New Ulm review., 1918-05-22
WHAT THE RED CROSS
DOES WITH MY MONEY
sCentinued from Page A.

&C@0C1nu6O from rage 4.
drinks and sandwiches - but giving
hot meals to 100000 French soldiers
gyery month.
Now, we have not only given them the
meals, but we have there great recreation
halls where they sit and have their din
aqxs and sit and talk and make merry.
Then. We have the big barracks like
Inbsmen's barracks, with hunks along
sAee walls, an plans that we and the
French Government agreed on. Then
wp have shower baths where they can
a,athe and we are putting in system
ssf disinfecting machinery so that the
mems clothes, while they are bathing,
are run through this disinfecting machln-
NV where the vermin are killed. Then
sa,gy get their clothes and 60 home IN
q diff srent frame of mind from before.
tn ase people were so glad that they
did not use the hunks at first, but they
sat and talked and sang and wondered
at what America was doing for them.
Our work is that of maintaining the
morale of the Americans and the French
and the Allies. Our canteens have
been we'll run and kept up to a high
,Sandard. Let the men know that they
arg being cared for not as men only, but
Az friends; that makes them prefer our
zzanteens to the wine shops. The morale
has never been better than now. | need
.xszt tell you 1 feel strongly on this sub
gxst, and am talking to you as man to
,nlan.
American Women Work in Canteens
We have 100 American women work.
Igrg at these canteens and the way they
work and the courage they show, and
che long hours they endure when it IS
Necessary, make one of the finest tributes
apt anly to American women but to
vnnen all over the world, that has ever
fseal seen: The only trouble we have
with those women is that they are always
yrylng to- get up where they can set
ahAled.
We have in addition to these canteens,
qanteens which we are operating at the
.syincipal railway stations, in Paris as
wail as outside of Paris, where we furnish
szxnd dwiches, cigarettes, and things Of shat
sort to great number Of men every day.
We are furnishing supplies to about
800 French hospitals, medical and hos
alaaI supplies. We are operating num-
5iR Of hospitals in France for the ben
sait uT ehe French army and the civilian
population.
Rest Stations, Oxide Gas, Ice Plants
Fer Our Boys
We are carrying on for OR own army
q number of important rest stations
where our soldiers are taken care OF IT
xuyzhH1g happens to them on their way
rEnu the ports to other permanent
satins We have accumulated in
GRANGE an almost incalculable store of
hgspital supplies Of every description;
practically every kind Of supplies that
an be used for our men; and we have
thge not in Paris, but we are croWding
ghem all out to tie points near where
.aur men will 60 in. And as far as it is
aumanly possible fo1 the Red Cross to
nre for our sick and wounded, provision
ias been made to do it.
We are installing a plant to furnish
nitrous oxide gas. We will manufacture
and furnish it there to all our hospitals.
It il a gas which can be used as an
zsrsasthetle in cases where the patients is
.tos, ,zeesI to take ether; and DR.. Grille,
who iss oopA of the greatest authorities
IN that sutdpeeh. in the world, is of the
asfI;mn that the use OF tins gas in our
army Will save many lives OF our boys
who would die unde. ordinary anaes-
thetic,
Wearg putting in a system of movable
ee plants, which can be used to manu-
gsetureeiceiog our soldiers in the summer
,simHs. Wee are furnishing: them with all
AxfmssssM supplies which are made up by
stas women OF this country; and you. DO
.s2t. xnesea what it means to the man over
ahme' r,s git q woolen mufler, or sweater,
(w good warm socks, especially in weather
szuch as this. You do not understand
sWer here what sock is.
:Aui! I'M Belgium we are doing prac-
teaIy the. same work as.in France.
The Emergency Job in Italy
* ITALY our job was an emergency
gb. ~ the time Of the retreat in Italy
thaapnar country was knocked to pieces.
Never anywhere in the world except on
a football field after an end-run, where
they had made a score on you, have l
seen people so demoralized.
The army was in complete retl eat -
a rather I should say rout. There
we're 100000 or 100000 refugees stl cam
ng mts districts which were already