Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-02
RED CROSS WORK IN
 WARREN DESERVES
 STRONGER SUPPORT
Warren Branch of the Red Cross Is Working Hard But With a Shortage of Wom- en to Hurry Its Results

As familiar asf the terms Per shing's Army" National Army and Draft" is the term Red Cross" and yet surprising majority of the Am erican people have no conception of the work which the Red Cross is do- ing. Making bandsges" seems to be the average idea of the extent of the Red Cross accomplishment in this country. and no better opportunity is presented anywhere for the corren- ton of that impression than is offered in the Red Cross quarters at Warren.
 Here a great work is being dple. The women of Warren have taken up their duty seriously and the one un- fortunate fact in connection with that work is the poor attendance at their meetings. For the past month they have maintained but an average of six on their working days; an eyer- age which should be considerably larger. All credit is due the members who are working faithfully, but they should be given more support, and every woman in Warren should de- vote some portion of the week to her Red Cross duty.
 And it is a duty. The confirmed stories which have come back from the hospitals in France, telling of the intense sufferings of the men who are offering and giving their lives in the trenches-sufferings which are due to inadequate Red Cross supplies, should stir every woman throughout the United States to a keen realization of her part in this great struggle for world freedom, and it should inspire her to sincere and determined effort to shoulder her full burden in won derful mission of mercy, even at the sacrifice of some of her home duties.
 The usual picture in the minds eye of Red Cross meeting is a group of stylishly gowned ladies wearing be- coming caps with embroidered crosses of scarlet thereon, each of whom is rolling a soft, clean bandage of white. It is an idea gained from the lead
  covers that suggest such attractive pictures, and which would lead any newspaper man to believe that were he to enter such a group these ladies would look at him with tear-glistening eyes, exhibit their little white band ages and speak in sigh-punctuated sen tences of tour noble work"
 But one newspaper man was com pletely disillusioned last week. He entered the quarters of the Warren branch of the Red Cross and asked for a story. He was courteously but firm ly informed that the ladies working there were too busy to be interview ed, and a single glance around con- frmed their statement. Each woman present was working away in busi- ness-like manner-working as hard as if the whole burden of the Red Cross work had fallen on her individual shoulders and journalistic curiosity gave way to plain, every day admira- ton in the reporters eyes. They were making bandages, of course, but they were making other things. Bath robes, pajama suits, hospital coats, fracture pads, slings and bed shoes represented some of their work, and then there were "nightingales." How the vanities of these wounded Sam mics" are going to be touched when they are given their inightingales. Comfortable and attractive looking, they have a French peasant blouse ef- feet and. further than that. they defy description by a man. But they lcok most inviting-even to anyone per fectly healthy.
 Then, too, socks and wash rags are knitted for the soldiers, and large quantity of knitted work is daily turn ed out. It is possible that knitting machine will be installed in the War ren quarters ere long, and this will enable them to greatly speed up that particular sort of work.
 Although more interest has been taken i:; Warren since the Red Cross has been in it's new quarters, there is still plenty of room for more inter- est In the meantime the women whJ are working are making up in quality what they cannot do in quantity. It hasn't been such a very long time since that the government awoke to the importance of the Red Cross and made it a major organization of the army. How long will it be before the women of Warren will awake to the import-