ons lemonade powder,
120,000 Testaments, 120,000 hymn-books, tons of magazines and other
literature, 30 tons writing-paper and envelopes, 50,000 folding chairs,
500 camp cots, 2,000 blankets, 20 typewriters, 60 tents, 75
moving-picture machines, 200 phonographs, 5,000 records, 1 ton ink
blotters, $75,000 worth athletic goods, 30 automobiles and trucks.

The order was filled at once.

Besides the associations above enumerated, other volunteer organizations
contributed to the health and happiness of American soldiers and
sailors. The Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania established two clubs, one in
Paris, the other in Tours, both of which performed notable services in
feeding and restoring the spirits of American soldiers and sailors. The
club in Paris was under the direction of the Rev. Frederick W. Beekman,
and that at Tours was directed by Amos Tuck French. Mrs. Barclay
Warburton of Philadelphia was designated by Governor Brumbaugh as
Commissioner-General of Overseas Work for the Emergency Aid. Other
states had similar organizations looking after the comfort of the men.

But it was upon the professional doctors, nurses and sanitarians that
the bulk of the task devolved. This task included the prevention as well
as the cure of maladies menacing the American forces. It reached out
into years after the war into the problems of re-education and
re-habilitation of the shell-shocked and the wounded. Major-General
William C. Gorgas, former Surgeon General of the Army, stated this
concept when he said:

"The whole conception of governmental and national responsibility for
caring for the wounded has undergone radical change during the months of
study given the subject by experts serving with the Medical Officers'
Reserve Corps and others consulting with them. Instead of the old idea
that responsibility ended with the return of the soldier to private life
with his wounds healed and such pension as he might be given, it is now
considered that it is the duty of the government to equip and re-educate
the wounded man, after healing his wounds, and to return him to civil
life ready to be as useful to himself and his country as possible."

To carry out this idea reconstruction hospitals were established in
large centers of population. Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Paul, Seattle, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis, Memphis,
Richmond, Atlanta and New Orl