HODSON-FEENAUGHTY COMPANY
Distributors for Oregon,
M9-II5 HAST YAMHILL ST., PORTLAND, OREGON.
Branch Offices in Seattle, Spokane and Seattle.
Washington and Idaho.
In Writing Mention This Paper
MUST CLOTH NEED! IN FRANCE
were examined,
Appeals to the school children of
the United States to make garments
for needy children, women and old
men, who fled from the invaded districts early in the war are being made
by the Red Cross. Some of these people are in France, others daily cross
the Swiss border.
A recent cablegram from Paris
states that an average of 250 children
arrive daily from behind the German
lines at Evangeline-Bain and that "in the
first week of the American dispensary
over 2400 children
more than 1900 being between the
ages of three and 13 years."
Refugees are destitute and ill. They
must be given both food and clothing
before being sent on to their "billets"
in various towns and villages.
The French government which is
putting all its force into the fighting
line cannot care for these wrecks of
war. They depend for all the first
needs of life, for food
clothing, upon the American Red
shelter and I
Cross,
^ on S as the people in America stand
behind it with money and supplies,
The Red Cross will continue
meet these heavy responsibilities as
to
It is calling upon its newest members, the girls and boys in the school
auxiliaries to clothe these children
and their parents. The American children are assured that not an atom of
their work will be wasted.  Every garment turned into the Red Cross this purpose adds to some refugees' fighting chance for life. 