The Green Forest tribune., 1918-03-08

Miss Harper is a former student at the Univer- sity of Chicago, who has been associated with the Children's Aid society and with a night club for boys and girls in Boston; who has taught book binding in Haverhill, Mass. who has served with the Massachusetts Infant asyum-and who first came to deal with crippIes in helping Dr. Richard Cabot organize the Kings Chapel bureau for the handicapped at the Massachusetts General hos pta There at Boston she set q group of cripples to work making childrens clothes; their product sold from coast to coast and at good prices. The work paid the workers commercially, as well as helping to restore their status independent, self-respecting and respected citizens
 The chief of the bureau of re-educatiOn is woman, and a feminine woman. 1 think it would seem to the antebeum American mildly divertiEg if he could cast his eye over the list of equipment for the Red Cross farm of re-education which, at this point of talk, Miss Grace Harper perrait- ted me to sec tractors! blows! harrowsl extr- pators and Canadians (whatever "Canadians" are she told me-but I don't remember); rollers, drills manure distributors, horse hose, moving machinery-and I don't know how many machines more-6 horses 15 cows, l bull, 100 sheep 20 pigs, 15 chicken pens (comprising l rooster and hens each), incubators (210 eggs each), etc.
 Under conditions,' Miss Harper resumed, "some mutiles promptly in position to good wages in intuition works at wages which they will find it hard to equal once normal cOndi- uons are restored by the return to peace. We must. therefore, walk rather carefully, if interested in the return to peace conditions, and in what happens to the mutiles in the readjust- ment What interests us is that 65 per cent of farm laborers included in the list of mutiles-and we must reach them, or at least some of them promptly. We must get these started the road that leads to the land while they still under psycotherapeutic surgical care. For that reason, if for no other, the Red Cross must com bine it's agricultural re-education with it's surgical
 
 gin during convalescence-that is before discharge from the army is granted
 Do not think that the American Red Cross, in it's plan for specializing upon agricultural re-edu cation, diSparages or underwriters the fine work of the re-educationa institutions which have preced ed it in the field But it cannot overlook the fact that France is an agricultural nation and that after the war, almost all the world will, for time be somewhere near the edge of hunger. Did you this last evenings Evenement?" concluded Miss Harper, handing clipping.
 1 had not but I read it.
 "The commission charged to study for the radi- cal party congress the economic reorganization of France has adopted the following conclusions" the article begins
 Tt is by agriculture that France can and must renew itself, for this is ssthe base and source of life.
 "Too much encouragement cannot be given to agricultural production. Henceforth the ut most possible quantity of labor should be provided to agriculture by the mobilization the land of the older military classes and of agricultural spe ciasts.
 "The state should encourage the construction and use of agricultural machinery-especially trac tors. Scientific agricultural stations should be created in the principal regions of France, linking the to the other by of central station at Paris"
 That is politicians document, and you have not read all of it," concluded Miss Harper, as she took back the newspaper clipping; but the prin- ciple is there, and it is justly enough expressed Here is another newspaper article Edmond Thery, writing in Le Matin of Paris concludes article on Our Agricultural Production with the words:
 "The indispensable agricultural policy for us to pursue from now on has been perfectly defined by the order of the day unanimously voted by the chamber of deputies at its sitting of October Il, and it can be summed up in two clauses: mobiliza- ton of agricultural labor mobilization of chemical fertilizers"
 ''So you see," concludes the chief of the bureau for the re-education of mutiles that the Ameri- can Red Cross, in seeking to give France more skilled agriculturists, through it's scientific and mechanical instruction of mutile farmers and farm laborers is only undertaking to express practically what French deputies and French economists de clare to be vital necessity for France and there fore for Frances warmest friend in all the world