The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-10-24
eY FRANl<sS TAYLOR.
GriSed Press Staff CorreanonHent

VISIT. ana she went UP close to the men
or, on the cots when she spoke to them,
distance charity this.
Yet with all her visits she went
through the ward in very few mo-
ments. cheering up the negro dough
boys as well as the whites, and treat
ing everyone with equal attention
Forgot your toothbrush. did you?
she asked one man. You ought to
know better than that. When you
come 10 hospital you can forget your
pass or ANYTHING else. but never your
toothhrush. Here's another, Ill give
You and don't go anywhere without
In two short hours she had made the
rounds OF dozen wards. visiting
every patient. giving some little bags
with soap, wash cloths, tooth brushes
and other necessaries in Them chat
Ing with all, and promising to get Gig
afets, Writing paper pencils or what
not for numbers of them.
what's my job?" she repeated and
q Red Cross searcher. This isn't my
regular work Going through the wards
IKE that Is only a side line The Red
Cross sends me supplies, though, and
IT'S lots OF fun to visit those chaps in
there, and they seem to like it,
The Boys Like Her.
The Chaps in there did. and you
could tell 1t by their faces as she
passed through as well as one of them,
an English Tommy, did with words
Just after she left him. He leaned
toward hunkie and said in unwritable
Just like ray Of sunshine when you're
IN the trenches up to your neck in
mud on rainy day"
Come over to my office If you
wish, and I'll explain what a Red
Cross searcher is" she answered to
another question.
1t was little wooden office, neat
inside as only woman could make 1t,
with flowers around, and pictures on
the wall, pictures that had nothing to
40 with the war There We're cushions
on the seats and chairs, and maya
zines on the table. 1t looked like
den in somebody's summer home.
It's part OF the game to have a nice
office, she said, smiling" We want
the boys 20 like TO come around. Any
way. l like to have a neat office and
get pictures up that are nothing like
these war time surroundings.
List Of Missing.
See these lists. They're sent out by
the Red Cross office in Paris, from the
homo and hospital service branch.
These are men who nave been report
ed missing. The army is too busy
lighting 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 to know more, and we are
out here to try to find out about the
missing boys They're all classified
according to their organizations, YOU
see.
When new bunch Of wounded nv
SICK comes in here, l compare this
list with their organizations. Possibly
III 1l!ld someone In the same company
as one OF these missing boys. Then I'll
go and talk to him and see If he knows
DC It's ever SO little, but I'll 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 to ac-.
count for the missing.
My first day out here found a
boy who told me OF half dozen miss
ing men had on my list They went
out toge:her, five privates and a.
sergeant. The man I talked to thought
he doubted the sergeant lived. He
hesltated when l asked him why, and
It was with great urging that I got
him to say, You see, they went out
together. and next day we found a
nana with only three fingers on it.
ana the sergeant was the only man ii,
the company who had just three fin
gers, SO ] don't think he's living,
MANN
2 Report Is Verified.
y turned In tie report and several
weeks later it was certified by re-
port TO the Red Cross through the
Spanish legation in Germany. ~ con-
s;antly getting the boys to tell stories
or their comrades, we can piece the
stories OF the missing men together,
and II they are safe. notify the par
ents. II they are killed we try to get
tho story of IL Nj ~