AU garments out in work, knitted
or otherwise, are .due June 1. Head
quarters are open Thursday and Fri
day afternoons.
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Mrs. A. G. Morey, of Chltina, rep
resented her home Chapter at the sec
ond annual conference of the north
western division chapters of the Red
Cross recently held in Seattle.
* * *
An American Red Cross nurse on
duty near the Archangel front writes
that when persons are frozen to death
up that way—a not unusual occur
rence—the natives make no attempt
to thaw out the bodies, but build the
coffins around them.
* * *
Cordova Chapter is in receipt of
the following copy of a letter sent by
the Northwestern division, American
Red Cross, to the father of Private
John William Jones of Cordova, who
wis killed in action:
“Seattle, April 1, 1919.
“Mr. O. E. Jones, 2124% First Avenue,
Manitoba Apts., Seattle, Wash.
“My Dear. Mr. Jones: We have
just received a report concerning
your son, Private John William Jones,
which will indicate the splendid
bravery of your splendid son who lost
his life overseas.
"He was killed on November 3, in
offensive operations in Argonne for
est sector. He rendered valuable
service as a runner during the initial
stages of the attack of July 18, when
his company commander was seri
ously wounded. He helped to carry
him three kilometers to an ambulance
station, this under shell fire near
Vierzy, July 18.
“This splendid soldier is the type
of American young manhood whb did
so much toward winning this terrible
war.
. “We can not express sufficient sym
pathy to you, but trust that strength
may be given you to bear this heavy
burden.
“If the Red Cross can be of any
service we shalj be only too glad to
render same. Sincerely yours,
“(Miss) MAY B. GOLDSMITH,
“Director Bureau of Communication.”
V. V V
The American Red Cross will have
a great peace-time program and
chapter and division organizations
must be kept intact, not only to finish
the war work but to deal with the
problems of relief, on public health
and of child and family welfare that
will remain after peace is concluded.
Red Cross members will accept with
enthusiasm the opportunity to deal
with these problems locally, nationally
and throughout the whole world
under the banner of the Red Cross.
This was the conclusion reached by
more than 300 delegates, representing
practically all Red Cross chapters of
the northwestern division,, who met
in second annual conference at divi
sion headquarters, in Seattle.
_C. D. Stimson, manager of the
northwestern division of the Red
Cross, called the conference to order
at ten o’clock Thursday morning,
April 10, extended a hearty welcome
to the delegates and made the open
ing address.
“The war work of the Red Cross is
far from finished,” said Mr. Stimson.
“There are still a million men under
arms. As long as there are sick and
wounded men in our military hos
pitals; as long as there are dicharged
soldiers not yet restored to health or
returned to industry; as long as any
soldier or sailor or his family needs
the service we can render—the home
service, the canteen service and the
military relief work of the Red Cross
must go on. As long as refugees are
shivering and starving in the devas
tated and liberated sections of Europe,
without adequate provision for their
necessities, our foreign relief work
must continue.”
Mr. Stimson expressed the opinion
that there would be no more large
production quotas after the conclu
sion of those now in the hands of
the chapters, but urged that chapters
hold a skeleton production organiza
tion and a minimum production equip
ment to respond to the emergency
calls that are sure to come from time
to time.
Mr. Stimson also reviewed briefly
the achievements of the Red Cross
members'of the Northwest working
through the northwestern division,;
emphasizing especially the home serv
ice in the chapters, the meeting of
the influenza emergency, the Bonding
of personnel to Europe, the work in
the camps, the thorough organization
of chapter territory, the success of
campaigns for members, money, lindn,
and used clothing, the sphagnum moss
development, and the great production
activity. He reported that during
1918, the division bureau of supplies
shipped through the port warehouse
of Seattle on vessels bound for
France, Italy and Siberia, more than
27,000,000 articles of chapter produc
tion, weighing over 4,000,000 pounds,
valued at over $4,000,000, packed in
more than 26,000 standard packing
cases and occupying more than a
quarter of a million cubic feet of
cargo space. These shipments, Mr.
Stimson reported, did not include the
large quantities sent by rail to the
Atlantic seaboard, but did include
some goods from other divisions. This
vast quantity of supplies was carried
ovrseas without one cent charge for
freight, through the courtesy of the
United StateB Shipping Board.
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' A Bundle of 8hirts
A French woman repatrie from Ar
ras recently arrived at the headquar
ters of Amiens warehouse district of
the American Red Cross carrying on
her shoulders a large bundle. Her
burden was deposited in the ware
house office with the information that
it belonged to the American Red
Cross.
The bundle was opened by Captain
Floyd Van Keuren, Red Cross district
manager, and was found to contain
numerous shifts which the woman
said she had received from the Red
Cross a year before to put button
holes in. Questioning developed that
she had carefully guarded the bundle
of shirts during the evacuation of the
Somme district, and that in order to
do this it was necessary for her to
leave some of her own effects in her
home, which was destroyed.
When Captain Van Keuren sug
gested rewarding the woman, she in
sisted she wanted nothing; that the
shirts had been put in her care, and
that she had returned them at the first
opportunity. Asked if she had been
paid for making the buttonholes, she
replied in the negative, and when
pressed to name a sum, for she was
entitled to pay under the refugee em
ployment plan, she suggested five
francs. This amount, about one dol
lar in the United States, represented
not over one per cent of the value of
the shirts.
