The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-29
Two YEARS OF STRIFE |
CAUSES MANY CHANGES
HenrysW. Anderson Gives Clear Word
Paintings Of Before and After
War in Europe.
EARNEST APPEAL FOR AID
DIR. Walter Leo Makes Interesting
Talk Regarding European Condi-
lions, illustrating Lecture With
Stereoptcon Slides.

What can two years do to a people
and country?
Henry w. Anderson. president OF
the War Relief Association of Vir-
gina. gave two clear word paintings
Of the before and after in France
and England last night at the JEFF
ferson Hotel auditorium. In the sum-
mer of 1914 he was in Paris when
war was declared. Paris was gay and
prosperous. Five days later he left
the city. thoughtful, prophesying. In
about the war scare.
London made sport Of IL; 1t would
all blow over. people said Two years
later. Mr.. Anderson sailed for Eng
land on a darkened, frightened ship.
lodging submarines. In the same
England he found lights out or hood
ed. and window and train blinds
closed on heavy penalty for fear OF
Zeppelin raids. He visited the ships
and talked with veterans of twenty
summers. No word of harsh criu-
cism broke In upon the general cheer
full aspects they wore. They ex-
GERS and said the Germans fought
admirably.
At the depots titled millionaires
served the soldiers and stood on their
feet twelve hours a day washing
dishes in between lunches. He COM
mented on the women who now oc-
cupy mems positions. and ne prophe-
sled an economic change at the close
OF the war because OF It.
In France. Mr.. Anderson motored
near enough to the somme front to
hear the "drumfire.'' In Paris. what
q change he found Women in black.
o1~a all, \,
wounded, and q general spirit of sad
ness prevalent Not a family but
had given at least one member to the
grave.
Along the Marne. no sign OF the
horrible carnage was left, except
cemeteries.
He passed the scene OF the quick
sand tragedy. and then visited Rheims
His description OF the ruined cathe-
dral verifies the photographs we have
seen. NO Mans Land" the space
between the barbed wire and trench
es where the wounded lie until death
relieves them. was touchinglys por-
trayod.
The children's colonies, where or
phans. many of whom are wounded.
are cared for. was OF great interest
to the audience as Mr.. Anderson
seemed to picture future France in
them.
After describing the three types OF
hospitals-the military. kept by the
government; the Red Cross, kept by
three women's organizations, and the
private hospitals--he made his ap-
peal for help for the latter.
In vivid terms ne described a siege
in Belgium and he gave forceful
contrast in conditions when he said:
looks as II It had had smallpox. the
high woods are only few sticks now.
and all that remains OF the former
populous villages is scattered brick
dust" He closed with an earnest APP
peal for aid for the relief OF suffering
Shows Marvellous Pictures.
DR.. Walter Lee. OF Philadelphia.
member of the Ambulance Corps In
France. illustrated his lecture with
slides
What Mr. Anderson painted in
words. Mr.. Lee verified In clear photo
graphs. His statement that of the
$4,000. 900 men. killed, wounded. or
imprisoned, the American ambulance
corp took care OF $4,000. introduced
what followed. He also paid the tri-
butte to the French women that with
out their aid. France could not have
kept up as she has.
His pictures showed every phase of
trench warfare; every Jeatn dealing
instrument used: every type of shell
and the kind and seriousness Of the
wound II inflicted; the ambulance
corp. on the field, transporting the
wounded by Ford and train. and the
field Red Cross. and great American
hospital In the unfinished High School
building IN Paris loaned by the
French.
The most impressive pictures were
Of ruined Zeppelin, $50 feet long,
with a six-cylinder engine Of $50
horsepower: and his startling pictures
OF the wounded. The most remarkable
results accomplished by surgeons In
reconstructing horribly mutilated
faces. were shown month by month,
as the face, from a PUPPY mass, was
moulded and made into a presentabie
visage.
His lecture, also, closed with An ap-
peal for aid.
Many Interesting anecdotes colored
both lectures and added a tinge Of
amusement to what otherwise proved
TO be a very terrible and forcibly ap-