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Show TEN POSTS ADOPT ORPHANS I A. E. F. Men, Home Again, Show They Have Not Forgotten Fatherless Father-less French Children. When the A. E. F. packed all its troubles In Its old kit baj; ami sailed for home loaded down with German helmets, it left behind In France S.CKIO little war orphans which it had adopted adopt-ed during the war and for whose maintenance main-tenance and education It had been paying. pay-ing. There was hardly an outfit in France which at one time was not in communication with 11m tiny mascot, a communication of a delightfully friendly nature that shellfire, mud and cooties could not interrupt. .Now the A. E. F. is back home again and hundreds of thousands have eu-llstod eu-llstod in the ranks of the American Legion. Consequently, with the memories mem-ories of the letters of petite Jean and petite Jeanette fresh in their minds, the one-time godfathers of the expeditionary expe-ditionary forces are again adopting the war orphans of France. So far ten posts have adopted orphans, or-phans, and a heavy enrollment on the lis-t of godfathers is expected. It costs only $73 to maintain an orphan for a year, the funds being forwarded to national headquarters In Indianapolis, where they are turned over to the American lied Cross, which is assigning assign-ing the children and attending to all the details of the work on the other side. |