The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-04-17

IN the same SplrlC ana paLr10tIc aiLru-
ISM.
By way Of fulfilling her first mission
she explained by reference to map
the location of the five thousand depots
maintained by the A. F. F. W. in
France and the process by which they
had been kept supplied with dressings
and medical supplies through the
$4,000, 100000 raised by the organization
during the four years of the World-War.
"We gave more than supplies, she
went on. eve gave personal serv-
ice and that is the thing that means
most to men who are suffering from
frightful wounds.
In this connection she emphasized es-
peeially the comfort-kits provided and
distributed by the A. F. f. W and told
how they brought touch of home, a
touch of color, life and happiness in
to the lives of men langIiyhiag in
the whiteness and the darkness of
base hospitals in France.
''An Awful Admission. y
And right hereo, she said with a
naivete that was typical, II want to
make terrible confession. ] was the
of the American Fund
for the French Wounded, but all the
time L was serving out there I sent
those comfort-kts you made TO Amer
can boys, sometimes in American hos
pitfalls. I just couldn It help it. When
we heard that they were coming into
hospitals with absolutely nothing in the
way of little luxuries I forgot my Eng
hsh conscience, fIlched a Thousand
comfort-bags from the storereoms of
the Fund, and sent them down to
Rheims and Chateau Thierry''.
"The cry of the Children
In explaining the second part of her
mission, the " begging, Mrs. Lathrop
presented the fearful plight of the
children in war-torn France.
81 wish could make you see them =,
she said and her laughing eyes were
very sad for moment. "They have
a queer white look and eyes that haunt
you long after the little gamins have
wandered aimlessly on and left you to
wonder at the aged faces in such tiny
bodies They don It talk at all. They
have been cowed so long by the awful
fear that they are afraid to speak the
few little words they know.
Gin the desolated districts forty per
cent of them are already tubercnlar.
Living without milk in subteranean
homes reeking with vermin they have
proved an easy prey to the white
plague and are dying by hundreds in
northern France.
They seem to have mo initiative, no
ambition, no hope. Their ONE concern
is for food and to them can of oil
packed sardines is a little Paradise.
ftAnd yet in their emaciated little
bodies is wrapped up the future of
France, nation that saved civilization
in the battle of the Marne. Unless
they are given care and treatment right
away the next generation of this heroic
nation viii follow her young men and
leave her country with a splendid
past but a doubtful or no future.
"A New Cathedral at Rheims.
"Of France it may truly be said:
She saved others, herself she could
not save.
HAnd that is the reason the American
Fund for the French Wounded is rais-
ing money to build memorial hospital
at Rheims, in order that the children
of France, whose fathers died to save
the world, may have some place to be
nursed back to health and happiness,
may know that America appreciates the
sacrifice Of France, and may live to re-
alize the life and freedom their faith
ers fought to give Them.
In concluding her lecture Mrs. Lath-
rop showed pictures of the hospital to
be built at Rheims, in which Kenosha
has already endowed bed and for
which the heroine of four years. war
is now touring "her own United
States''.
That she will succeed no one doubts
who heard her speak and caught the
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