Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1918 — NO UNION HOURS FOR HER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NO UNION HOURS FOR HER

Canteen workers in the American Red Cuoss abroad do not observe union hours. Their work-day lasts as long as the opportunity holds to serve. Mrs. Belmont Tiffany of New York, now in France with the Red Cross, and her co-workers have been working 12 and 14 hours a day to make things more cheery and comfortable for our boys “over there.” “We feel,” Mrs. Tiffany writes, “that the least we should give our men are warmth and cleanliness and color whenever we can. War is such a dirty, ugly, sordid thing. Picture to yourself 50 dirty, tired men falling out of a cattle train where they have been cooped up two or three days with a detachment of mules, eating and sleeping with them. They have a few hours’ wait, so they take a hot •shower at the Red Cross canteen, and then have a - good meal, waited upon by cheerful, kindly American girls. Perhaps they

play the piano a bit, or write letters home, before they depart. The first night we opened at D we had 680 men? come in at one o’clock. They ate us out of house and home. They carried off every magazine and paper we had. Their officers were fed, also, and when they came to leave the major shook my hand over and over again and said they were all happier and less homesick than at any time since they had left America.” ,