| Show AMERICAN RED CROSS IS ASKED TO P ov E CLOTHING FOR shell shall craters anti and m d filled tre itches and dug outs olits formerly oci pled phd by the linn full hordes are tile anly shelter afforded mands of fron annul it and incle ini people upon their ie ic turn to CIO 0 o places chero their once stood ot of food they have little but by their own efforts and the help ot of various relief agencies they have so BO tar far been able to obtain 13 sufficient nourishment to sustain life lint but of clothes they have practically none tho the lead of the family wears a cast oft off soldiers Bold lers tunic a pair ot of trousers troi mrs patched lit in halt half a dozen places with plain burlap mot mothers liers nocturne coe coc tunie turne consist trousers lit in many man instances or a skirt mado reaco from pieces of 0 cast oil off garments and lit in nine cases wit out or ofen afen tell a mans mails shirt leathea shoes aru are very cares and underclothes a luxury the child run ren go about garbed lit in a chob collection of if cloth that could not bo be graced with the naino of clothes socks anti and stockings are arc art articles leles that have hae become nIly unknown ns as a clothing necessity lit in these regions bellef agencies such as ilia american jell it it llad od croaa Cross havo have dono their beat t to 8 supply these people with crall arbth jg fig but blit wai came caino fiat miring tile the great anti and the needs floods ot of these people ha had 1 to wt wall upon the alie demands of 0 tile when tile majority v of these refugees were oie collected in fit tile houth ot of ii france bauce tile clothing WOR not xo SO important bec abuso ot of the mild full 0 11 mato mate hut but now flow that they havo have returned tu 0 alio 10 cold climate ot of northern france clothing becomes almost at a necessary as food and especial iv when alion living conditions aro are such iia aa elat taday toda in III tile clev dey asted areas whon they were eie driven delvon from theli their homes before tile the oncoming gorman horles ahoy teiei took with them only tile the clothes they the hatt had on oil their backs lit in returning to their homes many mani wear these same clothes worn by b months monter and even een years of weary wean wandering ati dering but even tha best beat of nt e lothes with the beat of care do not last forever to be doria done tho the people of 0 america labo laborers mechanics professional men all have hafl a n rood good answer stilts coats coals shirts underwear soc socias its shops shoes that hat tile tho in ili has decide to discard will give ghe liuch hotter better service on the alv ering an all exposed backs of the un tin foi innate millions of europe than ila as dust duat cloths claths or in ili tile the family eagling ilie I 1 lie people of tills this region must its as thet always have respond to th 3 desperate appeals of 0 these ghesu poor im 1111 during tile the week ot of mar oil cli 24 and 31 |
