Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1920 — FRENCH PRAISE FOR OUR RED CROSS WORK [ARTICLE]

FRENCH PRAISE FOR OUR RED CROSS WORK

Lauding the work accomplished by American philanthropy for warstricken France, Andre Tardieu, former high commissioner from that nation to the United States, in a recent article widely commented on throughout the French press, says: “The American Red Cross has accomplished a work which calls for the heartfelt gratitude of every true Frenchman. In 191§ this great relief orgaplsatlon in behalf of France flirty 87.000,000 franco and In 1919 its eipehdftufea on charitable projects In our country attained the trementot|l st it has re; gently turned to the Frencn belief brgaßl&tlohs huge stocks of supplies whose value must be counted in the hundreds of thousands of francs. "Fifteen million American boys and girls, banded together In the Junior Red Cross of America, are back of a movement to establish the closest ties between themselves and France's younger generation through the charitable works they have financed, and are now carrying out among our little war sufferers. "The bonds of friendship between France and America is cemented with mutual admiration, rerpect and grotiude." z H