Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-21
RED CROSS FACTS
Objects of American Red Cross-Work Abroad and at
Home Fulton County Chapter Proportion of
War Fund-Members in The County
Cash Receipts

Very shortly after the appoint
ment of The War Council of the
American Red Cross, it appealed to the
people of the United States for a con-
tribution of One Hundred Million Dol
lars, which is known as relief fund.
In a report recently issued by the
Council, to the American people, the
general objects sought by the work
abroad are briefly outlined as follows:
1. To establish and maintain hos
pitfalls for soldiers in the American
Army in France.
2. To establish and maintain can
teens, rest houses, recreation huts and
other means of supplying the Amer
lean soldiers with such comforts and
recreation as the Army authorities
may approve.
8. To establish and maintain in
France canteens rest houses, recrea-
ton huts and other means of supply
| ing comforts and recreation for the
! soldiers in the armies of our allies.
4. To distribute hospital equip
litary hospitals for soldiers of the
American or allied armies.
5. To engage in civilian relief, in
Guiding:
a. The care and education of desti-
tute children.
b. Care Of mutilated soldiers;
c. Care of sick and disabled soldiers;
d. Relief work in the devastated
areas of France and Belgium, such as
furnishing to the inhabitants of these
districts agricultural implements,
household goods, foods, clothing and
such temporary shelter as will enable
them to return to their homes;
e. To provide relief for and guard
against the increase Of tuberculosis
6. To furnish relief for soldiers and
civilians held as prisoners by the
enemy, and to give assistance to such
civilians as are returned to France
from time to time from the parts of
Belgium and of France held by the
enemy;
Z. To supply financial assistance to
committees, societies or individuals
allied with the American Red Cross
and carrying on relief work in Europe.
/ Commissions have been sent to
France, Russia, Roumania, Italy and
Serbia, to study conditions at first
hand and report how and in what
manner relief can best be extended to
the suffering populations and soldiers.
These commissions are composed of
our leading men taken from the fl
nancial and industrial walks of life;
| most of the members go as volun-
teers and in majority of the cases
pay their own expenses.
Mr. Garfield, who has been made
: Director Of the Lake Division in
, which Fulton county is, serving with
out pay and hundreds of others are
doing likewise.
In addition to the work abroad the
, following are a few of the activities
of the Red Cross to be engaged in
, here at home:
Cooperating with public health au-
thorities to safeguard the health OF
f civilian populations in the area sur
rounding the national army canton
ments.
Assisting the city and state health
officials in insuring the purity of mill
. and water supplies for the civil popu
lation, and in cleaning up unsanitary
places near the camps which NIGH
= serve as breeding places for germs.
The equipment of five laboratory
cars for emergency work against pos
= sible outbreaks in cantonment camp!
of epidemics; these cars will be 81
placed as to be available at camps
within twenty-four hours after re
quest.
Render such assistance as may b,
possible and necessary to the depend
ents of men who are in the army
And note the following: from Mr.
Davidson, Chairman of the Council
The American Red Cross is distinct,
a non-combatant, civilian organiza
/ ton. It's character as such will b.
Il Ijealously guarded as one of it's great
est assets, and it is the policy of tn
| Red Cross to dicourage assumption
by its representatives of any relation
ship or activity which does not har
monize absolutely with its distinctive
lily civilian character.
II Thousands of dollars of this mon
ey are being expended by the wome
of this country in the purchasing o
supplies which are manufactured TO
the comfort of our soldiers, sick an
| wounded.
II Of this fund Fulton county has bee
asked to raise the small sum of fiv
| thousand dollars; At Red Cros
meeting held at Wauseon on Frida
the 14th, this five thousand dollar
was apportioned among the variou
Branches of the County, based upo
the tax duplicate of the several jun
isdictions, and the apportionment