Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-07-03
TELLS Of FRIENDS
RELIEF IN GERMANY
Need in Occupied Territory West
of Rhine Has Been Con
siderable.

Some extracts from letter written
by j. Edgar Rhoads, who is now in Ger
many ON work for the American Friends
Relief, will be of interest to readers here:
"On the evening of the 7th we we're
invited to q tea which Carolina Wood
addressed at the school for social workers.
This is headed by DIR. Alice Snloman,
the Jane Addams of Germany" She
is very fine woman and n friend OF
Jane Addams, and after the address |
had n very interesting talk with her tof
course in Englah). Curiousiy enough,
she started her school for social work
Just when Miss Addams started Hull
House, and they both published books
telling of their experiences twenty years
later. She gave me n copy of her book
A few days later she very kindly invited
Carolina, Alfred, Harold and me TO dine
with her in her own apartment
I'VE have been much interested in the
occupied territory west Of the Rhine
because the need there has been consider
able and we have felt very strongly that
the three armies. French, English and
United States should do the necessary
child feeding. At last United States
Rhineland Commissioner Noyes has made
plans and started doing IL in the American
and Balderston went down there and
laid out scheme for him and he put II IN
charge of very fine engineer, John A
| Dolnn, who is "A member of his staff
| Dolan has adopted and adapted our plans
and has gotten things started In fine
shape. They will feed 10000 or more
| in the district. Hoover has given S5000f
especially for this. We ealfhave hopes that
| the example will he followed by the British
and that the pressure will be sufficient tC
| force the French 90 do likewise. The
| latter Is however most unlikely.
"It was good TO get TO Cohlenz sno
| see lot Of re8l Americans. The olenr
cut, decent appearance Of the L. 5
soldier and officer cannot be disputed
| when seen in contrast with all the Others
/ we sec. We had fine dinner of rea
| American food too at the officer S mcs'
in fine hotel there.
At p. m. we took boat and rode
/ down the Rhine about fifty miles tc
| Cohn tColognel which VIC reached about
/ $50 y. m IL was delightful ride, beint
! particularly beautiful above Bonn w
! swept along with the swift current ON {
| long narrow powerful steamer, pas
VINEYARDS and wooded hills stopping
occasionally At quiet quaint vilinges tf
1 take on passengers. Tn some OF the
1 higher hills VIC passed old castles, sofns
quite in ruins and some still in use. Just
opposite Coblenz the fine old castle Is II
| use hy the American troops and bad 9
beautiful big United States flag fiyinG
over IL.
"At Cohn the United States railroad
transportation officer kindly securec
berths for us on the entente nrmy cai
IaI III
part of Belgium before | awoke th'
next morning but we saw something d
Brussels, Client, Bruges and Ostend
which we reached about 10 n. IN.
Most of tho western part OF Belgium
is rather fiat, and IN places rather sandy
soil 1t il wonderfully farned in th'
small retail way. characteristic Of Bel
| gium end France, but, il seemed to M
at on awful waste of man-power. or per
haps | should say woman power. Th'
women were kneeling IN the fields. puliini
weeds or breaking every ciod OF earti
with their fingers. Most of the citie
showed by broken roofs and house th'
effect Of aeroplane bombing. There was
| however. not gree deal visible. Atthre'
places railroad bridges had been blowr
up and the twisted rails and girders wer'
laying along the right OF way.
I'VE reached Ostend about 10 n. m
and soon embarked on very nice channc
steamer and were on our way. 1t Is 1
very pleasant trip of ! hours TO Dover
clear, but windy and bit rough though
| il did not bother us any.
''Oh, tell the children that ! saw whole
families in Belgium wearing wooder
shoes. One group walking along a roac
was led by the father, middle aged man
who had his shoes painted bright red.