Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1920 — OY SCOUTS IN YOUNG ARMENIA [ARTICLE]

OY SCOUTS IN YOUNG ARMENIA

Strangest Troop of All In Constantinople Being Made Into Bood, Citizens. American Boy Scout training la alO inc nromlnently in the rehabiUtatieb of hundreds of little Armenian bey refugees from the Turkish massacre* Who have been organised Into a scowl troop la’Constantlnople as the solution of one of the most troublesome problems that confronted tin Near Best BA Uef workers is that city.' Hounded and driven for four years, having seen their parents and relatives slaughtered or worse by Turks and Kurds and themselves forced to beg, steal or do almost anything to eke out Oto barest existence, these boys had completely lost their moral sense when they Anally found refuge In the Near East Relief orphangea. The boys had been dad in rags for so long that they had forgotten bow to take care of clothes. This was a tragedy when tim Near Bast Relief had need of •swy pair of shoes and of every suit es doth* for new boys constantly earntag la. Then the beys were organised as Buy Scouts and given their unifonM. They Mm th he cm**” l school detibes as woU ee of thdr unifggUSS. , They had boon so often hpagry they had emus to steal without compunction. When they dMt entered the or tbsy — a Boyßecatacw.** ■