Bisbee daily review., 1917-12-07
JAMES DOUGLAS WRITES ABOUT CONDITIONS IN REGARD TO HIS WORK

$. P. Applewhite of Douglas has re ceived a letter from James S. Douglas
 who is now in France, engaged in Red | Cross work and other war activities
 which gives an idea of the problems
 with which MT. Douglas is confronted
 Following are some excerpts from the | letter:
 We get very title news here. have visited Rouen with my brother | in-law. who is a colonel in the British army and had very interesting trip l have also met and spent some time with a colonel in a Canadian eontIn gent and have seen something Of our American officers, notably Col. Cor lins, who was on Gen. Pershing's staff in Mexico. None of them know very much, eXcep. what is going on in their immediate vicinity and general news here is harder to get than it is in New York.
 MT. Brophy arrived safe and he is now my chief dependence in my pos;- ton as director of stores of the Amer ican Red Cross. This store director ship is a big job, greater than ary ever before undertaken by me. Sup plies are pouring in from the United States and from o.her places with as yet inadqua.e e warehouses, some poorly located.
 We have one large and very fine warehouse on a canal and with rail road connections, but another large warehouse, or rather depot, in which a very large stock of clothing and other material is intended to be stored is the horse stables of the Paris Fiacre company, who occupied it be- fore the automobile taxis came into use. It is needless to say that this depot is very inconvenient. and in many ways badly adapted for the use for which it is to be put. The ware houses here in Paris, along with the warehouses at Bordeau ana St. Nazane, are intended to be the points where the big stocks of goods are to be carried, and branch warehouses are established and to be established at Nancy, Soissons, Amiens. Dijon and half a dozen other places towards the front.
 The biggest difficulty we are going to have is in getting even a low percentage of efficiency out of the volunteer help. There are many here in France that have come over to work for he Red Cross and mighty few real experienced workers either in the line of office help or expert enced in warehouse service. How- ever, stalled around here for month studying the situation from all its angles and I ought to know what Erophy and myself are going up against. We are very much lncimec to telegraph for two or three star performers tha. we know of in Mex ica and Arizona. as it is going to be very, very difficult to get service out of the very earnest but entirely ineX- perienced young men that are a:mosl universally to be found in the de- partment over which we have taken conuol
 q don. think I have ever been up against anything like it in all my travels. And yet feel that we will get a measure of good results. taking into consideration the general sur rounding conditions and circum- stances.
 "I have written Gen. Pershing and he has invited me to come anc see him. am of the impression that he is the right man in the right place he can get the business man agers to get the stuff for him. He IS well thought of heIe in France, SC far as can judge. l krcw that our Major Murphy and Major Perkins, in whose judgment l have the greatest confidence. are both very much taken by Gen. Pershing."