Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-12-11
SURGICAL DRESSINGS
| NEEDS SUPPLIES
Must Have Workers-Extracts
/! From Mrs. Austin's Letters.
THREE COUNTY UNITS FORMED
At Deales, Shady Side And Pasadena
By Mrs. Richards and
THREE COUNTY UNITS FORMED

Mrs. Austin, yice-president of the
National Surgical Dressings Commit
tee in France, has sent letters broad
cast on the needs for surgical dress
ings and workers
The following are some extracts
from her letters, received here by
Miss Margaret Walton, chairman of
the Annapolis Surgical Dressings
Committee:
October 4th., 1s17.-"We must
have enormous supplies for the army
and have them quickly. assure you
the question keeps me awake nights,
as with our great difficulty in get
ting workers here it hardly seems
possible that we should get through
with the work before us"
October 18th, 1917.-"I cannot inn
press upon you too strongly that the
French models are in no way to be
changed. We want them to come
over here just the same as before, as
well as any and all the raw material
you can send us"
II think from now on committees
ohOAA0 NC. NCig CAu4 W oGlu AOln-
ing in the boxes which is not abso-
lutely useful and really well made,
this on account of the transportation
question, every inch of space on the
boats is of such value, that we have
no right to use it except for the per-
feet article that is absolutely need
ed. Beg all committees to make per-
feet work, and entirely eliminate
whatever is not Indispensable l
query if people at home realize the
importance of this transport ques-
tion. We do over here because we
see the difficulties of it every day and
all day"
October 18th, 1917-"There is no
time now for people to be making
for our own army things that they
think they would liketo have-they
must buckle down and do first what
is absolutely necessary and then
later on send the luxuries."
Il don't exaggerate when ! say that
we, the Surgical Dressings Commit
tees and the Red Cross Chapters,
have one of the biggest and most i'm
portant work to do, from now until
the end of the war, that has ever been
given to any large community of
women to do. The life and death of
millions of men is going to be our re-
sponsibility to large extent and if
from now on we don't come up to the
mark, and do our task without any
loss of time, we, the women of Amer
lea, will be branded in the future as
incapable and no good. | cannot find
words to express how important this
is Egg every one on to do what must
be done, to do it we'll and to do it at
once. There is no time to lose. How
wish l were at home, this critical
moment, so that l could tell the
women what an important job they
have, and try to awake them to the
necessity of doing just what we are
asking them to do"
"will you preach this on the
house tops, will you take every op-
portunity possible of saying it wher-
ever you go, and will you see to it
that one and all are working with one
idea. that is to win the war"
The class here has been doing fine
work and has received great praise.
Units are being organized throughout
the county by Mrs. Richards and Mrs.
Craven, who have successfully organ
lied Surgical Dressings Glasses at
Deale. Shady Side and Pasadena, un-
der the local committee These units
are doing splendid work.