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MERCY WORKERS
IN WAR DOING
GREATSERVICES
All Countries Striving to Improve
Conditions Surrounding
Wounded.
WORK OF AMERICANS LAUDED
Motor Ambulance Service Does Inval
uable Work in Transporting Wound
ed Soldiers—French People
Touched by Volunteer
Work of Americans.
London.—To no one race in this war
belongs exclusively the work of mercy.
France, Russia, England, Germany
and Austria have each striven hard to
improve the conditions surrounding
the wounded in their armies.
In the Ottoman Red Crescent, a Ma
hommedan equivalent of the Red
Cross, even the Turks have a corps of
mercy workers, to render aid to those
Injured in battle. But not only the
belligerent nations are occupied in the
field of mercy toward fallen fighters.
America, with all the cheerful optim
ism which characterizes her people,
has worked vigorously to alleviate the
sufferings of the wounded soldiers in
France.
Distant Abyssinia, too, was one of
the first neutral countries to establish
a place of succor for the injured near
the firing line. Indeed, the Anglo-
Ethiopian hospital at Frevent, pro
vided with funds supplied by the Abys
sian crown prince, did great service
early in the war. Japan, representing
the far East, also sent a wonderfully
equipped ambulance corps which has
since occupied the Hotel Astoria,
Paris. Dainty women and intellectu
al men have given their time and their
services eagerly in the cause of hu
manity.
The ladies of the Russian court,
self-sacrificing in the extreme, have,,
been trained for hospital work in the
field. They have performed duties at
which men might shudder and they
have performed them well. So it is in
France and England and in the other
countries, both in and out of the war.
That the majority of the workers have
been volunteers is to the credit of civ
ilization. Mercy, so often beaten un
der in the actual conflict of the bellig
erents, has survived gloriously among
those whose function has been to re
lieve, where possible, the victims of
shot and 'shell.
Automobile Great Help.
Like the aeroplane, the automobile
Is a new departure, a very important
one, in warfare. Since August, 1914,
It has played many parts. Armored
cars, transport lorries and other vehi
cles directly and indirectly contribut
ing to the success of the different arm
‘ies in the field, have established a
fresh reputation for the motor indus
try. But it is largely owing to the
motor ambulance that the noble work
of mercy has been possible.
So far as Great Britain is concerned,
the motor ambulance service owes its
existence and Its triumph to Lord
Derby’s brother, Hon. Arthur Stanley,
M. P.,' chairman of the British Red
Cross society, and also to the Royal
Automobile club. Soon after the out
break of war, in September, 1914, Mr.
Stanley, quick to see the possibilities
of the motor ambulance, was given a
permit to send one or two out to the
front by the late Lord Kitchener.
“The actual permit,” said Mr. Stan
ley, "was in Lord Kitchener’s own
handwriting—on half a sheet of note
paper. It is now one of the most
treasured possessions if not the most
treasured, in the archives of the Red
Cross society.
“One of the first things I did on re
ceiving the necessary permission,”
continued Mr. Stanley, “was to get to
gether half a dozen volunteer motor
ists, all members of the Royal Auto
mobile club, to drive the ambulance
cars which we were sending to France.
Our position was curious. The motor
ambulance was then practically an un
known quantity so far as actual war
fare went, and the military authori
ties stipulated that our drivers w-ere
not to wear uniform, nor, under any
circumstances, to go near the firing
line. There was to be no Red Cross
on the cars. Truly, the mission of the
motor ambulance was to be extremely
limited. They were simply to go about
far behind the firing line and pick up
wounded men who could not be car
ried to the field hospitals; men, for
example, who had crawled for safety
Into abandoned cottages and barns.
Proves Its Worth.
“With the possible exception of the
American ambulance cars at Neuilly,
ours were the first motor ambulances
used in France. But the value of a
rapid service for the transport of
wounded soldiers was quickly recog
nized, and now, of course, wherever
there is fighting there are motor am
bulances.”
Here is a typical Instance, as told
by Mr. Stanley, how the motor ambu
lance proved Its worth in the early
days of the war:
“Late one evening one of our ambu
lances crept up close to the firing line.
They met an officer, who turned them
back 'because,' as he said, ‘lt is so
dark, it Is no use going further.’
“They went back to a farmhouse and
th bed. In the middle of the night
they were awakened by the same offl-
PRISONERS BACK OF THE ENGLISH LINES
German prisoners taken in the first days of the battle of the Somme and
held back of the English lines. The photograph shows the British trenches
and dugouts.
cer, who told them that a wounded
soldier, shot through both legs, was
lying almost in the German lines. It
was so dangerous a mission that the
officer wouldn’t order the ambulance
to go! He just told them where the
man was, and left them to decide.
