ncOUf^ .. X Maries work in cooperation. with AME.R-. COlW<IM. for- De'va.sxated France hy Isabella Farr Broch-w^ayf IK \ . o -tr V ot ’ )) ^oy>o<ie>i«'V f»P *Tch. , 'O- A*l« rHmr^'S! ( -|V_|,» Corft^^/'/f Aa ^r^ostoli 5 _^OJ cronijj ^ flf «.q ranea Retimo BraKl^Mon : Rxr X,VriulL~^ ^ I rr jScrotchinsh repres Qnts fvork of American women’s Hospitals Work in cooperation fvith • Amer. Board of Commi5sioner^ tor FORElCrN Mi^>sions o Amer. Friends* Service Comm. Amer. Red Cross Near east Relief The A.W.H. is woricinp in cooperation veith the American Baptist Foreign Afissionarjr ^Society in ToJcyo f Fapan. isniio Jarde* MACEDONIAN A CERTAIN SAMARITANS C L A S s 2)40-3 Book L-34^ Vo LU M E Pen N SYLVAN I State Library THE MACMILLAN COMPANY HBW YORK • BOSTON • CHICAGO • DALLAS ATLANTA • SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., Limited LONDON • BOMBAY • CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd. TORONTO Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/details/certainsamaritanOOIove ^ V 4(Mv*t|u^5»4i-|w-fMi*| tiji- Um 4 tiwjP |it»i«il nv nvi- kt^M. • ffir- i m il 1— „ , CERTAIN SAMARITANS BY ESTHER POHL LOVEJOY NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1927 All rights reserved CopymoHT, 1927, By the MACMILLAN' COMPANY. Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1927. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE CORNWALL PRESS DEDICATED IN GRATEFUL APPRECIATION TO OUR NEIGHBORS IN EVERY STATE IN THE UNION, AND TO "A CERTAIN SAMARITAN” WHO HAS WALKED BY OUR SIDE FOR THE PAST EIGHT YEARS. 22 ^1:478 Many of the photographs used in this book have been contributed by different persons to whom we wish to express appreciation. The illustration on the jacket was done by a refugee artist in Con- stantinople; the frontispiece was also painted by a refugee in Constantinople. On account of his talent, he was afterward sent to Paris where his work has already won recognition. — CONTENTS chapter PAGE I. A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF—IN THE BEGIN- NING THERE WAS LIGHT BUT NO FUNDS—THE AGE LIMIT FOR WOMEN 1 II. MEDICAL SERVICE ON THE MARNE—ALL-SOULS’ DAY AT LUZANCY—A.W.H. DENTISTRY—A GRAND PANDORA BOX OF SURGICAL DISEASES—TWO HOME TOWNS 13 III. WE MOVE TO BLERANCOURT—WORK WITH THE COMMITTEE FOR DEVASTATED FRANCE THE “robustness” of our CHAUFFEUSES—A SKY pilot’s glove!—COOPERATION WITH COLLEGE RELIEF UNITS—LA RESIDENCE SOCIALE . 28 IV. A POPE WITH APPENDICITIS—A CIRCUIT RIDING SURGEON—SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS INCLUDING BEDSTEADS BOOTY BANDAGES THE BURNING OF THE “rOYE” 36 V. INSECT LIFE IN THE VALLEY OF THE VARDAR THE SKOPLJE BEETLE—AN INFLUENTIAL FAM- ILY SUPERMEN AND VERMIN THE FATEFUL BITE OF A LOUSE 48 VI. THE HERNIA BROTHERHOOD—A BRIGAND CHIEF UNDER AN ANAESTHETIC CASUALTIES ON MAR- KET DAY THE PLAYFUL KATCHAKS HIDING BEHIND A SKIRT THE “hIGHDUK,” KARA GEORGE 54 VII. CHILDREN FIRST—BLACK HAIR AND WHITE EYES—nurses’ training THE TRADITIONAL “baba”—MUSTAPHA AND THE MINARET , 64 VIII. THE DAY OF DELIVERANCE—TALK ABOUT MELTING pots!