Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1919-06-26

bestowed upon ner every courtesy
during her visit to the war zone. She
lived with the appalling conditions
tof these children and their mothers
she knows that thousands of child
rem ''oyer there" are undernourish7
ed, starving, and succumblng to
sickness.
'In all the northern country says
Mrs. Brewster. there is no village
untouched, and scarcely house
with a roof. There is not bridge
that has not been dynamited, fac
tory that has not been ruined. The
tales that are told of the boche in
vasion are unthinkable, shocking
Still the people of the north tell
them dispassionately. They have
borne so much they have no en-
ergy to show excitement over their
suffering. They are coming back
into these terrible towns as soon as
they are allowed They bring their
possessions with them in two string
bags, usually Possibly they have
enough to fill a. red cotton table,
cloth knotted at the corners. To
Cambria. 1900 out of pre-war
population of $4,000 have returned.
They live ten and twelve in room
and many of the rooms have no
roofs
For two days we motored over
this northern country before we saw
a COW, chicken or horse. The
country is stripped bare of every
thing that makes it livable. But to
the French it is still lovvable. AS
you ride through it your pity for
France is infinite. But in your
mind are no words to express your
feelings toward Germany. There
are miles and miles of grayish-brown
dust where were fertile farms, pleas
ant villages, forests and orchards.
About NerauG, as far as you can see,
arc heaps of sand, no sign OF life
sat w.ss, no premise any life 10
tome.
Here and there IS :, cross where
some solder, kill ed in the last DAYS
of the fighting. is buried
Those who died in the frightful-
ness of the earlier battles lie some
where beneath that awful heap of
dust. All along this strip Of dead
country are soldiers graves, sinsly
in the middle of plowed fields, in
groups along the roads, or row after
row in some field cemetery. The
fathers of many of the little chill
dren for whom we are seeking to
care are buried there, and more
have left no trace. !"
Every day of her stay in the war
zone it was made wildly clear to
Mrs. Brewster that I'VE must work
harder and faster than ever before,
for thousands of children are per-
ishing in France
& Under the, plan OF. the campaign
being Undertaken, each American
foster parent pledges ten cents
day, which makes SO month, or
$3.50 year, and this added to a
tiny allowance of the same amount
allowed by the French Government, |
means saving grace to French |
child. allowing it not only to remain |
IN it's own country, but with its
widowed mother instead OF in an !
Thus are the broken
remnants of the little war families |
Sept together. Each foster parent
s put in direct touch with the child
or whom she has pledged the ne
,essary 10 cents a day, and with
is mother through correspondence.
every cent subscribed goes to the
hid. The expenses of this philan-
hropy are borne by generous friends
# the organization To adopt a
hild or to make a donation, large
II small, write for information to
Irs. Walter S. Brewster, Room 634,
10 South Michigan avenue, Chi
ago, H.. with whom all local chair I
len of The Fatherless Children of /
rance, in every community, are CO.
perating.