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' RED CROSS TO COLLECT CLOTHINO FOR BELGIUM I Hoover Asks Davison's Aid In Work Of Relief > I I * \Beginning March IS and ending [ Maxell 25, a seven day, nation-wide campaign will be carried on by the A vi T> /-./J J i?.v u tiuss <iliu iue Commission for Relief in Belgium to secure a minimum ! quantity of 5,000 tons of clothes : for the destitute people of Belgium ^ and the occupied portions of Northern , France. At the request of Herbert, > Hoover, chairman of the Commission 1 for Relief in Belgium, Henry P. Davi-, * son,- chairman of the Red Cross War I Council, has granted the use of the nafi^nal Red Cross organization for col- j * 'lecting the needed clothing. | As the commission has allowed most j of its local committees to disband be- i K cause of the financial arrangements > made last June with the government, j it has turned to the Red Cross for j help. Where the local committees of; the Relief Commission are still intact, they will work side by side with the ^ed Cross Chapters. vTJie practically entire exhaustion of, Clothing, shoes, and leather in occupied j Belgium and Northern France and the j nf these necessities in the / world's markets are making it increasingly difficult lor the Commission ; to keep clothed and shod the unfortuiit |&te people in these territories. In adVJdition to new material, gifts of used and surplus clothing, shoes, blankets, flannel cloth, etc., are needed in large * Quantities from the people of the United States. j The donations will be shipped at j uace tu uie Auaniic seauuoiu <uiu ?t;ui overseas for distribution. CANTEEN SERVICE FOR SAMMIES IN FRANCE \ ' Rsd Cross To Serve Boys In The Front ^ Line Trenches Hfenr ThA Am.prir.an Red f!rn<;s has iust I arranged to establish with the American troops in France a front line "canteen service similar to that through which they have served more than a million poilus with hot drinks during the last six months, according to a cable just received by the War Council from Major James H. Perkins, Red Cross Commissioner to France. This will consist or roiling,canteens stationed-close behind the front line trenches. There are now fifteen of these operating behind the French lines, from which fifty, or more large receptacles of hot drinks are sent for[ ward daily, usually in the small hours of the morning. These drinks are served free to ?be men going on or coming off duty^ This service has proven of such value to the French that the American army has asked the Red Cross to have this service directly in touch wiui the medical relief stations nearest the front. The work is often done TinrloT* Jioiav\r cVioll firp aflH TP'SHirf!5? vUAUV. A iiVU' j v w?v. - ? ?men of great bravery and sympathy, r The American army officers are man ifesting a keen interest in having this service f t the disposal of the American troops and have asked the Red Cross to enlist a substantial'number of men of t?he highest caliber to undertake this \v9rk. It will be performed at the point nearest the firing line at which civilians are permitted. NURSES NEEDED IN MILITARY HOSPITALS Surgeon General Asks Red Cross To Supply 5,000 Nurses Surgeon General Gorgas of the United States army has called upon the American Red Cross to supply to the Army Nurse Corps five thousand 1 Al nurses Detween now anu me mst ui June. These nurses are needed for service in the military hospitals both in this country and abroad. Although the Red Cross has already supplied nearly 7,000 nurses as a reserve for the Army and Navy Nurse Corps since the beginning of the war, the impera, tive need for a greater army of nurses grows daily as the war progresses. According to a statement made by Surgeon General Gorgas, it is estimatI ed that there are between eighty and ninety thousand registered nurses in [kb the United States, and that approximately thirty thousand will be needed for ?ervice in army hospitals during ithe present-year. Tne immediate neea for* five thousand of these is emphasized. Miss Jane A. Delano, Director of the Department of Nursing of the American Red Cross said: "Not only are we appealing to the nurses to volunteer for this service, but we also appeal to the public and to the physicians employing these nurses to aid in making it possible for them, without too great financial sacrifice on their-part, to hold themselves in readiness to respond to the call of their country. We wish also to bring to the attention of nurses the unusual opportunity offered by the insurance law enacted for the protection of our army and navy, whirh applies equally to nurses assigned to duty as members of the Army and Navy Nurse Corps. "A great responsibility rests upon \ the nurses of the country. They are the only group of women recognized as a part of the military establishment, |an? should be looked upon as tne renresentatives of the womanhood of America at the front. "Not only should the other women of the country encourage nurses to volunteer for service, but they should I make every effort possible to protect I , the n*jrse.? holding, themselves rf>ady j ' 'for service and share with them the re- 1 spopsibility anl sacrifices necessary." FROM THE FRONT WILD EXCITEMENT OVER RECEIPT OF SURGICAL k DRESSINGS Director Of Woman's Work For Red Cross Receives Letter From Paris > ' The