Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-10
PROF. ALBERT E. CHANDLER
 WRITES FROM FRANCE
Norwich Young Man Has Been Work ing in Bureau of Refugees for Red Cross

Letters received recently by Charles E.. Chandler of Mckinley avenue from his son, Prof. Albert E. Chandler, came from Ctartres. where the latter was sent as delegate on his first bit of work for the American Red Cross. For four or five days previous he had Eeen at the main office of the Red Cross in Paris, learning about refugees There are well over million French and Belg1ans scattered throughout France who have been driven from their homes by the war. Many of in health by and spirit by their ex- periences; they are not always well comed by the local population; some of them feel that since they lost all
 ing without their doing anything fur
 ther to earn it. Therefore, the refu-
 gees present a big, complex, delicate problem, Prof. Chandler writes.
 While the American Red Cross is
 concerned chiefly with the soldiers of
 the war, and for that work has the department of military work, with. many subordinate bureaus. still it is also concerned to alleviate, the distress
 which the war has brought to civilians and for that it has it's bureau of civil affairs, of which Homer Folks is now the head. Under this latter depart ment are nine or ten bureaus
 The bureau to which Prof. Chandler is attached is the bureau of refugees, of which Dr. Edward T. Devine is the chief and Miss Margaret Curtis the subordinate chief. Dr. Deyine Is an authority on charities and head of the Columbia school of phila nthropy. Miss Curtis is Bostonian who has- been working for refugees in Paris for a year and half; she now has charge of the work in Paris, while Dr. Devine has general charge of the work in cluding that which will be done out side of Paris. :
 As fast as he can find delegates Dr. Devine is sending them to provincial cities to study the situation and to make daily written reports to him. Prof. Chandler is the fourth delegate he has sent out, and it is his task to study the problem in the department is the capital. France is divided into S6 departments, each of which is ad minfstered by prefect appointed by the central government. Eventually, each delegate will be stationed perma- nently in his department, and all that the Red Cross does for civilian relief therew i'll be on the delegates recom- mendation.
 Prof. Chandler writes of the features Of his own particular location, of at- tending mass that morning in a won derfu1 cathedral carrying out the same service and ritual as when it was built in 1250, and with his able and clear perspective he forecasts the work which is certain to come to him amid such surroundings.
 He has the most cheerful pictures to give. of the hope and marvellous cour- age of the soldiers who come under his observation and will have much to add to his broad stock of information and sound knowledge of psychology from what hiS keen eyes see in his new environment.
 At last accounts, he was not per- mitted to remain long in the French cAy,e as the authorities discovered he spoke Italian so huently that his aid would be very valuable to the Red Cross and Y. M. c. A. in Italy. Nat urally, his letters show the reserve in- sp1red by the certainty of censorship, and there is but the barest mention of names and definite locations
 The young man is a professor in Ohio State university.