The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-13
slcKNELL TELLS STORY

4 COLI MBUS, Ohio, May 13.-What
/ became Of the dollar you gays toward
/ fhe fund to aid the 10000 families
rendered homeless by the recent MID.
die western floods?
No doubt several hundred thousand
contributors Of amounts from %
cents to $25 have asked themselves
the question dozen times. It was
answered today by Ernest P. Bicknell,
national director OF the Red cross So.
ciety through the United Press. The
dollar given by John Smith. Of Aus.
ia, Texas, and the so cents given hy
Susie Jones, OF Biddeford, Me-. may
have paid for one OF the razors which
restocked the barber shop OF deserv
ing tonsorial artist in Ohio; or per.
haps the half dollar donated by Sam
Jones' Of Portland Oregon, added to
the mite given by rJane Doe Of New
York, helped pay.for the washing ma
chine given the iaundress in Indiana
who wouldn't accept charity but
merely wanted to replace the lost ma
chine with which she carmel her liv-
Ing. Director Bicknell was urged by
United Press representative to iell
In detail just how the money tor the
feed sufferers was spent. and today.
for the first time, he gave the an
swer'' in the following article
by Ernest P. Bicknell. Written for
the United Pressl
What the Red Cross Did for the Fleou
Sufferers.
Distributed hundreds of sewing ma.
chimes and wagons.
Paid for repairs TO damaged houses.
Bought scores OF railroad tickels.
Paid hospital bills for hundreds.
Temporarily paid rents for thous-
Rnds.
Completely restocked small dealer
In groceries.
Restocked several barber shops and
merchandise stores.
Gave laundress washing ma
chine.
Ro-established deserving board
Ing house keeper.
! Furnished aged German cabinet
maker tools to resume his work.
Bought food, clothing and medicine
for thousands.
Relief operations following a great
disaster fall naturally into two per-
lods. First, there is the period Of en-
Urgency relief when every possible
resource must be strained TO save life
and to prevent suffering by swift
provision of shelter and clothing. Suf-
lerers are dealt with in the mass. The
one question is, How many persons
are to be rescued. sheltered, fed?N
lhen follows the period Of recon
struction or rehabilitation. This calls
ior complete change in policy. We
must now consider the needs of the
sufferers, family by family. in order
laat so Tar as relief funds allow, We
may provide for each especial service
@iilcn It's own particular needs re-
Quire. In the period of amcrganc..
We emphasize speed. with thorough
ness IN second place; in the period of
ienapllltation we emphasize thorough
ness with speed in second pace.
ne emergency period OF the pres.
enl Hood relief operations with all its
'spiehdid record OF courage, action
ana sacrifice is closed and the period
y rehabilitation is now in full
SWING IN fully one hundred cities.
owns and villages in the states of
west Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
kentucky and Nebraska. More than
Sky OF these places are In Ohio.
surveys have been made by local
rehef committees and agents Of the
nea Cross and the number OF families
,,,, require help to get over the
n''l and go on their own way again.
- !, rapidly being determined. Close on
.ne heels OF the army survey the To-
"a committees and the Red Cross
asenss are making allotments to In
uisloual families which the survey