The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-04-06
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New York World: According to
General March, acting chief OF staff,
the official reasons why only the
names in American casualty lists are
to be given out are not all Berlin
reasons.
You would be interested to know"
| says General March, that the publi-
cation Of the emergency addresses
brought down upon the relatives a
swarm of claim agents. who guaran-
teed that they would get from the
government the war-risk insurance
which Is guaranteed by law to the
proper inheritor;" and also ghouls
who make to the relatives sthe most
absurd propositions to exhibit them
selves for money
Exploitation by cheap notoriety-
seekers the relatives of victims will
probably have to continue dealing
with i'm their own way. the best way
being to kick the exploiters down the
steps. With the claim agent the gov
ernment itself should deal. The
relatives of soldiers should be warm
ed that no claim agent is necessary.
understand that defrauding or at.
tempting to defraud soldiers rela-
tiYes viii be severely punished.
But failure 10 print the addresses
will do no good In any case. Claim
agents, like the German staff will
find out what they want to know, for
that is their business. Withholding
the addresses will not fool them. 1t
viii deprive the American public Of
the opportunity to pay to valor and
sacrifice due need OF honor in the
home community.
Washington Times: The spirit Of
the American girl is daily becoming
more and more a subject of admiring
comment abroad. where Uncle Sans
girls have buckled down to the hard
est work with cheerfulness and eff
cheney.
Daughters Of millionaires whose
every wish was a command before
the war, now keep long working
hours, undergo all sorts OF privations
and give the best that is in them
TO rthe cause of democracy and
humanity.
Prominent among these soldiers Of
the Red Cross are Miss Ethel Harri
man. who recently became the bride
OF Lieut.. Henry Potter Russell, u.
s. A., grandson of the late Bishop
Potter Miss Hartman and her
mother. Mrs. J. Borden Hartman,
went TO France last summer, where
they were among the first women to
pilot an ambulance close to the fir
ing lines. They are both members OF
the American Woman's Ambulance,
in fact. Mrs Hartman founded 1t.
- FNAr nh a
round athletes, Ethel Hartman did
some splendid work carrying the
wounded men over the shell-torn
roads back Of the trenches.
On one OF the trips to the hgapitaa
Miss Hartman had some difnculIy
with her car, which a passing driver
OF an ambulance remedted. When the
trouble was adjusted. Miss Hartman
in her skilled mechanic a
boy who had been exceedingly deyot-
ed to her in New York
They were married quietly, and
with a spirit of devotion to the work
they are doing that eXempiified the 1
attitude or all the Red Cross they |
decided to work on.
Another socially prominent and 1
wealthy girl working IN France la I
Miss Katherine Force. sister of Mrs |
W. X. Dick. the former Mrs. John |
Jacob Astor. Miss Force took up the !
study of stenography before leaving |
for the other side, to prepare herself /
for any clerical work the Duryea War l
Relief might require of her. She has /
been in France about q wear now and |
has kept long hours on q job that |
rs onerous and tiresome.
Miss Force has been engaged f0i I
the past five years to Henri q. Hark- /
neIl. d wen known New York broker. 1
Society has wondered at the delay Of /
the young people, but Dame Rumor /
has it that Mr. Harknell VIII sail /
shortly for France and that another /
romance wiz have its setting in war /
torn France.