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CANTEEN WORKERS CATER,, " TO POILU'S "APPETITE k * * * * * • * > • * * * * * * * * * * * * < * - * * • » * * i * * * * * *:* #*•****' i "THE HOPE OF NATIONS M FOR OYSTSS AND SALADS •; v . Eleanor Robson Belmont, Home From Europe, ? w&$. <20%] it" Yl'KA: teUt of Her Unbounded Faith in Ike Red Cross. ?' , 'it • : • BrfcLEANOK R0B50N BELMONT. f is?'-.. • A * - frf J. ^cVV^-'sf.. HBN t left for Europe a few months ago I had no cast- iron reverence for the Red Cross, When I returned ftnm Europe 1 brought home with me unbounded belief Lxi the organisation. I had seen enough to make me realize that this was the best method of serv­ ing the soldiers and sailors. We are waging an economic war. Therefore the surest and most effective way to Is through the established chan- seieeted for that purpose by the government. The main work of the American Red Ooss, however, is, of course, carried On In France. The policy of those banding this work is to back up the french in their own efforts and to Ikelp them develop along their own Hues, not to root out French institu­ tions and transplant American ones. Whether we work, then. In canteens, la warehouses, in dispensaries, for fauna or for refugees, in Paris or in •VT4"< m* 9 IP#* •& /i tfLEANOft ROBSON BELMONT, tfee devastated districts, for the chil­ dren or for the aged, it is always on the aame plAn of backing up the 9*ench if (bey lava any arganisatttm arpian. Pollus Llka Oyster* and Salad. 1)m canteen work is one of the moat (ratifying ways of helping the men. To see those potlaa enjoying the first delicactetf they have bad for days is a aoul-aatisfylng sight. The English and •tench maintain canteens where they dispense soap, hot coffee and cocoa, to­ bacco, chocolate, etc^ but the Ameri­ can Red Cross canteens serve real dinners at cost or under. The pollus are inordinately fond of oysters and naiad; when they can order a plate «f oysters or a dish of salad in an American canteen they are a» happy «LS (thiidren. We have six canteens in the French cone for the French army --France Is, of course, divided into •ones. In one line of communication <canteeo we serve from 4,000 to 8,000 fnatt; a day. These canteens are near uj£ *a!!roau stations for the benefit of the,'men going to the front, being trans­ ferred to some other section, or going borne on a furlough, in one section the j accomplishing at home. huts used for this purpose ara tittle alleys marked "Paris,** "Dijon," or -Ly­ ons." These little alleys are laid ont with bunks filled with sleeping men. If a poil'u is going to Paris, he throws himself down In the Paris bunk, serene in the knowledge that he will be called in time for the Paris train. In some of the canteens the lights have to be dimmed on account of aero­ planes. Often the lights are covered with colored muslin shields which make a rosy glow that is very home­ like. One of the canteens has been decorated by some of the best camou- flage artists in France, who have taken great delight In coveting the walls and even the ceiling with their plcturea The canteens are open day and night for lie benefit of the men at the big junction polnta. . Do Mora Than Peed Men. The wouen in the canteens do mere than feed the men, however, Impor taut as that la. Pollus leaving their families are naturally depressed and need sympathetic listeners. Some one to admire his wife's picture, some one to laugh over the baby*a latest sign of genius, some one. to tell him that the oldest boy is the image of his handsome father--this lat as real a need in the poilu's Ufa as salad or soup. In fact the presence of these fine women is such an influence foi good that' officers say the morale oi the army is distinctly higher wherever the canteens are. This causes great rivalry among the canteen workers. Each one wants her canteen to be Ike best and most popular in the service. Besides this direct, personal service to the soldiers the Red Cross is doing a kind of John the Baptist work with dispensaries. We have fifteen dispen­ saries scattered through districts where war has been or ts likely to be. France had mobilized 18,000 of her 24,000 physicians, leaving about 6,000 for the whole of civilian Prance. Sometimes you . will find one old doctor taking care of several villages with no means of transportation except oc­ casionally an aged, overworked