—SHEM, HAM, JAPHETH AND THE FOLKS FROM THE LAND OF NOD “a FLAMING SWORD WHICH TURNED EVERY WAy”—PESTILENCE IN THE garden of EDEN—HOISTING THE RED FLAG 73 IX — CONTENTS chapter PAGE IX. “the smile class”—THE BATTLE OF BARDAZAG AN EXPATRIATED AMERICAN BATTLESHIP THE LATEST FALL OF NICOMEDIA—THE FLIGHT OF OUR NATIVE NURSES A NEW BABY IN THE MIDST AN EMPTY VICTORY GLEANING CHETAS A CRUTCH WORTH CARRYING ANDROMEDA CHAINED TO A ROCK—OUR TURKISH WATCH- MAN 83 X. THE MANTLE OF MOSCOW—UNDER TWO FLAGS: THE AMERICAN AND COMMUNIST “tHE CZAr’s CIGARETTE CASe” A NATIONALIZED CASINO . 99 XL “plain tales from the hills”—THE STRIKE AN EXPERIMENT IN COMMUNISM “rEDS AND radishes” II4 XII. “the medical factory” A CATTLE COUNTRY BIG DEMON HARNESSED 120 XIII. SPARTANS ARARAT AND HOLLYWOOD PTOMAINS OF FATIGUE THE GOLDEN RULE AND THE “INTERNATIONALE” I24 XIV. MIDAS, CRCESUS AND THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE A SHIP WITHOUT A COUNTRY THE MARTYRED CITY A SUNDAY SCHOOL CRUISE POLYCARP AND CHRYSOSTOM HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION? I3I XV. THE SMYRNA QUAY — ENGLISH - SPEAKING REFUGEES WITH AN AMERICAN ACCENT NEU- TRALITY “deportation TO THE INTERIOR” A MUDDLE OF NATIONALITY AND RELIGION THE STRANGE CASE OF A MAN WITH TWO PASS- PORTS, BUT WITHOUT A COUNTRY PRAYING FOR SHIPS—THE GOLDEN AGE OF GREECE . I40 XVI. AMERICAN AND BRITISH SAILORS HELP THE OUT- CASTS INFERNAL GATES WALKING THE PLANK DAYLIGHT ROBBERY THE VIA DOLO- ROSA BLOOD OF THE RAMS BIRTH AND DEATH —SWIMMING IN DARK WATERS THE STRENGTH OF THE WEAK I52 — CONTENTS XI chapter PAGE XVII. THE GIFTS OF LIFE—FINDING FAVOR—MY SHARE OF THE SMYRNA LOOT THE BOY I SHALL ASK SAINT PETER ABOUT 164 XVIII. CARE OF THE SICK ON THE ISLANDS OF HOMER AND SAPPHO—REFUGEES FROM ROCHESTER A POOR LITTLE RICH BOY “MOVE ON ! MOVE on!” THE WHITE HANDKERCHIEF . I7I XIX. “the quick— or the dead”—TURKISH JUSTIFI- CATION “the terrible meek”—A JOCULAR FATE—THE TURKISH FAMILY TREE—A GENEA- LOGICAL JUNGLE MAHMUD, THE REFORMER SURVIVAL OF THE CUNNING 1 78 XX. BEGINNING IN GREECE—ARMENIAN ORPHANS FLOATING HELLS A CALL FROM SEA . I9O XXL AMAZONS ANCIENT AND MODERN A VENERABLE MAN POOR LITTLE SHILI 1 “TEARS, IDLE tears” HATCHING DODOS AN OPTION OF KING Solomon’s mines^—the grateful Turk 198 XXII. THE odyssey of AN OREGONIAN—HOMER A REFUGEE TREASURE ISLANDS DREADFUL DREADNAUGHTS ^THE PREFIX “pAn” CAUGHT IN CHIOS “the BALKAN BAt” .... 2O4 XXIII. PAUL WAS MISINFORMED SIR ARTHUR’s PICK AND SHOVEL CRETE AND THE PALACE OF KING MINOS ARMED WITH PHAGOCYTES THE DREADED ANOPHELES^ A MIRACLE—GOD IS GOOD 209 XXIV. THE AMERICAN WOMEN’s HOSPITALS’ QUARANTINE ISLAND PEST-SHIPS FROM THE PONTUS A MAN OF SORROWS OUR OUTDOOR CAFETERIA EIGHT THOUSAND GUESTS “tHE QUALITY OF mercy” 220 XXV. AN ANGEL FROM “gOd’s COUNTRY”—LOST GRAND- MOTHERS OLD SMALLPOX THE TURKISH- SPEAKING “GREEKS” AND THE GREEK-SPEAKING “TURKS” MEDICAL SCIENCE, CHRISTIANITY AND THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR A FEAST IN THE PAL- ACE OF KING MINOS 2 JI xll CONTENTS chapter PAGE XXVI. “her majesty the queen”—“five hundred millionaires!”—MY FAR-AWAY COUSIN . 248 XXVII. THE CITY OF TWO CONTINENTS^—NEW TURKS AND TURKESSES—SCUTARI BARRACKS IN 1 854 AND IN 1923—LENT AND RAMADAN—“yES, WE HAVE NO bananas!” 