Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-03-18
my Sweater Warns Heart as Well
As Body" Soldier Tells Idah Gibson
Writer Tells How She Saw Boys
Clasp Knitted Garments to
! Their Breasts and Say II Bet
4 Mother Made This Very onei"
BY Idah McGlone Gibson.

"A 81 OoO
A~Copyright, 1918, by the Newspaper
III Enterprise Association).
When l started on my trip Every
where in France with the Red Cross"
had the vague idea that the Red
ross was primarily q nursing orsani-
ltion: hat its first and greatest bust.
ess was to make the wounded soldier
lore comfortable.
Nhat this idea has much credence.
found illustrated the other day when
pine internal. pro-Hun pacifist Slip
sYed in a seemingly innocent adver.
&sefnent the tntimation that through
kastefulness and graft, It was costing
lie Fed Cross $500 to care for each
Wounded man.
IN In other 2 words, German propa.
anda vas busy Smelling with lies the
featest constructive organization the
H%orld has ever known. just as Ger
ahtn soldiers were Smelling hospitals
Id killing women and little children
h the other side.
al Tell us when YOU come back how
Ind gu hospital garmens," said =
number Of loyal Red Cross women
SS4H please see il our boys really get
S14Ae things we send through the Rcd
ross" was another demand.
As ! stepped on the boat sailing for
7 other side. l got into a crowd
~ American boys-over q hundred
4 no were sailors and members of the
/ wal flying squadron.
ssSSHN Not M of these boys was over "a,
Ind most of them were under 20.
ssS4hey were full Of the very old Nick,
md kept every one. on board good
aAAtured even II seasick az l was. Ev-
SNaty. boy in that crowd was equipped
sN9ath a grey sweater. scarf, helmet
N wristlets. and mighty proud they
were to then1. There is some.
ythtng about a hand-knit garment that
ssssts it apart from the machine prod
net.
fa#Sllater, when I arrived at our Amer
sican training camps in France and
Nv U boys. son1e OF them just back
yon, the trenches, with the sweaters
lowing under their tuntcs, I wished
ySery woman in America could real
s59e just how much comfort these
SArnents were bringing to those they
S40ved.
my sweater warns my heart an
ell as my BODY said an American
Ssoldier to. me. for every time I pull
Attbn over my head. I think that some
sNtbman must have been thinking Of us
s0yer here"
ssffs This boy vas wearing a sweater,
IND a. helmet under his army. nat
Kept his ears from freezing, for 1t
vas bitterly cold and he was '::dig-
sing himself in" and cutting bsrbed
wire entanglentents on the broad ex-
sspAnse Of fiat country without a, tree
~ break the icy blasts that swept
saecross the miles of plain that formed
sxtle American training quarters over
Another boy insisted upon
~sNhrollins his puttee d that he, might
show me the hand-knit: sox. with their
I'D and blue stripes in the scanned
sstpps.
Since I came back. every time
Zee a woman knitting socks I want
Ito 20 to he- ana tell her OF how I
9eaw. on Christrnas morning ut one OF
sour largest training camps in France,
s5lhov.s holding their socks to their
Abrea~ts, and lingering them. much a,
~ child does q beloved red wagon.
8 Tive after time that morning l
Ash~ard the words, Gee. Tn, glad
@snt these socks. I bet mother knit
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