The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-03-26
Our Women Particularly Are Civ
ing Wonderful Aid to Wars
Stricken-HospitaI In France
a Great Institution-Anne Nor
gan Thanked by French Mayor
For Her Generosity to Soldiers.
rATH1LE Europe wages a war OF
~ blood and no quarter the
United States is carrying on

United States is carrying on
war of mercy and charity.
This country is known throughout
the world as the most liberal giver
among nations, and true to their spirit
our citizens have by their generosity
placed hope into the hearts Of the suf-
fering victims of war abroad ever
since the fighting started.
Our food commissioners, our doctors,
our nurses, surgeons and our ambassa-
doris are on the fields Of carnage and
desolation alternating distress in its
countless forms as the armies sweep
to and fro working their destructive
ness.
Here at home we are by no means
idle. Food. clothing, presents to cheer
the children made homeless and or
phans and medical supplies have all
found their way from this country for
the benefit Of Europe.
Sacrifices Of Wealthy.
1t is not n Of the least remarkable
developments Of the war that so many
rich and ultra fashionable American
men and women who, bound by no ties
OF blood or matrimony to London or
Paris ave that Of former association
SO generously the call Of humanity to
help with money and personal service
In caring for the wounded soldiers.
A few have doubtless gone into Red
Cross work as the fad of the moment,
like the Duchess Of Westminster, who
keeps the London dressmakers busy
devisfng new adaptations Of the
nurses uniform, with which she wears
a blazing ruby cross upon her bosom
and ruby buckles upon her shoes
worth enough money to buy several
motor ambulances and who was re-
Gently in Paris to obtain the latest
songs to sing to the soldiers. But the
serious, sustained effort of most OF the
American workers and their substan-
tial contributions as we'll as their sac
rifices in exiling themselves in some
instances from their own comfortable
homes and turning them into hospitals
is proof Of the genuine spirit of sery-
ice.
In Paris. where the American colony
has been the most pleasure loving in
Europe. there is now the hardest work,
thoroughly organized by former Amer
lean Ambassador ard Mrs. HerricS
and their advisers, among whom Her
man Harjes, the American banker, has
been especially helpful. and where dis
cipline is submitted to by the wealthy
and distinguished volunteers rs if they
were soldiers in camp. The American
hospital at Neuilly, near Paris, which
was established in 1906 for the bene.
ft of travellers from the United States
caught by unexpected illness when in
France. was Immediately turned ovel
to the French government at the out.
break of wal through the ambassador
But Mr.. and Mrs. Herrick's work had
just begun with that, and they have
added as an auxiliary the new building
at Neuilly, built to accommodate a higl
school, which the French minister ea
gerly vacated to the Americans and
where arrangements will ultimately
be made for a thousand beds.
Mrs. Herrick has been called "the
American angel" in Paris, and surely
no IONA going abroad for a few
years Of the brilliant pleasures of So