256 XXVIII. THE CHRISTIAN EXODUS—DIG IN OR DIE—SURVIVAL OF QUALITY — WOMEN BUILDERS — POVERTY STRICKEN BOOM TOWNS—THE GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGG TREADING THE GRAPES —AN AMERICAN DEPORTEE—REFUGEE NURSES’ TRAINING 269 XXIX. ELYSIUM FOR DIPLOMATS—A PORTENTOUS DOCU- MENT VIEWING OUR PLANET AN AIRPLANE WITH HEART DISEASE A CLOSE CALL GOAT FARMING IN DOUGLAS COUNTY THE ADVAN- TAGES OF STEERAGE TRAVEL 277 XXX. EAST OF THE VOLGA—OIL TO BURN—ON THE STEPPES—THE HUNGER STRIKE—BREAKING THE TENTH COMMANDMENT—COMMUNISM IN A RAILWAY COMPARTMENT—“iVAN THE TER- RIBLE” — FEET BY JOWL — THE TRUSTFUL QUAKER—A wayfarer ON THE BORDERLAND OF DELIRIUM TREMENS 287 XXXI. FOLLOWING REFUGEES TO THRACE—TOBACCO OF GREAT PRICE STARVATION LOW COST OF REVO- LUTIONS—HIGH COST OF QUININE—THE MACE- DONIAN cry: “malaria!” 295 CERTAIN SAMARITANS CERTAIN SAMARITANS CHAPTER I A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS LIGHT BUT NO FUNDS THE AGE LIMIT FOR WOMEN he Balkan Peninsula lies between the devil and the T deep sea. It is the natural path between Europe and Asia; the trail of invaders from both directions, dark Tar- tars and “white Huns”; the highway of the western push of the Turks for hundreds of years, and the eastern pressure of the Germans during this day and age; a rich poaching ground for neighboring nations, and a handy pawn for the great powers at times of negotiation. Bound on the north by the Magyars, et al, on the south by the Turks, on the east by the Tartars and the “Reds,” on the west by the Pope, on the southwest by the Caliph, in the center by the Patriarch and the Macedonian Comitadjis, and in every direction by disturbers of the peace, this stretch of territory is, and always has been, geographically, politi- cally, and religiously adapted to the development of history, making episodes. Political and religious crimes are common in the Balkans and adjacent countries round about the Black Sea, across the Bosphorus, and along the coast of Asia Minor. Inci- dents, which would be classed as epochal in Western Europe, pass without notice in these bad lands, unless out- siders are involved. The dramatic unities would have been violated if fate had sent the Grand Duke Ferdinand in any other direction to start the World War, and the chances are the explosion would have held fire until some “incident” 2 CERTAIN SAMARITANS in the Balkans, or the Near East, could be used to set it off. In a general way, the history of this part of the earth’s surface may be divided into three periods: before the Turk, under the Turk, and after the Turk. Long, long before the Turk, the spiritual and intellectual life which survives in our present day western world, divinely planted in the minds of men, developed in the southern section of the Balkan Penin- sula, the iEgean Islands, and along the coast of Asia Minor. This is the glory that was—and is Greece. The goal of the Ancient Greeks was a dominant world culture, and, with the help of their enemies in different ages, this goal has been realized in large measure. Efforts to stamp out Hellenism in the land of its nativity spread it broadcast over the western world.