Arizona republican., 1917-11-26
WARM GARMENTS
 BADLY NEEDED . 0N THE FR0NT

The great need of knitted articles for the American fighters in France is | contained in the following word from | the Pacific division of the Red Cross: | The following telegram just receiIed | from II. D. Gibson, general managSr, ! American Red Cross, Washington, D. | C., by Marshall Hale manager of the | Pacific division gives further empha- sis to the great need of knitted goods I for the relief of American fighters in France:
 Tt is imperative that all of the sweaters wristlets and socks that can | possibly be made by the women of the country should be turned in to the sup ply department at the earliest possible dates. With the cold weather coming on. the demand for sweaters especially, has been beyond the capacity of all our resources to supply. We have for warded promptly all knitted articles received from the chapters and have in addition been compelled to buy in he market 5000O0 sweaters of which | about 250,000 have been delivered. | These sweaters are machine knit | and the yarn used is a mixture of cot | ton and wool SO that it does not with | draw any considerable amount of yarn from the women knitters of the Red 1 Cross. We are buying all. the yarn we are able to secure that is suitable for l knitters and sending it out to the chap | ters as fast as we can get delivery of it. We have received from the chap ters about 200, 900 sweaters and approx | imately the same number of machine 1 made sweaters all of which have been l delivered to the men in thS camps and training stations with the exception of l few thousand which we have had to | send to France
 ., The requests of our organization in | France for sweaters and knitted goods have had to remain unsatisfied on ac- count of our inability to secure enough | for the men in our army and navy. We | call upon the wC '< T to give us their very best effort from now until al least January first that we may be able to furnish our own fGcn with those com forts and have some to spare for the dire needs in France.
 H. D. GIBSON.
 General Manager"
 One hundred pounds of wool was re- ceived by the Phoenix chapter of the Red Cross on Monday and by Thursday noon the entire supply was exhausted, Not small amount of the yarn was forwarded to outside branches of the local chapter.
 Mrs. w. K James. chairman of sup plies last week received boxes of hos pital garments, knitted articles and surgical supplies from the outside branches which were repacked and shipped to headquarters Among the contributing branches were Tempe Mesa, Florence, Superior, Havden, kay Winkelman,. Glendale and Harqua Hala.
 The Red Cross Magazine and News paper depot located at 216 West Washington street, has been in receipt of quantities of tin foil the past week from the school children who are doing their bit in this way Miss Gillg, a teacher of the Peoria schools, donated three pounds collected by the childrer of the fifth and sixth grades; Miss Barnes of the Lincoln school contrib utcd "A pounds from her class an6 Miss Comber of the same school added @at pounds of tin foil from her pupils Miss Stadlings of the city schools do mated Sl4 pounds credited to the boy: and girls of her class.
 The Washington Fillmore Grant ant Adams schools have sent in large quan titles of newspapers and magazines
 Two classes in Red Cross work hay, been formed in the Woman's club m der the direction of Mrs. C. r. Aims worth, chairman of the club Red CrOs service committee The hospital gar ment making class will meet the frs Friday in December and the chairman will be Mrs F. A. Beane. The surgica dressing class, Mrs. D. F. Harbridge chairman will hold its first meeting the Thursday following Thanksgiving Mrs. Barry Goldwater will instruct thi class.