. The American Red Cross in the great war . o let you know how prodigiously this Camp Serv-ice figured in the life of the American Army. The recordshows that in one month there went out from the Red Crossstorehouses to the American fighting men on their way tothe front the following supplies: 30,000 sweaters; 2000blankets; 10,000 razor-blades; 500,000 paper napkins;5,000,000 cigarettes; 3000 pairs of socks; 10,000 pairs ofgloves; 300,000 boxes of matches; 8000 pounds of soap;2000 pounds of chocolate; 50,000 sticks of chewing gum;10,000 tubes of tooth paste; and other things ad in-finitum. As f
. The American Red Cross in the great war . o let you know how prodigiously this Camp Serv-ice figured in the life of the American Army. The recordshows that in one month there went out from the Red Crossstorehouses to the American fighting men on their way tothe front the following supplies: 30,000 sweaters; 2000blankets; 10,000 razor-blades; 500,000 paper napkins;5,000,000 cigarettes; 3000 pairs of socks; 10,000 pairs ofgloves; 300,000 boxes of matches; 8000 pounds of soap;2000 pounds of chocolate; 50,000 sticks of chewing gum;10,000 tubes of tooth paste; and other things ad in-finitum. As for the canteens — they were along the railways* andin the camps and always had the best British war bread andthe toothsome Chicago ham and lamb-chop andchocolate and all the rest of the innumerable other things athand. Our supplies, of course, required considerable storagespace, although nothing like that in Paris. Neverthelessthere were three large warehouses in London, two in Liver-pool, and more in Glasgow and in Edinburgh and various. GREAT BRITAIN 229 English and Irish cities, and their contents all went to oursoldiers. On the whole our Red Cross in England had every rightto feel that they took as good care of the soldier on their sideof the water as we did on our side, if allowance is made forthe fact that in England, however hospitable and considerateher people, facilities there were not comparable with thoseat home. Nor did an American soldier ever have to lose sight of theRed Cross on his journey to the continent. Just as the RedCross had been the first to meet him when he landed inEngland and last to bid him good-by when he embarkedfor France, just so it again welcomed him on the Frenchdock and took him ia charge. On each succeediug visit I made to England during thewar I was impressed with the fact that the Red Cross inEngland was really a good deal like, if not precisely a repUcaof, our Red Cross at home: the Chapter was there, the work-rooms, the busy fingers, th
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