The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-06-27

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ed from a tour Of investigation
| through the devastated region,
of France.
The highest French Officials
provided her with military es
lcort and bestowed upon hel
every courtesy during her visi1
the appalling conditions of these
to the war zone. She lived will
children and their mothers-she
knows that thousands of chill
dren over there" are under
lnourished, starving, and sue
cumbing to sickness.
in all the northern country,
says Mrs. Brewster, there is
village untouched, and scarcely
a house with a roof. There is
not a bridge that has not been
dymanited, a factory that has
not been ruined. The tales that
are told of the boches invasion
are unthinkable shocking. Still
the people of the north tell
.dispassionately. They have born
SO much they have no energy
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. Possib-
ly they have enough to fill a red
Gotten tablecloth knotted at the
To Cambria, 1900 out
of a pre-War population of 30,
600 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 be-
fore we saw a COW, chicken or
4 horse. The country is stripped
bare of everything that makes it
ivable. But to the French it is !
still lovable. AS you ride through |
t your pity for France is in
mite. But in your mind are no
words to express your feelings
OWard Germany. There are
niles and miles of grayish.-
,rown dust where We're fertile
pleasant villages, forests
nd orchards. About Verdunl, as
ar as you can see, are heaps
t sand, no sign of life that was
o promis Of any life to come.
Here and there is cross
here some soldier, killed in the
est days Of the fighting, is
uried.
Those who died in the fright
illness Of the earlier battles lie
1mewhere beneath that awful
cap of dust. All along this strip {
dead country are soldiers s
raves, singly in the middle of
lowed fields, in groups. along
lie roads, or row after row in
)me field cemetery.
The fathers of many of the /
tie children for whom we are |
,eking to care are buried there
Id more have left no trace.
Every day of her stay in the
ar zone it was made wildly 1
ear to Mrs. Brewster that I'VE
ust work harder and faster
an ever before, for thousands
children are perishing in
'ance.
Under theplan of the cam
ign being under taken, each
nerican foster parent pledges
4 cents a day, which makes
a month or $3.50 a year
d this added to a tiny allow
ce Of the same amount allow
by the French Government,
cans saving grace to a French
lid, allowing it not only to re-
lin in its own country, but
Lh its widowed mother instead /
in an institution. Thus are the
oxen remnants of the little III
r families kept together. III
Oh foster parent is put in dir /
It touch with the child for
ON she has pledged the neces
y 10 cents day, and with its
Their through correspondence
cry cent subscribed goes to
child The expenses of this
ianthropy are born by gen l
us friends of the organizati.-
To adopt child or to make
large or small, write
information to Mrs. Walter
Brewster, Room ga. 40 H.
18th Mishigan avenue, Chic
], Ill, with whom all local
.irmen of The Fatherless
immunity, are cooperating.