The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-07-14
ABLE MEN ARE
AIDING RUSSIA
EXPERTS ACT FOR RED CROSS
IN ADVISING ON WAR
RELIEF


WASHINGTON, d. c., July 12.-
AS an initial step in carrying out
its purpose Ito do something i'm
mediately to hearten afflicted Rus
sia,' Henry P. Dawson, chairman
of the Red Cross war council, an
nounces the dispatch to Russia of
a special Red Cross commission.
The commission carries with it a
quantity of medical supplies and
surgical instruments with which to
meet most urgent needs. These are
to be distributed to hospitals, in
situations and Red Cross organi-
cations in Russia.
The commission is composed of
IL men, including eminent experts
in problems of medicine, public
health and social service. The pri-
mary purpose of the commission
will be not alone to render such
immediate aid as it may, but to
ascertain along the broadcast posi-
BILE lines in what manner the Amer
lean Red Cross can extend most
effective relief to the wounded
soldiers and the needy and suffer-
ing civilian population of Russia.
The commission is headed by
Mr.. Frank Billing, of Chicago, and
Mr.. william B. Thompson, of New
York.
AS advisers in solving the pro-
blems of sanitation and public
health, the commission will have
the expert assistance of Raymond
Robins, of Chicago; DR.. j. D. Nc
Carthy, professor of public health
at the university of Pennsylvania;
and DR.. George c. Whipple, pro-
fessor of sanitary engineering at
Harvard university.
To deal with general medical
problems, the commission will have
the services of Professor William
S. Thayer, of John Hopkins uni
versity; Professor E. A. Winslow,
of Yale university; and DR.. Wilbur
E. Post, of Chicago.
In its studies how best to as
sist Russia in providing adequate
food SUPPLIES for it's civilian popu-
%lation, as well as for convelescent
soldiers and prisoners, the commits
sion will have the assistance of
Harold Fl. Swift, of the packing
firm of Swift & Co.. of Chicago,
and Professor Henry S. Sherman,
of Columbia university.
In cooperation with the Amer
lean railroad commission already
in Russia, the Red Cross commits
sion will study the problems of
transportation, especially with re-
ference to making sure that ship
ments of relief supplies may reach
destination without delay. For
this special work the commission
has as one of it's members Henry
j. Horn, formerly vice-president Of
the New Haven railroad.
In addition to the foregoing, the
members of the commission are J..
w. Andrews, Thomas Thatcher and
DR.. Orrin Weightman.
Accompanying the commission
as inspectors and attaches, are
the following: R. I. Barr, Norton
c.. Travis, William Cochran, Will
liam c. Nicholson, Cornelius Kell-
cher. Malcolm Tirnie, Allen Ward
we'll and Major Malcolm Grow, U.
S. A.
The determination of how Amer
lean relief on a large scale can
be best administered in Russia
will not be made by the Red Cross
val council until after preliminary
investigation by this special COM
mission. Following such inquiry.
the American Red Cross will be
able to decide whether best results
can be obtained by utilizing exist
ing agencies in Russia, as has been
done by the American Red Cross
commission in France, or whether
it will be best to build up in Rus
STA a ley and Independent admis-
istration for this purpose.
1t is the plan If the American
Red Cross at the earliest possible
moment and in the most thorough
going ways which it can devise, to
make the Russian people know that
the American people are behind
them not only in words but in
real measures to alleviate their suf-
ferings and share with them the
burden of caring for their sick,
wounded and starving people.