They went. They crawled, without
lights, along an unknown road in the
darkness; got almost within the Ger
man lines, where they found the man
and brought him back to safety. That
wounded soldier had lain there for
days and w’ould most certainly have
died had he not been rescued that
night.
“In this modest and voluntary way
the motor ambulance came into its
own without one penny of cost to the
government!
“Today,” went on Mr. Stanley, “there
are about 1,600 motor ambulances and
cars at the French front alone. An
other 1,000 are scattered about with
the troops in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Sa
lonika Malta, East Africa, etc. We
have three ambulance convoys—each
one consisting of some sixty cars and
a radiographing convoy working in
Italy. We have a number of cars in
, Petrograd and on the western Russian
front, while we recently sent a small
convoy as a present to Grand Duke
Nicholas in the Caucasus.”
These motors and ambulances have
been provided, and their upkeep main
tained, entirely by volunteer subscrip
tions.
“Up to the present,” said Mr. Stan
ley, “wf have collected over $20,000,000
for the Red Cross and St. John’s Am
bulance society. The money comes in
at the rate of about $5,000,000 every
six months. This shows the public
appreciation of the work. Our support
comes from all sections of society.”
“As an instance of the diversity of
our work, it may be interesting to note
that we arranged the other day to send
motor boats to Mesopotamia and
‘Charlie Chaplin’ films to Malta, this
latter for the amusement of the con
valescent soldiers!
“One of the outstanding features of
our organization has been the splendid
work done by the women.”
Mr. Stanley mentioned, by the way,
the excellent artificial limbs for
maimed soldiers produced by Ameri
man manufacturers, both in the Unit
ed States and especially at a factory
established near London, where many
disabled men are themselves employed.
While the women of all nations at
war have been working courageously
in aid of their men, American women
also have come out brilliantly in the
labor of mercy. At the commencement
of the war a group of American wom
en, nearly all married to Englishmen,
met together to consider how they
might best render assistance to the
soldiers of the king. The result was
the birth of the American Woman’s
War Relief fund, of which Lady Paget
became president, with Mrs. John As
tor as vice-president, the duchess of
Marlborough as chairman and Lady
Lowther and Mrs. Harcourt as honor
ary secretary. Other women closely
identified with the work were Lady
Randolph Churchill, Mrs. Whitelaw
Reid and Hon. Mrs. John Ward.
Work of American Women.
The American Women’s War Relief
fund began by sending a motor ambu
lance out to the front. “Friends in
Boston” subscribed for another —it
was actually the seventh—which was
duly presented to the war office in
London. Down in Devonshire, at
Paighton, near Torquay, there is an
American woman’s war hospital, where
thousands of wounded soldiers have
been nursed back to health. Not con
tented with these activities the Amer
ican women in question have opened
workrooms in various parts of the
British capital to enable girls thrown
out of work to learn other trades, and
so to become self-supporting, in spite
of the war.
Americans are busy helping In
France as well as In England, and the
American Relief Clearing house, in
Paris, is also an institution of very
considerable value and Importance. It
represents the American Red Cross,
and its distributing committee has al
ready apportioned more than 4,000,000
parcels, from bales of cotton, clothes
—for men, women and children—shoes,
hospital accessories, surgical instru
ments and countless other useful
things. No less than 2,000 hospitals
in France have been fitted from the
American Relief Clearing house, which ,
has Joseph H. Choate for its presi
dent.
Modeled somewhat on the lines of
the organization over which Mr.-Stan
ley presides, is the American Volun-
THE BULLETIN. IRWINTON. GEORGIA.
teer Motor Ambulance corps, yet an
other body of mercy-workers. In Sep
tember, 1914, Prof. Richard Norton of
Harvard university saw for himself
the plight of the wounded French sol
diers, who suffered additionally
through inadequate means of trans
portation. Consequently, with the co
operation of some of his friends, he
started the American Volunteer Am
bulance corps, which quickly widened
its field from two cars to seventy-five.
Originally composed of American and
British members, the corps has, while
always working in conjunction with
the French army, been placed under
the British Red Cross —owing to ques
tions of American neutrality.'
