The Washington herald., 1914-04-27
D. c. REDCROSS
SOUNDS urgent
RELIEF APPEAL
Call Issued for Volunteers to
Join Hospital Force on
Firing Line.
MISS BOARDMAN SPEAKS
National Chairman Declares
Cooperation Plan Already
Worked Out.
SUPPLIES MUST BE SENT now
Headquarters Established Where Cloth
ing. Drugs. Etc, Will Be For
warded to Fighting Zone.

There was little that even suggested
peace between the United States and
Mexico at a notable gathering OF men,
bers of the District Red Cross Supply
Committee yesterday afternoon in the
small ballroom at the Willard. On the
contrary, war note sounded in almost
every sentence of four speakers. Men
and women appealed in the most serious
way for hospital supplies. nurses. cloth
ing, uniforms, and many other articles
in demand on the Mexican firing line.
Prominent Women Present.
Conspicuous among the prominent wom-
en- who occupied seats on the stage was
Mrs. Daniels wife of the Secretary of
the Navy. Others on the stage, from
the executive board of the society, were
Mrs Garrison, wife of the Secretary of
War; Mrs. william Crozier, Miss Jane
A. Delano, Mrs. William Hamilton Bay
ley, Miss Mabel Boardman. chairman Of
the national relief board of the Red
Cross; W. J. Boardman. Simon Wolf.
Henry B. F. Macfarland, Howard S
Reside, and Admiral n. E. Mason, re-
tired, who presided.
Mai. Robert L. Patterson, of the Medi-
cal Corps, Z. S. A. in his appeal for
volunteers for all branches of the work
of experts and pure drugs and other sup
plies. He announced that no nurses ex-
cept those graduated from standard
schools OF nursing would be accepted.
Let nobody suppose that there will be
any jingling Of spurs among the Red
Cross Corps" he admonished. THE Red
Cross is purely a civil organization,
standing between the soldiery and citi-
zenry, and there must be nothing cal
tod 70 Gle 81
workers will wear a forest-green uniform
and those inside the hospitals will wear
white cotton or duck or linen. Every
body must be competent.
There must be salaries provided for
those who must leave behind families or
any relatives dependent upon them for
support. All workers must be prepared
TO take along only a suitcase. So be sure
that you do not assemble too many luxu-
ries or necessaries. for there may be no
time or opportunity to enjoy them
INFORMATION Bureau.
Maj Patterson announced that a re-
tired medical officer had volunteered to
take charge of the information bureau of
the District Red Cross Corps, but did not
disclose his name. This is one of the
most important features of the work,
said he ''On this body mothers and
fathers, wives and sweethearts, brothers
and sisters may depend with safety for
all Information concerning their relatives
in the trouble zone
The need of only fresh drugs also was
adverted to by Maj. Patterson The
headquarters of the District Association
Opposed TO Woman Suffrage, at 1902 H
street northwest, was announced as one
Of the supply depots. where anything
that may be available in Red Cross work
rs
lowing is a list OF desirable comforts"
that will be acceptable:
Foods-Malted milk, evaporated milk
and cream, cocoa, soups jellies, grape
juice; inexpensive food trays, ward Slip
pers. copper bed warmers, air cushions,
washable bath robes of good weight, |
rolling chairs, tooth brushes, combs and |
paper drinking cups.
The following desirable luxuries" also |
will be accepted:
inexpensive straw hats, palm leaf fans, |
pipes and tobacco flor convaIesccnts out |
doors), writing paper, envelopes and lead |
pencils flor patients), comfort bags, ap-
paratus, syphons and cylinders of liquid |
carbon dioxide, for making carbonated |
water, portable ice machines, rubber |
sheets, blankets. sheets and pillow cases, !
mattresses, pillows. pajamas, night
shirts
DisillSCIdHlS-NnlO lime, CRUDE |
carbolic acid. cresol liquor cresolis COM
posters, solution formaldehyde; enam-
eled buckets and invalid foods of all |
kinds.
Cooperation Plan Worked Out.
By the appointment of working COM
mittees and effecting an alliance with
various patriotic social and business or
plan of cooperation with
the American Red Cross Society, in the
event Of war, was worked out.
Among the organizations represented |
in the meeting, aside from the repre-
sentatives Of the national and local Red |
Cross associations, were Chamber Of
Commerce. Board Of Trade, Retail Mer-
chants Association, Women of G. A. R.,
the G. A. B., Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, United Daughters of the
United Confederate Veter-
ANS, Woman's Christian Temperance |
Union, Women's Relief Corps, Needle
work Guild. which is affiliated with the
Red Cross; Jewish Fraternal Association,
District of Columbia Association OPP
posed to Woman Suffrage, Alliance of
Jewish Women. Southern Relief Society,
Federation of Women's Clubs Golden
Cross, Southern Society, Central Union
Of German Societies. Young Women's
Christian Association.
The committees appointed are: Supply