Hints for American Relief Workers

There are other committees for the other "Départe- ments' but they are not as large as those mentioned above. Several give "bons" to be spent at the " Ves- tiaires" of the " Croix-Verte." AMERICAN RED CROSS It is a part of the duty of all these committees to verify EUROPEAN PUBLICATIONS the statements of people who claim to be refugees ; and I until they have done so such people are not eligible for their " allocations." All the committees keep records of varying interest, and all are willing to show them. SECOURS NATIONAL At the beginning of the war the Government sanctioned HINTS FOR a committee called the "Secours National" whose duty it is to allot to other organizations both public money voted by the Chamber of Deputies, and privately sub- scribed money which may be handed to the President of AMERICAN RELIEF the Republic or to other officials. The usual phrase employed is that the Secours National "subventions" the different organizations. WORKERS This is only a meagre list of the 'Comités" in existence in Paris; a Directory of Charitable Organizations called Paris Charitable pendant la Guerre" has been published. The It includes hundreds of organizations and is very helpful. As they change their addresses frequently, it is difficult to remain au courant." o No Red Cross Worker should undertake any form of work without first learning what the French are already doing along the same lines. Again and again it will be COMPILED BY found that with our resources of money and energy we MARGARET CURTIS can accomplish the aim we seek very much better in working through existing organizations than by starting Associate Chief, Bureau for Refugees and Relief new ones. We Americans, who have not borne the sorrows and stress of three years of war, will be impressed constantly by the number of charitable organizations that have sprung into existence to meet the needs and suffering + caused by the war. It is no exaggeration to say that there is a society in existence for every form of hardship arising from the war-with the single terrible exception of the sorrow and anxiety which no human aid can overcome. This is even more impressive when one realizes that at the very time when all these unusual and overwhelming needs are forced on the attention of the people of France DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AFFAIRS their ablest minds are necessarily occupied with the 4, PLACE DE LA CONCORDE defense of the country. PARIS REQ. 17-I-OCT.-IM. HERBERT CLARKE, PRINTER, 338, RUE SAINT-HONORE. /