The Idaho Republican., 1919-11-11
NOTED CHAPLAIN
CAME TO THANK Us
France Pleased With
Americas Aid to
Her Children
ADOPTION PLAN

Canon Cabanel, chaplain of the
famous Blue Devils, who has been
the distinguished guest of the United
States for the past few weeks, is
about to return to France.
Sent by the French high commits
sion, of which he is member, his
mission in America was to. visit the
various committees of The Fatherless
Children of France, an American Or
ganization cooperating with a SIM
liar one in Paris of which Marshal
Joffre is the head, and express to
them the gratitude of his country for
the aid rendered to the poor little
homeless orphans of the war during
the past three years thru it's plan of
long distance adoption American
aid being contributed to the extent
of 10 cents day, $3.50 year, and
the donor of this sum constituted
godmother or godfather of one of the
little French war waits and put in
touch with it thru correspondence
direct to the child-the small ex-
penses of the organization are borne
by generous friends.
Canon Cabanel spent three and
one-half years in the trenches. with
his beloved boys until he was so
seriously gassed as to render him
unfit for front line service He wears
the decoration of the Legion of
Honor, and the Croix de Guerre with
three palms and four stars-seven
citations-besidess the fourragere of
the medaille militaire, which is
equivalent to the British Victoria
Cross and given only for extreme
heroism.
At one time while conducting the
funeral service of a dead poilu the.
boches began to shell the cemetery.
The men present were withdrawn,
but Father Cabanel stayed on to fin
ish the service. A shell exploded,
burying him and he was reported as
dead. He survived, however, but it
was not until later that his Blue
Devils learned this, and in the mean
time they had erected monument
to him with the inscription "To Our
Father Cabanel, who died for France
and God" The monument still
stands with the first part of the in
scription: "To Our Father Cabanel."
''Is it too much to ask of the
mothers and fathers of America,
whose little children are sheltered
and cared for" says this brave priest,
this little help to 10 cents day for
the children of those whose wooden
crosses mark the fields and highways
of France?"
"In all the Universities of my
RnnntpV and on1
daughters are being sent from France
to America, from American to France
that relations between our countries
may be cemented in friendship and
understanding. This exchange is
good, and you and we realize it may
create a strong bond of friendship,
but when an American family has
4adOpted'-as we say-one of these
little fatherless, homeless children of
France, Immediately the family of
the adopter and the broken remnant
of the family of the child which is
adopted become bound together in
a friendship so strong that the two
families are as one."
Mrs. Walter G. Brewster of Chi
cago, national chairman of a special
campaign to provide help for 10000
little orphans to whom American aid
had been promised before the armis-
tice was signed, will be glad TO mail
some literature, including a booklet
of translated letters from little
French children, to anyone enclosing
to her at room 92S, 410 s. Michigan
Avenue, Chicago, a stamped, self
addressed envelope Of business size.