The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-01
FIRST AID CAR.
AMERICAN RED CROSS SOCIETY
IN CAIRO ToDAY-TWo LEG
TpRES WILL BE GIVEN.
Car on Tour Over Illinois Central r.
h.-Lines Surgeons Giving
Trainmen instruction How
to Care for injured.

10 care TOR injured.
In the passenger yards Of the HI
nois Central railroad is a Pullman car
bearing the following well known
name American Red Cross across
the frieze OF the car. The car was
Thought to the station yesterday
morning at III o'clock and sidetracked
there. 1t Is there. 1t is the First
AID car Of the American Red Cross
Society. The car is on an itinerary
tour oversize Illinois Central lines.
Meetings will be held in the car this
| morning from 81 to 10 O'Clock and
this afternoon from to S O'clock,
lIh car will be located for the morn.
ling meeting at the I. c. round house
rear Eighteenth street and in the
afternoon at the Illinois Central pas.
senger yards. All employees of the
iron Mountain, Mobile and Ohio and
Cotton Belt Railroads are especially
Invited 10 attend the meetings whicl
OF course are free.
| The First Aid' car is in charge OF
DR.. NJ. j. Shields first lieutenant OF
tn U. s. army. assisted by DR.. NJ. w
Glasgow of tn National Red Cross
Society.
| Purpose Of First Aid Car.
This car was donated for use Of the
Society for the sole purpose of en-
| couraging the instruction of individuals
and the organization and training OF
First Aid Corps for rendering prombt
and fficient first aid after accidents
occurring on railroads, street cars and
in shops, mines and all Industrial
| plants.
| 1t is fact that not one person in
a thousand outside of the medical pro.
| fession knows anything of the pin
| cipals of first aid to the injured. Yet
| any man or woman is liable Of
any time to be so placed that ignor.
ance on this subject may mean loss
of life. The Museum for Sanitation
and Safety in New York city reports
that there are annually five million
accidents in the United States. The
greater proportion OF these occur
where there is no doctor and where
non can be Immediately secured. fhe
bystander is responsible for unnecas
sary serious results due to his in.
COMPETENCY. The loss to our country
through accidents IS estimated at ESQ
million dollars annually. A careful
Istudy of the question result in the est
mate that &c per cent of the accidents
are due to ignorance and negligence;
"a per cent are due to the inevitable
risk OF employment. Then after the
accidents have happened there is the
great toll Of deaths that result because
the bystander does not know what 10
do. To Miss Mabel Broadman, the
moving spirit of the Red Cross today,
this task appealed. 1t is largely due
to her power and influence that this
First Aid" car work has been taken
up by the Red Cross Society. -
This car started on its tour through
the country from Buffalo, N. Y, Dec
Is oflast year It has been over al
part of the New York Central railroad
Fystem, the Frisco system, the Moffat
Lines and nearly all the Rock Island
system since it was started With
the approval and cooperation of the
officials and Chief Surgeon DR.. Dowdall
the car started on a tour of the Hi
nois Central lines on. Monday, April
oath with the following schedule:
East s.. Louis, April 1926, Carbon
dale, April 27-2S, Mounds, April 80, |
Cairo, May /, Paducah, May "a
Louisville, May "a, Jackson, Tenn
Say $40, Birmingham, May lib,
Water Valley, May 1916, Memphis |
May 1919, Jackson, Miss, May 2O-22,
Vicksburg, May 1926, Greenville, May
26, McComb, May 1929, New Orleans
May 30 to June /, after which the
car will proceed westward to Cali
fornia.
Either DR., Shields or DR.. Glasgow
will visit the high school and give a
short talk on the subject of First Aid
to the injured which will be heard nc
doubt with great interest by theI
pupils,
HICKORY STOVE WOOD 81 SO