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With lingers willing hut worn.
With eyes that are happy ami glad,
A few women sit in the Red Cross
rooms.
Plying their needles and thread —
Stitch! Stitch! Stitch!
In spite of their home and the "flu";
They work at a high and nervous
pitch
As the hoys return to you.
Work! Work! Work!
Their spirit never (lags!
As long as they know the refugees
Are wandering round In rags!
A shattered roof and a naked floor.
A table, a broken chair,
And children so cold for lack of
clothes
That they need their kindest care.
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All sweaters and dresses out in
work must be turned in this week.
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American troops in France contrib
uted $40,000 to the adoption of French
orphans.
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livery Red Cross warehouse is a
monument to the generosity of the
! American people.
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Many lives were saved by tie- sur
gical dressings you made. Tie gar
ments that you can make now will do
their work of life savinlg just ;is of
tieiently.
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Soldiers who have lost a leg hut
i whose hands and sight are perfect,
j are learning diamond cutting and pol
ishing in Brighton, England. They are
employed almost exclusively in an
industry new to England, and expect
to be able to compete on a favorable
basis with the more highly skilled
diamond cutters of Amsterdam and
! Antwerp
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So well have the finances of the
I lied Cross been handled by the war
| coum il that alter carrying relief ft)
i every one of the allied countries—to
the extent of millions of dollar- re
lief that sustained the morale of
Franco before our soldiers got there,
that restored to Italy the morale that
German perfidy had stolen away, that
saved the babies of Belgium ami Po
land and the whole Rumanian nation
after all this the Red Cross is in
I sucli good financial condition that the
•■car council confidently announces that
hereafter il will finance chapter pro
duction as well its foreign relief work.
Added to such funds as naturally come
to the chapter locally, the proem ds of
the great roll call every Christinas
will doubtless give chapters and na
tional headquarters sufficient funds.
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Tin- government has decided to
bring hack the bodies of the men who
have given their lives overseas, be
ginning in 1920, hut it is earnestly
hoped that by that time the \menean
people as a whole will have come to
realize the wisdom of leaving them i:n
disturbed.
Surely the hoys themselves would
usk for nothing more splendid than
that their bodies might lie left where
they had fallen, along with their
comrades who fell beside them. This,
of course, is a matter for families to
decide for themselves, hut nothing
can be done before 1H20. and we are
' sure that parents will feel that it is
I a much wiser thing to leave their hod
ies where they are. Creat Britain,
which could take cure of her dead
much more easily thun the i'nlted
Stales, has decided to let the bodies
remain where they are. and already
has taken steps to beautify the spot
where the men are lying. The ceme
teries where our hoys are buried will
he the property of the I'nlted States
' government, and by 1:121* will be lovely
with growing trees and shrubs.
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American Red Cross Sets Up Officers’
Club in Paris
Filling the need lung felt in Paris,
tin- Casual Officers' Rest Club, a gift
of the American Red Cross to the
United States army, is now in opera- J
tion. housed in a large mansion at j
Fourth a venue and Gabriel The club,
which will be kept open as long as
there are any American officers in
France, provides a comfortable home
for officers on leave or passing
through Paris at a minimum cost
Sleeping accommodations are provid
ed in the club tor between fifty and
sixty officers
Kvery day an old fashioned Ameri
can breakfast is served, and in all
other respects the club bouse has been
eejuipped and furnished with the view
to providing American atmosphere
Game Yanks Mutilate Tags to Prevent
Identification
Heroism of American soldiers 1-.
now taken ns a matter of fact. Imt
belated stories of their courage as re
vealed in identification tags that art
being forwarded to the American Red
Cross headquarters here by the Ger
! man military authorities is one ealeu
; lated to give their fellow countrymen
- a brand new thrill
These tags, taken from the bodies
I of American officers and soldiers killed
in action, arc- in many instances muti
lated so far as regimental data is
concerned, the only conclusion being
that wearers were determined that the
enemy should obtain no information
of value from them.
