Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1917-11-23

INered from the danger Of German
conquest.
Not only In the spirit Of feastlng. but
III the religious aspect Of the holiday
especially In the religious aspect-we
may expect the French TO Join heart
ny with the Americans In giving
'hankS, and we need not he surprised
u 'hey take Thanksgiving Day to their
nearts as they have taken the Amerl.
can soldier. and make 1t their wi for
the rest Of their national life.
Not the American army alone ia civ.
ing the French reason to be thankful
TO that Providence which has roIsed
up n powerful nlly, but the American
lted Cross, which stands ever back OF
inc army and navy, helps to ARE for
lhem, and takes on It's shoulders the
urde Of feeding and sheltering and
clothing the pitiful thousands of ref.
ugees.
hack OF the French fighting lines are
now these homeless, shelterless WON.
en- ola men and little children, In mum.
oers almost unbelievable. On October
l the American Red Cross was carlnv
Tor 100000 OF them, and more were
coming at the rate of 1000 a day
through n city alone, and no one has
estimated how many others. The Ger.
mans, who had held them prisoner in
the lines for three years, were driving
them across the lines that the French
government might have to feed them,
IL was not possible for the Red Cross
10 provide II Thanksgiving Day feost
for this multitude, even If they Ind
known what It was. But the help xiv.
en- them-the portable houses I'm which
reunited families might find shelter. !
the little furniture and few tools SUD-
piled them that they might begin the
ramily life anew; the food TO keen
them alive and the clothing to keen
them from freezing to deatb-such
services as these have aroused in the
volatile and emotional French heart a
love for the American and his Red
cross which may easily encompass al.
so the American feast day.
In the n little corner of Belgium
Is free from the German heel
there also Is the spirit Of Thanksgiving.
though the Belglans know nothing Of
the American holiday. For there has
the American Red Cross, and
only n few days ago It voted $3.50 o3O
for the relief Of the Belgian refugees
crowded behind their army In the little
strip Of soil still held by King Albert
and Queen Elizabeth. This fund Will
used especially to care for Belgium
children, and to run a Belgian hosnltoI
wounded soldiers, because the Rel
yian government hospital Is now over
.axed. I
For the feeding Of the refugees
warehouses are built along the many I
annals, and supplies will be Sent by I
,oat all over that corner of the LITTLE |
into which are huddlrd tbe /
ones who have fled from the |
ierman invader. (
Serbia, too, has cause to he thank. t
III for what the American Red Cross 0
= doing. Serbian war prisoners in G
Iustro-German camps are on the verge b
f starvation. and only the Red Cross {
ould reach them. The Serbian gov b
has placed 100000 to the p
redlt Of the American Red Cross. and |
has already bought 5000 sacks Of c
our and shipped them through Swift
and Austria, to be furnished $
ne starving prisoners. p
But Of all the nations the Red Cross r.
as befriended, France alone IS priv n
eyed to witness a real American eel. II
Of Thanksgiving Day, and Of il
those peoples the French are most 0
kelly to catch the American point Of Il
lew. II Is a safe prediction that the m
rench will take enthusiastically to II