Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-12-28
RED CROSS Will
ERECT BUILDING
Washington Will be Site for,
Handsome Marble
Structure
GREAT GAINS NOTED
ten. George w. Davis in Report
SHOWS That Organization il
Branching into Useful Lines

Washington, Dec. 27-The Nation
al American Red Cross Society ia
preparing to erect a magnificient
marble building in this city. Plans
nave been completed, a location has
been agreed upon, tentative designs
nave been considered and a commit
Tee has been appointed to begia and
carry On the work. Full details will
be made public later.
The Red Cross as is now organized
has been developed from the nucleus
or the society which existed in 1905.
when Congress conferred upon the
lncorporators the power to build ND
IN America a national society that
should perform the duties the United
States assumed when our govern
ment on March l, 1882. decided to
continue in force the provisions of
the Geneva treaty of August @,
1864.
The Red Cross becomes feature
of the news during wars and at
times of great calamities and dis
asters, but side of it's work which
the public does not fully understand
/ is its steady, persistent relief It Is
Tor this work as much as for great
emergency measures that the Red
Cross has been in need of big home
for its national Headquarters in
Washington.
owing in the wake of fires,
storms, earthquakes, ca;asLi ophes on
land and on sea, and doing umuch
to curtail the deadly ravages OF tu-
berculosis, pestilence and poverty,
the Red Cross is striving to give a |
new significance to first in war,
first in peace"
The work of the society, as direct
ed by it's central committee, has been
70 assign for study it's plans, orga1i-
cation, supervision and control to
three great bodies-the board of war
relief, the board of national relief
and the board of international relief.
At present General George w. Davis
is chairman of the central committee
and he, with Miss Mabel Boardman
and Ernest P. Bicknell, direct much
of the active work Of the society.
General Davis in his last report
points out that mot year passes
Nthat experience does not indicate
Esome new field of activity or show
That existing means and measures re-
nire change of readjustment. No
Aubt this condition will continue,
i year by year the functions of the
n Cross will be modified and ex-
1 as experience points the way"
Has Broad Scope.
me idea of the work of the Red
- may be gained from the fol-
summary by General Davis OF
Org ncipal activities in 1913.
lONAL RELIEF: Alum Chine
ID, March Z; Alabama storm,
Al; Omaha tornado, March %
81, ! 10y floods, March "a; Finley
90, - explosion, April %; fire at
,n hgs, Ark, September .
md no.. fire, Nome, Alaska, Octo-
Ifo 49,, Ysles epidemic Alaska, No
.yo Volturno disaster, Octo-
Dr. 49, disaster. Dawson, N. M.
,le wv Ind floods, December 1.
ox NJ: Getysburgh reu2-
,e+ =. 49,. ntruction-This branch
"h.a ha the report reads,
inv - tho hcted during the year
- y. 49,. Ipn Of the employers
or ~ ra,,u, mills. mines and on
;+h s,,.+.,o1 by thousands Of in
e.. "a have been taught
,av n,,a, nv b replace the first
70 80. ,,,. >llman Company
,ifa ..,o woa al but and no longer
nm C-oss NV thu Pnted to the Red
ote "rho r,ra,, pmpany.
he =, ~ vorh = ce-This branch
If Vow rrao+ sa| carried on with
his four thousand more 'h"n
.ou, anro,,ad nurses are
he several hundred ng the yea'
ide service in emerG uo'o
the "Town and cou ..
Dor work. commenced arsang-in iS
Eth s.n.,.d ,o-vsrd IF. has. been
ht- ployed by local now em.
A twenty specially trs -
~ - ...,,,t- This