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FRIDAY, DEC. 20th
- GOES TO ARCHANGEL
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'Red Cross Sends Relief Ships for
. Allied Soldiers and Civilians
| in Starving Russia.
A relief ship was recently sent from
this country to Archangel by the
American Red Cross with 4,600 tons
of drugs, food, soap and other sup
plies for the use of thg Allied soldiers
and needy civillans {n that patt of
Russia. The vessel’s cargo was val
ued at $1,511,288.
Later, another ship was dispatched
carrying 200 tons of similar supplies
furnished by the Ameriéan Red Cross,
the total expenditure for the two ship
ments amounting to over $2,000,000.
Major C. T. Williams of Baltimore
was in charge of the party of thirteen
which accompanied the shipment from
this country., He was formerly a mem
ber of the Red Cross Commission for
Roumania. Major Kirkpatrick, at one
fime a member of the latter commis
slon, but recently attached to the
Army Medical Qorps, heads the medi
ca]l end of the Archangel expendition.
Drugs and general hospital supplies
constituted the greater part of the
cargo sent from America.
While the chief concern of the ex
pedition was providing comforts for
|American and Allled fighting men in
that part of the world, all efforts were
'bent to get rellef to the Russian sol
'diers who were returned from Ger
man prison camps at the rate of gbout
115,000 a ‘week. The conditton of these
'men was pitiable, It has been ebti.
mated that 90 per cent. of them were
‘tubercular.
' In ‘addition to drugs and food, al
‘most every imaginable article on the
|list of supplies sent over was for the
comfort, convenience and pleasure of
‘the Allied soldlers. Just a few of
'these articles were playlng cards,
‘razor blades, jewsharps, mandolins,
‘accordeons, ukaleles, phonographs,
cameras, skates, wigs, whiskers,
igrease paints, footballs, snowshoes,
slippers, - heckey outfits, indoor base
balls, moving picture outfits, Bibles,
prayer books, boxing gloves, games,
music, books, cigarettes, candy and
dried fruits. 4
The need of prompt relief for the
inhabitants of towns along the coast
of the White Sea and on the Kola
peninsula, many of whom were facing
starvation, was found to be impera
tive. Scurvy had broken out amoqg
the people at these places, adding t
the general distress. |
The towns to which the rellef ex
pendition was sent are virtually iso
lated from the outside world because
of -the -treacherous coast line, shifting
sand bars and uncharted waters. An
exceptionally early frost, even for that
part of the world, ruined the harvests, |
which were expected to improve con
ditions. Statements, printed in Rns-f‘
gian, explaining the work of the Redl
Cross, were distributed among the in
habitants. G
Following a tour of South England,
Secretary of War Baker made this
comment on the work done by the
'American Red Cross for our boys:
.“These are the things which count.
‘The American Red Cross is to be con
gratulated on the way in which it is
looking after our boys. It is doing
fine work.”
| Following his return from France,
‘Secretary Baker wrote this note to
the American Red Cross in London:
“] left London so shortly after my
drive to Winchester that I had no
learly opportunity to thank you for
‘the courtesy of the touring car which
'you placed at my disposal for the trip.
'On this trip to Europe I have received
'fresh and noteworthy evidence of the
astonishing efficiency of the American
Red Cross operations in France and
England. I have been delighted to see
hew much the American Red Cross
has done to weld hearts of the allied
people together.”
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trees in the orchards laid bare by the
Germans. With this sum 40,000 fruit
‘trees will be replaced in the devas
tated orchards of Belgium and north
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FOR SOLDIERS IN FRANCE
Fight in the Ranks of the Red Cross Agalnst§
Pain, Disease and Death.
They have known very well the risks
they were taking—the two thousand
and more woimen who have gone to
France for varied services under the
American Red Cross, and the more
than nine thousand nurses whom the
American Red Cross has assigned to
foreign duty under the United States
Army and Navy Nurse Corps.
They went under orders, as soldiers
do; prepared for any emegencies, as
soldiers do; they assumed many
strapge and unforeseen tasks, as sol
diers do. Literally, they went as
fighters, against pain, disease and
death,
A “mobtile surgical unit” of nurses—
those words don’t mean very much,
perhaps, the first time we hear them.
But see such an unit follow an army
up to an advanced post; see how the
nurses work with steady hands beside
the surgeons as the stretchers with the
newly wounded are brought in. See
thousands of them in evacuation hos
pitals, base hospitals, convalescent
hospitals, tuberculosis hospitals; some
of them in French military hospitals
where sometimes our men are sentj
see them with their specialized skill
in head surgery, or fracture work, or
psychiatry ;—all these women who
keep head and hand cool and steady,
when the ambulances unload great
harvests of wounded. Then we say
the words “Our Nurses,” as we say
“Our Soldiers,” *“Our Sailors” “Our
Marines.”
