Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-07-05
FRANCE RINGS
!. WITH WORK. OF
The
Worker Wishes America
Could Realize Extent of
Organization.

New York, July 5.-France is ring
ing with the work Of the American
Red Cross, writes Mrs. Belmont Tiff
fany Of New York to Red Cross Of
ficials in America. II only wish
work as we'll as France does.'' she
added. Mrs. Tiffany has been engag-
ed in organizing rest stations for
American troops at railway stations in
France.
Never have I been happier, never
have I liked work more o felt that
I was SO useful" she wrote in a re-
abroad 1 have had before my eyes a
vision Of fathers, mothers and sisters
of the soldiers in audiences in many
states from Maine to Texas. They
will hear n know about our great,
beautiful hospitals, with the best sur
geons. doctors and nurses. working
under the best possible conditions
with the best possible material.
"All these things are expected of
their Red Cross and taken for grant
ed. but 1 wish them to know, too, that
when their boys r we'll they have a
refuge and a home as they pass along.
I want them to think of them as writ
Ing and singing in the gay, bright
room while waiting for their train
and eating .their good, warm meals or
being sent off with sandwiches by
American girls. .
when an American mule train
came in at n station, the men said
they wanted nothing, which seemed
very unusual. From of the off,
GERS W. learned that there had been
no pay day lately. When the men
were told it was ON the Red Cross
every pitcher and basket was emptied
4ry4~ n~I @rvo -~1f- r. c.
ton to Paris it was decided that I'M.
limited coffee, American coffee, with
fresh milk, cocoa, milk and bread and
butter or jam sandwiches should be
served free to the travelling men.
After that the mule trains and the
troops went out cheering Justify and in
a very much gayer mood.
"The first night we opened at D. we
had $50 men at n a. m. They ate
seemed a. strange hour to eat. They
carried off every magazine and paper
we had; they drank coffee and cocoa
and milk; they ate bread, butter and
jam n cakes and chocolate: their
officers were fed, too, and finally the
major came and shook my hand over
and over again m said they were all
happier and less homesick then any
time since they'd left America and
AAS AAO pAAIOu " u lIlc W1lOlc
unit went out to see them of. They
nearly fell out Of their carriages to
shake hands nee more and they went
off cheering the Red Cross. the Presi-
dent and the. U. S. A.. Bless them!
Such babies and such dears.
A No. 8 we had a lot of Marines
for u house warming; they were
there 800 of them for two hours. Az
ter supper they insisted on helping us
| wa qh I'M md N1oo n 0annpo lIHy q nd ~
course we felt as IL they were old
frieds and nearly wept when they left.
Besides. all this travelling, shifting
clientele there are also the regular
E~customers. all the military police, the
signal corps men. engineers and traf-
flc regulators.
How n loves them all and, how
good and kind they are to US! The
moment they find out that.I have q
old heads off to me and 1t 10 my best
bet that in half an hour or less they
will all be sure to show me their best
girls picture back home" and their
mothers too. Mothers, I may say,
become very very valuable people out
here.
Major Patten asked me to 60 home
for q few weeks just to tell the peo-
pie Of whit is being done here. I
mont says mother may not come
over any more. but II I had gone there
was just one thing I would have said:
s'Tho, work Is bigger and better ana
inner than even I, with all my dreams,
ever dreamedzof. I never knew there
wore 80 many saltruistic selflees men
and women in the world, not one
penny 10 being wasted. from tho fact
that even tho majors themselves have
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