The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-26

with flowers, STANDS ABOVE MN,
\ Fcudal City Blown Up In "a Night.
But let US get back TO our auto
mobile and turn the moving picture
camera crank. The next pictures are
those Of Coucy- where
some wonderful reconstruction work
has been done by Mrs. whitney
Warren, Of New York. Here are TO
me some OF the most terrible evi-
dences OF vandalism committed, dur
ing the war. The stronghold viii re
main historic ruin for ages 20
come. Coucy-lc- Chateau was a great
castle city. built in teudal times on
hill which rises abruptly out OF
the beautiful valley OF the Aisne e.
three-fourths the height of the
Washington monument The top OF
the hin Is flat and Il was famous
for its formidable castle. The strong.
hold which covered more than two
acres, had been partially destroyed
several times during the ages, but
was always restored.
The castle was built during the
ninth century by the Archbishop OF
Rheims. The ninth century, Eight
or nine hundred years after Christ.
That castle was begun 900 years be-
fore Rome was sacked by the Van
daI7 and about two hundred years
before one OF the Vikings came
came down from Greenland and dis
covered America. 1t was two CEN
turtles old when william the Con
gucror landed in England and 500
years old when Columbus discovered
America. IL was in existence almost
one thousand years before we de-
Clared our independence of Great
Britain. Nevertheless, II was bat
tered to pieces almost In night,
and the town and castle are now q
mass Of rubbish, representing TO-
600 pounds Of dynamite which the
Germans used at the time to blow up
the chateau. Some OF the arches
and towers are still standing and the
front OF the castle is almost intact.
although It's walls are cracked and
unsafe.
A Film Shot In North France.
We shall now leave the auto
mobile TO climb up the hill. We
wind our way among ruins that re-
mind us OF Baalbec and Carthage.
We wander through streets which
the feudal knights trod, picking our
way in and out of broken stones like
those of a quarry. We pass a bat
tered white arch at the entrance
Of the city and stop in a doorway
covered with masses OF green ivy
We climb up to the castle and
sit down on its ruins. Reneath us
in the Aisne valley are some of the
finest farming lands in North
France, with new buildings rising
out OF them. We can count 10
towns within the range OF our vision
great red blotches on the green
and gold under our eyes. Right be-
low us are portable houses rooted
with sheets of galvanized iron, and
near them the scaffolding and
stones that denote new construction.
Looking over the plain, our eyes
follow the roads that crawl like
white snakes through the green.
The automobiles that fly over them
look like bugs. The three Percheron
horses of that farm cart are like
toy animals OF Noah's ark size and
the motorcycle flying behind It is
more like an ant on the run.
Some New American Work.
Most Of the rebuilding here is IN
the villages at the foot of the hill
and II is there that one OF the latest
centers OF the American committee
for the devastated regions is busy at
work. 1t is under the direction OF
Mrs. Anton-Smith of Ohio and
Washington. and she has with her
women. remember ono bright
young Philadelphia girl who has
| the same name as mine. | went
with her TO the room where the
clinic for babies Is held, and as 7
looked at the little basket on scales
in which the infants are weighed
I asked her II she did the weighing
She replied:
NO, I'm not nurse. I'm a
'chauff.'"
That means she is a chauffeur
for this little branch OF our Ameri-
can work. Nevertheless, she is
hardly out OF her teens and like
captains OF industry who came TO
| Washington during the war. she
gives her services for dollar a year.
The work Mt Coucy-le-C Chateau is
largely devoted TO the teaching OF
children, the instruction OF the
mothers and taking care OF the poor.
| The buildings are rude shacks, but
they are beautifully cared for and
well equipped, There IL one shop
! about twenty feet square where the
boys are taught carpentry and
| others in which girls and women
! learn domestic science and trades.
| There il good library, consisting
| Of French books which are changed
twice a month and many chlldren's
| books, including Uncle Remus'
"Brer Rabbit" which has been
translated into French. with the
same illustrations as are used in
America.
Adopt Towns Idke Babies.
This is only one type OF what
America, England and some other
! countries have been doing in France.
could fiji this paper with the
! stories and figures OF our own spe-
| cial work The great Job IS being
| done by the French, but the con-
! trihutIons os outsiders are beyond
| the conception of those who lived
| before the World war. This Ameri-
| can committee for devastated
| France has already sent over dona-
| tions amounting TO about a million
! and half dollars and supplies
| valued at p half million more The
/ 2. Nte~s ~ Britain and the United
| States have done q great deal Of
| medical work and IN putting up
portable houses and rebuilding VII
| lagos. There are scores OF towns
| and cities which have been adopted
! by various organizations through
! out the charitable world. Chicago.
| for instance, has spent upwards OF
/ 5000, 900 In Rheims and villages
/ have been adopted by all sorts OF
| bodies scattered over the United
/ states. Great Britain has donated
| millions Of pounds for the restora- :
| tiOu OF the War--Wept zone, while