The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-03-14

floating place." with plenty of read
ing material and music. A canteen Or
ganization distributes cigarettes, cho-
colates and other things that appeal
to the doughboy, while the camp SER
vice system of the Red Cross provides
all men in need of warm clothing with
wooden sweaters, socks, mufflers, etc.
Accordingly much has been accomp-
lished toward overcoming depression.
Plans have been perfected by the
American Red Cross whereby photo
graphs of identified graves Of Amer
lean soldiers in France will be sent to
heroes relatives in this country, &C
cording to a telegram from Washing
ton, D. c., received at northern d.
vision headquarters.
Several hundred such photographs
have been forwarded to families of
men who have died in service overseas
and an announcement from Red Gross
headquarters says that the work OF
obtaining the photographs has been
speeded up to a point where produc-
ton from now on is expected to reach
about seven thousand every month.
The American Red Cross has taken
over the task Of photographing the
graves at the request of the war de-
partment, and is acting under the au-
thority Of Lieutenant Colonel G. G.
Pierce Of The Graves Registration
service. Headquarters for this ser
vice is locaed in Tours, France. Each
photograph is mounted on cardboard
with a folding frame on one side
which contains data concerning the
dead soldier. While all requests for
such photographs should be forward
ed to the bureau of communications
of the American Red Cross and not
to the Graves Registration service of
the army, such requests are not really
necessary and will not hurry receipt
of the photograph. Neither will spe-
cial requests receive any special con-
sideration.
Every identified grave in France is
to be photographed under a plan work.
ed out by army photographers and
no one will be permitted to deviate
from this arrangement in order to
take a picture of any particular grave.
The American Red Cross will for
ward the photographs to relatives as
soon as they are received at head
E quarters.
News Association, London, March l.
Warm tributes to the work of the
American Red Cross in the war were
paid at the annual smoker of the
American navy league by Ambassador
John W. Davis and Admiral Sims, the
principal speakers.
i After praising the American navy,
Ambassador Davis said: "But it is
impossible to say anything about the
! work, either of the army or the navy
without mentioning the Red Cross.
1t is hard to say too much about the
wonderful work of the Red Cross at
home and in the battlefields. If the
! work of the Red Cross wei here is
the representative of everybody at
f home, when the history Of the war
comes to be written there will be no
more important an inspiring chapter
than that which deals with the work
: of the Red Cross"
Incorporation of the American REQ
Gross with the American army, par.
ticularly during the war, left nothing
to be desired" said Admiral Sims. The
navy was a long way from home," he
continued. "It, therefore, afforded
sense of great satisfaction to know
that always in cases of emergency Of
any description l could count upon in.
slant assistance and support finan.
cially or otherwise from the Red eros!
for the mere asking and without the
necessity for explanations. The Rec
Cross represents the generosity ane
altruism of the American people ant
their feeling toward their boys owe
here and their allies"
Jerusalem-More than 1900 conva
lescents and young children in the bi.
Armenian refugee camps at Port Sal
are now being provided daily wit
food at a diet kitchen established b
the American Red Cross commissio
to Palestine and the near east. Wit
the cooperation of the British force
the Red Cross commission has opene