Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-12

the necessary warehouses TO take care OF
our goods when they arrive
In Paris We have great warehouses
which are our base warehouses. and all
along the front. particularly in Belgium
where they are under shell FIRE some OF
the time, all along there and all the way
down to and along the French line; along
that line down to Italy and along the
italian line. And at the seaports and
railway routes we have our advance
warehouses. which are warehouses,
crammed with stuff at points where we
can get hold of it when trouble comes.
To supplement this warehouse system
we have about 800 ambulances and motor
| trucks which are concentrated also in
Paris and distributed at various points
in our territory so that in case of an
emergency We can use them to get quick
action at any point on that front
/ We had to establish a purchasing de-
partment which has been magnifCently
built up under Mr.. Stanley Field Of Chi
cago. We had to establish great de-
partment 10 keep track of all the funds
we had to handle. We have an engineer
ing and architectural department which
planned the buildings and hospitals and
rest stations which W have to erect
You may not know It. but we have ac-
tually under construction now about 100
great barracks in different parts Of
France which are used partly by our own
army as recreation huts in connection
with hospitals. and for storehouses. ana
In connection with ur.work with the va
rious foreign armies. 1t. is practically a
construction department.
How Civil Affairs are Handled.
! we nave our great department OF civil
affairs which handles-well our depart
ment Of civil affairs today is carrying
through the following things: First, oar
work with the children Of France II is
our hope that in cooperation Win the
French Government we NAV be able To
reduce in due course the number OF
deaths OF young infants in France from
$1,000 year to $4,000 r. Our sperts
think it can be done. Our people are ca,-
ing today. in one way another, Cor
So.@0 children In France (ApplausA) we
Lave hospitals where they are cared for.
We have homes at Toul for the Initiation
OF watch we owe 4 great debt of graft
tude to the title -Jme for French
Wounded
These little tots are brought back from
tie districts where they are under gas
! hre. They are too small TO wear gas
masks, and consequently they would be
Killed. We haye 100 from there. From
1oul our anlbuIahces move around III the
country and we. holJ clinics where our
! doctors and nurses care for the SICK,
particularly children. blu, also for the
4 rviiian sick, who happen to be IN that
district and Wh2 cannot otherwise Get
/. treatment -aeaaSSe all the doctors have
been called into army service.
I Al Neuliy we are operating ana we
nave iooo children from Belgium. children
2n the point Of breaking down owing 70
The lack of, nourishmAt and care. In
conjunction with tin Belgian Governments
we have taken them out and have placel
them in Homes established and supported
= by rs. One thousand more are coming
Jas soon as arrangements can be made 70
repatria.e them.
j az. French Refugee Children.
II = THE French Government has turned
over to us for examination and care the
4 little Children repatriatel through Abig-
nom These children, when they come
there.sare broken down in health through
lack of, nourishment. We give them
treatn1ent at Abirnon and at Lyons. If
they have contagious diseases or are in
| conditions If conta gion, we concentrate
flrpt,r al orr rout.r,intiS hosnital- u.hich
! is near Lyons.
| With the refugees we are carrying
through. again in strict cooperation with
the French Government 4 great work
namely, to get these people out OF the
/ wretched concentrated condition of life
which has been forced upon them, AID tc
give them decent housing conditions
And the French Government has recently
requested us to establish with their repre-
sentative at Avignon a central commit.
tee and for us tor have branch commit
tees cooperating with the French officials
throughout France, so that when the re.
and. the French >Goternments 'represen-
-tatives decide on where they can he bes,
taken care of, wjthSsa mind as 10 their
future condition.. and they are sent there
and then the French Government and our
committee there takes hold of them. AMI
we arrange with the French Governmen,
! for furniture, supplies, tools. or some.
thing, SO that the poor devils, can take
care of themselves in a respectable way
and hot be drag on country sufferiny
as no other country in the history of the
/ h3
country which has been overrun like
Serbia
| In conjunction with the Rockefeile,
Foundation. we are conducting worl,
/ in tuberculosis which Is certainly un-
paralleled in the history of the world
You know how France has suffered from