Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-06
GREETS RED CROSS
President Taft Welcomes DEL
egates to the Capital.
INTERESTED IN ITS WORK
Larger Possibilities of Usefulness
Continually Presented.
PLANS FOR LOCAL EFFORTS
Desired to Establish First Aid Sta
tions in All Government and
District Buildings.
INTERESTED IN ITS WORK
PLANS FOR LOCAL EFFORTS

| Representatives of all sections of this
country and many from foreign lands,
| army and naval officers and members of
| the diplomatic corps were present when
President Taft called the afternoon ses-
| sion of the annual meeting of the Amer
| lean Red Cross to order in Continental
Memorial Hall.
President Taft. who Is the president OF
| the American Red Cross, welcomed the
] delegates to the annual meeting in d
| brief address, in which he told of his in
terest in the work and encouraged all to
continue along the lines now being fol-
| lowed. Mr.. Taft told of his own connec-
tion with the body, and promised his con-
| tinued' support.
| Following a luncheon in the building
steps, the delegates gathered for the sec
ond session at 2:l5 o'clock this afternoon.
Others who will speak this afternoon are
Brig. Gen. George II. Torney. u. s. A.;
Ernest P. Bicknell, national director,
American Red Cross; Assistant Secretary
| of State Huntington Wilson, and Senor
Don joaquin Bernardo Calvo, minister
| from Costa Rica.
Miss Laws Stirs Delegates.
Declaring that friendship and co-opera-
ton and not competition should be the
policy Of all charitable and philanthropic
movements and institutions toward each
other Miss Annie Laws, secretary OF the
Cincinnati Chapter, stirred the delegates
to a high pitch of enthusiasm at the
morning session.
Perhaps no other organization In the
world" said Miss Laws, carries with 1t
the possibility of so fully exemplifying
this policy as the Red Cross with its ma
tionaI centers in every country in the
world, it's systematized arrangements
for organized and voluntary relief work
in time of war, for national and inter-
national relief work in time of peace, its
opportunities for mitigating sufferings
caused by fire, floods, famine, disease
and disasters of all kinds. and its ability
to coordinate agencies of all sorts in
preventive measures tending to mini
mize, in great degree, the possibility Of
occurrence OF great calamities Of Whatso-
ever nature they may be-
After touching on the tubercular relief
work Of the Red Cross, Miss Laws said:
THE question, however, has arisen. In
great American Red Cross, pledged to
help humanity in SO many directions,
might not extend it's fostering care
through visiting Red Cross nurses to
others needing help. quite as badly as
tubercular patients-in some cases more
badly. Also, whether the fact that the
Red Cross. with it's insignia so absolutely
identified at Christmas time with a more
limited organization and yet being
brought SO prominently forward, does
not tend to confuse the minds of many
people and obscure the larger significance
OF the Red Cross
Work on Canal Zone.
Miss Mabel Boardman read the report
of Maj. c. A. Devol on the Canal Zone
Chapter Maj. Devol being unable to at
tend in person. The report told of the
marked increase in interest there since
the visit, in February. 1909, of then Presi-
dent-elect Taft The chapter now has a
membership of more than LOCO.
Mrs. Theodore North Mclaughlin sec
retary Of the District of Columbia chap
ter read a paper on Public First Aid
Stations" Mrs Mclaughlin told of the
establishment Of first aid stations in va
riOus places in the District the equip
ment and facilities offered for caring for
slight or serious injuries or Illnesses The
first station to be established was in
Rock Creek Park. in the old Pierce mill
Later one was established in the general
land Office and three in the different
buildings of the census office. Prepara-
tions are now on foot for the establish
ment of one in the United States iail.
Mrs. Mclaughlin said it was the ambi-
ton of the local chapter to establish a
frst aid station In every government OF
DlStrlct Dulid1ng.
First Aid Education.
Dr. George w. Grille, chairman of the
Cleveland chapter, told of the campaign
to educate different organizations in his
city in first aid work. Earnest p Bick-
nell, the national director, read a paper
prepared by Sherman G. Kingsley of
Chicago, on The Duties and Opportunities
of an Institutional Member of the Red
Cross.
Following the reading of the papers at
the morning session, the placing Of Red
Cross stamps on the front of envelopes
was brought up for discussion. Post
| master Merritt was appealed to over the
| telephone for information and the dele
gates We're informed that the embargo
on the Red Cross stamps applied only in
| a few foreign countries where the stamps
were prohibited for the front of envelopes
and packages. A resolution was passed
authorizing distributing agents for the
| stamps to receive from the dead letter
office Of the Post Office Department and
| forward to their original destination let
| ters and packages whereon the sender
| had placed Red Cross stamp and