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A call has been sent out fror
national headquarters of A. R. C. a
Washington, D. 0., for knitted article
for relief purposes among the dest:
tute refugees in Europe. Article
asked for are children’s sweater!
shoulder shawls for women, scarfs to
children, and stockings.
Cordova Chapter was not forgotten
How about workers?
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All pajamasv out in work must b
completed this week for shipment 01
“Northwestern.”
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Cross Magazine? Are you a Rei
Cross member? Then your subscrii
tion is already half paid. One dolla
added to your membership will brim
the magazine to you for the nex
twelve months.
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Prank O’Malley star reporter of th
New York Sun, has met every shi]
bringing homeward-bound soldiers
His story of what he saw and hear!
fairly snaps with interest, ^ith humoi
and with pathos, and should be read
by every real American. You will fim
it in the March Red Cross Magazine
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The American Red Cross has con
tributed to a fund for the relief of des
titute British prisoners returninj
from Germany.
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The American Red Cross is arrang
ing for the re-education of the maimec
Belgian soldiers.
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"Affliction May One Day Smile Again’
(By Constance Winifred Stumpe.)
He is a man of attractive mien, mid
dle-aged and gray, with clean cut fea
tures and an expression of utmosl
kindliness. And he has done his pari
in the war as few men have, for ir
founding St. Dunstan’s Hospital foi
Men Blinded in Battle, Sir Arthui
Pearson has brought “light to the
lives of hundreds of soldiers who have
given their eyes for England.”
Sir Arthur is proud of his school, as
he may well be, and prouder of its
happy pupils who are learning to
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i make four senses do the work of five,
t and still finding life good,
i St. Dunstan’s was .opened In 1915,
- in the London residence of Otto H.
> Kahn of New York. It Is the only in
. stitution of its kind maintained by
• private initiative and voluntary con
tributions. Its student body numbers
400; 600 have already been launched
anew in life, well satisfied with the
training and encouragement they have
, received, and well able to meet life
( and make their own way—not as
"blind men,” but as "normal men
who have lost their sight.” Maudlin
sentiment and pity have no place at
St. Dunstan’3. The men are taught
1 self-reliance from the first and not
permitted for a moment to consider
themselves afflicted.” Handicapped
5 perhaps, but afflicted, never!
t The pupils are taught to read by
the perfected Braille system, and it
has been observed that the average
i blind student acquires the rudiments
1 of Braille as easily as a child learns
■ his alphabet, after which progress is
rapid. Finger tips are soon trained
to take the place of eyes, and the
fairy word of books is not long closed
to the sightless. In the operation of
the typewriter, the blind pupils are
very proficient and many have al
ready taken their places in the busi
■ ness world as trained secretaries,
; after having mastered Braille short
hand. Some of these are occupying
the positions they held before the
war; others have risen to places far
superior to those which they pre
viously filled. Upon leaving the in
stitution, each man is given a type
writer, the writing medium of the
blind, whose handwriting quickly de
teriorates.
Sir Arthur relates an anecdote,
showing the rapidity with which the
blind soldier learns new things:
Passing through the hall one even
ing, Sir Arthur, who himself has been
blind for five years, heard the rapid
click of a typewriter.
“Who goes there?” questioned Sir
Arthur.
“Crocker, sir—writing a letter to
my mother!”
“Ah, Crocker, how are you getting
: along?” said Sir Arthur, knowing that
the pupil had been at St. Dunstan’s
but six weeks and had been a miner
before the war.
"Fine, sir!”
“Did you know anything about a
typewriter before the war, Crocker?’
“No, sir—I’d never even seen one!’
This is typical of the progress made
at St. Dunatan’s. Most of the instruc
tors are blind and there are almost as
many as there are pupils, assuring in
dividual attention to each one. There
is also opportunity to learn basket
making, shoe mending, net weaving,
broom making and similar occupations
at which the blind are particularly
apt, although In so far as possible
each man is replaced in his old pro
fession.
Fowl breeding i3 another special
feature of St. Dunstan’s. Holding a
wiggling bufT-cochin or Wyandotte in
his hands, the blind man can readily
tell his breed, weight and size. Many
pupils have been successful in the
field. Carpentry has also been suc
cessfully tried out. It seems nothing
short of miraculous to see sightless
men usjng the plane, saw and hammer
and turning out attractive little tables,
cabinets, shelves, bookstands, etc.
And there is the garden. On moon
lit summer nights, whose spell and
beauty the blind feel, perhaps more
deeply than we who have eyes, the
students gather about in groups. They
are fond of singing. One among them
is gifted with a remarkable tenor
voice, which gives great promise.