It takes little imagination to visual
ize a tragedy in almost every one of
the little aluminum discs Kach muti
lated tag tells a story of a lad who
journeyed more than three thousand
miles to tight under the Stars* and
Stripes, whose last thought on going
to battle was not for his own safety
but for that of his comrades. The
enemy was not to get any comfort
from anything found on him in case
he was killed or captured. One can
picture some of the men out in ad
vanced machine gun posts cut off from
their units, hiding in shell holes,
scratching the regimental and com
pany numbers from the discs when
death or capture seemed certain.
In a recent lot of tags that reached
the American Red Cross headquarters
many of those bore mutilated names
of soldiers who were obviously of Ger
man descent. "Game unto death" was
the couynent of an officer who
watched the examination of the first
hatch of discs. In a number of cases
it was possible to trace the regimen
tal and company number, as if the
attempt to obliterate the information
had been done hurriedly. It is possi
ble in the opinion of some officials
(hat some of the tags may have been
picked up loose on the battlefield and
that the owners may still he living
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Yankee Flyer Thinks of Parents in
Great Adventure.
There died of pneumonia recently
In Franco an American lieutenant.
Osric M. Watkins, of Indianapolis,
ind. He was a member of the A. E. F.
Ilyins unit. Three months before his
death Lieutenant Watkins wrote- two
lettors, one to his mother and one to
ILs father, both to be mailed after he
had "carried on" to the great beyond.
These letters are remarkable "in that
they breathe the spirit of the cru
sades of the middle ages." as the
commentator says, and ure those of u
son tuught to love and honor Hrst his
Cied, then his country, and then his
fa mily.
Dear Dud: When you get this 1
will have gotten into a spin too close
to the ground or something else equal
ly foolish. I can faintly conceive of
your grief as I, too, have dreamed of
sons that might one day have been
mine. But If a man hns lived well he
dies well, as I beliove, then know
that 1 have held my head high before
the judgment seat. 1 have commit
ted my hIiih, hut I am deeply ashamed
of them, and I know that God will
forgive them I regret that I might
have lived to lighten your old age,
and that I might not have given you
a grandson, hut it was not to he.
We have not written each other'
much, dad, but it's been somewhat tin
necessary. We understood each other
sufficiently well that we may leave
things unsaid. You’ve been a good I
father to me. dad. You'll never know
how much i have loved and respected
you Even as 1 write I think of a
hundred little ways in which you
gs Med my faltering steps and molded j
my character i before e except j
after c” I doubt whether I could
ever have be anie as good a man as
you. Evil desires followed me much.
Thai was one reason I wanted to live. 1
They are just passing the window
with the body of a boy who fell while
r was writing (lie first page of this.
’I l.e poor hoy was in training and nev
er got a chance at (lie Huns. I hope!
I do. Whether I do or not I shall lie
proud to have died for America. Your
devoted son. OSKIC.
My Precious Mother: This Isn’t to
be mailed until I've gone where all
good aviators go. honey. You’re so
wise and brave and cheerful that I
knew you can he as proud as you are j
sad at my death. Of course, there is j
seant reason to he sad. anyway. You
would have wanted me to live Hint I
might be happy, for myself, and that
[ might he a. continual source of pride
and Joy to you. Well, as for me.
mother, my life has been one long his
tory of happiness, and no other end
ing of it could have left me more con
tent Could 50 more years have made
it more perfect ? And so with you
also. Could I have done anything to
make you more proud? With liberty
and Christianity at stake, you would
never think of shrinking from the
sacrifice.
In my long absence from you I hav.
conte to truly give thanks for the
sanctity of our home circle and the
warmth of its love While I was with
you I never fully realized all that It
means to be a man. You have ever
been the perfect mother, mother ot
mine. I wish 1 could show how much
I love you. Part of your duty to the
world is closed with my life -there
yet remains to you. papa. Maiila and
Dorothy You, as is proper, are Do
center of the home circles. Your duty,
the sponsorship of us all, is never
ended.
My heart is too full to continue,
inuver dear I love you with all my
heart. Pet me be ever at your side.
May you rejoice in the happy conclus
ion of my life. Your devoted son.
OSRIC
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