Evening journal., 1920-03-25
ouAkEns MonK N yEnpuN AREA TERMINATES

~ HE Friends Relief Units IN France In which many
Delawareans have been Interested began their With
drawsl carly In March and the end OF this month viii
see The complete winding up Of the work The excep-
tions 10 this viii be the Maternity Hospital at Chalons
which has been endowed with 100000 francs and which
VIII be maintained indefinitely by the Quakers and tho
vorrooms cooperative stores carpentry ard recreation
classes, libraries and village community centres which
viii gradually be turned over to French management
The Friends Service Committed whose American head
quarters No. 20 South Twelfth street. Philadelphia
was assigned after the armistoc the reconstruction OF
the territory Of Verdun which had been completely
devastated and which made famous the scene OF
the American Argonne advance SO thoroughly has the
been that In no other part of tho wholo battle
line has the village and farm life begun again any
thing like the same scale
The Relief Department OF the Friends Mission reports
that Il helped 1866 villages and 1916 families 1t has
distributed is937 articles OF clothing 1905 covers and
Sheets 2o3s Shoes 2ee9 beds and mattresses and 5aio
articles Of furniture.
The Agricultural Department has plowed 1916 acres
mostly In small pieces OF about one-hlrd Of acre. and
hrashed 67ie tons OF gran much OF which u har-
vested itself
1t has also distributed 1900 chickens eooo rabbits
1900 colonies 220o fruit trees and numerous goats
sheep and other livestock.
Eight institutions for civilian medical relief were main
ancd different times also dentists, opticians and dis
trct nurses.
Tn, Transportation Department last summer operated
eighty machines.
The Building Department erected 1883 houses in tweny-
Ave Villages or these 100 erected in Varennes, 93
in Very 70 in Montfaucon. 7S In Aubreyie and 72 In
Neuvlly renamed by the French "clte des Amis" CITY
az Friends Most these houses manufactured by
the Friends themselves their two factories at Dole and
ornans interchangea parts being constructed.
Perhaps the feature OF the work which will have the
greatest permanent effect the country the main
tenance OF twelve cooperative stores where the refugees
could obtain necessary articles at prices below cos Each
OF these stores mnstered to the needs OF group OF sur
rounding villages without them The French peasant
would have had great dncuy starting his homo again.
Some Of the article sold in these stores made by
refugees who were given employment n the manufacture
Of mattresses brushes embroidery eic These stores arc
beins turned over to French society by the free dis
tributon Of shares to all purchasers.
About 700 workers have been sent from America not
one Of whom has served for a salary.
The Friends are also operating in Germany, where
they arc making preparations with Hooyers cooperation.
20 feed 100000 undernourlshed children; In Serbia
where they maintain orphanage. and agricultural
school and medical dspensary; in Austria where they
are running thirty infant welfare centres, large
dairy and big clothing establishment and IN Poland,
where unit OF about thirty Is nghtlns the typhus.
plans are progressing for work IN Mexico and in Russia
where Friends Unit maintained before the revolu-
ton Many OF the workers in France now going to
the ote- European fields whose operstions are beins
rapidly enlarged.
That IS a nne showing for sect which is opposed 10
war but which punges ardently to perform war relief
work