional museum, has had under way an
! investigation of the blending of the va!
rious types of humanity in America, j
' which, though not yet fully completed, ;
j has resulted in the inevitable conclu- j
j sion that the force of heredity is too j
; strong to be radically altered in a con- j
tury or two and that we must wait I
centuries longer to tind a type whu-h i
will justify the statement that Amcri ;
j ca is in reality a "melting pot" of the j
| nations. Doctor Hrdl.icka finds that j
i even the lirst material that went into i
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; the "pot" has not melted yet.
j Several hundred members of the. old
j white American stock have been meas- I
| ured most carefully and examinejl in I
; ninnv wnvs to find if the neonle mak- I
I in^ up this stock are tending to hecome
alike?if a new subtype of the
| human race is being formed here in
I America with intermarriage, environment
and under the pressure of outward
circumstances. Doctor Hrdlicka
finds definitely that, as yet, such is not
the case. His investigation shows that
. the descendants of the Pilgrim fathers,
j the Virginia cavaliers, the Pennsylva'
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I ma juuicxi ami uie nuguenuis, wuuc
possibly not as much alike as their ancestors
probably were, ore still far
from a real blend.?Philadelphia Record.
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African King's Advice About r? slp|
ful as the Vaporings of S* 'lec
I "Lovers of Peace.
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Senator Smith said in a Y. ji J. A.
address in Washington:
"Germany must be crushed. Peace,
otherwise, will behold the world drilling
and arming for another and more
terrible war. An inconclusive peace
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"A missionary once visited an African
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with the young man and ordered that
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his kingdom be brought before him.
"When the maidens?a very fine lot
indeed?were gathered together, the
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Americans and Tanks.
By inventing the caterpillar device
for motors. American ingenuity has
played h vital part in the war. says
P.oys' Life, the boy scouts' magazine.
The success of the tank lies in the
fact that it lays its own track, so to
sneak, and after rolling over it, picks
it up. Now the track is merely a belt
made of flat links of steel. This belt
fts over large wheels at either end of
the tank, much as the chain is
stretched around the wheels of an au
tomobile. On the outside of the neit
r.re fixed a series of broad links called
track plates, which take a firm grip
on the earth. The tank itself rests on
rollers which in turn rest on the inside
of the belt. It is equipped with
two belts on either side of the car,
both of which are connected with the
driving machinery. When the tank
moves straight ahead, both these belts
are* driven at the same speed. It is
passible, however, to drive the belts
independently. It usually travels at a
speed of about half a mile an hour.
Speed in Making Grenades.
The core shop of an old British iron
foundry is cited as a revelation in
speed in turning out war work. Young
girls are producing cores there for
hand grenades at the rate of ISO an
hour, the cores, the making of which
takes 31 movements of the hand, bein<r
fnrno/1 nut in 1f5 sr?r>nnr1s_ The
foundry itself is old and h.v no means
convenient, but by a system of standardization
of the work and by encouraging
employees to take an intelligent
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Dog Natural Pet of Soldier.
Dogs are a source of great eomfort
?nd satisfaction to the young fighting
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devotion and companionship many
cmve. Thev arc amused by the antics
of lively dojrs hut tliey are jriven much
deeper pleasure !>v tiie absolute loyalty
;ind complete unselfishness of their
pets. If thr-re is one place in the world
wh? !*! oijt're ilevotion to a comrade is
ino:v p./.ed tluin>if is anj where else
tie- nV' 's ?*: an.'y of brave and
true soldiers.
"First Families" Win.
Seven out of ten first prizes in the
I bird puzzle contest, conducted Inst
| spring by the Albuquerque (iaiiie Pro- j
j teetive association, were carried away (
i bv Pueblo and Navajo Indian children, j )
! The contest was open to all schoolchildren
in New Mexico, of which rhe native
Indians form but a small traction,
but the superior first-hand knowledge '
of the young redmen made them easy ,
winners over all other contestants. The
' contest consisted of 20 questions on j
i native New Mexico birds, arranged to
! bring out knowledge of their habits i
i and an understanding of their value Do
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