The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-06-14
ALL MAY JOIN
THE RED CROSS
Not q Society of Doc
tors and Nurses Says,
Miss Ada Hobble9

"The Red Cross Society is not a
society of doctors and nurses" ac-
cording 10 Miss Ada Hobble who talk
ed at the mass meeting held at the
Majestic theater Sunday afternoon.
at is merely a branch of organized
charity and any American of good
character and standing may join. Its
service is not merely given in time Of
war; it acts at all times. In all great
disasters the Red Cross Society is on
hand to, give whatever sort of aid it
can" 80
Zone can be a reasonably good
Christian without belonging to the
ehurch; one can be reasonably well
educated without going to school;
but to be better Christian or, to be
better educated one must 60 TO
church or attend school. So it is
with the Red Cross work. One can
be fairly charitable without belong
ing to the society but one will be
more charitable if one belongs" ~
Miss Hobble said she hoped to have
a membership of five hundred in
Liberal if possible. San
DR.. r. T. Nichols was the next
speaker. He told something of the
early history of the society. He en-
phasized the fact that it worked to
relieve the distress of people in all
national disasters. At present the
society is spending about million
dollars year. The SanFrancisco
earthquake was the first thing in
which they took part in America.
Since then there have been nearly a
hundred, big catastrophes in which
they have aided wonderfully.
"The Red Cross Society has to
handle different disasters in differ
ferent ways" said DR.. Nichols. ''In
a mine disaster, as rule, nearly all
the miners are killed. The Red Cross
NSociety looks after the widows and
orphans and endeavors to find means
for their support. 80 I
SIN case of flood their work is
entirely different. Few people are
killed but their means of livelihood
are destroyed. Several years, ago a
small fishing village was destroyed.
The Red Cross Society hired the
fishermen to build boats and then
gave them the boats to use in fishing.
"The American Red Cross Society
has furnished 38 base hospital units
in the present war. A unit is made
up of 25 doctors, 100 nurses and
enough orderlies to take care Of the
work. Such a unit can handle a
minimum of 500 men. The society
has also established number of field
units.
"The society has not confined its
work merely to relief. A million dol
lars has been spent fighting the white
plague" ~.
Napoleon Yer Duyn, French
soldier who was one of the defenders
Of verdun, told of the work Of the
Red Cross Society in France and the
dangers to which they were exposed.
The Germans, he says, take care to
, destroy hospitals whenever they can.
They realize that the peoplei killed
there are hard to replace and they
know that an army must have well
organized hospital service in order
to exist.
Mr. Yer Duyn came to America
IA years ago. When the war broke
out he enlisted in a Canadian regi-
ment. He was later transferred to
the French army where he saw over
two years service. He has been
wounded four times and is now on
furlough recovering from his last in
jury. He will return to France and
re-enter army service September L.
The boy Scouts, under the direc-
tion Of their scoutmaster, Ernest Full
ton, gave several first aid demon
strations. Merle Engle was brought
forth suffering from bruised heel,
skinned knee and bad elbow. Yer
non Engle, Art. Edison and Clifford
Sawyer showed how the scouts apply
bandages in such cases. One of the
boys carried the wounded" scout
off the stage.
!, In the second demonstration, Chet
Naylor had fallen out of tree and
'Spt his head. T. j. Smith and Edgar
Bush bandaged the wound for him.
The third stunt was where
one Of the boys l suffered with
a broken leg. The scouts tied up the
boys leg so he would suffer as little
as possible. Then they made
stretfher by putting their scout
staffs through the sleeves of their
coats, and with it carried him off the
stage Bert Morrow, Vernon -Engle,-
Glen Dickerson and Chet Naylor
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