The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-04-21

settled temporarily. but what VI tiic
more than $4,000 crowded into Paris
atticks. who with the 25 cents daily
provided by the government can.
not pay rents and live decently?
Red Cross Finds Way.
For them, the Cross has become ex-
pert in house hunting. Nothing in the
way of a possibility escapes them, and
now and then they have a tremendous
find--lke the big model tenements at
62 rue Leihnitz and in the Avenue du
Maine that had to be left unfinished
when the war broke out. Completed
with Red Cross help, these two build
ings alone are now aheltering in we'll
lighted apartments about 5000 persons,
representing 400 families--homes where
Santa Claus and the fairies can find
their way back again to the children
in time. The Red Cross is running
a dispensary for refugees in Paris in
the rue Eossy d'Anglns--very many
who come here are from tortured Ser
bia-~and directing all the various ac-
tivities of the American hotels for
refugees.
What Was Done at Nancy.
.hoHsIcT ItitlcF Uldue CITY "ItnIn
a seminary in Paris. and Monsieur Mir
man, project Of the district of Meruthe
ct Moselle. made a city within great
military barracks at Nancy. The ref
ugees came from ncighboring towns
which had seen every form Of outrage.
and some of them were from Gerbe-
viller--that town which win be immor-
tai through its martyrdom. In the
schoolrooms that grew up" In the bar
racks Titles ones learned not to be ter
rificd at any unexpected sounds, and
after while even began to play. on their
own initiative, skipping and flying
about like flesh and blood boys and
girls. Mothers within sound of the
guns booming few miles away on the
Lorraine frontier, where their hus-
bands were fighting, found themselves
linked to reality again. in work for their
children; the community. in making
exquisite embroidery (nearly always
bearing the towers and thistle-hand
some arms of Lorraine) which Mon
sleur Mirman marketed for them, and
filling endless sandbags for the pro-
lection of precious or vitality neces-
sary buildings of Nancy. Girls and
young women learned to keep house
we'll and economically. and to make
! charming clothes that were also prac-
teal, in preparation for n happy life
after the war. A garage was made into
a community theater, another into q
chapel. 1t is the French genius!
! More Like Savases.
While these glorieusly brave people
We're finding themselves. though under
constant danger Of falling bombs, inf
Initely more wretched people further
AVA ewerea clinging to. the ruins of their
towns. While the mothers worked in
the fields or munition factories, the
children, many of whom were lost from
their mothers or left when these wom-
en- were taken by the invaders-grew
like wild things-filthy, untaught, UNI
TRAINED some of them left half-witted
by the terrors They were used to
crawling into holes when bombs OF
lshrapnel fell; they would not wear gas
masks. They had almost ceased to bt
like human beings. and many of them
were dseased--yet loved and sheltered
children of the world seemed to look
suffering through their eyes.
Red Cross Aids Again.
Monsieur Mirman found them~-gath-
cred them up into a barracks at Tou
called to the Red Cross and the
American fund for French wounded
And these two organizations, working
together. fitted up the barracks Uhert
is pretty room with gay chintZ there
now) and establish n hospital and a
Idispensary--a travelling dispensary
which goes from town to town, the doc.
tor and nurses caring for the sick, ant
teaching child welfare as they go
welcomed as angels by those who hav,
suffered such agonies Monster Mir
man. delighted. is furthering their worl
in every possible way, himself workin.
for the present and for the FUTURE
kind of master builder.
Return Of the Exiles
And this Is still another kind of ref
ugee whose journey, 1t Is no Sacriles'
. to say, has been like the way OF tn,
, cross; yet sometimes ending at last IL
human happiness or reunion. more oft
en- in sorrow again, after that dramatic
thrilling moment when they re-ente
France after long exile in the hand
of the captors These repartiated from
Germany. Belgium and invaded part
of France are brought back througl
Evian Here the Red Cross has estab
lished hospitals and dispensaries to car
} for those too weak to so further, an
t to segregate and care for those Wit
, infectious diseases. thus preventing TIL
l spread of contagion throughout Franc,
So the Red Cross works. Whcrere
hard pressed guardians of French civ
i Observation-Disclosures official or not--ar
e unable to grapple successfully with tn
e tremendous problem which these end
e less streams of refugees bring then
I then the Red Cross stands ready t
5 strengthen their efforts with America
money and American service.
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