On the night of March 25th, when
the Germans were fast advancing, and
already within six kilometers of
Annel, an outpost of Complegne, two
American doctors remained, who uns
der order of the French government,
had sent the patients and personnel
of their hospital farther back the
night before. The artillery was deaf
ening, but the American Ambulance
sections kept bringing their wounded
to Annel. These doctors sald that as
long as the American boys brought
them wounded they would operate.
Two nurses volunteered from Com
piegne, and so in the deserted chateau
the two surgeons, the two nurses and
the ten drivers worked calmly on,
while the buzz of aeroplanes shook
the air, and the blasting guns shook
the earth,
OF SOLDIERS’ FAMILIES
The ten thousand Home Service Sec
tions of the American Red Cross, in
their work of looking after the fami
lies of the enlisted men, are doing won
ders for the morale of the army. Our
fighters are not men who are going to
worry about themselves, but if they do
no. get cheerful letters from home, or
if anything goes wrong there, they are
going to worry, and that dellcate thing
the army men call morale is going to
be disturbed. It is to safeguard
agalnst this and also to prevent need
less suffering and to promote that spir
it of neighborliness and kindly aid that
binds each community into an organic
whole that the Home Service was or
ganized. |
Over 50,000 workers are serving on
these ten thousand committees, which |
reach into every corner of the country,
however remote. Not a town or vil
lage or crossroads that is not within
reach of the Red Cross; not a wife |
child or mother of a man in servic 4
who cannot claim the ready aid of
Red Cross workers, 1
More than 300,000 familles of Ame ¢
can soldiers and sailors have been rey
lieved of money troubles, legal dltflculgzi
ties and worries of all sorts by the”
protecting arm of the Red Cross, If'
the allowances of allotments under the
war Risk Insyrance law do not come |
the matter is at once referred to Red
Cross Headquarters, taken up with the
proper government bureau and prompt- 1‘
ly straightened out. If, through the
delay, the family finds itself in need |
of money sums are advanced to tide it |
over until the allotment arrives, Dur- |
ing July over sixty thousand inquiries |
of this kind were received, and more
than a third of these were taken clear |
through to headquarters before theyl
eauld be straightened out. |
FOR ITALY’S BABIES.
Motherhood in Italy just now Is not
the joy that it might be, for the poor
women gre at their wits ends to clothe
the children already in the family, not
to mention the preparation for the lit
tle newcomers. Perhaps the most ap
preciated gifts of the American Red
Cross at this time are the layettes
which are being given to the mothers
of Italy. . Each layette consists of
twenty-four pleces and includes four
bright colored swathing bands, so dear
to the heart of the Italian woman.
Twenty layettes a week are needed at
Chioggia alone.
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<+ “THE MARIETTA JOURNAL
Through three takings of Belgrade,
first when the city was taken by the
Austrians, again when it was retaken
by the Serblans, and still agaln when
it was taken back by the Germans and
Austrians together, ap American Red
Cross nurse, Mary Gladwin, worked
in the operating room. In that first
capture, when nipe thousand wounded
crowded the wards and halls and yard
of the thousand-bed-hospital and doctor
and nurse worked together for day
and night without stopping, giving to
each operation an average of six min
utes, and employing emergencies in
spired by the desperate need of the
moment, they did not know that the
city had been taken until all the
stretchers brought Austrian wounded,
and Austrian doctors came to thelr
relief.
Several hundred women are work
ing over there in the American Red
Oross canteens. There are abdgt two
hundred of these canteens along the
French and American lines of com
munication, and the women are work
ing under great pressure, feeding
thousands of soldiers. The Red Cross
18 also establishing canteens by mili
tary request at a number of Aviation
Camps. American women conduct
these stations, comprising canteen and
club and reading room. Everyone of
these canteens 'has something of the
genius of home about it; and It is
because of this, no less than the fa
cilities for cleanliness and rest and
refreshment, that the French govern
ment has given the responsibility for
maintaining canteens for both armies
to the hands of the:American Red Cross,
In large numbers women are going
abroad as hospital hut workers, also,
and as soclal workers for trained
service among the refugees and the
repatriated. At each base hospital the
Red Cross 18 equipping, as fast as they
can be built, recreation huts for con
valescent soldlers,
Clerical workers have steadily in
creased lin number for the adminis
trative offices. From that original
group of eighteen, which as the first
American Red Cross Commission to
France sailed about June Ist, 1917,
the organization has grown to a 8 work- |
ing force of more than 5,000 men and 1
women, |
Tuberculosis Experts Sent by
Red Cross Will Use Lat
est Metheds.
