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TYPICAL STM OF A
VILLAGE IN FRANCE
American Red Cross, 4 Place De La
Concorde, Paris. Feb 9 — It was a lit
tle village in France, like hundreds of
others. Its men Jiad gone to war.
When the Germans were reported as
close to the town, the women and
children fled.
The Huns entered the village that
pight. Robbing ail the homes of every
thing otf value, they set fire to the
town and prepared to march on. Leav
ing the town they came upon Auntie
Marcelle—eighty years tfld—crouching
by the roadside, one of the refugees
who had dropped out of the fleeing
procession. She had had nothing to
eat for twenty-four hours ewcept roots
that she had dug up nearby.
Contrary to all German rules of war
fare, some of the invaders took pity on
; her. placed her in an ambulance and
carried her to the shelter of a miser
I able road-mender’s hut nearby. She
1 stumbled back to the village, which
i was still in flaipes. Unable to regain
j her home, she went to the cemetery
l find sought her son’s grave. She was
found by some Germans wrho took her
to their camps, gave her some food '
and set her by a fire.
When the Germans retired Soon
after this, and many of the villagers,
returned, they found Auntie Marcelle'
striving to build a shelter in the ruins j
of her old home—the only living soul
in the place. The other villagers join- ]
ed her and attempted to find some ref
1 uge. Their efforts were pitiful.
picked his own home—though the
r ruins next to it might be unoccupied
| and much more promising. Kach
> wanted to live on his own little piece
I of ground, even if only a few- bricks!
1 remained there.
Many removed the debris from the
.cellars and sought shelter there, sleep
ing on straw with a blanket or two for
covering. Chairs and tables were fash-,
ioned from recovered boards and
boxes, cooking utensils from battered
pots and pans found after much search
ing among the ruins,
j Food? There wasn’t any, except
| what the Germans could not carry
! with them in their hurried evacua
| tion. For days the handful of villag
ers lived on the rotting fruit left in
I nearby orchards and a meagre supply
of vegetables.
' And this story was being repeated
| in scores of towns throughout northern
France and Belgium. Thousands were
suffering as these people were suffer
ing, and hundreds, as in this village,
| died—from exposure and starvation.
Then came the Society of Bngllsh
I and American Friends. They set to
j work promptly. They gave moral en
jcouragemeht to the ruinee} people and j
helped them to construct temporary I
shelters. They selected the blasted
homes which offered the best possibil
ities for partial reconstruction, and;
aided the townsfolk to erect shacks be- j
tween walls and still stood where a I
'house had been, or to put a substantial
t roof over a cellar that could be lived
in.
I Later they built barracks and little
j one or two-room cottages to house
those who had been tenants before the T
war and owned no land of their own |
upon which to build. Gradually they j
drew the hopeless look out of the re- j
fugees' eyes; sometimes they even in-'
duced them to smile.
In place of heaps of straw they gave
the refugees cots and real mattresses.
They brought in camion-loads of furni
ture and distributed it to those in
dire need. It was no uncommon sight]
to see the people flock to the center of I
the tow n when a truck piled high I
with household goods arrived, receive '
a wheelbarrow load of bedding, pots
and pans, and trundle "t away with a
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nod of thanks and a smile of gratitude.
Workmen came too, to help the vil
lagers put their houses together again.
Farm machinery was sent in. Even
spectacles were Imported for the old ]
people. Hospitals were established
for the sick, and schools for the chil
dren. Doctors inspected the people and i
improved sanitary conditions. Chick
en and rabbit farms were established.
At first, numbed with the sudden
ness and horror of it all. the villagers i
accepted aid mechanically. But later
the old spirit of independence began to
assert itself. They wanted to be self-j
sustaining, even when everything had!,
been swept away.
So the Friends organization opened
workshops in the towns, where the wo-j
men came and worked by the hour at j
sewing. Here corn and flour sacks
were fashioned into useful articles of j
various kinds—table covers, mats and,
fancy bags. The women were taught
embroidery and many were the quaint
and original designs they created, j
Thirty centimes (six cents) an hour
was the pay—and the women were
happy and independent.
When the American Red Cross or
ganization reached France, and came;
in contact with the work of the!
Friends, it immediately realized the
necessity of its continuance and en-'
largement.
So the Red Cross offered the Friends
the support that would make it pos-'
sible to extend their activities, and it j
was accepted. Today the American'
Red Cross and the Friends and several!
other groups of workers in similar|
service are cooperating harmoniously j
and effectively to restore there the vil
lages that have suffered so hard a
rate.
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BIRLS OF WASHINGTON
SEATTLE, Wash., March r..—-‘SurrJ
rner girls” in Washington this year
probably will not be found r>n the
jeaehes and at the resorts, but in the
irehards, fields and packing bousus.
ts nearly 9,000 girls of all ages in the
date have pledged themselves to
spend the coming summer planting
tnd handling crops.
The campaign to obtain thi girls'
pledges was conducted by the Wash
ington newspaper association and the
University or Washington. The cam- /
paign slogan has been "No excuse for J
in idle summer.”
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