Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-08

need. he In turn presented the prooieui
to the Red Cross. offering the sum OF
10000, the interest Of which was to pc
devoted to the support OF the work IL
the Red Cross would assume the re-
department of the Red Cross was organ
ICED. The system adopted for the Town
and Country Nursing Dept. OF the heo
Cross provides for corps OF graaoa.e
graduate course of four OF eight months.
to fit them for the service. The Red Cross
Visiting Nurses are assigned TO duty
only in communities where local nurs-
ing committee or organization, public or
private, which is affiliated with the Red
Cross, assumes responsibility for the
salary. The requirements for appoint
ment to the Town and Country service
are the same as for the enrolment IN
the Red Cross. with the additional tram
ing in visiting nursing or some other
form Of social service. Arrangements
have been made at number OF nursing
centers for these special courses. Inc
Red Cross Visiting Nurses are expected
to take an interest in the general well
fare of their patients and as far as pos
sible to improve the environment OF the
families lilies Which th hsy s with peSo
ficiais and aid in private endeavors 70 e,
serve the community as a whole. as well
as the individual patient.
phase Of human interest including every
member of the community. no other
field of service presents broader oppor-
tunities to experienced visiting nurses
IN. rirst Aid Dspartmsnt-The
First Aid Department of the Red cross
is undertaking to do something towards
meeting the situation caused by the ire
mendous toll which modern industry
levies upon the lives OF workmen rms
is being done by teaching men how to
save themselves and their fellows from
those serious effects of accidents and
emergencies which result from neglect
improper treatment 1mmedlately al
ter an accident occurs
At present the First Aid Dept. is
operating two instruction cars. each IN
charge Of physician, who is an expert
instructor
These cars are devoted primarily to
the teaching Of railroad employees and
miners. They are in great demand ana
in the last year have been the means or
carrying first aid instruction to thou
sands of men. In the work of the First
Aid Dept. lies far reaching results IN
the preservation Of the wage Garner or
the family and the labor producer of the
country.
Realizing the tragedies of daily life,
knowledge of emergency care OF the in
jured or ailins appears to be a matter
of such grave Importance that it ought
to be included in the education OF every
person. To meet this demand the Red
Cross provides course Of First Aid FOR
women These groups Of women receive
instruction from competent physician
or surgeon in bandaging. emergency
treatment for injuries. drowning, poison
ing. common emergencies etc. A very
practical course and one which would
beneht any woman who takes it.
l4s. Endowment Fund for Emerg-
enoy Rsn gose shs y relief
nine disasters. aside from relief In the
warning countries.
These disasters were as followS:
Feeding Haiti; fire in Augusta Ga {:
fire in Belmont, Ala. tornado in Arkan-
sas and Wisconsin: food In the South
famine in the Cape Verde Islands storm
at st. Thomas, sinking OF the Stephano.
In order TO meet emergencies. it is
necessary to have an endowment fund
from which to draw for the initial call.
If the Red Cross had to wait until the
donations had been received. much UNI
necessary suffering would be the re-
suit.
The endowment fund provides an in
come which defrays in part the expense
of continuous educational campaign
and helps meet numerous minor relief
appeals.
Although the fund is the recipient of
patron and life memberships it mainly
depends on special contributions.
14s. Relief Contributions-1n time of
a great disaster. the President Of the
United States usually makes an appeal to
the people for contributions. Besides the
generous contributions from state legisla-
lures. and men and women of wealth. lie
the SlItS OF inc tnOuSdnUS VINO Ol lHel:
little give with equal sympathy and even
more self-sacrilice.
Fer relief in Italy, one morning the
same mail brought a ten thousand dollar
check from a man we'll known for both
his wealth and his philanthropy. and
another from a little colored mission
church for s2s9 The children often send
their little gifts. little group from a
day school at Old Glory. with no pennies
to give. more than once made small art-
cles to sell for the Red Cross. Here and
there a young boy struggles with letter
that carries his contribution. even when
that means a sacrifice of many pleasant
plan.
One wrote "My name is Sidney I am
eight years old and ! send you twenty-five
cents for some little boy in the floods.
My brother Donald. who is three years
old sends you ten cents" There is a
strong suspicion at headquarters that
Baby Donald was held up for that ten
cents. as a three year olds comprehension
of flood suffering is not apt to be ex-
ceedingly vivid.
Ever since the Italian earthquake, an
italian sailor, who was for some time In
the United States Navy. has in simple
ways and touching words of broken Eng
fish. poured out his gratitude to the
American Red Cross. When the Euro
pean war broke out. and before even Italy
was involved, he came to say that he had
a few hundred dollars in a bank and as
long as the war lasted the interest on his
Httle savings was TO go TO the Red cross.
A poor Russian Jewess, an immigrant,
in an iliterate letter from Chicago, ex-
planned that her mother had told her chil-
dren how she had suffered from famine
in Russia. The writer continued that the
Jews fasting for one day. knew what it
meant to be hungry. but realized that on
the morrow they could have food. but the
poor Chinese must go on without bread
on the morrow and on many other days.
SO she sent five dollars to the Red Cross
for the starving people. Think of it, a
poor Russian JeweSS a working woman.
sending from her scanty earnings to the
Red Cross for the starving people of
China,
These are but a few OF the incidents
which might be quoted to show where the
money comes from. Such gifts as these
set the heart aglow and make the RED
Cross work full Of inspiration.
The Red Cross stands ever ready at any
time to place its experience and organiza-
ton at the service of any community Sc
crippled by disaster that 1t Is unable to
cone with the problems of relief and re-
Mobilization with which it is confronted.
$50. Red Cross Nursing Service
Through the Red Cross Nursing Service
moro than 5000 graduate nurses have been
enrolled and are available for relief work
either in time Of disaster or In event OF
war.
Since the outbreak of the European war
thousands of women have volunteers
for nursing service. Probably all have
been prompted by the highest motives,
but many have shown that they were not
acquainted with the requirements of the