J Food and clothes! Just the bare
I necessities for keeping the flame of
\ life burning in the human body. That
1 is the appeal more than one million
f people in northern France and Bel
\ gium are making to the more fortun
ate people of their allies.
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Men, women and children of all ages
raise their voices in the cry. Most of
them are refugees—the people who
(were unfortunate enough to have set
tled in the regions of Europe which
were over-run by the invading army
of the Germans. They were no more
to blame for their misfortunes than
the comfortable citizens of Alaska.
Yet they have suffered untold miseries
in this world upheaval.
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■ They do not make their appeal upon
| ?cbe ground that the people of the al
.--'lied countries ought to share their
burdens—although they may have
l every right to—rather as supplicants
for a favor do they cry for assistance.
'Once comfortable, contented and in
(. 'dustrious workers they now find them
selves homeless and ruined through
no individual fault of their own.
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\ During hostilities they were driven
j from their homes 'by German bom
bardment, or if they attempted to re
main in the path of the Hun’s ad
vance, they were made civilian prison
[} ere and deported to Germany to work
in the boche’s fields and factories.
With the armistice their thoughts
and ambitions turned toward the
^ places they once knew as home, and
following the irresistable call of their
hearts they came back to find nothing
‘ but desolation and ruin.
XXX
All over that immense waste of ter
ritory known as the devasted and lib
erated areas, they can be found today
living in dugouts that served as shell
shelters for the contending armies, in
rudely constructel shacks, and dark
cellars. Why do they stay? Because
it's the only place they call home.
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Of food they have little, but by their
own efforts and the help of various
>elief agencies they have so far been
able to obtain sufficient nourishment
to sustain life. But of clothes they
have practically none. The head of
the family wears a cast-off soldier’s
tunic, a pair of trousers patched in
half a dozen places with plain burlap;
the mother’s costume consists of trous
ers in many instances, or a skirt made
[from pieces of cast-off garments, and
in nine cases out of ten, a man’s shirt.
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Leather shoes are very scarce and
underclothes a luxury. Children go
% about garbed in a heterogenous collec
v tion of cloth that could not be graced
with the name of clothes. Socks and
stockings are articles that have be
t. come practically unknown as a cloth
|* ing necessity in these regions.
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Relief agencies, such as the Ameri
can Red Cross, have done their best
to supply these people with clothing,
but war necessities came first during
the great conflict and the needs of
these people had to wait upon the de
j mands of the fighters. When the ma
jority of these refugees were collect
^ ed in the south of France the clothing
& question was not so important because
w of the mild climate.
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DUl iiuw LilaL tiiey uavc ICLU1HCU LV
! the cold climate of northern France,
clothing becomes almost as necessary
as food, and especially when living
conditions are such as exist today in
the devastated areas.
When they were driven from their
homes before the oncoming German
hordes they took with them only the
clothes they had on their backs. In
: returning to their homes many wear
these same clothes, worn by many
' months and even years of weary
| wandering.
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ft* Don’t forget that the present inten
8 tion of the American Red Cross is to
8; have all refugee garment work com
Bipleted before the summer sets in.
EkJune 1st is the date for the local
■'chapter. One hundred children’s gar
8 inentH are cut, ready for distribution,
■ and there is plenty of yarn on hand.
Do you intend to help?
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' Only two calls for yarn during the
past week. Mrs. E. P. Harwood and
Mrs. V. G. Vance.
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American fighting men returning
from France are making no effort to
conceal their appreciation of the
I American Red Cross. Their praise
makes every Red Cross worker feel
that the job was worth while.
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The extension divisions of the Uni
versities of Washington and Oregon
are offering correspondence courses
free of charge to any one still in the
service.
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TRIBUTES FOR RED CROSS
FROM DAVIS AND SIMS
LONDON, March 1 (by cable).—
Warm tributes to the work of the
American Red Cross in the war were
paid at the annual smoker of the
American Navy league by Ambassa
dor John W. Davis and Admiral Sims,
the principal speakers. After praising
the American navy Ambassador Davis
said;
"But it is impossible to say anything
about the work either of the army or
navy without mentioning the Red
Cross. It is hard to say too much
about the wonderful work of the Red
Cross at home and on the battlefields.
We at home have been in the habit
of saying that the Red Cross is the
American people. That is the position
it has held in the work of the army
and navy over here as the representa
tive of everybody at home. When the
history of the war comes to be written
there will be no more important, in
spiring chapter than that which deals
with the work of the iRed Cross.”
