Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-11-13
CHAPLAIN ~,
OF BLUE Devils IS !
SOON TO GO BACK
Canon Cabanel Interested in
Americans Plans for Or
phans of France.

New York, Nov. 8.-Canon Caba-
mel, chaplain of the famous Blue
Devils, who has been the distin-
guished 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 Father
less Children Of France, an Ameri-
can organization cooperating with 4
similar one in Paris of which Mar
sbal 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 through it's plan
of long distance "adoptions"-Am
erican aid being contributed to the
extent of 10 cents a day, $36.50 a
year, and the donor of this sum con-
stituted godmother or godfather OF
one % the little French war waits and
pat in touch with through correspon-
dence. Every cent of money contrib
uted goes direct to the child-the
small expenses 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 seri-
ously gassed as to render him unfit
for front line service. He wears the
decorations of the Legion of Honor,
and the Croix de Guerre with three
palms and four stars-seven eta
tions-besides the fourragere Of the
oJo i11n v,,.1s%o;r0 NIynsnh Sc nrx,1i1,o
lent to the British Victoria Cross and
At one time while conducting the
funeral service, Of 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The men present were withdrawn,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 a monument to
him with the inscription ITO Our Fa-
Their Cabanel, who died for France
and God" The monument still
stands with the first part of the in
scription: "To Our Father Caba-
mel"
"Is it Zoo much to ask of the moth
ers and fathers of America, whose
little children are sheltered and cared
for" says this brave priest. "this
little help of ten cents day for the
children of those whose wooden
crosses mark the fields and highways
of France?"
"In all the universities Of my coun-
try and of yours, young sons and
daughters are being sent from France
to America, from America 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
'adopted'-as we say-one of these
little fatherless. homeless children of
France, Immediately the family of
the adopted 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 C. Brewster of Chi
cago, national chairman Of 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 booklet
of translated letters from little
French children, to anyone inclosing
to her at Room 928, 410 S. Michigan
Avenue, Chicago, stamped, self-ad-
dressed envelope of business size.
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