The Cordova daily times. [volume] (Cordova, Alaska) 1914-1947, 1918-07-18
FRANCE VOICES
APPRECIATION
Of coon WORK


Franco is ringing With the work OF
the american Red Cross, writes Mrs.
Belmont Tiffany oI New York. to Red
Cross officials in america. 81 only
wish Nmorica could realize the cN.
tent of work as we'll as France does, -
she added Mrs. Tiffany has been en-
gagged in organizing 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 re-
cent letter. Ever since came abroad
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
and know about our great, beautiful.
hospitals, with the best surgeons, doc
tors and nurses, working under the
hest possible conditions with the best
possible material.
"All these things are expected of
the Red Cross and taken for granted.
but | wish them to know too. that
when their boys are we'll they have
Il refuge and a home as they pass
along / want them to think of them
as writing and singing in the gay.
hri 81 h.;
train and eating their good. warm
meals or being sent off with sand
witches by American girls.
When an American mule train came
in at one station, the men said that
they wanted nothing. which seemed
very unusual From one of the Off
GERS We 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 emp
tied over and over again SO fresh
milk, cocoa, milk and bread and but
ter 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 very much gaycr mood
The first night we opened at D.
We had ESQ men at a. m. They ate
us out OF house and home though it
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 and cakes and chocolate: their of
firers were fed, too and finally the
major came and shook my hand over
and over again and said they were
all happier and less homesick than al
any time since they had left Amer
lea and when the train pulled out the
Who'll" unit went out to see them Off.
They nearly fell out OF their carriages
to make hands once more and they
went off cheering the Red Cross, the
President and the U. S. a. Bless
them, Such babies and such dears.
'2, so we had Il lot Of marines
10. oar house warming; they We're
there. 300 of them, for two hours.
After supper they insisted on helping
us wash up and clean, and OF course
we felt as il they were old friends
and nearly wept when they left. BE.
sides all this travelling, shifting
Clientele there are also the regular
customers, all the military police,
IT," signal corps men, engineers and
traffic regulators.
"Uow one loves them all and how
good and kind. they are to us, The
moment they find that | have boy
Ot my own here they talk their old
heads off to me and it is my bet that
in half an hour or less they will all
picture back home and their mothers
too. Mothers, | may say, become very
valuable people out here.
Major Patten asked me to 90 home
for a few weeks just to tell the peo-
pie of what is being done here.
could not go because the state depart
ment says mother may not come
over any more, but II had gone there
was just one thing the | would have
said
THE work Is bigger and better and
finer than even with all my dreams
ever dreamed of. | never knew there
were so many altruistic, selfless men
and women in the world, Not penny
is being wasted, from the fact that
even the majors themselves have no
motors and use no gas for them II
they have them, down to the mes
sage placarded everywhere, DO not
waste a single scrap of paper, II Is
too valuable in France the whole poi