The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-03
ALLEN BUSY man
Kansas Red Cross Worker to
William Allen White.
He Tells of Forming, New
Service Bureau.
PARIS Is THE SAME, He SAYS
Prices, However, Have Gone
Up Since Last Summer.
No Mention OF Politics Made in
the Letter.
PARIS is THE SAME, He SAYS

Henry j. Allen, of Wichita. director
of special service work TOR the REQ
Cross in France. has written letter
to William Allen White of Emporla,
in which he outlines the new work
before the organization during the
summer fighting in France. Inc let
ter to White was personal II was
written from Paris and it carried as
surances to the fat, pudSy tmporla
editor that the passing of winter ana
the coming of spring had marked lew
changes on the French city where
White and Allen spent much time last
summer.
Allen saws France came thru her
fourth sorrow winter well. The only
changes since last summer are the
sand bags and the cement COVERINGS
over the groups of statuary. 1here
was no discussion of politics in the
letter which Allen sent to White. In
fact it would be a mighty difficult
matter to read the letter and reallze
that Allen may be the Repuplledh
nominee for governor II you see
my boom anywhere, say hello TO II,
was the only reference Allen made 10
the big political row in Kansas. The
other lines were for Paris, the Red
Cross, the need of more workers the
heart strings that reach from Kansas
and Arizona and Minnesota and New
work to the battlefields and the base
hospitals and the little grave mark
ers somewhere in France.
The Letter.
In his letter Allen said:
paris is the same. The six. months
which have thrown everything IN the ne
Tinted ,ff sta5si 8 %ars drove thru the
streets at 10 p. IN. just as we did iast
summer and everything seems hd .ement Gov
erings they have PLACED over the gro olpa,
q in oak Tie ra nass M n pa Of the
1'hicago Tribune 20 dine at one Old Pocar-
dis. the Italian place opposite the op ef.
Comique 1t was fiileI Win tne sam viii,
tragedy in their eyes who smlieo. W IN
the exception that butter, cheese ana suga ,
have disappeared, there was the Same
pIenitu,le of everything to eat, tho p 5,,ia
have advanced TO the New York schedule
The rooms we paid SOU %, lot . at ia M The same
Napoleon is still standing out there IN
vendome Place with sanb i Plis nir aEoa and
snan the shops still well ordered, the
streets well kept and the whole city ap3
parentIy so adjusted to war that 1t couiu
20 on for Years indefinite. The French
have come thru the fourth winter WONDER
afbe Red Cross seems to have given
me a task that looms big. In to have
the job of organizing in the fieid sesva are
tain the fate of the men and keep the folks
at home Informed. This will include the
war. searching for the wounded and miss
ing. getting letters home about them. senu
ing home part1culdrS ABOUT lue
wherever possible photographs of the
Helpers Are Needed.
eve are also to have bureau Of
emergency information for use of the Wen
soldier as well as the sick. Thru this
we will keep the soldier in touch with his
family if he las lost connection ana the
family in touch with the soldier we VIII
use the local Red Cross chapter to LOOK
nm welfare cases at nome for any soldier
who is worried about his loved ones or
who cannot hear from them. 1t is a Dig
svmDathetic work which viii. / believe
humanize the Red Cross activities among
loved ones who wait at home 1T VIII re-
quire considerable personnel, as VIII neeu
sea rchers and visitors at all base hospitals
If you know any we'll balanceG, competent
stenographers who would like to come
here for 100 francs per month-now about
S1i0-tlbie me three or four names and
addresses. l want them to go to hos
pitfalls where they cannot only gather
casualty information but write letters home
from the hospitals They must be first
class women and high-class stenographers
with real feeling for the service | ran
across our friend. Mrs Brittian. at Bor-
deaux in the Hotel de France. She is
runninl. n canteen Mt Bordeaux, she said.
/ think she is financing it. Major Perkins.
Doctor Lucas. and all the crowd that used
to meet at Murphy asked about you.
haven't seen Major Murphy yet. but hope
to soon. I'm to go upon some trips to
the American sector to organize the earch-
ing work in the hospitals and to the Brit
ish lines to study British Red Cross meth
DDS for handling casualty information.
with the work I've got on I'd be happy If
you were here Won't YOU write me? Give
nv love to Sallie. and If you see my boom
anywhere say hello to it. Affectionately
HENRY"