Bisbee daily review., 1917-06-22
France Needs More Than a Billion
 Dollars

Dollars.
 I made a rough estimate of the inn mediate amount of money required to rehabilitate that little parcel of pop ulation. To support them for one year to provide them with their implements, to give them the toughest kind of housing, to get them back to the point where they may get the land into cul- tivation and get into self-support, would run somewhere from seven to ten millions of dollars. Altogether the north of France is probably faced with a total expenditure for rehabilitation which will run a billion and half of dollars.
 Tuberculosis Has Spread AlarmingIy.
 There are other problems in France also demanding immediate help. Tu- berculosis from exposure in the trenches, from a population in many sections partially undernourished, has spread to the most alarming degree. The French, busy and intent upon the war, with limited resources have per haps neglected the problem, but they need help, they, need, sanitary support, and they need care and direction. am informed that there has been an increase above normal in France, of men alone, of more Chan six hundred thousand tubercular cases.
 Needs Of the Children.
 There is still further field in France. and that is the children. The orphans of France increase day by day. That service is one which prob ably touches more nearly to the heart of every American than any other we can do. On the children of France rests absolutely the hope of France, because today France is sacrificing her manhood on a pyre devoted to liberty and pyre devoted to our protection.
 In these three problems the Amer ican People have got an outlet for all of their generosity. for all their ca pacity of organization, such as has never been presented to them before. The problem of Belgium is a prob lem much the same as France. but a problem of much less dimensions so far as we see it today.
 If the Red Cross could now consoli date the whole of effort directed to- wards civilian charity to civilian sup port in France. it would have laid the foundation for probably the greatest work which the American people must undertake as one Of the aftermath re- suits of the whole war
 Better Organization Needed in Charity
 have long had the feeling that all civilian charities in Europe should be better organized and better cOnsOli- dated in the United States. We have had a multitude of bodies engaged in that effort, multitude of overlapping effort, a multitude of overlapping in distribution on the other side.
 Furthermore. as the war goes on, as times become harder. we will require | a greater and a better organized effort | in order to maintain that support. IL | requires an effort that not only covers the filed of charity. but also covers | the field of helpful finance. I do not | think that any thinking person wishes to pauperize a population by pouring | charity upon them.
 We ourselves had undertaken to do some rehabilitating and have made some study of that one which is only | one of the three great problems. In that case We have developed meth | od by which we believe that these 1, people may be put back on their feet | and made selfsupporting again. Ifl perhaps only ten or fifteen per cent of | the total cost may be founded in char | ity. these people themselves will re- pay the entire cost of their reconstitu l ton. They must be given time. The eighty per cent may be accomplished | by financial measures. but someone ! has to provide the first ten or fifteen