And there are guitars, and mandolins
and ukeleles whose strings throb with
gay soldier songs and song of home
and love. There are two blind men
with a guitar in a rowboat on the
lake. No gondoliers of Venice sing
more sweetly. There are two more
engaging in a tug-o'-war, in a moonlit
circle on the lawn, cheered on by
their companions.
So life at St. Dunstan’s is pleasant.
The days are filled with work cheer
fully done. The blinded soldier comes
back to his own and soon retrieves his
lost spirit, and in a measure, his lost
“sight," for he discovers that he does
not see with his eyes but with his
brain, and though deprived of the
proper God-given medium of sight,
soon learns to convey the “message of
the light" to his brain through other
channels.
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From Letters o* Released Prisoners.
First letters home written by re
leased American prisoners as they ar
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rived hi Switzerland, copies of which
have been received in Washington,
show general appreciation of the care
taken or them by the American Red
Cross during their captivity in Ger
many, and following their liberation.
Excerpts froin 80me of the letter>
follow:
"Have been released and am on my
way hoping to be in the States soon.
Don t worry, for I am well. Never felt
better In my life and have so much to
tell you all when I get home. And
who has saved my life? I guess you
know: the Red Cross, of course.”
We Just got out of Germany this
morning. Had a 3well dinner In
Basel, Switzerland with the Red
Cross. A person cannot praise the Red
Cross enough, for it Is Just great.”
"I was released as a prisoner In
Germany this morning, and went to
Basel, Switzerland, where we all had
a fine dinner by the Red Cross. Us
boys can not thank the Red Cross
enough to please us for the great
things they have done for us.”
“I am well and feeling fine on my
way through Switzerland. There is
one thing I want to say and that is,
God bless the Red Cross.”
“You wouldn’t know me now.
Thanks to the Red Cross, I weigh
about 200 pounds. Weekly parcels
Baved us.”
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The women knitters of America
have made more than 10,000,000 gar
ments for the troops in Prance.
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The following excerpt from a letter
of a nurse serving with Base Hospital
No. 102, a Red Cross unit, in which
were 100 Red Cross nurses, attached
to the army, shows what the nature of
the military service in Italy was:
“Quartered in an old palace where
Sir Walter Scott would have loved
to put his heroines, we are the nearest
nurses to the front. From my tiny
upper window, I have a fine observa
tion post. Airplanes fly low over my
head, and I look across the snow
covered mountains where the smoke
of battle used to bang like a cloud and
the thunder of the guns still seems to
ring In my ears.
“Although we are so near the rront,
we have many of the comforts both of
the ancients and moderns. The tomb
of Romeo and Juliet is within easy
walking distance, and we have moon
light nights that Shakespeare used to
love to describe, but which are very
much out of favor with the Italian
aviators. We also have electric lights
and an abundance of cold water.
There Is no lack of recreation, either,
for along with Y. M. C. A. movies and
the regimental bands of the troops
nearby, Fritzie rarely forgets us. It
is very thrilling to be awakened in
the middle of the night, and to have
to run for your life down the slippery
marble stairs In the dark. On the
way, I invariably wonder which would
be the worse—to be blown up, or to
die with a broken neck.
“Here in Italy, as everywhere, the
hardest work of the Red Cross will
come with peace. If we are allowed
to help, the work along public health
lines will be tremendous, as tbe need
here is appalling.'’
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Old-Fashioned Cookies for Yanks in
France.
More than 6,000,000 old-fashioned
American cookies—the kind mother
used to make—were made in France
and distributed with the compliments
of the American Red Cross during the
eight weeks immediately preceding
and following the signing of the arm
istice. The cookies were made especi
ally for the American soldiers m the
field, for the wounded in hospitals and
for distribution from scores of Red
Cross canteens. Late advices from
Paris are to the effect that the Red
Cross officials do not think that the
making of the cookies will be inter
fered with by the 3essation of hostili
ties; possibly the boys in khaki will
be able to relish them with greater
zest now that they are not so busy
hammering back the Germans to
where they belong.
So much has the demand increased
since the signing of the armistice, in
fact, that it is planned to raise the
output from 200,000 to 700,000 a day.
The cookie factory is located at No
gentsur-Marne. They are wrapped in
brown paper packages, each contain
ing six cookies. On the cover i3 writ
ten “Gift of the American people
through the American Red Cross.”
The best material obtainable is used
in the baking, and the most expert of
French cooks are employed. Forty
persons are engaged in the bakery,
and the work has been carried on in
two shifts at the rate of twenty hours
a day. There has been rivalry as to
which worker could turn out the most
packages in a day, the record being
held by a French girl who wrapped
2,000, containing 12,000 cookies. The
Red Cross supplies all the lard, sugar
and flour that is used.
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