Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...experience of Canada was typical. During the opening months of the war all settlement houses were converted into relief work stations for the army, but at the end of six months they were advised that they could serve their nation far better by returning to their former work and helping in the solution of the wretched social conditions at home...
...relief now and again in the universal talk about armament for war to remember that the whole world is not forever doomed to fighting. War is a preparation for peace; we must bear in mind even now that our goal is a more enduring peace, and plan for the resumption of our normal lives when the abnormal tension has been relieved...
...dealing with the men who, to quote the author's words, think to serve humanity by doing hospital and ambulance work in England and France." The writer of the editorial then goes on to criticise these men who are pusillanimous enough to prefer to risk their lives in the relief of suffering rather than serve gloriously in their respective college regiments, even as he. The editorial is written throughout in a highly moral tone of admonition, of gentle rebuke, but it is nothing less than a serious attack on the ambulance drivers who have failed so lamentably to grasp what...
...Really Is" will be another of the pictures to be shown. This film was photographed by D. C. Thompson, war correspondent of Leslie's Weekly, while he was under fire. If is recommended by the United States Naval War College and reveals actual trench fighting, the relief work of the Ambulance Corps,and the Germans marching through Belgium...
...country. It deals with the rivalry of Tadeusz Bolski, an American of Polish descent, and Sasha Polivanof, a Russian recruiting officer, for the hand of Vanda, a beautiful Polish girl. It shows the destruction wrought by the retreating armies, and the aid rendered the people by the American Relief Committee, for which Tadeusz is the agent...