3 MARCH 1923, Page 10

The full story of America's relief work in Eastern Europe,

in Russia and in the Near East remains to be told. It would be well if some of those Europeans who glibly talk about America being too: much occupied with her own concerns to bother about the Old World were to take the trouble to learn something of America's wonderful humanitarian work in the Near East since the Armistice. It is a record of which Western civilization has every reason to be proud. More than 100,000 children in the Near East are now being fed and clothed by the American Near East .Relief Committee, and at the town of Alexandropol in Russian Armenia there is an orphanage containing no fewer than 17,000 children dependent on " Uncle America."