Photograph from Harriet Chalmers Adams 



pupils at a French school for war orphans 



In the midst of her battle for national existence, France is doing her utmost to provide 

 an education for the children of her dead patriots. It is a difficult task, however, to feed 

 and clothe as well as give instruction to the fatherless thousands. 



These men must have our best. To 

 prepare against their needs in advance 

 will be a stupendous task which the Red 

 Cross must undertake. 



Doctors, nurses, ambulances, must be 

 made ready. Vast quantities of hospital 

 stores — linen, bandages, and supplies of 

 every kind — must be prepared and at 

 once. If we wait, it may be too late. 



OUR DUTY TO OUR FLAG'S DEFENDERS 



"When we ask our own sons and broth- 

 ers to fight for our liberty 3,000 miles 

 from home, in a country already sore and 

 afflicted, surely we cannot do less than 

 prepare to take care of them in their day 

 of suffering. 



Gallant Canada from 8,000,000 popu- 

 lation raised an army of 450,000 men. 

 Eighty thousand are dead or injured, and 

 Canada has raised in value $16,000,000 

 for the Red Cross to relieve her sick and 

 wounded. Her Red Cross, thus vitalized 

 by the sacrifice of those at home, has 

 been able to save thousands from death 

 and misery. 



Immediately our soldiers go into camp 

 their dependent families will become a 



problem. Obviously, in a country the 

 size of our own, the proper and practical 

 way to distribute both the burdens and 

 the benefits fairly and uniformly will be 

 through the government itself. This is 

 especially fitting when voluntary contri- 

 butions must meet such enormous re- 

 quirements in other fields. 



There will undoubtedly arise a large 

 number of special cases requiring addi- 

 tional or unusual assistance. Such assist- 

 ance should be made systematic largely 

 through local chapters of the Red Cross. 



When our men go to France we must 

 not only prepare to take care of them 

 when sick and wounded ; another very 

 serious problem will confront them and 

 will confront us in our care and fore- 

 thought on their behalf. 



Englishmen and Frenchmen, when 

 from time to time they are relieved from 

 their grim duties in the trenches, go 

 home. The soldiers from other coun- 

 tries on the firing line cannot go home ; 

 there is no home to go to ! They go to 

 Paris. Many of them do not return from 

 Paris as efficient soldiers as they were 

 when they went there. 



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