Bisbee daily review., 1918-03-24
By MARIAN eoNEsALL DAVIS

By MARIAN sONESALL DAVIS
 When you walk between rows of Ge- stroyed homes in the ruined villages of France you always find something left among the wreckage that speaks intimately to your own heart. It may be a broken flower pot with dried roots still clining; an image of the Virgin still standing in her oval niche in a fragment of a wall; babys broken cradle; a twisted garden tool, All the baycnets and incendiary torches and guns of the invaders nave not been able to crush cut Something of-the-Spirit which fingers there.
 And they have not been able 70 crush it out of the tragic pTccessiors of the homeless, as they are driven hjther and thither, sometimes as slaves by their conquerors; sometimes to flee where they will, from violence and destruction. Some day. as yCa walk briskly on an erranG through the streets of Paris. you see a gToup of them coming in. slOw-mOving, De wildcred. There is a terrible intimacy about the sieht, and most of all about the little ones who have seen hideOus things and are too young to know that they are not a common part ol life.
 Who is going to take care of them, and their mothers and these old, beih people, who are such a detached, trifling part of Fran -es million ana al half refugees?
 France Does Best
 For three and a half years France has been doing the best she could as they poured in endless streams rom Belgium and from al the invaded as. tricts of France. while she had to pit her strength against that pushing German line which would have surged into Paris through any break. i;u, every day they came in great num- bers, lost and helpless. from beautiful villages and towns and cities that now are heaps cf ruins. But that Some thing-Of-the-Spirit was still not crus'l- ed out-it responds to the sunlight. Geniuses like M. Peitier and Mirman and the man who meets every train that comes into Evian with the re- patriated, know this.
 The Ere ,h commission Cf tns American Red Cross. with the slOe- GOO 900 war fund behind it. on its ar rival in Paris consulted with the French government how il could besr help. And fhe glory Of the American Red Cross is the principle of co- operation it established there, and by which it works The first thing it did for rsfr -ees in France vas to make itself the -o-oPerator, and never by any chance the rival. of all the exist ing agencies, official and non-ofncial. for their welfare It put grant of 5000 900 francs (about Sl,000,000 in the hands of the French government for its refugees, and it began to fad and prepare decent lodgings for the thousands upon thousands Of the.AI squeezed into Paris attics. Also II began to learn everything that could be learned about the WnOle problem of the million and half of them.
 Typical Case
 There had been wonderful, inita tive. characteristically French, n many cases in meeting these inpOr ings of the homeless. The case of = Peltier and a group of gendarmes Cwho correspond with our poiicemenj is one of the great stories of the war. Here it is:
 One day-it was early Tn the war the gendarmes of two arrondisse ments. or wards. in Paris receiver an oficial telegram that about 1l-a refugees would arrive the next morn ing fer ;lcm to take care Of. So; no provision. no money, no rocf no place 10 put them. no snythins. but lS00 oi them. nevertheless due to arrive t,e next morning and their responsioh. ity.
 NJ. Peltier. the chief one of these wards. called conference. First. mon ev. These eendarmes. or policemen. put each a hand into his own pocket and produced two francs; and after the confeience they told the smai