Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "18573500",
    "label": "Hints for American Relief Workers",
    "core": "doc",
    "dtoType": "document",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/18573500"
}

{
    "id": "18573500",
    "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/18573500",
    "contentType": "document",
    "title": "Hints for American Relief Workers",
    "description": "This is a booklet compiled by the American Red Cross for relief workers in France.",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/18573500",
    "collections": [
        "Eleanor Lansing Dulles Papers",
        "Personal Correspondence and Memorabilia Files"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/0/5735/18573500/content/presidential-libraries/eisenhower/573578/18573500_1.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/0/5735/18573500/content/presidential-libraries/eisenhower/573578/18573500_1.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/0/5735/18573500/content/presidential-libraries/eisenhower/573578/18573500_1.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "hasImages": true,
    "source": "import",
    "hasTranscription": false
}

{
    "url": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/18573500",
    "naId": 18573500,
    "levelOfDescription": "item",
    "productionDates": [
        {
            "logicalDate": "1917-10-01",
            "month": 10,
            "year": 1917
        }
    ],
    "recordType": "description",
    "ocrSource": "nara-archive"
}

{
    "seq": 3,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/0/5735/18573500/content/presidential-libraries/eisenhower/573578/18573500_3.jpg",
    "mediaId": "9690bbdb5e575f53",
    "ocrText": "as that paid to French refugees) the Belgian Government\nMEN WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE AT HOME\nis now paying to the wives of soldiers an \"Indemnité de\nThe father of five children is not supposed to be at the\nLogement.\" This amounts to Frs.: 30 a month for the\nfront. The father of a son who has been killed is not\nhead of the family (wife or mother) and Frs.: IO for each\nsupposed to be at the front. A man who has for his\nchild under 16; and if there are dependent brothers or\n\"metier\" something mechanical or allied to munitions-\nsisters of the soldier, a supplementary grant of Frs.10 a\nmaking is likely to be in an usine.\" The average pay\nmonth is made.\nfor men is Frs. 8 a day, but may go as high as Frs. 16.\nThe pay for women is from Frs. 3.50 to Frs. 5 a day.\nWAR PENSIONS\nFAMILLES NOMBREUSES\nThe widow of a \"simple soldat' gets Frs. 58o a year,\nbut it usually takes seven months to arrange for the\nAll over France-this was done even before the war-\npension, and if there is any uncertainty about the man's\nin order to encourage larger families, the Government\ndeath, the pension is delayed until after the war. The\ngives a grant of Frs. IO a month for each child in families\npensions are higher for soldiers of higher rank. The\nwhere there are more than three children.\nchildren, half-orphans, who go to the public schools, may\nOLD PEOPLE\nreceive Frs. 15 a month. Most women are not applying\nThroughout France there is a monthly pension for\nfor their pensions now as they would receive less than\nthe \" allocation militaire,\" which they are allowed to\nold people called 'assistance obligatoire.\" Its provisions\nvary somewhat in different places. In Paris, anyone\ncontinue.\nover 70 years of age who has lived in Paris over five\nRÉFORMÉS\nyears, can receive a pension of Frs. 30 a month. (This\nobviously cannot apply to refugees who have come to\nThere are two classes of Réformés\" :\nParis since the war but if they were receiving it from\n\" Réformé n° I\" means that the man has received a\ntheir former homes before the war, they may still be\nserious injury-in contradistinction to sickness-and is\ngetting it by special arrangements between the local\nincapacitated for further military service-such injuries\ngovernments and the Paris mairie.)\nas the loss of an eye, a hand, a leg, or even the stiffening\nRENT\nof an arm or a leg. He receives a pension varying with\nThe Government has passed a law that no family with\nhis rank and the seriousness of his injury.\na member at the front, which is living in the same\n\" Réformé means that the man is incapacitated\nplace since before the war, can be evicted or prosecuted\nfor military service, usually through sickness, such as\nfor non-payment of rent. In other words, Parisians do\ntuberculosis, heart trouble, or general feebleness. He\nnot have to pay rent, and refugees do. This has made\nreceives no pension, and has his uniform taken away,\nan enormous difference between residents and refugees in\nusually getting a suit of corduroy in exchange. He is\nthe amount of money left from the allocation to be spent\nexpected to be able to work, and is given preference in\non food and clothing.\n'obus\" factories.\nThe average rent for refugees living in \"hôtels\"-\nIn either class the man may be \"Réformé temporaire'\nwhat we would call \"furnished rooms\" Frs. 30 a\nor 66 Réformé définitif.\" Both types have to come up\nmonth or Frs. 365 a year for one not very good room.\nfor revision at least once a year.\nThe average rent of an unfurnished logement of two or\nThere is a splendid work of re-education, i.e., training\nthree rooms and a kitchenette is about Frs. 300 so the\nthe men for a new profession, into which their injuries\nlocal people are not spared a very large item in their\nforce them, being done at the Grand-Palais on the\nweekly budget by this moratorium, and the refugees have\nChamps-Elysées, and a school for re-educating the blind\nto pay very high for very little.\nat the annex of the Quinze-Vingt.' on the Avenue de\nSince the average rent for 'refugee families is Frs. 30\nReuilly.\nfor one furnished room, it means, if a family is paying\nmuch more, either that they have more than one room,\nMÉDAILLE MILITAIRE\nor that they have unfurnished rooms and are paying by\nthe \"term of three months.\nThis is given for extraordinary bravery or serious\ninjury, and carries a pension of Frs. 100 per year.\nThe price of these unfurnished lodgings varies very"
}