New-York tribune., 1918-01-21
Commissioner Arrives to
Report to Dawson on
Work Of Mercy
SIS, 900, 600 Is Spent
Every Hamlet in France, Bel
GUM and Italy Received
4AAid, Ecc Says

Major Grayson NJ. +. Murphy arrived
in this city yesterday afternoon to re-
rors to II. Y. Dawson, chairman of the
ped Cross War Council, the results Of
his work as Red Cross commissioner in
Europe When he has presented his
formal report on his Red Cross work
Major Murphy expects to go back to
rurope to serve with the American eX-
peditionary forces.
"By May the American Red Cross will
have spent between S3o,o0o,o 600 and $685.
600 600 in Europe said Commissioner
Murphy. And he added, "it is by far
the best money the United States has
ever spent. There is not town or
hamlet in italy, France or Belgium that
has not felt the benefits of the Ameri-
can Red Cross.
Pershing Lauded Work
-Four days after war was declared on
Austria one hundred Americans in
khaki and sixty ambulances were sent
from Milan to the Austrian front. The
vigor and dash with which the Red
lr0SS dCtSN III lN"iS WAS taken as an
indication of what Americans can do in
4 military way.
"You have to take care of the situa-
ton behind the lighting lines if you
are gong 70 keep soldiers fighting, and
that is what the Red Cross is doing.
General Pcrshing .old ne he con
sldercd the work of the Red Cross the
most important that could be done until
American troops can take an active part
n the war
This war. as perhaps you have often
heard said Mayor Murphy, "is no
longer q war Of armies. 1t is a war Of
nations. No matter how hard the ar
nies may fight or what great victories
they may Win, it is plainly 20 DC seen
nov that the fight is going to be lost
On the SIDE where the nation cracks
Nrst. It is for this reason that regarc
the work Of the American Red Cross as
Of such Stupendous importance.
when arrived in France last June
everybody there was buoyant because
America had come into the war. i-very
body thought that tfle war was Won;
that 1t was all over but the shouting.
But we are not able yet to take any
active part III the fighting, and will nc.
De able Tor some time to come. In the
meantime nj! the peoples are looking to
Us fer moral support. And don't know
ANYTHING that approaches the American
Hed Go in giving that feeling OF
moral support to them. Our work now
begins i'll Sicily and extends ali through
TO France and Belgium. We are reach
lns great numbers Of every class and
reaching tn. soldiers'
L. :. Army Rei;ef Ready
IS for the aid the Red Cross has DceY
giving the American trops Major Muir
phy announced that the organization is
getting ready to cover all the needs II
the army when 1t gets into lction.
We won't be caught short of sup
plies. as some of the other armies were
at the beginning of the war" he said
c have all the supplies necessary
and have created the transportation
facilities for them. We also are Gov
cring the civilian districts around our
army. Our physicians are visiting daily
more than forty towns in that territory
And we are establishing committees
which will work under central COM
mittce III Paris that eventually viii!
cover France.
Major Murphy, who is a West Point
man and wants to join the fighting
troops. described what he had been able
TO accomplish since he went abroad last
June To organize the work of the Amer
lcan Red Cross. lie said its rolling
cantecns, which meet the men in uni
form as they are entering and leaving
Tie first line trenches. served o25.OOO
french soldiers with hot drinks in De-
cember
In the main canteen service, in which
one hundred American women are en-
ployed, four great barracks are oper-
ated in cooperation with the French
army, where hot food is served at half
PRICE. There also the men returning
from trench duty are bathed and their
clothing disinfccted. Terminal can
teens at the railway stations serve hot
iood to about $4,000 men daily.
tuberculosis Reduced
lie told of the great educational CAM
paign being conducted in conjunction
with the Rockefeller Foundation to
aght the spread of tuberculosis. The
nght on tuberculosis has been so ef-
lectlve that Livingston Farrand, prcsi-
dent OF the University of Colorado.
says says France has made as much progress
against tuberculosis in four years as
america has made in fifteen.
~ MAJOR Murphy estimated that the
Ned Cross reaches 1000 children daily
IN France, who are fed, clothed and
hursed back to health. Five hundred
llepatrlated children are cared for daily,
ne SAID, at Avion. where children from
captured territory are returned by the
uermans through Switzerland's aid. 1t
was because of the high mortality rate
IN france and its tremendous losses in
man power that the Red Cross believed
i. Imperative that aid be given to save
SUFFERING children from death through