horse. Here is a chance for the Red Cross to step in and belpu There is a sgnM&cate of physicians to which the Red Cross applies to find out if a certain village has a medical adviser; if not we estab­ lish a center and operate in a given section around the center. • Bathing a Luxnrjfc !: . r A Red Cross doctor and nursfe *n dut regularly to the village* In their section. Each village is informed when they are coming so that all who waat medical advice or treatment can meat together in one spot and nave unnecessary calls. Of course, If any one is too ill to come to the doctor, the" doctor goes to him. The nurses carry among other things shower baths for babies. In many re­ gions of France, owing to lack of facil­ ities, bathing is a luxury, so the super­ stition has grown up that it Is dan­ gerous. Now since the mother are convinced that their children will be neither kitted nor injured, but on the contrary benefited by baths, how they do look forward to them I After all this inspiring activity of the Red Cross on the other side, ro­ mantic in spite of the drudgery and tragedy, 1 expected the work here to be an anti-climax. I was amazed, then, when 1 returned to see what we were m. THE RED CROSS ik* BrEDGAR A.'GUfi5#*< % I AM too old to abate the fight; $£" Too many years have come and 0OM# 8inee first I saw the morning light. My youth has been and traveled oife I am too old to join the line, ̂ ' Far-flung today that truth eha^jlye£ ̂ •y| >-'•»J m»x not die for what Is fine, ' ***'" i&i -*»* ' am not too old to flvn, •, i t am not yet so old that I * drifted from the world apart r-MP» can hear the helpless eryf, • And mercy still can reach my hsaflL 7 I still can share from day to day The burden that our youth must I thank God that I can say The Red Cross is my symbol there. 'IP r t fk-} ifirj- 'x± r J,.-.'. sV •vL'tiist v! • 'HM- ' • f1*.Jut' mu IM too. old to bear a lance, Across the shell-torn Flanders' field I way not go where troops advance And death's grim terror! are I can hear the helpless ealL And I can serve them while I IW|| I thank God that through It alt I shall not be too ot« teglvs. f. . .r! m. trfi. P; f .Computing Time In Greenland. J $V,:. t > Qreanland, where the nights •are Six months long, the time-table makes no difference on the score of daylight saving. "What time do you bave breakfast?" asked the traveling man at the Greenland hotel. "From fealf-^t March to quarter, .of Mffyt" SUBSwered the urbanfe clerk!. ' " • Lf - ^ w ' K'.; Fa per Money.1 • Bheete of paper pass for- money In Oarfu- One sheet buys one quart of rtce and twenty sheets a fAecevt heiip xtotb. m' w m";- Naturally Felt Important ~*»no was the lady who just writ complained to the manager that a clerk had not shown her the proper respect?" "That was Mrs. Slashby." "She looked important" "8he has a right to feel Important. She's owed this firm over $1,000 for the past six months."--Birmingham Age-Herald. (T . . ' ,3 ' Regular Squall. "My wife's felines and Fldoes nrne- ticaily -tale our house." '"a ""Of reigning cats and dogs, «ia it Boston Transcript lb#*. *i 9mfflm " i by GL Devltt Welsb. * * * * * * * • * SH8WE8 BATHS CHATEAU DCS NOW CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ;0n6 of tti6 Most Complete Es­ tablishments ' of Its Kind in France, With Jolly Playrooms and Toys to Amuse Patients. f a 3'^ f A JV1ESSAGE FROM ERANCE -i 'pirit of This War Pictured by French Schoolgirl Letter Received by John H.:Finley0^m £| *H1S letter is one of the many messages which have been received from the scnools iX 'of France hi response to the messages from American universities and schools, Carried to them by John H. Fiiiley, Commissioner of Education and President of the University of the State of New York. It is reproduced here and comes from a pupil in the Lycee Victor Durny in Paris, which he visited last May, and there heard the pupils singing "The Star Spangled Banner" in French and crying in chorus, •"Vive r Amerique/' It is doubted if there has been a more graphic or poetic ex­ pression of that, which separates the man is the opposing trenches of of that which brings America and Prance together. , iv «, v*:>. V' "It warn only a little river, almost a brook; h was called the Yser. One could talk from one side to the other without raising One's voice, and the birds could fly over it with one sweep of their Wings. And on the two banks there were millions of men, the one iurned toward the other, eye to eye. Bat the distance which sepa» fated them was greater than the stars m ike skyi ii-was the distance fhich separates right from injustice. " The ocean is so vast that the sea gulls do not dare to cross it. During seven days and seven nights the great steamship* of America, going at full speed, drive through the deep waters before the light" houses of France comg.JntaMiewj h*\* *rom pp side to the other mparts tmt touching."