With her child the woman said she
expected, to return to Arras, where
her second child had lately died, and
where only crumbled ruins marked
the site of her former home. The Red
Cross will look to her welfare,
xxx
A Newsboy of the Trenches
“The Red Cross Boy with the
Whistle,” is the name given John
Caflisch, a steeplejack of Buffalo, N.
Y., by American soldiers in the St.
Mlhiel sector.
A daredevil in more ways than one,
Carflisch made regular trips to the
front trenches for the American Red
Cross to distribute newspapers con
taining the latest American news. His
work became so popular that it was
necessary for the Red Cross to furnish
hijn a camionette. To 'expedite his
delivers, Caflisch procured a squawk
ing whistle which emitted a sound
very much like the horns used for
starting Paris subway trains. When
ever this peculiar whistle sounded
about the front lines, doughboys ap
peared in crowds to get the news.
Caflisch delivered as many as 18,000
newspapers daily. One morning near
Vieville a shell exploded beside his
camionette and put it out of use for
several days. The boy kept on his
rounds afoot. He will be,long remem
bered by thousands of grateful Amer
ican officers and enlisted men.
XXX
Red Cross “Welcome Homes” are
all the vogue these days. Quite the
most popular things socially in con
nection with the return of the boys
from their trip "over there” and
“here.”
Although six months have passed
since the last American soldiers fell
in battle, the bureau of communica
tion of the American Red Cross sees
no early prospects of closing its doom,
When the service of keeping the
home front in touch with the troops
overseas was started in May, 1917, no
one, least of all the original six work
ers, ever imagined that January, 1919,
would find a staff of 335 in Washing
ton, D. C., and 400 in Prance quite
absorbed in handling thousands of
cases every day. (
During the month of January, the
weekly mall of the service exceeded
one hundred thousand pieces. Today
It frequently totals ten thousand
a week.
Every day come hundreds of pleas
f6r those details of death which are
creasingly difficult to ascertain. In
March there were 80,000 American
soldiers in hospitals overseas. Of
these 15,000 wore still suffering from
wounds received in action and the
condition of many had to be reported.
Information about thousands suf
fering from disease also must be sent
to anxious families. Add to all these
duties the correspondence about the
graves overseas, and the complicated
reports about men still missing, and
one can hardly wonder that the com
munication service demands a large
staff.
Nor does the responsibility of the
bureau cease when the doughboy re
turns. It undertakes to keep up to
date and to answer questions about
the returned units and priority sail
ings. It maintains a card file of all
returned wounded, with record of all
transfers from hospital to hospital.
Another function of the bureau is ;
the sending out of hand-colored photo
graphs of the graves of more than
50,000 American soldiers who made
the supreme sacrifice, a work that
will not be completed until October.
Such a resume can give only the
faintest picture of the whole operation
of the bureau. One must see with his
own eyes the incoming letter, often
hard to decipher, going to the casualty
files with 40,000 cards of notation;
then to other files for previous corre
spondence. One must see its inquiry
then being acknowledged and the sub
stance of the inquiry drafted on a card
and sent to Paris. We must travel
with that card or that letter or that
cable message—see it arrive in the
Paris office, where it is recorded once
more and sent to the division searcher
or hospital visitor. We must go with
the division searcher to company
headquarters and ask Jim’s sergeant
or lieutenant how Jim died. Or we
must go with the hospital searcher to
John’s bedside and find out how he’s
getting along. Then we must see
those reports coming back through
Paris to Washington, checked up care
fully and sent out in a personal let
ter. And, at last, we must see that
letter with the eyes of a mother or
wife and know the.relief from uncer
tainty, whether the news be good or
bad.
It will never be realized how essen
tial a support to the government, how
invaluable to the morale of a nation
at war, has been this service. Cer
tainly nowhere except In the huge,
sacredly guarded correspondence files
of this bureau can be found such a
record of the sorrow and Joy of Amer
ica in war time. t
Buttermilk for cooking and Bulgar
ian buttermilk, wholesale and retail,
for sale at the Cordova Grill. Also
served with meals. 9-lw
Keen Kutter pocket knives are
what the name implies. Keen and
stay keen after using. For sale at
Northwestern Hardware Co. 1-tf
Prices are coming down. So are
our ham and eggs. Now 60 centB at
the City Bakery. 2-6t
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JEWELERS AND
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WATCH REPAIRING
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Service we will take your entire
washing out of the home and return
it spotlessly clean. The flat pieces,
;§ such as bed and table linen, towels, hand
kerchiefs and the like, are immaculately
ironed. The others are starched so that
you can finish them at your leisure.
Then, too, you have the satisfaction of
knowing that your clothes are laundered
far better than you could do them.
The softest of water, the purest of soap,
gentle sousing instead of violent rubbing,
and numerous rinsings, all make for
clothes that are whiter and cleaner than
could possibly result from home methods.
And the expert finish, smooth and velvety,
will appeal to you.
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you to inspect our line of Woolens.
We can save you $10 to $20 on a suit.
Fitting all done in this shop.
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Big Variety of Pastries and Cakes, Always Fresh
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