Arizona republican., 1919-05-10

to getting into the live activities, for the section of salvage was one, and now this committee of Red Cross soCi- cites, the worlds greatest medical con ference. This viii, without question. be the greatest step ever undertaken towards the betterment of living con diuons and the control and prevention ol disease throughouJ the entire world.
 By the way. my new office is assis- tant office manager of the Societies of Hed Cross, and my orders read like this: Lieutenant J. r. Aikire. Assis tant Office Manager, responsible for all matters of railroad Transportation, passports. travel orders. etc; the pur- chase of all supplies and requirements; 10 generally supervise the staff; to assume all responsibility for the var iOus conferences IS 10 personnel. re- ports, records and transcripts; to be responsible fot all property outside of d few minor things, this being all I have to do: and, as the fellow said
 They wouldn't care if you met yourself going to bed when you started to get up in the morning.
 The story by Mary Miller follows
 Built 10 house 2G0 and feed .610 enlisted men of the American expedi- tiunary forces the great tent city can teen hotel on the Champs de Mars in Paris was erected within eight working days at practically only the cost of ! labor
 This seeming miracle was accom- . plshed by the salvage section which came inio existence as one of the ac- tiyities of Red Cross work in December i last but which has grown marVelously in scope and activity since that time. Captain C. Ross Corbin. of Califor- l mia. is the man who has directed this l work from the first. From all parts of i France materials have been saved from hospitals and camps wherever 1 the American Red Cross has had prop ! erty This has been repaired, cleaned sterilized, finished up in whatever way I seemed necessary for its preservation and future use. then it was carefully packed away To await the day of it's need.
 The buildings on the Champs dC Mars grew like the House That Jack [ Built, step by step as reasons for its i existence developed
 When the United States army au-
 thorities decided that each man or
 duty with the American e4peditionar5 ! forces, elther in France or Germany
 should be given three days leave il
 Paris at some time before he sailed fol
 home, the question arose as to how
 these men should be housed and care(
 for in Paris.
 The American Red Cross had hoteI.
 already for more than a thousand mel
 but that was insufficient for the mum
 Der who would come day by day, iron
 out of the north, out of the south
 across the Rhine and wherever els
 the "Yanks' were on duty as a par of the American army.
 So it was agreed that the adde'
 burden should be assumed by the Re
 Cross and that more hotels should b . provided. Paris is said to be carin l for an extra million of people within it gates during these postwar days s . that housing room for two thousan
 more per day is not to be found durin ? an afternoons stroll. Yet, the Re Cross had to make good it's promise. 7 To meet a measure of the emergenc ? need. permission was gained as an es ] pecial token of friendship from tn
 French authorities of Paris to build 9 city of tents on the historic Champ !, de Mars, lying in front of the grea
 French Ecole Militaire. stretchin