Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-31

can do u little figuring yourself
sweaters per case are 5000; socks,
$500, and we count the ordinary code
cases at an average of 5000 per case.
Besides this we have immense quanti-
ties of edible goods. Some Of the
figures run as follows-30OOO cases,
each containing forty-eight cans OF
Jam, worth wholesale here twenty
cents per can, $500 per case; 5000
cases Of catsup, So per case; 5000
eases of evaporated milk, one. pound
cans; 5000 cases smoking tobacco,
and so on. Bed sheets are selling in
Paris. at $40 and So per pair. We
have 100 cases, each containing 200
pairs. Figure it out. Oranges are a
franc each and milk s1.20 gallon.
Eggs are $50 a dozen. We had pile
Of 1000 cases Of sweaters in two bays,
amounting to 100000 and another 500
cases to throw in.
"Of course you know the Red Cross
has nothing to sell, everything is given
away, except for the canteen. II a
boy has the money he pays little
for his meal, ii out of money he pays
nothing, but eats just the same. No
one is turned away, and if once in a
while we have scalawag' who gets
stuff and sells it to the French, he is
only an exception and does not amount
to much in comparison to the immense
amount OF good done for, those who
deserve it. You can rest assured il
your boy is here, he is well taken
care Of by both the army and the bepe-
VIOLENT organizations. But on top OF
| il all. he is more anxious to return to
you, than he was. to get over, II that
| is possible and he will come back
| a better boy (if such a thing is pos
sible in your eyes, and more anxious
| to say ..hello mother or dad than he
ever was before.
WOmen's Part.
"All our goods are donated goods
outside of groceries These we buy.
/ paid $1,4OO for 1000 cakes OF
French toilet soap few days ago and
also paid $1,60O for $50 cases of eva
portated milk short time ago when
we we're out. Figures are astounding
when you stop to think about them.
Our brave men and boys are the finest
in the world, but don't think for a
minute it was they over here who did
all the fighting, for that is mistaken
idea-every woman who took active
part in your relief organizations had
her part and did her share to win the
war,
do you think any boy who went
forward at Chateau Thierry or in the
Argonne, that terrible place where our
boys we're mown down like grain did
| not know that his mother, sister, wife
or sweetheart was back OF him ana
could he have done half so well had
he felt otherwise? say no, and 4
have talked with dozens of them. who
have told me So 1t is the wonderful
| women of America who made this a
winning war, just as much as anyone
else. 1t gave the boys courage ana con-
fidence to face what they have ana
Germany is whipped. France said
why, you have given us only boys
hut they now know what kind OF boys,
and we believe the boys last recollec-
ton was his mothers kisses and god
speed when he left, that always lives
in our hearts and no dne over here
but what realizes 1t.
..Your goods are finding their mark
and praise is on every mans lips for
YOU. If you could only see the smile
on the boys face when he is wet ana
cold, perhaps his socks full OF holes
and we hand him out couple OF nice
heavy wooden socks, or a sweater or
even handkerchief, perhaps unhem-
med, and say, Take these, your mother
knit them for YOU the tears come in
his eyes and ours too. and we say,
what would we do without the Red
4 -
CrOss?'
Taking Care Of Sick.
Sometimes. even now, a boy dies
| in the hospital, but he has the best OF
attention. One of our Red Cross wo-
men always visits them every day, tax
! ing them chocolate, an orange, gum,
ia cigarette, game, Il paper or per-
haps reads to them, and II he dies TINS
woman writes his last words to the
parents. II one Of your boys has thus
died, YOU can rest assured everything
possible was done to save him, and II
he died. it was in the best of company
and care, and he was buried with a
military funeral and proper service by
the chaplain. Here at Gievres, we
have no Hamilton county boys buried,
but we have. several Iowa boys and
have visited their graves and written
the parents, thinking perhaps they
would like to know that some one from
Iowa had done SO.
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