- v- ' ^ 1 ^ - " •y *\y- _ •¥ •? t il ' "'V},: >li-if '.7^' •" 't-' The Great American Dollar Has a Great American Heeirt » t- u arts I ** "#**<» &•*••***. -iji.-, A " m If*•«»*;- i,: mencanDoIlar. WILLIAM GERARD CHAPMAN* e <3r«U American Dollar. I was bora Of Toll and Sweat and sired by BtUban Endeavor. Treas­ ured and trained by Thrift I grew powerful and competent to perform for my masters the duties of a willing servant Apprentice to Industry, I earned wages that repaid my sponsors tor their care and self denial. Tbey loved me--not tor myself alone, but for what I accomplished for bunan good, for by tireless labor I smoothed the patha of their lives and the fruits of my energy made sweeter their days. A 8udden Awakening. In piping times of peace 1 grew aelf complacent and, forgetting the Spar­ tan character of my upbringing, be­ came more and more the slave of Lux­ ury. Then suddenly came an awaken­ ing. The forces of Good entered into conflict with the Legions of Evil, and battle raged upon the earth. The Land off the Free, where I had my be­ ing, entered the great light that Right might triumph, and Men and Dollars were marshaled to combat the enemy. I chanced to be of those that lin­ gered behind, for 1 waa the mainstay of my masters, bqt. one day the call of the wounded In a far country was beard by them, and they sent me to where the coffers of compassion wait­ ed to receive me. There by the al- _ _ chemyof human sympathy I was trans-4 g0 in ever growing ho^tes to "right muted into instruments of aid and re­ lief and healing. Beneath the banner of white bearing a blood red cross I fought the good fight against pain and disease and death that the heroes who fell In the great war of Humanity against the Hun might ba comforted and given new llf& Comfort for th« Wounded. Now, on the thundering battle Una In my new identity 1 minister to the wounded, bringing them ' from blood soaked ramparts to beda of comfort. UiK rTwn 'A. •« , * r * . \ t j . ' 4 * * - 4 w v - « ' ! * , » * . " W ' ' . i • 4 giving ease to maimed bodies, relief to limbs writhing in torture, cooling drafts to parched throats. And under my beneiicent ministrations the sons of my masters are rescued from agony, tha hero-youth of the land are re­ stored, or the last hours of the wound­ ed to death robbed of the grisly hor­ ror or neglect. The dower of our young manhood the world's wrongs. New legions of the Great American Dollar must ba marshaled to equip the army that fol­ lows--the Red Cross Army that wages its splendid fight against pain and death behind the battle lines. Enlist your dollars to fight under the RdB Cross banner, you who would staunch the wounds of those who battle to bring peace and safety to you and yours and your home land--and ,tq tha world. For thus Is tha Qn§t Aarttftv can Dollar ennohla4l . 8antlineRt Uttered by Many. '* The origin of the expression union there Is strength" Is not known, but the sentiment in various fortps has been current a, very long time. A Latin author of ancient times said: "By union the smallest states thrive, by discord the greatest are destroyed." The American AnthOr of "The Flag of Our Union" said: "United rwe divided tre fall." Optfmlktft ThoT who weighs hls owiirrespons^ll- *»es can hear them. ;i 9**-- Not Always Paaoafi^v,;^- In spite of the fact that the dove is the emblem of peace, a couple of male birds of this deceitful species can give R very good account of themselves in the fight. The weapons they employ are their wings, which thay.jua» wlUi terrific force. , "r ' Man's Steady Progress. Hen no longer scratch matches Oft their trousers, because It leases a mark. It will occur to the men some day that matches will do the same ; $i|ltlvat* Contentment The happy state of mind so rarely possessed, In which we can say, "I have enough," In the highest attainment of philosophy. Happiness consists not in possessing much, but in being content with what wo possess. He who wants tittle always has enough.