Arizona republican., 1917-05-27
Official Organ State F Federation
 Wonnaa' s Clubs

i regular meetings for the remainder of the season. However, this does not mean that the club woman is going to 1 find any time to be idle, for the con- scientiOus women these days are heed 7 jng urgent calls to public service. It is through organization and the splen did experiences of club life that women | become more efficient to assume many 1 of these pubic duties which they are | daily demonstrating. Any woman who 1 has leisure time should count it a priv ilege to respond to some of the various calls coming from our government. Let
 he club women of Arizona show what
 club life and club fellowship has done
 for them!
 Following is most interesting ar ] ticle showing what American women are doing in the war:
 WOMEN'S WAR WORk { The New York County Chapter of the American Red Cross made public re- centiy a report on conditions in the German evacuated sections of France.
 4ne report ls based on letters re-
 ceived by the Red Cross in the last lev dayA from its representatives in ! France, and all of them are agreed ] on the one point that the terrible 1 aitpati0r has not been exaggerated l in any of the stories that have come I out of France since the beginning of | the great allied drive under Haig and l NiVel!e.
 The statement reads:
 1 Conditions in the devastated re- l rions behind the present Anglo i French advance. as well as incidents, of the heroism oi American women in
 charge of Red Cross relief work in | towns near the front, Ire, described in | 1o+f cen received by the New York County Chapter of the American Red Cross. The letters ask for the ship l ment at once of unlimited quantities of clothing for distribution among the l refugees who are pouring into Paris, Amiens and other cities in thousands. UndeIclothing of all kinds. socks shirts, p2jemas handkerchiefs, slip
 pe1s, sheets, etc, are badly needed I Thousands of the French civil pop
 ulatiOn from the regions formerly oc- cupied by the Germans are, according l 10 these letters. n almost abJeCj T sta1Yation. Many collapse from weak , ness after reief workers have reached | them. Some have noT the strengtE , , even to chew their food. Men, women
 and children are nothing but skir
 and bones, with eyes either feverishly
 bright, CT nearly lifeless.
 | Fer seventeen months these people
 were forced to live only on blacl F bread and rice, without meat of an, r kind. They had no clothing excep what they wore. In q large orphan
 i asylum near Noyon children and peo-
 pie from the city have slept in tn, same clothes, without mattresses, pil-
 lows, or coverings since last Decen- a Der. The Germans did not allow then ], to go out or to wash. When they
 were found by the American relic z workers. they were in all indescrib able condition of filth Even thos
 who died sometimes had to be zep
 for five days in the rooms with thi
 1 living before the Germans would per
 init their removal.
 In NoyoIi, which is the center fo |, American relief in the devastated dis
 trict, Red Cross workers lid not fin a single unbroken pane of glass There was not stick of furniture o V a shred of clo thing Most of tn 1 houses were destroyed In city O
 normally 1000 or 0oo people. nor n than 15,90o refugees from the sur [ rounding country were crowded. "EVer3 where the American wome ; were received with joy, by soldier , ! and civilians alike. In Chambery tn /, soldiers insisted on giving a fste fo
 the Danes Americaines, and on
 l st2ge erected out of tables they san
 ! songs, recited ard cheered .he Unit k l ed St9tes. The city officials presente, n wreaths and the mayor m9de a 1 speech. zs, ET.ssV n nc bravery of Mn,e Carrel. vii