importance o? the work that is being done by the women all over the Southern Division of the Red Cross in the way of knitting, of surgical dres: .ngs and of hospital garments has been stressed many times, but it has never been shown more clearly than in the following note of thanks which was received a few days ago by Mrs. John W. Grant, Director of the Department of Woman's Work of the Southern Division, from Mrs. Gertrude Austin, Chief of the Red Cross Sureical Dreamers Service in Paris: 25 Rue Pierre-Charron, Paris, February 2, 1918. To The Chairman. Dear Madanj: Your case of surgical dressings No. 85 has just been opened, and we want to thank you most heartily for your help. We are wildly excited here over the arrival of the first Front Parcels and the first Standard Dressings. They are not yet in our stores, but we know that they are in France. You can't realize what this means to us, for we have waited for them so long and so anxiously. Go ahead and send us plenty more. Cordiallv yours, GERTRUDE AUSTIN, Chief of Service. That the Southern Division is doing its part in shipping these articles to Europe is shown in the reports of the division warehouse in Atlanta which give a detailed statement of all work done during the week. Not infrequently as many as 300,000 articles are ship ped for export in a single week, in addition to ali of the work of inspecting, cutting out and packing, which is done at the warehouse, and to the boxes which are shipped to the cantonments in this country. RED CROSSBAR FUND MHVC CCT CnD HIV 90 UIIIVL OL I IUE1 mm CiV In order not to detract even slightly from the forthcoming Liberty Loan campaign, the War Council of the American Red Cross has postponed the campaign to raise the second War Relief fund of $100,000,000 to the week of May 20 from the week of May 6th, as was originally intended, it was announced in Washington today. This action fixes the date of the second Red Cro campaign eleven months after the fir.-'. "Mch was started on June 18, 1917. T,Var Council had been appointed 1 Piesident Wilson only five weeks t>rior i ? the beginning of this campaign, so that its first great task was to provide means for carrying on relief work during the war on a scale commensurate with the military operations. More than $100,000,000 was contributed in response to the first call for financial aid and contributions plus interest brought the total receipts from the first drive up to $105,099,527. Of this amount, $17,006,121 was refunded to Red Cross Chapters for local relief work. Of the balance, $77,721,91S has been appropriated, leaving a balance of $10,371,217 available for appropriation. France has received appropriations amounting to more than thirty millions. During the week preceding Christmas the Red Cross conducted a membership drive which resulted in the enrollment of approximately 22,00.1,000 new members. This was followed last month by a camerr, AnTKinMcfl Kv tVlP Til Til" OF mPTTI 2'CIA*?, J.I Wiiuuvivu V" v. VM..?w. --- bership of the Red Cross which resulted in the enrollment in the collateral organization of practically all of the school children in America. RED GROSS MADE OFFICIAL I WAR FILM DISTRIBUTOR j The American Red Cross has been designated by the government as the official ami exclusive distributor of the United States official war pictures? both motion pictures and stereopticon slides?and likewise the sole distribu-, * * * tor in tms country OI ail uuiciai French war pictures hereafter releas-! ed except those pictures which are distributed through the news week- j lies. j In the Southern Division, comprising Georgia, Florida, the two Carolinas * and iennesbce. the Bureau of Publi-' city will handle these pictures and all j requests for same, whether by chap-! ters or by motion picture theaters,! must De maae 10 ine puDucny un cti-ui., There are already on hand at the j national headquarters in Washingtonj five motion picture films, two multiple! reel and three single reel pictures, and j two sets of stereopticon slides which j may be had in either black and white or in colors. The Southern division \ has just placed an order for these films and slides, and as soon as they arrive in Atlanta they will be offered. to Chapters throughout the division at; ^ l a MUitll iriltrtl. These pictures show various scenes j and activities in France and elsewhpre | in Europe, and should be most inter-! [ esting to the people of the Unitedi States. Some of them picture war ac-j i tivities and oth?rs the work of the j | Red Cross in Europe. 