--Zimmer­ man. , .. , _ • * Uncle Eben. ; • *1 dunno why 'tis," said Utocle IBbea, "dat de smalles'-sized man alius wants to play de big bass drum an' de bigges' |(. :. .'b; >;•. .,«ii • r. ; -?; I Qjp la .!|Ua mountaina; where tiie sh6w falls"eariy and lies deep, 30 miles from Lyons, Is the little French village of Les Holies--a story book village^ with its massive stone church standing sentinel over two long rows of trim, blue-gray plaster cottages. And a mile farther on Is the Chateau des Halles, .where your Red Cross has established 'a home for 200 sick children. Manglnl built the chateau. lfan> ginl was the man who built the rail* road along the Riviera and many oth­ er railroads In France. And thirty odd years ago be built this castle up In the mountains for his country home. But soon after his two children died. Then he died, and when his wtdow fol­ lowed htm she left the chateau to tha city of Lyons to- be used as a hospital for children. The Wirt Wreckage. Then came the war. A little rivulet of the war's wreckage began to trickle In at Evlan--"repatrles," elderly men and women, children, even babies, who had once lived In the parts of France engulfed by the German tides and whom the Germans, finding them use­ less, were beginning to ship back into France by way of Switzerland. Grad­ ually this rivulet swelled. Soon 1,000 of these unfortunates were arriving at Evlan dally. And fully half of them were children, undernourished, thinly clad, dirty, sickly and, worse, grim, spiritless, with facea that had forgotten bow to smile. To care for these children was tha task your Red Cross at once assumed. Working with the French authorities, the Red Cross secured permission to make use of the old and almost forgot* ten Chauteau des Halles up there in the mountains. For years the castle bad been closed. No effort had ever been made to fit it up as a hospital. Tour Red Cross had to begin at tha *ery beginning. pr- Rooma Big and Jolty* But what a wonderful tasfe tt ha# accomplished I The Chateau des Halles, transformed Into a children's hospital and rest home In furious haste under the terrible pressure of war oeeds, with little time to think twice and no time to retrieve errors. Is not only one of the most complete establishments of Its kind; it is one of the best children's hospitals in all France. The two rooms where the arriving children are Isolated for a few days are big, jolly rooms--Just what is need to efface from the little ones' minds the memories of those iron days behind the German llnea. The big play room Is strewn with rocking horses and wonderful smile-enticing parrots and other toya carved by tha wounded pollus. And so you stray from room to room, and everywhere you find new evi­ dences of this watchful care. And then you reach the bathrooms. This chateau was built by a man of wealth. Its plumbing was excellent, and yet It has been stripped out and replaced with little, low wash basins and little shower baths that the children can use more comfortably. That is bow your Red Cross thinks and cares for France's children. :. :SER WEIGHT IN G0L0. > 5 -- -- . An Avlater'a Letter Telia What a Ret Cross Nurse la Worth. Kttwu "Booze Hound" h Aiwa* on the Trail of Liquor Sellers. 7 MOT MAMY GET AWAY , ,» f, ^ v -ii Low Wash Basins and Uttlo Shower Baths Adapted lor the Use of the; Tots. , * ' ' . Tricks Uead te Smuggle LH|feror lnt» 0»y State Pail to Deceive Trains* , r - Ear and Nose of Detee- "* if' tiva. vv/> ; - Stsnfey'fieSty.' known professionally as the "boose hound" of Kansas, has developed a trained scent that has more than off­ set the camouflage of the illegal deal- ers^in liquor who still seek to Kansas the gateway to Oklahoma on the boose route. Beatty is clothed with federal, state, county and city au­ thority hut he draws pay from none of these. Mis sole Income is from fees allowed by the attorney general fop the arrest and convlctfon of bootleg* get*. Beatty is the only man in Kan­ sas who has made his life profession that of running down liquor sellers, and his success has been so marked that in the parlance of the bootleg- gers, "all Is easy if you get it by Beat­ ty." *• -<% Beatty began his career a* a "boote hound" when Kansas went bone dry in June. Prior to that time the law did