The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-22
RED CROSS DOES
IMMENSE AMOUNT
Of WORK ABROAD
Quantities of Food,
Supplies and Necessities
Are Dealt Out to YankS by
This Important Branch.

NEW YORK, Oct. 22.-France is
ringing with the work of the American
Red Cross, writes Mrs. Belmont TIFF
fany Of New York. 10 Red Cross Of
lea could realize the extent of work
as well as France does she added.
Mrs. Tiffany has been engaged in or
ganizing rest stations for American
troops at railway stations In France.
Never have / been happier, never
have ! liked work more nor felt that
! was so useful she wrote In a recent
letter. Ever since I came abroad |
have had before my eyes a vision of
fathers, mothers and sisters of the SOL
diers in audiences in many states from
Maine to Texas. They will hear and
know about our great, beautiful, hos
pitfalls, with the best surgeons, doctors
and nurses, working under the best
possible conditions with the best pos
sible material,
IAN these things are expected Of their
Red Cross and taken for granted, but
| wish them to know, too, that when
their boys are well they nave a refuge
and a home as they pass along. | want
them to think of them as writing 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.
ION the Red Cross"
when On American mule train can't
in at one station, the men said they
wanted nothing, which seemed very un-
usual. From one of the officers we
learned that there mad been no pay day
lately. When he men were told 1t was
ON the Red Cross every pitcher and
basket was emptied oyer n over
| again. SO on application to Paris 1t
was decided that unlimited cotfee'
| 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 cheeG-
ing Justify n in a very much gayer
The first night we opened at d, we
had $50 men at l a. m. They ate us
out of house and home though it seemed
a strange hour to eat. They carried
of every magazine and paper we had;
they drank coffee and cocoa and mix;
they ate bread, butter and jam and
cakes and chocolate. Their officers
were fed, too, and finally the major
came and shook my hand over ana
over again and said they were all hap
pier and less homesick than any time
since they'd left America and when
the train pulled out, the whole unit
went out to see them off, They nearly
fell out Of their carriages to snake
\ hands once more and they went OFT
cheering the Red Cross, the president
| anu lile u D. a
Marines Are Guests.
"At No. 3 we had a lot Of marines
for our house warming; they were there
400 of them, for two hours. After sup
per they insisted on helping us wash
tp and clean generally and of course
we felt as II they were old friends ana
nearly wept when they left. Besides
all this travelling, shifting clientele
there are also the regular customers,
all the military police, the signal corps
men, engineers and traffic regulators.
"How one loves them all andN how
good and kind they are TO us. The
moment they find out that have a
boy of my own here, they talk their
heads off to me and it is my best bet
that in half an hour or less they VIII
ali be sure to show me their best girls
picture back home ana their mothers
TOO. Mothers, | may say, become very
valuable people out here.
Major Patten asked me 70 go home
for a few weeks just TO tell the people
Of what is being done here. ! could
not go because the state department
says, Mother nay not come over any
more but II had gone there was just
one thing | would have said:
THE work Is bigger and better and
finer than even l with all my dreams
ever dreamed of, l never knew there
were so many altrulStic selfless men
and women In the world, not one penny
is being wasted, from the fact that even
the majors themselves nave no mo-
tors and use 10 gas for them II they
have them down to the message pla-
carded everywhere DO not waste a
single scrap of paper, 1t is too valuable
in France the whole policy is the
etrictest economy with ourselves and
the greatest generosity to our armies
and ~deDendpntS,'