The volunteers of the American Mo
tor Ambulance corps have given their
time and their services uncomplaining
ly to the attainment of an excellent
object. Under the chairmanship of
the late Henry James, the novelist,
who directed matters from London,
many young college graduates freely
entered the corps to work strenuously,
without pay or preferment. Professor
Norton, Ridgely Carter, Sir John Wolfe
Berry, Jordan L. Nott. John Dixon
Morrison and many other well-known
men are members of the London coun
cil. Mr. Norton and several of the
men have been awarded the Croix de
Guerre and the Croix d’Armee, the for
mer ranking high in the honors of war
ring and republican France. Work
ing close up to the firing line, the
American Motor Ambulance men have
brought relief to many thousands of
wounded and sick soldiers. Some
times dashing about in country ex
posed to German artillery fire, the cars
have not infrequently come through
a hail of bursting shells, but, so far,
without the loss of a single life. The
only member of the corps to die Is A.
D. Loney who, while returning from a
brief visit to America, was drowned
in the sinking of the Lusitania.
The American Motor Ambulance
corps has been “mentioned” for its
discipline as well as for the high stand
ard of its members generally. Lieut.
Col. Leonard Robinson, in the follow
ing words narrates in a report to Mr.
Stanley, some experiences he has had
with the American volunteers: “Im
mediately after our return from Lizy
sur-Ourcq,” states the colonel, “we
called from the Service de Sante for an
ambulance to proceed to Coulomiers to
bring back General Snow, who had
been seriously injured. Starting with
an ambulance and a pilot car, and ac
companied by Dr. du Bouchet and Sur
geon Major Langle of the French army,
we left Paris at about 5 p. m., reach
ing Coulomiers toward S p. m. The
town had been but recently evacuated
by the enemy, and, as the general was
not in a condition to be moved, we
spent the night there. The following
morning an early start was made and
General Snow was brought safely to
Neuilly, where he remained for sev
eral weeks.
“With the trip to Coulomiers the pe
riod during which the service made
expeditions to the front for the pur
pose of bringing wounded back to the
entrenched camp—Paris—came to a
close and a new phase of duty was en
tered upon.
“While the ambulance was absent at
Lizy-sur-Ourcq, a call came from the
British authorities, asking that ambu
lances be sent to their clearing station
at Villeneuve-Triage to bring wound
ed, taken from their sanitary trains,
to Paris. No ambulance being avail
able at the time, an emergency column
of touring ears, headed by Doctor Dav
enport, was sent out, bringing in a
number of cases and inaugurating a
service which occupied all our time
for several weeks.
“The American Volunteer Motor Am
bulance corps has certainly done im
mense service in creating a very fa
vorable impression on the people of
France, people, beyond all others,
capable of appreciating kindness and
sympathy. But it has not been alone
in this respect. The American Ambu
lance at Neuilly, known before the war
as the American hospital, has also ac
quired the reputation of performing
miracles for the wounded.”
“I have visited most of the war hos
pitals in France,” said a society wom
an who has gone through the war as
a brancardiere of the French Red
Cross, "and I have never seen such
wonderful work —many of the cases
are simply terrible, worse than any
.where else —as that performed at the
American Ambulance, Neuilly. There
they treat dally the most critical surgi
cal cases. Some of the wounded men
-—poor fellows —seem almost blown
away, so little remains for treatment.’
Known, But Not
Understood
By REV. B. B. SUTCLIFFE
Extension Department, Moody Bible /
Institute, Chicago । ;
TEXT—We know that all things work
together for good to them that love God,
to them who are the called according to
his purpose.—Rom. 8:28.
There are things we know but do
not understand. This is true in the
natural as well as
the spiritual
i world. We do not i
j understand how:
we fall asleep nor
how we wake up, '
but w£ know we '
■ do both. On the'
i spiritual plane we '
do not understand
i how all the exper
i riences we meet i
can work together
| for good, but we
1 know they do.
There would be
| no need of this
I text if things
went always as
we desired or if we always understood
why they go as they do. But the text
gives us a hint what the Christian has
before him
A Certain Prospet.
The prospect is that certain experi
ences which will be hard to bear will
be met with on life’s journey. There
will be many things which will cut and
hurt and which seem altogether un
necessary and as though it were im
possible for them to work for good.
Ihink of John the Baptist locked up
in prison. He was a man accustomed
from his youth to the great outdoors,
the mountains and the plains—the
rivers and brooks—the broad noonday
sky and sparkling starry heavens were
natural to him. He had given his life
to God and thousands hung on his
words. Suddenly he is thrown into
prison for his faithfulness to the
Lord. But the Lord was at hand. The
Lord with power to speak a word and
blind eyes saw and deaf ears heard.
