The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-10-03
Rev. Van Keuren
Writes to the
Andrews Family

Floyd Van Keuren has written from
Biarritz, France. the following de-
ughtful letter to the Andrews family
on Lincoln Park, which The Daily Rec
ord has been permitted to publish. He
says:
I'VE have been pretty poor letter
writer's. / know. and have not seemed
to appreciate all that your fine letters
have meant to US. But let me as
sure you that they have meant a great
deal to US. and we hope you will for
give US and write TO Us soon again.
Mrs. Van Keuren wrote to you a
while ago. but haven't wrwitten for
long time. don't believe I ever
put in so much time working. usually
seven days a week. as 1 have over
here, or have gone to bed so persis-
tently tired out. And then. Mrs. Van
Keuren. too. In fact, think she has
been doing harder and more difficult
work than l have. Though she has
nominaIly been my assistant. she has
really done the hardest work. and
couldn't have managed without her.
"As l said your letters from all four
of you have meant SO much to us.
especially the letters from Shirley
Andrews. We often speak of you and
wonder how you are getting along. l
do not think l have ever thanked you
(though know Mrs. Van Keuren did)
60 haf xs< rd "a n
ing the honor roll OF Christ church.
We were very much toucned by that.
We get pretty homesick sometimes for
Christ church and for you all; you
and your friends who were SO nice to
us and we feel that the happiest years
of our lives were those few short
ones spent there in Canon City. By
the way. how wonderful you have been
in the Red Cross drive. the Y. NJ. C. A
campaign. in the Liberty ioans and in
all of your continued loyal work for
the Red Cross. etc. Canon City and
you people are people to be proud of.
4 have never heard Of 1t. but l sup
pose my letter to the Canon City Red
Cross auxiliary reached its destina-
tion. II it did and you saw 1t you will
know something Of the kind Of work
we were trying to do at Amiens al
the time OF the German drive last
spring. At Bordeaux It has been
somewhat different. as we have had
q larger territory with the refugees
farther from their homes and more
scattered. However. in bordeaux the
work was little like the old work.
There the officials are much better
and more interested. SO that we could
work through them to greater advan-
sage.
But now our whole work is to be
changed again just when We had
built up an effective and niceIy-work-
ing organization. and the sad part of
1t is that Mrs Van Keuren and are
no longer going to be fortunate
enough to be permitted to work 10
gether. although we shall be nea
enough to see each other occasionally.
"The Red Cross in France has
grown to be such an immense organ
ization that 1t is going to be decentrai-
lied into nine zones. each OF wbicn
will be practically separate ogan-
ization, except that all viii be under
the general direction of the Red Cross
commissioner OF France Herctofo
the Bureau of Refugees and Relief has
had delegate or rep essential We. in
each of tho different departmenfs Of.
states OF the country. and the whole
work was directed by the chief OF the
bureau In Paris. The delegates or
representatives. will continue their
work in the different states or depart
ments. but each zone will have q d.
rector of general relief or zone deie-
gate who will be on the staff of the
zone manager and have the superyis-
ion Of all relief work in his particu-
lar zone. have been appointed AZ
zone delegate for the southwestern
zone with headquarters at Bordeaux
and will have the supervision Of Red
Cross work in 16 departments.
Mrs. Van Keuren, who has nomi-
nalIy been my assistant, has been Of
fercd the position Of delegate in
charge Of any one Of several depart
ments. At the same time there has
come an urgent call for more workers
In the military hospitals In what IS
known as the home communication
service. The need there ID 20 great
and the work so necessary that. aimee