The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-05-13

Tile HeelS Oh the army survey the local
committees and the Red Cross agents
are making allotments to individual
families which the survey shows neces-
sary Back to normal" is the slogan
of the rehabilitation period. The
thing to do for each family is that
which will give. it start toward its
old, familiar, settled methods of life
and employment. When we have done
this for the food sufferers in com
munity, we have also done it in a
large measure for community itself.
To accomplish this the Red Cross uses
the utmost elasticity of method 1t
asks the question, What does this
family most need to set it going?"
And when the answer is found the
Red Cross tries to provide exactly
what is required.
Throughout the flooded country to-
day, the answer to this question is
being sought in relation to fully 3d.
900 families. 1t has been found and
answered in perhaps 10000 families,
and the relief funds which have been
given so generously by the American
people are being poured out through
a hundred channels to provide the new
start for which all are waiting. Aud
what is the answer? Sometimes il is
an outfit of tools; it may be a sewing
machine or wagon or a small stock
of merchandise, or a peddler's pack,
or repairs to damaged house, or a
railroad ticket or hospital care or the
temporary payment of rent, or any of
the hundred other things which fit
the individual needs of families and
set their usual wheels of life grinding
again. Because this particular disas-
ter was flood, it is, of course, neces-
sary in almost every instance to pro-
vide simple furniture in addition to
whatever else is granted.
In one town a dealer in butter and
eggs lost his stock and fixtures and
with them his ability to make living.
BY buying him an iceboX, pair of
scales and some shelving, and advanc-
ing him few dollars for new stock
of goods, he was made entirely indie
pendent and promptly began serving
his regular customers. A barber lost
all his equipment. A new chair, some
razors, towels and fixtures solved his
problem. A Woodworking laundress
received some furniture and 20 her
great joy a new washing ma chine and
necessary adjuncts. An Industrious
and deserving boarding house keeper
was reestablished with the furniture,
dishes, ETC., necessary to enable her to
take her former bOarders back to the
old place" A careful old German cab
met maker lived comfortably from his
trade His heart was almost broken
by the complete loss of his tools and
he could see the poorhouse straight
ahead The relief fund bought new
tools and already the old man is con-
tentedly at work repairing the broken
furniture of his neighbors.
These actual experiences are men
toned simply to give an idea OF Red |
Cross methods and to let Tom Jones
and John Smith and Susie Thomas |
know where their contributions went |
and for what. There is no arbitrary |
list to the varieties and forms of help |
carried on, except the limit to the
of funds available. The fund
to be expended in Ohio, which has suf-
fered more than any other state, at
this time seems likely to amount to a |
total of about $1,750,00O. This in
cludes the contributions to the Ohio
food relief committee, the appropria-
ton by the legislature and the Red |
Cross fund assigned to Ohio. All these !
funds have been consolidated and will
be expended as one
Everywhere the people are recover
ing from their depression and are