kept them on the job
I RED CROSS GALLED
TO CONTINUE ITS
MELT
NCHES WILL
EACH COM
CURTAILED
Each Christ
; of Calling
ther to
Love.
H*nry P. Davison, Chairman of the
War Council of the Red Cross, has ls
CB sued to the 3,854 chapters and the
SB 22,000,000 members of the American
Red Cross the following statement
» outlining the future policy of the
•a: American Red Cross:
/ "The whole American people will be
B Invited In the week preceding Christ
B maa to enroll as members of the Red
B CrQM. It is confidently believe*
B. K ther* Will be no further campaigns for
Hk - Red Cross funds, but instead the an
nual roll call will constitute the foun
mJ, dation of the Red Cross. The people
should therefore know as definite y -
^^^Mkgplans of this their na
society.
i-^l « vT&v.^ P Bk:fe was signed 1
Bkjy to confer in
SPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPBf all American
lean Red Cross has concerned ltsen so
effectively In France, Italy and Bel
gium, will at an early date be assumed
by the governments, the Red Cross or
ganizations and the relief societies of
those countries, which, now that they
are released from the terrific burden
of waging war, naturally desire to take
care, as far as they can, of their own
people,
“The war program of the American
Red Cross will thus steadily and rap
idly merge itself into a peace program.
The wake of war will, however, reveal
the prevalence of disease and give rise
to epidemics and emergencies which
in all parts of the world will call lor
unlimited voluntary effort, the cutting
of red tape and the manifestation of
those qualities of human sympathy
which government action cannot dis
play. I
“Here will be the opportunity for tie
American Red Cross. But even oUr .
Red Cross must not and cannot act j
most effectively alone; we must I* °r I
in co-operation witn me ..
Cross and relief societies of other na
tions, to the end that not alone the
heart of America but the heart of an
mankind may be mobilized on beha.l
of suffering humanity.
"While, therefore, the pl»nf of the
American Red Cross In this direction
cannot be formulated specifically, In I
advance of the general xeiref program |
cf the Allied governments, the Ameri
can Rod Cross'is nevertheless plan
ning to develop hs permanent organi
zation in this ecsntry upon a scale
never befor^ contemplated in rime ot
Peace. . . ,
‘ The commissions which are now
conducting the &ctivitles of the Amer
ican Red Cro:f« in foreign countries, as
well as the temporary war organiza
tion i-. ihlf gantry, will as a matter
of course uiti;nale\y merge their ener-1 J
gies fifh those of the permanent or
gan!
5<»ui, tiie n.eu uross is rortunaieiy in
a healthy financial condition. Abun
dant occasion for the use of large
funds of money and great quantities of
garments and other supplies will con
tinue to arise, but it is believed that
there will be no further need for Inten
sive campaigns for funds. The work
of supplementing governmental activi
ties which the Red Cross will be called
upon to do in all parts of the world
will be upon a great scale, but it will
call for human service rather than for
large expenditures.
‘‘What the Ameri:an Red Cross
needs now is not so much contribu
tions of money as the continued devo
tion and loyalty of its members. This
is peculiarly true at this moment of
transition from war to peace. Annual
membership involves the payment of
only one dollar. The money thus re
ceived not only will defray air the ad
ministrative expenses of tfie organiza
tion, but will leave it a substantial bal
ance which, together with all funds
subscribed directly for relief, is de
voted solely to that purpose.
“The roll call of the nation is thus
to be called at Christmas time, that
through enrollment in their Red Cross
•Ihe American people may send a mes
sage to our soldiers still overseas and
to the people of the world that we are
not merely content with seeing our
arms united with our allies in victory,
but that our abiding purpose is that
the love, the sympathy and the intelli
gence of all America shall be rededi
cated to the permanent service of
mankind.”
RED CROSS IN THIS
DIVISION ALWAYS
HAS SET THE PACE
Simmons, Pointing to Remarkable
Recotd, Says He Hopes People
In This Section Will Main
tain Place in Front.
George W. Simmons, manager for
the Southwestern Division of the
American Red Cross, In a statement
given out today said that he hoped the
Southwestern Division would continue
to set the pace in Red Cross activities,
“In the past we have compelled the
other Red Cross divisions to follow us,
and I hope we will be able to say that
we have an unbroken record as the
leading division of the country when
the calling of the roll is completed,’*
said Mr. Simmons.
“The people of Kansas, Missouri, •
Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma have
in the past nobly responded to all the
calls of the Red Cross, and in this
membership campaign to be held' dur
ing the week of Dec. 16-23 I hope the
response will be similar to that in the
past.
“Will it not be a great achievement
if every resident of the division joins
the organization? It will mean that
for all time we can point to the five
states as being 100 per cent loyal to
its promises and pledges in both war
(auu ^VHVV.
“The Red Cross must continue to
give comfort and cheer to the soldiers
and sailors overseas and those in the
camps in America.
“While the Red Cross will continue
; to aid the stricken of Europe, we must
not neglect preparation for the care of
our own people should an emergency
arise.
I “The women of the five states have
' given their time to making surgical
dressings, refugee garments and to
knitting thousands of articles given
soldiers and sailors and the poor of
Europe by the organization, and to fail 11
to answer the roil call at this time I*
would reflect on their generous efforts. I|
“It does not appear necessary for 13
me, as manager of this
tion In this great division,
the people in this divisio
cause I feel conv
spond.
ARMY LOUSE ROOTED
American Army the Most Sani
tary in the World.
Hot Baths and Clean Underwear Rid
Them of Ills Common to
Soldier.
Paris. — The American army In
France Is the most sanitary In the
world. The discovery that the louse
was the carrier of trench fever and
that scabies—the seven-years’ itch of
Uible fame—and other skin diseases
are conspicuously reduced by cleanli
ness led the army staff to take roeas
ures to rid the Yankee soldiers of
these evils. It was decided that dean
underclothes and frequent bnths would
make the Yank immune from many of
the ills common to the soldier In
France. General Pershing ordered that
his army be equipped with efficient fa- j
cillties to insure every man in the;
army a change of clothing and a bath I
at least once, and, If necessary, twice
a week.
The soldiers, as they return from
active duty, are received in squads.
They disrobe and turn In their cloth
ing. Then they spend half a minute j
under a hot shower, half a minute un-!
der a cold one, two minutes soaping i
their bodies and then another half a I
minute uDder a warm shower for rins- i
lng. They emerge to receive clean un-1
derwear, sox and shirt and, if neces- j
sary, a dean uniform. The whole I
process takes minutes plus time '
for dressing and undressing.
The underwear the men leave when I
entering goes to the foundry wagons.
It goes through the washing and ster
ilizing process and is issued again, a
day or two later, to other troops.
Lice, known as "cooties” in the sol
dier’s vocabulary, have been common
to all armies In the war, but serious
efforts to exterminate them were not )
made until they were found to be germ !
carriers. The new American plan, It
is believed, will effectively rid the j
array of them. There were cases in
the American army, during the fight- ;
lng of the past summer, where officers j
and men did not remove their clothing !
for as long a period as six weeks. Un-!
ler such circumstances lice ceased to I
ae a terror, ceased even to be a sub- I
ect of jest.
ACTIVE IN WAR WORK
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