Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-07-15
France Rings With
Red Cross Praises

Mrs. Belmont Tiffany, Of New YORK.
"a the Red Cross officials in Ameri-
ca. 81 only wish America could
realize the extent Of work as well as
France does" she added. Mrs. TIL
fany has been engaged in organizing
rest stations for American troops at
railway stations in, France.
"Never have | been happier, never
have liked work more nor felt that
/ was so useful" she wrote in a re-
cent letter. Ever since came
abroad / have had before my eyes
a vision of fathers and mothers and
sisters of the soldiers in audience
in many states from Maine to Texas
They will hear and know about our
sreat, beautiful hospitals, with the
lest surgeons, doctors and nurses
working under the best possible con-
Gitions with the best possible ma
terial.
"All these things are expected OF
their Red Cross and taken for grant
ed but | wish them to know, too,
that when their boys are well they
Lave a refuge and home as they
pass along. | want them to think OF
them as writing and singing in the
gay, bright room while waiting for
their train and eating their good,
warm meals, or being sent off with
sandwiches by America girls.
"When an American mule train
came in at one station, the men said
they wanted nothing, which seemed
very unusual. From one of the Of
ficers we learned that there had been
10 pay day lately. When the men
we're told that. it was ON the Red
Cross every pitcher and basket was
emptied over and over again. So on
application to Paris it was decided
that unlimited coffee, american cof-
fee with fresh milk, cocoa, milk and
bread and butter. or jam sandwiches
should be served free to the travel
ing men. After that the mule trains
and the troops went out cheerinS
Justify and in very much sayer
rocd.
THE first night we opened at D.,
we had ESQ men at a. NJ. They ate
us out of house and home, though 1t
seemed a strange hour to eat. They
carried off every magazine and paper
we had; they drank coffee and cocoa
and milk; they ate bread, butter and
Jam and cakes and chocolate; their
Officers were fed, too, and finally the
major came and shook my hand over
and over and over again and said
they we're all happier and less home
sick than any time since they'd left
America and when the train pulled
out the whole unit went cut to see
them off. They nearly fell out of
their carriages to shake hands once
more and they went off cheering the
Red Cross, the president and the u.
s. A. Bless them! Such babies and
such dears.
AT No we had a lot of marines
for our house warming; they were
there, 800 of them, for two hours.
After supper they insisted on help
iIg us wash up and clean generally,
ard of courge we felt as II they were
Old friends and nearly all wept when
they left. Besides all this travelling,
shifting clientele there are also the
regular customers, all tie military
police, the signal corps men, engin-
eers and traffic regulators.
How one loves them all and how
good and kind they are to us. The
moment they find out have boy
of my own here they talk their old
heads off to me and it is my best bet
that in half an hour or less they will
lie sure to show me their best girls
picture back home and their moth
er's, too. Mothers, may say, become
very, very valuable people out here.
Major Patton asked me to go
home for few weeks to tell TIE peo-
pie of what is being done here,
could not go, but if had gone there
was just one thing that | would have
said.
The work is bigger, and better
and finer than ever with all my
o'oams ever dreamed of. neve!
Enow there were so many ,aluustic
unselfish man and women in the
world. Not cent is being wasted
from the fact that even majors them.
selves have no motors and use nc
gas for them If they have them. dowr
to the message placarded everywhere
DO not waste single scrap of pa
per; 1t is too valuable in France" the
whole policy is the strctest econom,
with ourselves and the greatest gen
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