Show I i CHilDREN CAN TELU TELLI SOUND OF HUN AIRPLANES iH 4 Specialist Says T Tots in t France Do Not Suffer 7 From Shell Shock French children o of 4 and 5 years ca can caa detect a airplane by its sound Soun according to Dr William Palmar Palmer r Lucas California fori torIn formerly ot of the University of ot hospital now chief of ot th the childrens children's bureau hureau of ot the American Red Cross In 2 Il rance- rance who Is ls In n th the United States Mates on a n special mission with Dr Paul HH Armand Delillo of ot Paris to study Chill child welfare and public health condi condl- t I 10 il 9 Dr lr Lucas says sas that the tho children In France ranco do lIo not show any manifesta lions of shell hock shock If H their nervous Systems system arc are affected by It It ho says ll the they e do not go to pieces under it as adults aults do o I A colony of oC f children ren at Toul Tout which the he bureau bur has been watching said laid Dr Lucas knows nothing else than bombardment and fights To us It is always a no roost most startling thing to see sea forty or fifty planes up In the air They Timey conic como like a big cloud Hut But the children go o rl right ht on playing apparently ap ap- ap without noticing until they hear the sound Round of or a n bocho boche piano plane AH Aft As' As 1 soon as the they get et tho the first sound of or it I I In hi they n make malce I for h. h f a cave It is L not done dona 1 i u 4 JU tL tia u. u nere i playing In tho the streets sees an automobile automo antonio i bile coming and makes malos a dash to get I out of or Its way DIU S 'S AILMENTS TS The Tho chief troubles of or children who have o boon been under intermittent born bom are pulmonary affections bronchitis and pneumonia due duo to long long- periods at a time when they dont don't sleep In their own homes but aro ame arB obliged to live in these damp caves With the tho calmness of ot one who has gone one through fire firo and Is ie prepared to face tace It a hundred times again Dr Lucas Luca told of ot the evacuation of ot his hospitals under shell fire during the I recent German advance In April and antI May Ma I WORKING UNDER FIRE FInE We had bad to evacuate Nesle Neale and brin our patients out under fire tIre he said In coming ou out t we destroyed l all things things' that we wo could not take away Dway with usi but wo we did not lose much It ft was the same thing at Amiens Tho nurses nurses nurses' and ambulances ambulance had to got get the patients pa- pa out under shell fire tIre But we lost not one During the bombardment we f f temporary ary hospitals back of ot the line lino in for tor refugees We Ve also had to look after a a. great many of or the that wounded who could walk and found their way to us Those bombardments bombardments' lasted anywhere from two days ays at m h. h time to twelve weeks Our nurses besides don doing their regular work I pitched Ditched In and lent aid to these hosni- hosni tala and to tho tile military pU hos-pU hospitals s where there were American wounded Some of at our nurses are still in hospitals hospi where American wounded are aro quartered Miss Elizabeth Ash Ashe of or the tho Telegraph Tele Tele-i j graph Hill settlement here hore Is chief chlo nurse In tho the childrens children's bureau and shei she 1 Is doln doing wonderful of ot a piece work When hen wo we first went over wo we had eleven I nurses In tho the bureau and noV we kayo have haye from to nurses and aides and andover andover over sixty doctors We Va are working all over OVAr France and have a a. score or more dispensaries In the American sec see tor In two weeks almost refugees refu- refu refu-I refu I gees passed through h Paris and we WI- had hal to assist the tho French Roth Red Cross Wo We stationed ourselves at the tho railroad depot with food preparations mostly for tor mothers and children coming coming In In all nil of or the big big- cities the bureau Is carrying on an Infant mortality campaign campaign campaign cam cam- said Dr Lucas owing to the tho tremendous Increase In Infant mortality mortality mortal mortal- It ity hn and of or the birth rate rato since the tho women have been forced Into the fields the munitions factories and the hospitals Dr Lucas said that Franco Francois is not only a nation of or fighting men mon but of or fighting men women and chil chil- dren It I Is the work of ot saving of ot babies babies' that has brou brought ht the ml mission slon to 10 which Dr Lucas Is la attached to tho the United States C. CARING G VOlt roB lIUE Another big thing the childrens children's bureau Is doing Dr J Lucas said is III h tho the care of ot the people who come como back from the north of or France Franca on account of ot bad health They can canno canno canno no longer bo be u used od by the Germans and and th they Y are arc sent back by Evain on r LaKe Geneva Genova In Franco France not In Switzerland as many man Ima Imagine These C cases ar arthen are then distributed through various hos hos- From to old people anti children come In itt ever every da day Froma From a a. hygienic standpoint they thoy are In a. a had bad condition but not from a nutrition nutrition tion standpoint These hosta hostages es are still being fed by tha the commission for tor relief relict In Belgium In fact tart tho the whole population In northern France IB is beIn being be being be- be ing In Led fed b by tho the commission they commission they get Jet and It Is i er r scarce scarcely anything clae else and Important for tar us to ko keep kep p up that work I FRENCH APPRECIATE SACRIFICE I Tho The French people have a n. great appreciation appreciation ap ftp- sacrifice for tho the voluntary tile the American people have made In re regard re- re gard to food tood The fact tact that we are sending over O so BO much food tood Is the on one thing that is l keeping the situation in France In the tho good condition It is II Everywhere Dr Armand Delillo andI and andI I have ha been In the United States we have noticed the voluntary sacrifice In food tood that Is 5 being made made made-In In clubs and I hotels hotels everywhere One Ono thing the government has succeeded In up to this point Is la In sending over food tood to the allies Tho government said It Would do It and It has done It It- It |