Co-operation of the American Red
Cross with the American navy, par
ticularly during the war, left nothing
to be desired, said Admiral Sims. “The
navy was a long way from home,” he
continued. “It therefore afforded a
sense of great satisfaction to know
that always, in case of emergency of
any description, I could count upon
instant assistance and support, finan
cially or otherwise, from the Red
Cross for the mere asking and without
the necessity for explanations. The
Red Cross represents generosity and I
the altruism of the American people
and their feeling toward their boys
over here aiad their allies.”
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RED CROSS BRINGS AID TO
RUSSIANS IN GERMAN PRISONS
It is peculiarly the role of “friend
of the friendless” that the American
Red Cross is filling when it sends into
Germany just at this time a mission
to alleviate the sufferings of about
800,000 Russian prisoners of war, the
remnant of 2,000,000, roughly estimat
ed, who have been held under ex
tremely wretched conditions since the
beginning of the world war. Openly
discriminated against from the first
among prisoners of war by the Ger
man military authorities, the Russians
have never received packages from
home or other outside succor as have
British and French prisoners, al
though the lot even of these was ab
ject misery. The disruption of trans
portation and a generally disorganized
state of affairs in Russia long ago
brought to a full stop any practical
effort to repatriate their own men.
Read these extracts from miscel
laneous reports to the Red Cross on
Russian prisoners in German and Aus
trian camps:
“The Russian prisoners receive no
parcels. These poor fellows suffer
from chronic hunger. They willingly
ate the kippered herrings and gath
ered up all the refuse they could find.”
“At Koenigsmur my informant has
seen Russians pick herring heads out
of the refuse and eat them; devour
bread which had arrived from France
mildewed and sour, and peelings of
potatoes in garbage barrels which had
been especially fitted with funnel
shaped lids to prevent the Russians
from burrowing in them. The Rus
sians, however, had resource to vari
ous tricks; they overturned the bar
rels or fished out the peelings with
sticks. He saw one Russian forced
to whip a comrade strapped to a
bench because he had stolen peelings.”
Here is another:
“Credit must be given to the Eng
lish and French prisoners who volun
tarily give their German food to the
Russians (when they can spare It,
due to the receipt of parcels from out
r*. —--1
side). They, the Russians, jump
through barb wire fences to beat each
other to the food, tearing their clothes
and exposing their bodies to the
wind.”
This from a Russian investigator to
the bureau of prisoners of war of the
international committee of the Red
Cross, Geneva, Switzerland, quoting
m appeal of 198 repatriated invalid
Russian prisoners:
“The slavery of the white race by
these ‘cultured’ savages of the twen
tieth century is a frightful universal
calamity. These savages are destroy
ing man with systematic brutality.”
And this:
“These last (the Russians) are get
ting very little food from outside, and
is little clothing, and so they die a
;reat deal faster than the French or
British have died. One or the Euro
pean branches of the Russian Red
Cross wrote a letter expressing the
lope that the United States can ex
port food to be sent to Russian prison
ers of war, and it notes tuberculosis
is the cause of three-fourths of the
leaths reported from German and
Austrian camps. That means under
feeding, of course, and bad* housing
and not clothes enough to keep them
warm in winter.”
The Russian delegate in Switzer
land, Dr. S. Bagotsky, after making a
‘detailed study of the situation of our
prisoners” in Germany, gops on:
“I will limit myself to saying only
that the truth surpasses my very
worst expectation, for which I 'was
prepared by four years of service on
the Moscow committee (of the Rus
sian Red Cross) where millions of
letters to and from prisoners were
received. The majority of Russians
in Germany were extremely emaci-, j
ited and exhausted by the hard labor
md insufficient nourishment. Nearly
ill were menaced by mental maladies.
The extraordinary conditions of their
captivity of several years was telling
in their minds to such an extent that,
inless their situation is changed with
in a few months, those who are alive
nay not return to Russia sane.”
The decision of the American Red
Cross to send a mission into Germany
o co-operate with the inter-allied com- L
nission for the “feeding, care and at
repatriation of Russian prisoners of f,
war in Germany,” followed an urgent tt
request from General Pershing that h
his be done. The American Red Cross 0
commission for Europe, with head- c<
quarters in Paris, has selected Major n
Carl Taylor, U. S. A., who has been
released from the army for this pur- ft
pose, to head the mission which will w
have an organization of about thirty- n
five men. a
In adition to medical, surgical, ei
clothing and convalescent food sup
plies, the American Red Cross will
irnish hospital equipment and doc
irs. The American Red Cross will
ive the largest representation of any
the auxiliary relief organizations
>-operating with the inter-allied com
ission in Berlin.
Prom far-away America, and other
ireign lands, the long isolated and
retched Russian prisoners in Ger
any will at last receive relief from
i oppression that is one of the black
it chapters of the great war.
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Job printing at Dally Times office.
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