The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-01-03

ilaars TO your American Red Cross
Z War Relief With wha; resultg
y detailed report OF onr war relief
work at home and in Europe. has
just been issued Il Is highly con
dcnsed. and covers go pages.
Now then, in a few lines, TO give
sou any conception Of what has been.
ard VIII be accomplished?
Consider merely few facts taken
npai cable lately sent to Mr. Henry
T. Davison. chairman of the Red Cross
War Council. by the Paris headquart-
.rs OF the American Red Gross;
~we have established twenty dis
pensaries in the American Arms Zone
la cars. for the resident civiiiant
-our hospital Distributing t-siee
ssnds supplies to s.423 French lmili-
tary hospitais--oar surgical drvftnEs
service supplies 2.o0o French hApt.
ais and is preparing immense sop ot
emergency supplies for our own any
we are operating six canieen for
Yzs of French soldiers --wherd We
serve about 10000 soldiers dat
-we are providing an artihciaitnb
factory near Paris
I'VE have opcncd chiidren'tef-
.sr and hospital at q point in 'heIa
zoas--
we are making arrangements
i.,rrc scale TO help refugee faies
through the winter
two hundred tons of supplieare
arriving In Paris daily"
But space forbids. Here IL a pi
handful of facts snatcbed from .
vie eabIegsarn. And such flndHmti
Yes cross activities as the estaffa.
fa.ni in Franco OF more than "a
largo nuse Hospitals fully matd
and equipped, are not eyea touyd
upon.
~ April next. the American p
cross Commission TO France VIZ
sp-nt sotue y49oos, 600. Yet, In
,.pt sabsa ID Ksi<fSSn The 4 =
ru,sslon makes the plea: we cay
state 100 strongly the critical "
ton that will arise durins the cog
winter. The amount OF work thai
he done f.hat must be done. men
women of Amerfca,) will be linn
so,e,y by the resources at our z
mand. II the American people
ne, real picture OF misery
Wen. here is one picture' One Z
d,,asi In the great panorama OF hug
anguish which a cynical Au'oc7
has painted across Europe in eif
and tcarsi
There arrived last week nj hSp
where tho repatriates from France
p.,rium are received back
FRANCE. train loaded with Beis1
ehi,drcn. There were $50 OF thS
,htn. sickiy. from four 10 twelve ye|
of age-childrcn OF men who reiu'
ia work for the Germans and OF me
crs who let their children 70 rat
I'M, 10, them starve They pou
M the train, little ones ciinging
,h, older ones, girls all crying. D
irving to cheer. They had come
,,o iong way alone. On the platte
w.ro the Red Cross Workers TO n
them. Those children who could "
n, all marched along crying M
,neat. we are going to have me
r,.o,r little claw.iike hands we're
r,ecapt but a doctor said. We b
,no, in time. A few weeks oil pre
,c,.dips and they viii rnil up In
noe cont OF the older repa'ria'es
IN. arst month from exhaustion.
- children can and must be saved
small wonder that cablegram
~. American Red Cross Commis
a. Franco ended with the words; i;
tho American people can get PIC
\ -, tho misery among those daily
.r ON, of their homes and dumpe
\ rox.r,y among other parts OF
country. oftentimes terribly sici
nr,I,ated. they will gladly do al
their power to help"
nat do not suppose. men and
.n of America. that your Amer
pa Cross In tho effort to supply
,s of the civilian population
.n.s Bclsiun,. Russia. Pomnd'
ia for one instant negiecun'
nr,r,ary duty 10 serve our ne
wa.r sonK your brothers. your
ssnas who have sono into tne
navy to fishs for you In this
~ "~ ,us. war, are frst In our 'no'
esH'" and wc are every~