The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-11

T must thank you in the name of all the poor Of the commune for the hig, heavily laden car which will fur nish food to the hungry. Just this to carry some milk to a poor, sick woman. You will understand how happy one Is to be able to help those more unhappy than oneself. l had been deprived of this consolation
 The Paris office of the American Red Cross, always at it's best in every great emergency, sent several camiou loads of drugs sorely needed, and stocks of clothing to a region were mems suits, worth s20, cost s150 to S200, with underwear and everything else in proportion.
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 When Bruges was liberated, the American Red Cross men went in with the first representatives of the Belgian Government.
 The morning Ghent was freed, their car was the first car in and while the Belgian Minister of Sup plies and the American Red Cross man were speaking to thousands from the steps of the city hall, that Monday, November 11th. of the arna- istice, the Germans just across the stream fired farewell vollay into ths town five minutes before eleven and killed a crippled shoemaker.
 Before Brussels was freed, the American Red Cross men were in the capitol to watch the Germans out and welcome home first the Burgo- master, and then the King and Queen.
 So now, the American Red Cross in Belgium is working toward the end. No war relief work is worth while if it yields to the tendency to become permanent.
 No higher tribute can be paid to the Belgians than to leave their own affairs speedily in their own hands. They are natural executives. They will receive justice when the final terms of peace are sign-I.
 Give them an indemnity, assurance of quick financial help, first call on ships, cotton, machinery and other supplies, a continuance of the re- victualing for which they pay all the bills, and Belgians themselves will rebuild Belgium as Belgians of other generations have rebuilt before.
 There will be no sudden stop of the work Of the American Red Cross. The canteens and hospitals even now are on the Rhine backed by the same Red Cross help.
 The people are being helped back. The war charities are being helped to shoulder their own loads. The problems like tuberculosis, children, mutiles, prisoners, and all the rest, are being studied with every desire to give our best thought, our deepest sympathy and our most effective help.
 But the responsibility, as from the very beginning of the work of the Commission for Belgium of the American Red Cross, is on the peo- pie who will have to live with 1t through all the generations to come.
 We have tried never to weaken that sense of responsibility, even in the darkest hours of the war.
 We came with faith in the brave little people who made the great choice in the hour of destiny, who fought new Thermopoles at Liege and on the Yser, who gave then money and blood for us for three years before we came in, and who leaped to death and victory in tn la st great attacks of the war
 And we shall go with tea-fol7 greater faith in them and in their destiny.
 morning the president of the Comita National was telling me his pfight: some poor women had not had any bread in three days and the wara houses of the Conlite are empty as the whole Service de FAlimentatios has been held up for the past three weeks What you sent me will per nit us to help the poor. Many thank from them, and thanks from m Through your help have been ah. I