Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-21
RED CROSS GAR
 IS COMING HERE  Will Give Instructions Ir First Aid For the
 Care Of The
 Injured.
FOR RAILROAD BOYS
All Appliances Used in Illness or h. jury While Travelling to He Ex-
 liibited and Explained.

The Amer can Red Cross Society Car Nc. is mak ng a tour of the .sn- tire Missouri Pacific-Iron M1un an System, and gill visit Pine Bluff OH | December 2S. The Car was staited on Is JGurney at Oms,la, where's t was kept for .Wo days, Sept mbar l6t, and 17th, being hauled t Omaha | by the Chicago &: Ncrthwes arn Rail- roal and there suFnad oyer. 0 the Missouri, Pacific The tcuT, which opens at Omala,s will ba. continued ever tae lines of the M ssour. Pacific iron MSuntair for tl.ee and half mon IS, the last stopping piace being TeXarahana, Ak, at which point the car will be on the 3rd and 4th. cf E:Xt January.
 The 'teur over the system is for the purpose of giving instruct ons n first ald fer the care of the injured, and 'to teach safety as q means of preWan ing accidents. On $ jouILey the car will be accompanied by rep resentatsves of the Red Cr3ss Soc ety, the Y. M. c. A. anl of the Hospital Department and Safety Committees of the Missouri Paclfic-Iron Mountain system. Tle natiCnal officials f the Red Cross Socie operate th s car purely as a D ece of pailan hropie work. It is conducted under h 1T railroad department, f w1ich Dl. M. J. Shields, Washington, D. C., is head. Dr. NJ. W. Glasgow lives n the car and acts as instructor and demonstration, and objsc! of the trip being to educate 1a'lroai nsn and ~theTs n the " .1ik{ * of rendering first ald to t2e irjaied by teaching them lreW to put temporary dressing OH wounds and hcw to tenn Yorar ly tre at 3 fracture, etc, until m dical aid gan  arrive. It is calculated ha many
 ives can be saved, and alse many persons can be proven ed from b ing maimed and disfigursd for Life
 While tn 5 car is in a city ali the appllcaticrs to be used ill Gase of ,ll- ness, or injury, either to passenger CT em2lcyes of the railroad are on eNh bition and t.e ataniants eXp.ain fcr what purpose each S 10 be used. The railread employs arc solici d
 9 sit tae ear and view he outfits and demonstrations anl hear the in- structcns and lectures given or how to take cSs; of the injured. In tA' s way they are able to help each o5her IS we'll as passengers in cases Of in jury or illness.
 Tho men are requested not o1iy to help each ether and tse passengers of the road in ease cf mishap, but to also give care and attention to treseasssrs, and evsn tramfs. The talks which are given to ,he men by Dr. Shields are short and are illus trated by charts, d asrams, X-rag plates of fractures, and by painting he location Of tee principal blood yesse s n rho different important parts and organs of the body Of the human subject with colnred Gsayons, In this way tce men are taught some sing Of anatomy that 5 very usefll in handling emergency cases. They are instruo el cn TOW b t.e up bloed vessels to as 3op bleeding u til q prysician can air ve, and how 0 clean wounds and injuries 50 as to prevent blood 10 soning aTd cther complications from setting in, and are a.so instructed on various oiaef things tha are useful and efI c&c,ous ~ir cases of ems rgency.
 Besides the talks the physicla $ give dem2nstlatons on living sub- iects in banda 3ins, stopping hencf- rhaga;, CT applying temporary spl hts. The h2.s1 ar2 also put to work arac- ticins others things so they VII bs- como proficient. Actual opera .an is performed in artifie al respiration, dressing wounds. apply ng sp.in, to fracfu.es, etc. A ssretcher dri1 IS included in the instruction. Tine men are a,so shown how they can impto- wise , stretcher to carry injurel per sons in emsrg ncies and nstruc ii on how to held their arms in carry irg people. Aq
 The physicians. furthermcre, en- 6eaver to organize first-a sdno-in- ured crews who are taught Q .w2rk togetner and srs drilled regulaly so as to make themaprof cient, h many