1 The United States official pictures j are taken by the Signal Corps, Photo. | graphic division, of th" United States Army. The French official picture? i are takeii by the Cinematographic and I Photographic Division of the French I Army. i TO PUSH BUILDING OF RFD CROSS HfislSES Home Service Work For Army Camps Stressed In Conference At Division Headquarters A very important conference touch j leg the work of the American Red Cross in the army camps of th<j Southern Division was held in Atlanta a few ( days ago. There were present not only Col. W. L. Peel, Division Mana^ er; C. B. Bid well, Associate Manager, 1 and Z. Bennett Phelps, Division Director of the Bureau of Military Relief, together with a number of the Red Cross , Field Directors and Assistant Field Directors from the camps, but aiso, W. Frank Persons, Director General of Civilian Relief; Henry S. Thompson, National Director of the 1 Bureau of Camp Service, and Charles ' E. Fox, Assistant Director of Camp ] Service in charge of construction. A number of important matters were discussed, among thei sing tht; personnel in the trainin r0 c; ips. the building and manning of the Red Cross houses for convalescents in the camps, and the appointment of directors for ( these houses, instructions regarding hospital information service, and the relation of the Home Service department to the department of Military ] Relief and the importance of Home Service to the men in the training * ? -- - ? -- -J - ? * ^ 1% A f A I* M 1% 5 /a"U camps mm 111 Uir ticiivuco, v* un.u fattef was tai&ep. up with the field di- 1 rectors by Mr. Persons. 1 The volume of Home Service work to be done necessitates the appointment of an associate fielr1 director in : charge of home service who will work with the regular field director in thecamp. There will also be a Home Service director on every transport that carries American troops to France, so that every soldier who leaves family or biifeiness worries behind may have < someone to whom to turn for help and | advice. The problem of keeping up ! rhe morale of the army by making I them understand that their families are well looked after while they are away as well as that of helping to ! maintain a normal standard of living 1 in the families where the men are away belongs to the Home Service or Civilian Reliet Department. 1 "At the time of the Napoleonic i campaigns," said Mr. Persons, "it was esumaieu iiicti me iiiwaic ui iuc aiuij was more important than ammunition i in the ratio of 3 to 1. In the present war, one of the greatest English generals has estimated the ratio as 9 to 1. Home Service is more important to the United States troops than to those of England and France, because the French and English soldiers have two weeks' leave every 90 days, can return to their homes and look after their most pressing business affairs ' for themselves. But the American soldier who goes to France will probably stay in France until the end of the war, and it is only through the 1 Home Service Department of the Red Cross that his mind can be relieved from all worry concerning affairs at home so that his entire attention can be concentrated on soldiering." ; Many illustrations of the value of Home Service in the training, cairu* . Vic nniintp-.f urDrOv civfiTI hv fJip \Jl UI1.-5 wuuuj "WI'V O* ^ ~ Field Directors, and the duties of the men in charge of this branch of the work outlined. Henry S. Thompson, national director of the Bureau of Camp Service, spoke on the duties of the military field directors in the camps and their relation to the Home Service Directors in the same camps. .The building of the Red Cross houses in 40 army c^mps In this country was then taken up by Charles E. Fox, assistant director of Camp Service in charge of construction, and the purpose of these houses was explained to the Field Directors and assistants who were present. Quarters and a place of amusement will be provided in these houses for convalescent soldiers who are well enough to leave the hospitals and yet not well enough to return to active duty, as well as accommodations for the families of men who are ill enough to make it necessary to send for their relatives. It is being planned that a large part of tne furniture for these house^ shall bp made by the older boys in the; Junior Red Cross auxiliaries, , The construction in the camps af the Southern Division will be su-i pervised by John R. Dillon of Atlanta, ?~vP + Vn-* r\f T\/T r\~rcro -n 52- Flillnn Hrrllj VI UIC 111111 U1 mv<s?u IV toct?, who has volunteered his services to the Southern division for any sort of architectural work. Men trained in work similar to that of the Home Service department are wanted at once for wo^k in the camps and on the transports. All applications j in this division should be made to Joseph C. Logan, Director of Civilian Relief. Field Directors and Assistant Field Directors present at. the conference; were T. T. Flagler, S. A. Darrach. Dr. j Josiah Morse, Lanning Harvey, W. R. I Carr. William C. Denny, H. M. Voor-j hees, J. Loaring Clark, H. A. Field,' William S. Moore, J. C. Williams, and Mrs. Charles A. Sheldon, Sr. niMinD den ronw takr I JU11IUI1 I1LU UI1UUU I nilLU OVER ARMY OF RELIEF I Harvey D. Gibson, General Manager! of the American Red Cross, announce:! j this wppk that the Junior Red Cross . organization has endorsed and taken j over the Children of America Army of J Relief, and that henceforward the j work of this latter organization will j be carried on by the Junior Red Cross. The transfer of funds took place on March 2nd. $40,000 being given over to the Junior Red Cross to be devoted to child welfare work abroad, and thf Amir y\f Rutiof will r>o;kp to SLfilif:'? funds. All Army of Rt-lief members are now eligible for membership in Junior Red Cross auxiliaries, and Chapter School committees are authorized to incorporate them in schools that are not already enrolled as Junior units or co incorporate all Army of Relief members in their territory as & single Junior Auxiliary. 15V TWL \C OlMKLY SiI K W AS !!KSTORK!>. 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