The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-17
-DR. SHIELDS WILL
 TALK ON FIRST AID
Comes as Representative of
 American Red Cross
NATURE OF THE WORK
pr. Shields Was Invited to Birming- ham by Alabama Coal Operators Association and Will Deliver
 Seven Lectures

Dr. J. M. Shields of Scranton, Pa, the well-known "first-aid dto- -the-in- jured" expert. is in Birmingham and will deliver a number of lectures in the district.
 The American Red Cross has o. tsanized first-aid department in cnarge of Maj. Charles Lynch, medical corps. United States army. and has eni- ployed pr. Shields. who so successfully organized and brought to a high state of perfection first t-aid work in the an tnarcite coal mines of northeastern Pennsylvania, and it is the intention of the Red Cress to carry this humane and life saving work to all tie min . ing and industrial communities of the United States.
 The board of directors of the national organization is composed of John Hayes Hammond. John Mitchell, Dr. J. A. Holmes. chief of the mining bureau of tue geological survey of the United States; W. c. Brown, president of the New York Central railroad; Julius krutschmitt, vice president of the Union Pacific railroad; Carl Sholz, chief of the Rock Island Frisco mining depart ment, and a representative from the Y. NJ c. A., c. M. B. A, and Y. M. | H. A. President William H. Taft Is the president of the American Red Cross
 | Miss Mable T. Boardman, who re- gently received the civic crown from the King of Italy for the Red Cross efforts in the earthquake in Italy, IS
 the moving spirit of this work, which | is most extensive.
 pr. Shields of the medical reserve corps, United States ari.y, who is the | ;jeld representative of the association | is now in the district at the invita- tion of Capt J. V. Allen, commissioners If the Alabama Coal Operators asso- citation, and has made appointments to deliver lectures at Birmir gham. Vir- | einia Mines, Mulga, Ensley, Blue Creek Hlocton and Blossburg. pr. Shields is instructing and encouraging the or
 ganization of first-aid corps in all the
 1nining districts of the United States and his work will. take up the next three years He has just come to this l OlSIrlCL dIler d beIleS ol icStuie eS dhi | demonstrations in the coal fields oi | OK klahoma, and from here will go tu
 the coal fields of Tennessee.
 The Pullman Car company has do-
 hated a car to the Red Cross which, un- der special arrangements with the in- terstate commerce commission, will De handled free of charge by the ra.l- roads who are enthusiastically coop
 erating in this work and demonstra
 lions in the future will be carried ou in this car. which is being thorough, | fitted out and will be ready for us,
 in the next two weeks.
 The mining bureau of the Unitel
 States government will also have space | in this car for the use Of an ex
 pert mining engineer, who will eX-
 plain the use of permissible explosive: and the safe methods of mining. Int
 turpose of this humane and life -sa r. | ing educational work by the 4.mericar
 Ted Cross and the government is tt
 minimize the fatalities in the mines
 of the United States.
 | It Is the purpose of the Alabama
 Coal Operators association to endeavol to arrange, at the earliest time pos
 eible. for the esta ablishment in the Bir-
 n.ingham district of a government
 rescue station.