Show TOURING UNITED STATES ST A TE PRAISES WORK OF MORGANS MORGAN'S DA DAUGHTER e o- o t Wi l t t J. J Y P It 4 4 1 1 J x I t I r. r rf f fa r 3 J r a a Nay x 1 I 1 I i tty de Bryas at left and Miss Anne Morgan S' S New Nev York Vork July Juh OO 00 de Bryas i is to touring Ill i the the United States Stales as af asa asa a o o of the American merican committee committee com com- for Cor devastated dc Franco France to enlist t the s sympathies of or the the American American people for or the stricken Jo French folk She Sho was vas sent to this th country countE for Ol that put purpose pose b by Miss l Anne Morgan lon an of or the committee and a a. daughter of or J. J Pier IMer- pont Morgan Much of or the credit forthe for forthe the success of ur the committees committee's work Is due Miss 1188 Morgan the says The committee has cared for Cor over o 1000 children victims of the Hun madman Count Countess ss dc le Bryas r as paints vl vivid Id fd pictures pic- pic tures tUles of or the Ito suffering the French rench are undergoing und heroically lIr as St St. the Germans bomb shell burn bum an and pillage homes and towns She says sars I 1 nc t In the c course of m my travels people who ay y Ah h poor France Francc Tragic In Invaded ed countr country But Buu to to these people I would way say a No So no You Tou do not notI I know now your ro France Jt It t Is not poor France but bUI noble France Fiance Not tra tragic traffic ie France but hut heroic France Fiance I 1 once went weal clown down into a cellar in which an ol old couple were living The roof of or the cellar was so low Ion that when I was seated on a little plank talking to 10 the ol old people I had to stoop The Tho floor was entirely mud and tho the water seeped In ISh the walls and trickled down In tiny streamlets In Inthe Inthe the tho corner cornel was the straw atlOw bed which had been n furnished the old couple seven months before It was waR In Indescribably filthy and HO o damp that one could twist It an and wring water ater out or of It IL Yet Vet the chief desire of the old woman was for a plate to eat cat from The Germans Gelman had destroyed e troed their thell crockery er and household utensil and they had only one old metal skillet In lu which the tho they cooked and from rom which the they ateAn ate An n officer told mo me of oC seeing two little children standing against a n. awall awall wall in the town o of Maissin In the north o e Frate JIan one day In August 1 1914 Across the roa road was a burn bun burning burning in ing house When the he French officer of- of asked cd them wh why the they were waiting wailing so patiently patient the they replied that a German had their father allier and mother up ui in III that house and hod ha had tol told them them to wait walt there until they came camo hac hack back I to fetch letch them I 1 I The treatment of children during the German occupation was very cr terri terri- ten ten-I-I blo hlo Little tOI tots of oC four an and five thc and children on up to the ages or thirteen and fourteen were forced to work all allday allday day for their Work fork Lous 1 bout UHlU Food hood Thc They were taken into the fields at tt it five e In the tho morning morning- and were veru not al allowed allowed al- al lowed to come conic back until seven so in the lie evening During all that time they were wen given 1 CHIC une meal Their tasks s were were were- to dig diE potatoes cut awa away the barbed oat bed wire entanglements and pick pickup Iek up up unexploded ed shells The fie food oo they ate was so that it was a miracle that they lived After tho the Germans went awa away there was was was-no no nu milk to be got ot because al the I cows had been either killed or driven awa away In one district there were er t children who existed for months without without with with- out a single Ingle drop of milk I 1 mot one little girl who II had ad bof been n kept for twenty twell- twell tv ty t days on n a t diet consisting of oC nothing but lut bread and soup time the latter being water watery and scarcely at all nourishing ihn ire Aro r. r le r j edThe oil ed The rhe destruction of the tho schoolhouses has made m It impossible ihle for the young oun children to gain an any education It Ft is no strange c thin thins thing to encounter a ho boy hoy or girl Irl of or eleven who can neither read nOlI nor nOl write I In n h their lr hideous thoroughness b the G Germans Ile destroyed books pencil pencils pencils pen pen- cil desks and anti nil all Not ot a thing was left Att After Atter r the lean re relief lief workers Into into the de devas devastated 3 tat regions legions s tic they established ica schools school's ch ls and built huil little wooden buildings s In which to carr carry on the vv work oik I The deportation of or young oun girls has been heen systematically practiced ced A German German German Ger Ger- man officer com comes romes s to 10 the front door of oC ofa oCa a ho house sc an and orders the entire family to ass assemble out outside he on the thc doorstep Then he picks at random a number of or the younger women o of the family I I will take take lake and tI and jou you and ou and you ou he sa says indicating the cho chosen en ones s w wun th 11 i 1 his Lis forefinger At At this summons they must leave their hurries homes at once They I arb ur j not allowed to pack their belon belongings belong belons- s ings pun nor Ao to carry much ba baggage Se They I are permitted only so much as ns the they can carry wrapped in a handkerchief I Morale t Cn I France Fiance has been ell hard haid trieu but hut she Is not broken n Never Nover oe was the morale of or the French people more th than n It Is toda today FJ France n c halls with I. I jo Joy the arrival of the Americans It Iti Itis i is most that the these e great sl sister republics l should he be Ci side by bv I I I side in In- Inthis this hour of stress Victory will be lie- won It Is in inevitable But ah aim I the pain th the w Woe ot ue and the he unnecessary ary degradation th that ll ha have have- followed In the I j wake of time the n Will the world I ever ever forget these Can tjan the time hitter bitter memory memory mem- mem J iTlie I he effaced ory Ul ever e Tiie fa father Is I French 1 buther but hut buther I her motile mother was a who went to Europe when a small nH child and was trough brought up there Her bier tHat great grandfather George Ceorge Clymer awn aim Thomas R and her v granduncle r n George c Read were all sl signers of the Ow Declaration 0 of Independence and on 01 opP I of them George Gor Clymer Cl was amon among the six who helped to frame flame th the I tion The de tie Bryas r as has been actively engaged d in genet et 1 at n r work since J the outbreak of oC th the war al in 1 1914 14 |