The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-09-03

soap. washing cloths. toothhrushes and
other necessaries i'm them. chatting
with all. and promising TO get cigar
cites. writing paper. pencils or what
not for numbers Of them
What's my job" She repeated and
then replied to the auestioner, oh.
I'm a Red Cross searcher. This isn't
nay regular work GOING through the
wards like that is a side-line. The Red
Cross sends me supplies. though and
its lots Of fun TO visit those chaps in
there. and they seem 10 like it,"
The Boys Like Her.
The chaps IN there" did. and YOU
could tell ii by their faces as she passed
through as we'll as one OF them. an
English Tommy. did with words just
after she left him. He leaned toward
bunkie and said in unavailable cock
ney. Say. she $ a peach. isn't she Just
like a ray Of sunshine when you're in
the trenches UP to your neck in mud on
rainy day
Come over 20 my office il YOU wish
ana III explain what Red Cross
searcher is" she answered to another
question
Il was a little wooden office. neat in
side n IS only a woman could make T.,
with howers around. and pictures on
the wall. pictures that had nothing TO
do with war There were cushions on
the seats and chairs. and magazines
on the table IL looked like a den in
somebody's summer home
~It.s part 81 the game 10 have nice
office" she said. smiling We want
the boys 10 like to come around. Any
way. 1 like to have a neat of1ice AMI
get pictures up that are nothing like
these wartime surroundings
LISTS of Missing.
See these lists They're out by the
Red Cross office in Paris. from the
home ana hospital service branch
These are men who have been re-
ported missing. The army IS too busy
hghting Germans TO investigate any
further about them. and sends in this
report
But the mothers and fathers and
sisters and brothers back home are NOT
satisfied with the word missing They
want 10 know more. and we are out
here to try to find out about the mis-
sing boys They're all classified &C
cording TO their organizations YOU see.
sick comes IN here. I compare This list
with their organizations. Possibly I'll
find some one in the same company as
one of these missing boys. Then III
20 back and talk to him. and see # he
knows anything about the missing lad.
Maybe it's ever so little, but III send
it in and maybe some other searcher
IN some other hospital Will find the
rest Of the story from another soldier
and we can put the two together and
account fer the missing.
My first day out here I found boy
who told me of half e dozen missing
men / had on my list. They went
out together. FIVE privates and a ser
geant The men I talked 20 thought
the FIVE privates were captured but
he doubted the sergeant lived. lie hes
itated when 7 asked him why. and it
was with great urging that I got him
to say. You see. they went out to-
gether. and next day we found a hand
with only three fingers on It. and the
sergeant was the only man in the com
pany who had just three fingers. SO
] don't think he's living. Ma'am
Report Is Verified.
4 turned in the report. and several
weeks later it was verified by re-
port to the Red Cross through the
Spanish legation in Germany. BY con-
stantly getting the boys TO tell stories
Of their comrades. we can piece the
stories OF the missing men together.
and IL they are safe. notify the parents
If they are killed we try 10 get the
story of IT, and let their folks know by