Included in the unit of medical and
lay workers which the American Red
Cross has sent to Italy are a number
of the leading anti-tuberculosls work
ers of the country, sponsored by the
National Tuberculosis Association.
Dr. William Charles White, who heads
the unit, is medical director of the
Tuberculosis League of Pittsburgh,
and Dr. Robert H. Bishop, the assist
ant director, is secretary of the Anti-
Tuberculosis League of Cleveland as
well as health commissioner of that
city. Dr. John H. Lo=vman of Cleve
land, a former president of the Na
tional Assoclation, is another promi
nent member of the unit. Others are
Dr. Robert G. Patterson, secretary of
the jOhio Tuberculosis Assoclation ;
Seymour H. Stone, until recently sec
retary of the Massachusetts Anti-Tu
berculosis League; Dr. Gertrude Stur
gis, «fiecretary of the New York City
Agsoglation of Tuberculosis Clinics,
and M. A. Nelson, superintendent of the
Clncinnati Anti-Tuberculosis League.
These men and women, at the re
quest of the Italian government, will
co-operate with that country in apply
ing the latest approved American
methods for combating the spread of
tuberculosis. Some of them will be
charged with the establishment of
clinics where people of all ages may
be examined and treated; others will
devote their attention particularly to
preventing tuberculosis among chil
dren, and a third group will develop
health publicity and education.
It is to the credit of the anti-tuber
culosis cempaign in America that it
has produced specialists of such inter
pational standing that Italy wishes to
call them into her service temporarily.
But the campalgn will be continued
unremittingly here at home. Its sup
port during the ensuing year will be
derived not as heretofore from the
sale of Red Cross Christmas Seals, but
by a special appropriation made by the
Red Cross to the National Tuberculo
sis Association. Tuberculosis workers
on their side will line up with the Red
Cross in its Christmas Roll Cell for
universal membership.
CONTEST FOR THE JUNIORS.
A special feature during the Red
Cross Christmas -Roll Call will be a
Junior Red Cross Four-Minute Men
Contest on “Why You Should Join the
Red Cross.” The contest will be sim
flar to those previously conducted by
the Division of Four Minute Men ¢f
the Committee on Public Information.
It will be held on Friday, December
20th, in all of the School Auxiliaries,
and friends and parents of the pupils
will-be urged to.aftend, .
POTASH PRODUCTION IN
CREASING '
The situation in respect to potash
is improving, the rate of production
during the first six months of 1918
having been epual to nearly 25 per
cent of the normal consumption. By
force of circumstances the country
is now essentially independant of
foreign importations, though at an
undetermined cost in the fertility of
the soil. Searles Lake, in California,
the alkali lakes in western Nebraska,
and the alunite deposits of Utah, all
of which were examined, with favor
able recommendations, in earlier re
ports by the Geological Survey, De
partment of the Interior, are now
our principal sources of supply.
From these, as well as from various
by-product recoveries, larger and in
creasing supplies are expected in the
latter half of 1918 and in 1919.
(From Annual Report of Director
United States Geological Survey.)
AN HONEST ANSWER
She went down to the .power house
- And interviewed an oiler;
“What is that thing?” “Why, he
replied,
“That is the engine boiler.”
“And why do they .boil engines?”
asked
The maiden, sweet and slender;
“They do it,”” said the honest man,
“To make the engine tender.”
—Southern Telephone News.
D. AND W. CHATS
Our idea of the strongest man in
the world is the one who can over
come his smallest weakness.
If you want to ascertain how
many real friends you have, try to
borrow money from each one.
Every editor thinks his ideas are
gems of thought—but many of them
are nothing but paste.
The wise man knows that he is
right but doesn’t claim that every
body else is wrong.
If the whining pessimist would
stop talking about how cruelly the
world is serving him, and direct his
energies towars serving the world,
what a difference it would make.
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When you have that button pinned on your ;
coat, you can look the whole world in the face |
—and feel proud. '
It means you have answered “present” to the i
Red Cross Christmas Roll Call for 1919. It
means that you have placed your personal
o stamp of approval on the work of the Greatest
e Ty Mother in the World and that you have given
i Y her the moral support of your membership.
PRBN Red Cross !
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B ITI Fl- Red Cross will exist.
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