not make it a crime to have liquor in Kansas. Now the possession of liquor Is prima facie evidence that the per­ son who has it Is guilty, making pas- sible greater activity on the part of officers of the law. ' No Camouflage Feels Beatty. '; Beatty had his first introduction to the camouflage of bootleggers when he called to a negro carrying a large fish and asked where he might get a drink. The negro sold him a fish for $3 and later Beatty found a half pint of whisky down Its throat. Then he be-| gan -to study the products manufac­ tured in Kansas to learn which might become containers for whisky to be shipped Into Oklahoma. t' Now when Beatty goes through 4 train he shakes every suitcase. If lii detects the sound of liquor the -owner of the case Is arrested. He captures from 6 to 12 bootleggers on the Okla­ homa border this way every day. This, however, Is the small part of his work. One day he spotted a shipment of horse collars, all of which were large and all the same size. Next dqj lie a^ -..V-. • - t, ' »-l *• - Ifei'-ti? | Ik, f t ..Jt »' - , 'Vt . 'kS0& & •r<? ;' '^1 ' f: ;V£ •i \\ Aafced Whera Might <*et • Drlrtk, ••As for the American Red Croaa «-well, I could never in a thon» sand years express my apprecia­ tion and admiration of those American women. I worship them, I guess all the fellows io. Tha first day I came into camp--and my morale was right low; I'll ten yon about it some time--well, I went into the American Red Cross, and there, atanding behind a nice clean counter, was a little round faced Red Crossle. She was Just beaming on every one. Imagioel I never came as near making | fool of myself In my life. I fell like throwing my arms around her and weeping for Joy. As it was, I managed to salt up my chocolate a bit--only a drop or two that t couldn't help rolling off my cheek. MIf I ever paint an angel It will look just exactly like that little Bed Crossle. They would ba worth their weight In gold tf th$K did nothing bat Just be hern."-' evaporation of Water. ^•'1 scientist in Europe has figured that a particle of water evaporated from the ocean is condensed and re­ turns again In ten days, but that it remains there 3,400 years before being evaporated again. .» The Prospect. Hal getting on in Ma race with his millionaire rival for the hand of the pretty debutante?" "Well, I saw them together the other day, and judging from the view I had, Hal was holding his own." rested two farmers who had purcht them and found a half pint of liquor in each. . Pooled Only Ones. ftl another occasion lie noticed la, shipment of three barrels of olive Mf to a town of 100 inhabitants. Later he arrested two Swedes, one of whom ac­ cused the other of labeling the barrels lollve oil instead of linseed oil, In all his experience, Beatty has been fooled by only one bootlegger and that man had a wooden leg. While Beatty was walking him to the police station, the accused man cut the coo- tamer ana ui« eviuence leaked «mt. Beatty never attempts to "railroad" an accused man and has many friends among reformed bootleggers becauae of his kindlinasa In dealing with a^ fenders. - - - USE TALENTS IN JAH- BREAK Prisoners of Special Abilities KmplfUf Them In Attempt Which la ;;'£* - Frustrated. __ 8an Joee, Cal.--Three prisoners «£ widely different talents used their spe­ cial abilities in a clever attempt at a , Jail break. Discovery by officers of tha plans prevented the break. Wallace Gladstone, who recently es­ caped from the Seattle jail and shut three policemen who pursued him, utilized his trade as a weaver by mak­ ing a strong rope out of the Jail bed­ clothes. - Carl Watklna, a painter by trade and: burglar by profession, made a "puiirt- oris sling" by which he and Gladstone were able to cut the skylight bars. * t Walter . J. Norton, a singer, urged hit voice to do high things while the 'other two hacked at the ban wttk?*» bread kntfe. W Saved by Can Opener. „ San Francisco.--Mark Richards, of this city, was out riding with two friends when their car overturned, pin? nlng the occupants in a ditch. It tocfr Frank da Costa half an'hour to cut the top off the car with a can opener and rescue the unfortunates. 'if iA , < Oiven Huge Fortune as Alimony. , Putnam, Conn.--On the ground desertion, Eleanor Davison Ream has been granted a divorce from Louis M. JEleam, $210,000 alimony and ^e rigl# ̂ to use her maiden name. C j \ '• j