The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-11-18

less waits from the invaded dis
tricts. The adopting unit may
select its child and specify its
age and sex.
The money will be turned over
to a special committee of the
American Red Cross for dis
bursement.
All the money contributed will
90 to the children. The expenses
of administration will be borne
by the American Red Cross.
A photograph and history of
each child will be sent to its
adopted unit, which will be ad-
vised of the child's whereabouts
and notified monthly of its pro-
gress. The American Red Cross
committee will determine the
disposal of the child, it will
either sent to practical agri-
cultural or trade school or sup
| ported in French family. The
American Red Cross will visit
the schools and hines of the
children regularly.
A unit of 200 men, say, adopts a
child. That costs 500 francs, $87.72.
It means about $50 francs per man.
Spread over a year, the time it will
maintain the tot, means little more
than four cents per fractional god
father. This isn't much but it has
meant food, clothing, education
life itself to hundreds of orphaned
, French ki'ddiee. More THAN 1000
companies have become a godfather
in as many months.
Each company has taste all its
own i'm adopted war waits. The
Balloon Squadron, of A. P. o. I'll
isn't as fussy according to it's own
confession, but it knows what it
wants.
eve are not as fussy about the
age, names, olor of the size adopted
children. The only specification that
we make is that they shall be slip
fifty fifty-three boys and three girls
and that their names shan't be too
difficult, because we have as mas
cots now two diminutive French fox
es captured somewhere in the wilds
Of the S. o. S., and they are going
to be honored by being named after
two of our youngsters. Of course
we can't name a fox Lucille Cecilia,
Madeline, or CASTOR Claude, St. Cyr.
Something short and snappy is what
we want"
The intelligence Section GHQ
wanted something that doesn't grow
in Franco freckled-face boy. At
first they had some dissension in de-
Gliding what sort of an orphan they
wanted. There was a girl party and
boy party and they took written
vote to decide. The boy got in by
one vote. They wanted a red-head-
ed, freckled-face boy at the Red
Cross where the committee is doing
its best to fill all specifications. They
threw up their hands. They final
ly found that there had been a red
headed, freckledface in France once
but his father had taken him back
to Ireland. So the intelligence Sec
ton took blonde
But that started the rage for red
hair Every one red-haired orphan !
No one could get one The Stars
and Stripes came out with the fol-
lowing editorial:
LA TETE ROUGE"
''Has anybody around France seen
any red-headed orphans?
IF so, the Stars and Stripes would
ike to know it. To date we have
1enied that there are any, but sew
eral requests for them coming to the
war orphan department, have raised
the suspicion that may be we are
may be somebody has
seen some. We haven't been able to
ind any and neither has the Red
cross. We think we are being kid
led, but we are not sure. In the
Meantime the orphan department !
'ould like to enlist the A. E. F. in a
ed-headed orphan hunt"
Private D. Cornell wrote from the
!. o. s. that he had found a red
eaded baby. Her father was Grip
lied AZ tho fpon& o~l L.. L..