The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-27

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Coming to the earriok.
on, though, and the next morning a
Red Cross man went with the boy to
the street, and by the simple process
Of calling at every house in every
block finally located the aunt,
But that wasn't ali. Elio, his name
was Elio Beaussart, needed job, and
the Red Cross gave it to him Now
that game youngster wears a khaki
uniform with A. r. G. on the collar
and works in q Red Cross canteen.
When came away E1ios family had
rene and hopeful The American
Red Cross, in his opinion, can do
anything If you give it time.
Your money did not wait until the
refugees got to Paris before it help
ed them. In front Of the Red Cross
headquarters in the Place de Ia Con-
corde crowds gathered daily to see
the great motor trucks being loaded
with food to be sent into the frirges
of the war zone. Thousands OF
Ioaves Of bread, tins Of meat, con-
densed milk, chocolate, coffee, every
thing necessary and practical.
The Red Cross had a great many
stations in the sections over which
the Germans swept, and while the
workers in those stations were help
ing to evacuate whoi Q populations,
the workers in Paris were rushing
supplies to feed them. With guns
roaring and shrapnel bursting around
them, the Red Cross camions went
on taking hope and relief and
life to thousands Of civilians and
wounded soldiers.
Help Is immediate.
In one station yard, waiting for
trains to carry them to base hospi-
tails down the line, the Red Cross
found and succored 5000 wounded
French soldiers. In the town of
almost the lsbt habitabe
point near the war zone, q large num-
Der Of sick civilians, mostly women
and children, were found. There was
no hospital left in the place, which
had been shelled and largely eVacu-
ated and to show you how promptly
your money acts, I am going to tell
you what the Red Cross workers did
for the suffering population of Beau
Vais.
Some time in the early morning
q hospital was established on paper
That is, it was decided to establish
q hospital At 10 o'clock that same
a partially furnished house
was rented. At IL o'clock the house
was in order. a surgery with full
supplies was installed, two doctors
four nurses and several helpers were
at their posts. and before the after
noon was half over forty patients
were in the beds being treated and
cared for
Wouldn't you rather feel that you
helped do a job like that than to
have another summer hat?
In the quaint old city Of Toul,
through which the famous Rhine
Marine canal flows, and close to which
our troops are holding the line
against the Germans, I saw another
hospital, a children's hospital estab-
lished and supported by Red Cross
money. The 466 little children in
this place came from towns and viii
lagos which have been bombardAd
with gas bombs, instruments Of tor
ture invented in hell especially for
the Germany army.
Those bombs killed, suffocated to
death, a large number Of babies. but
the Red Cross rescued manv. There
TOul 4f6 children have had their
Gus stuff and their anguished little
bodies have been brought back to
ease
Wouldn't you be happier helping
a gassed French child back to life
than to buy a box of expensive CT
CARS?
canteens Serve Millions.
There is not room enough in a
article, or in a dozen of
them, to tell half Of what the Red
Cross has done and is doing in
France alone in this war.
Twenty three hundred people, doc
tors, nurses. canteen workers, bust
ness men, social workers and others
are enrolled in France. Twenty hos
pitfalls, seventy-six dispensaries and
several sanitariums are in opera
ton. For wounded soldiers Of the
allies the Red Cross supplies nearly
1000 hospitals. It has a model hos
pitaI train: it has innumerable dress |
Ing stations, canteens. health sta
lions, sewing rooms for the destitute |
Nearly 5000 900 soldiers q month are
served In Red Cross canteens alone. |
In Paris there are thirteen can |
-GGtI5 al ways bOSg SCI Wig EISAlCiA
soldiers on leave. In Bourg there is |
L canteen where thousands of our |
soldiers going to AK lies Bains and |
for their vacations got q |
real American home breakfast. III
heard many soldiers speak enthusi- |
of that breakfast, served by |
he Red Cross women, but purchased |
1y mothers, fathers and friends of |
American soldiers right here in the |
United States.
Those sons OF ours who are being |
'apidly transported to France to join |
he hundreds Of thousands already |
here soon will be training behind |
he battle lines in Lorraine, Picardv
he Aisne. Soon after that they will |
De fighting, the fight to death If need |
be. to clear the world Of that evil
hing, war.
Between them and such suffering
Is no one who has not seen it can
wen family imagine stands that
ross of mercy and devotion. To
support it is to support and protect
our own children. 'Give tin ut
lurts," / read one one Of the Red
Cross posters. Give, if you have
learts, until your hearts stop hurt
ng.
Buy w. S. S.
AS the stout man, whose voracious
Lppetite excited the envy OF the
,ther boarders, turned to leave he