The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-13
SPOKE TWO HOURS
Miss Tandy Told of Red Cross
Home Service Today.
Thirty-Fiv Delegates at Memo
rial Hall Conference.
STRUDEL[ HERE FRIDAY
st. LOuisan Will Tell of War
Risk Insurance.
Valuable Aid To Be Rendered
Soldiers Families.

Beginning shortly after 10 o'clock
this morning Miss Kitty Tandy Of To-
peka spoke Till nearly IL on the work
of the home service section of the
Red Cross. About thtrty-five dele
gates from nearby towns were present
for the lecture at Memorial hall, and
they showed a surprising inclination to
be even more efficient in this work
than they have been in the making of
Red Cross surgical supplies
Among other things Miss Tandy
gave a brief history of the methods of
carrying on home service work as
taught her at the st. Louis Home Ser
vice institute. They gave us a two
year course in the short space of six
weeks by eliminating all the folderols
of academic teaching and giving us
instead six weeks of the hardest king
OF actual welfare work" she said.
Most of our studying was done among
the dependent families of St. Louis
soldiers and among the slums of the
city teaching the women how to make
the most of their money and seeing to
IL that working and living conditions
were sanitary"
How Work Is Conducted
Eoing on from this Miss Tandy ex-
planned to the delegates just how one
should go about conducting an intel
ligBnt relief campaign. She said:
''First thing to do is to get a list OF
the soldiers in your community, then
verify the enlistments so that the
werk will be in good shape even be-
fore any appeal is made" She then
went on to state the various ways in
WHICH Investigations are conducted
anfr- to say that ''the home service
seetion of the Red Cross does not
lihiit its relief to purely monetary aid
but also concerns itself with furnish
Ing. medical and hospital aid, sees to
the. home and working conditions OF
thu. families, and gives advice to de-
peEdent families on legal matters that
always come up to veN the people
wren the breadwinners have gone
away to war"
IN speaking of the method of dis
tribution of financial aid, Miss Tandy
told the delegates that no set OF
rules can govern individual cases
eVery family or applicant for aid pre-
seifts separate problem that must be
solved before intelligent aid can be
repdered."
~ Be Discriminating.
K1ong with this statement she de-
clared in no uncertain Language
AGAINST the giving of aid to families
whose men are suspected of being
Austrian or German sympathizers, say
inG. I'VE must confine our efforts tC
bona fide dependent families of sinner
pure soldiers of the United States
And this means no disparagement Of
theefamilies of our allies either"
The sessions of the conference will
continue over tomorrow. Fred Stru
den of st. Louis, Mo, will be the
SPEAKER of the day tomorrow with {
talk on the War Risk Insurance
Bill" at Memorial hall at 10 O'CLOCK
ingthe morning. The public at large
is ESPECIALLY invited to attend this SEES
sion as the subject dealt with is one
ofEkital interest to every family tina
numbers a soldier among its members
whe afternoon program tomorrow
viii be confined to a general discus
siah and questions on the home serv
icSswork. After this meeting the con
fetence will stand adjourned and tn,
delegates will leave the city to carr!
out the home service work of the Rec
CO fss in their respective communities