Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-21
RED CROSS HEADQUARTERS
MOVED TO WASHINGTON
Virginia Division Is Merged With
Other States Into Potomac
Division.
SECRETARY is TRANSFERRED
Will Take His Headquarters STAFF
With Him to New Field-Work
Is Being Systematized Along Lines
of Regular Army.

Several months ago at a conference
| following the whirlwind campaign for
| raising tho ono hundred million Red
| Cross fund. a group Of far-seeinE Rich
| mond men in discussion with DR.. j.
| w. Macgrudcr. who was at that time
| assistant director-general of civilian
relief Of national Red Cross headauar-
tcrs at Washington. suggested tho adj
visibility of decentraliZing the work
/ of the Red Cross and having It con-
/ Quoted under various department heads
| or bureaus like the army.
Since that time the suggestion has
! been acted upon by the government.
| SO that the work OF the American Red
I Cross is now conducted under thirteen
! divisions of the service The last Of
| the divisions to be organized Is known
as the Potomac Division. and embraces
all of Virginia. West Virginia and the
District of Columbia. with headquar-
ters at Washington.
other headquarters for the various
divisions are in Atlanta, New Orleans
81. Louis. San Francisco, Seattle. Dem
yer. Chicago. Cleveland. Philadelphia
New York. Boston and toher points
contiguous to the territory covered by
the respective divisions. More divisions
VIII he created as the necessity arises.
Each division has it's own division
manager. and associated with him arc
number Of directors. who are in charge
of separate branches or bureaus of the
work of that division.
SECRETARY BROWN
MOVED TO WASHINGTON
Now the manager of tho Potomac
Division. in which Virginia is included,
IS Henry White. who was yesterday in
inf ntH. fol-
diplomatic career. Associated with Mr.
White will be David II. Brown, until
yesterday executive secretary of the
state Red Cross organization, with
headquarters in Richmond who will be
division director of the Bureau of
Chapter Development. Mr.. Brown will
be responsible for perfectinE the chan
ter organization and activities not
only OF the remaining seventeen coun-
Ties IN virginia. but also of the State
OF West Virginia and the District of
Columbia. 1t is practically the same
line of work in which he has hereto
tore been engaged. except that the
scope of territory is extended and his
. responsibility increased
The summons to Washington ia M.
natural outcome of the recognition Of
national headquarters of the splendid
work which Mr.. Brown has done in
connection with the Red Cross in Vir
gina To secure Mr.. Browns release
was necessary TO gain the consent
" inc executive committee of tho
virginia Division of the American Red
| Cross. and the committee met i'm ox-
ecutlVe session for this purpose YES
lcrday afternoon at Red Cross bna,i
quarters at Fourth and Grace Streets
mere were present at this meetin,r
the following members of the commits.
.ee' 1ohh NJ. Miller. Jr.. acting direc-
t,,tn
American Red Cross; r. c. Stearns
superintendent of public instruction
Janes Is. Doherty, Commissioner NJ
LABOR Acknowledgement w. w S,In
Judge Thomas II. Wilcox, OF Norfolk
dohn T. Harris. of Harrisonburr: cole
man workman. president Of the Rich :
nohd chapter of the Red Cross. Dr
/ w. Magruder. from national headn,,,
'erS' VINO under the new order of
th,hGs Is division director of civ,,;n -
| Fchef IN the Potomac Division
STATE ORGANIZATION IS
'"hh"Ep INTO POTOMAC DIVISION
me action taken does away u,,.
"c state organization altoyether q,
icing merged into that of the potom.
i'sioh' win headquarters at g30y.
fourteenth Street. " w, a consio.'
an1e Instance from the national mead
&c. t'rS winch are at Seventeenth ana
80 'hS!iIiSl ION.
| Mr.. Brown has orders % 49,,
AFFAIRS at State hcadouarters q, -"
ny as possible and report at Washinr-
'oii early IN the week. With Mr.. Rrow
VII go his assistant. Miss pauli,.
"i'.scii' VINO was graduate of Jon,,
marshall High School last year ~,
Mno mas an enviable record\for en-.
e'Shcy at Red Cross headquarters.
MISS NJ II. Hatcher will also pro,.-
dDlS 20 10 Wa
10 continue her work at djyision,i
headquarters. The training of ciw,l;a,.
rchet workers will be UNDERTAKES -.
itichihond by Director II. II Hihho ~
me Richmond School OF Social rco,,t
oinE' DR.. MaSrudcr expects prca, ~
SUITS from these institutes. DR. JIihn.
:. mas hecn appointed as official dtrec,n.
ot hed Cross Institutes for the traintnt,
.., u ross civilian relief workers
n . reside In the Potomac division.
{ ihere VIII be special confern,
at noon to-day at the wes,n,nraIa
oino AT the call of the chairman ~ III y
sPcakcrS bureau OF the Red rros
nc conference will be addressed ~
" hasrudcr. DR.. Douglas s. Freer,
VINO was appointed by Henry w
aersoh as chairman OF the bureau. NJ
wa n. Brown. and others. Mc,nn.r.
-. me speakers bureau include. besioc..
.ne ABOVE. Kew. j. L. Hicks, Of Dan.
Eiilc' PRESIDENT Mcconnell. of tho S,,,.
Normal School Of Radford. state g..
,or Z. oC. Goolrick. OF Frederick nnr,,
PROFESSOR c. G. Maphis, OF the roc,,1, ,
or inc University of Virginia. Cnorn'.
W. conrad. OF Harrisonburg: Rev "
r.. thompson. d. d. of Richmond. Dar
nharies liann!san, Hunter Hughes ~
Fletcher. John NJ. Miller. Jr NM,
other well known men. ""u