Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-15
RED CROSS INSTITUTE To
Be OPENED IN RICHMOND
VIII Be Under Direction of DR.. II. III.
Hibbs. Of School of Social
Economy.
WHITE EXPLAINS ITS PURPOSE
Six Weeks Of Intensive Training, In
Guiding Actual Field Work, rs
We'll as Lectures, to Be Given Mt
School in Richmond.

Under DR.. Henry H. Hibbs. director
of the Richmond School of Social
Economy Red Cross institute is
shortly to be opened in Richmond. In
explaining tho purposes of such in
stitutes yesterday. Henry White. Of
washington. Potomac division manager
OF the American Red Cross and former
United States ambassador to France
said:
Now that trained and experienced
home service workers are being dra 1T
cd for France and Belgium. and the
extra demand for workers is beginning
to be felt acutely in our own country,
the American Red Cross finds itself
practically compelled 10 establish a Sc
rieS or Institutes for training of adj
dttional workers, both paid and vol
untecr. Otherwise, we should be nm
dermining the working STATS Of ex-
listing social and charitable agencies
with the inevitable result that these
indispensable community agencies
would become disqualified by so
much for the serious business of
relief and rehabilitation which is sure
TO follow the war.
ot the twenty-five or more Red Cross
institutes which are being opened this
month. we are fortunate in LAYING
one at Washington, the other two at
Baltimore and Richmond. Six weeks
OF intensive training. including actual
field work, as we'll as lectures and as
signed readings, are to be given to
each student. The course of instruc-
non mas been worked out in collabo-
ration by thirty specialists In home
service At graduation, each student
who has proved his or her capacity for
the work required will be granted n
certincate signed by the director-Een-
cral of civilian relief. w. Frank Per
sons.
More detailed information. Of COURSE
may be had by communicating with ]
w. MaEruder, Potomac Division Direc-
tor OF Civilian Relief, at our WASH
ington headquarters, or with .itIlcr OF
the directors OF institutes themselves.
ALREADY MINISTERING TO
THOUSANDS or SOLDIERS
ihat the home service sections of
the civilian relief committees ot ,be
Rec cross are already ministcring to
some thousands Of soldiers, sailors. ma
rineS' aviators. doctors, nurses ambu-
lance drivers and others in the ser
vice. seems to come as SUNRISE m
man! people For, are not men with
dependent families being rejected bv
the exemption boards? And Is not the
government TO make allotments to
families of men in the service sum
plemcntins the monthly half-pay al.
iotments from tie men them se,ve..
furthermore, IS not the government
20 pay indemnitics for war casualties
ana even to provide life insurance al
Ordinary peace rates? What need
then. of Red Cross civilian relief?
10 anyone who stops to think. this
question at once answers itself: and for
the obvious reason that the man at the
'front.' is something more than a rnera
oread"ihner, and eacn member OF his
1amlly at home is something more than
mere stomach to be filed or n back
TO be clothed or a head TO be sheltered
Deprived suddenly of the husband. ia
tner, prother. son. that is. of the man
OF the household. who, in addition to
his earnings. has contributed a mans
lie and services. with their wealth of
meaning, to the 1amily--how is this
sudden loss to BIO made up to the aged
parents in their helplessness. or to the
wife who Is inexperienced in business
affairs or burdcned with anxiety for
houseful of growing boys and girls?
can mere money allotment take the
place OF the thousand and one things
which hitherto were left to the man OF
the house to look after? Even the
government moneys. legally limited as
they are in the maximum amount paw
able to any one family, will not al
ways meet the needs of every family.
in case sickness. death or reversal of
fortune strikes the family after the
man is gone.
Tho fact is. that, after the exemp-
ton boards and the War Casualty Blu.
reau have done their utmost under the
law. the Red Cross. through the home
service section of it's civilian relief
committees. is still confronted with a
task which will tax the energies and
resources OF its workers and reouire
their hest skill and training and OK
perience in solving domestic problems
and meeting family needs.