And even the bars and doors of the
grave were broken and opened. Sure
ly such a one with such power could
open mere prison doors and set the
prisoner free. But though he knew
John was in prison because of faith
fulness to himself, he gave no sign,
nor went to the relief of the impris
oned one. John could not understand,
but he could know that this awful
experience would work together with
all his other experiences for good.
Think of Daniel —faithful, true, sin
cere, a man of prayer and godliness,
yet because of the very fact that he
was what he was, he must needs go
to the lion’s den. He, too, could not
understand but he could know “that
all things work together for good.”
So in the path of the Christian there
lie strange, mysterious experiences
that seem to make the soul stagger
and the spirit grow faint. There come
occurrences which, looked at by sight,
seem to be anything but good but seem
so evil that they cannot be made to
work together for good. They call
the Christian to implicit trust in
God's purpose and absolute confidence
in his ways. In all his experiences '
he is to walk by faith —not under-I
standing perhaps but knowing that,
spite of appearances, all things work i
together for good. But while the be-;
liever has this prospect, he also has
A Certain Promise.
When Peter came to things he did
not understand in the dealings of the
Lord, he, naturally, wanted to under
stand Instead of explaining, the Lord
simply said: "What I do thou know
est not now; but thou shalt under
stand hereafter,” This promise each
Christian may take to himself, know
ing that some blessed day all ques
tions will be answered and he will
understand how as well as “know that
all things work together for good.” We
cannot think of John the Baptist or
Daniel or Stephen or any of the heroes
of faith, who have met trying and bit
ter experiences which they could
not understand, even now finding fault
and saying to the Lord: “Thou
shouldst have done it differently, O
Lord.” The Christian may not under
stand in the present time why the
Lord permits the hurt but he knows
that all things work together for good
and some day he will understand the
need for the hard things and how they
have worked together for good. And
while he faces this prospect and rests i
in this promise he has
A Certain Provision.
A provision the Lord has made to
meet every experience. Irrespective
of how deep the hurt he permits or
how bitter the cup he presents he
makes provision that will keep the
heart in perfect peace. The command
to the Christian reads: “Be anxious'
(or worried) for nothing, but in ev
erything by prayer and supplication
with thanksgiving let your requests
be made known unto God and the
peace of God which passeth under
standing shall keep your hearts and
minds in Christ Jesus.” He cares for
us and desires with longing that we
should cast all our care upon him. He
will comfort, he will sustain, he will
uphold, so that in the midst of hard
and bitter experiences which cannot
be understood, the Christian .looks for
ward to the day when he will tfuder
stand, while he may enjoy in the
meantime the peace that passeth ail
understanding.
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Winter Asserts Women Are to Blame
for the Variations of Styles
in Clothes.
Women want something new to wear
every few months. The absolute
truth of this statement is what puts
the world of women against reformers.
It is easy to read and write reams of
theories as to why women should not
indulge in the caprice of new
clothes; and, with delightful ingenuous
ness, these dress reformers put the
blame on the style-makers and shops,
Ignoring the fundamental truth that
the blame should be placed on the
women.
Those who are sincere and those
who tre insincere but want to be
heard crying aloud in the market
places, do not go far enough into the
clothes question when pleading for
dress reform.
What normal woman would want to
be robbed of her privilege of seeing
new clothes and buying them when
ever it is possible? What healthy
minded woman would want to go
through life wearing the same gown,
cut on the same lines and preserved,
or copied, from season to season?
Mary Garden, the opera singer, an
swered this whole question once in an
interview on the deck of a steamer,
when she was sailing for Paris. It
was at the height of the great hubbub
concerning the question of American
clothes only.
The reporter called up from the
gangplank. “When, in your opinion,
will American women wear American
clothes only and show their patriot
ism?”
“When they’re dead,” she called out
over the rail. “They can’t protest
against an American shroud.”—Ex
change.
Getting Even.
“Now, what do you want?” asked
the sharp-tempered woman.
“I called to see if I could sell you
some bakin’ powder, ma’am,” said the
seedy gentleman with the staggering
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“Well, you can’t sell no bakin' pow- |
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“Come to think of it. ma’am,” said I
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the bread wouldn't have no chance to ;
rise.”
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Truthful Wife.
A detective was praising the truth
fulness of women.
“If war bulletins were as truthful as
women,” he said, “we’d have a better
idea of how this world struggle is
really going.
“I remember a case the other day—
it’s interesting in its revelation of
woman’s truthfulness —the case of a
husband who had disappeared.
“Questioning the wife, I said to her:
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No Comeback.
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“That will be all right. We can
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