The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-10-11
Local Unit of the A. F.W.
Unites With Cleveland to
Establish Hospital in
in Aisne District.
CORPS is COMPETENT

Apparently acting upon that pas
sage of scripture which says "Inas-
much as we have done it unto one Of
the least of these, my brethren, we
have done it unto Me- the local as
ISOLATION of the American Fund for
French Wounded has found new field
for its patriotic and humanitarian ac-
tivities. Uniting with the Cleveland
chapter of the organization, it will
establish a hospital in France de-
voted especially to the care of women
and children who have been injured
or made i'll by the horrors and devas-
tations of the great war. The new In
stitution will be known as the Kenosha-
Cleveland Hospital in France and will
be located in the Aisne region where
some of the greatest battles of history
have recently been fought.
A peculiar series of circumstances
has made possible the establishment of
the infrmary. When the Kenosha unit
of the American Fund for French
Wounded disbanded a few weeks ago,
it had in its treasury something more
than twenty-five hundred dollars.
There was some question as to what
disposal should be made of these funds
and it was finally decided, at the sug-
gestion of Mrs. 2. G. Simmons, to use
them for civilian relief in France.
The details Of the movement have since
been arranged through several confer
ences with Cleveland officials and DR..
Clara Davis of Chicago, who will
have general charge of the Kenosha
hospital in France.
The infrmary will give special at
tention to children injured in gas at
tacks. The kiddies in the war-zone
are less careful about their masks than
their elders and as consequence fire.
quently suffer frightfully in the
chlorine raids Of the enemy. Such
cases require expert attention and will
receive as much from the competent
corps of surgeons and nurses already
employed by the new association.
At the head of the Kenosha-
Cleveland Hospital in France will be
DR.. Clara Davis of Chicago, speci-
a1ist in diseases of women and children.
Closely associated with her will be her
secretary, Miss Melvin, also of Chi
cago, and the Misses Middleton and
Robinson, trained nurses from metro
politan dispensaries. Mrs. Meade,
daughter-in-Iaw of Professor Meade of
/ Chicago University, will go with the
corps as general utility officer. A
stenographer, chauffeur and grad
uate of the Rush College of Medicine,
she will be an Invaluable aid to DR..
Davis and one of the mainstays of the
new hospital The entire staff will
DIR. Sedgwick of the University Of
Minnesota, and Mrs. Benjamin Lath
rop, who has already declared that
"the infrmary will be velitable
God-send to the dying women and
children of the war-ridden district
along the river Aisne."
The corps of the new hospital viii
sail for France on October 18TH Or.
Davis and Miss Melvin will pay the
expense OF transportation and will
work thereafter for rather less than
half of the rate usually paid to doctors
of their ability. The nurses will re-
ceive only fifteen dollars week in
stead Of the customary twenty-five
dollars, the standard wages for medical
service in the war-zone. These de-
creased salaries are no indication Of
inferiority on the part of the corps,
but rather of an all-compelling patriO-
tism and charity which have persuad-
ed them to choose this way Of doing
their bit for Country, Man, and God.
The Kenosha- Cleveland Hospital is
the third of its kind to be established
in France by units of the American
Fund for French Wounded Other
cities that have already maintained
similar infrmaries in France are Chi
cage and Winnetka, Illinois. The local
association will now bend most Of its
energies to the support of the new in
stitution The first endowment Of
twenty-five hundred dollars will run
the hospital for one year only, bur Of
fcers Of the Kenosha branch have al
ready announced that funds will be
forthcoming for the maintenance of The
| infrmary until the end of the war, be
it enc or twenty years away.
The new hospital in the Aisne dis
trict will be highly effective in i'm
proving the morale of the French ar
mics With the knowledge that their
wives and children are receiving ex-
pert attention in case of injuries or
sickness, the poilus viii be more con-
tented with the progress of the war
and consequently go over the top"
with the vim and nerve required to
give them victory. In this way the
local unit of the American Fund for
French Wounded will perform conspicu-
Gus service, not only for French women
and children, but also for the larger
cause of America and her allies.