The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-12-28
RED CROSS NEEDS
Increasing FAST
Organization Doing Great Work
In East, Says Miss Castle,
But Calls Grow Daily

"The most wonderful sight in the
world is the thousands OF clear.eyt1,
splendid young men in the training
camps in the East" said Miss Bea.
trice Castle yesterday" and the worst
thing one can possibly think of is that
some of those young men may have
TO suffer and die If the women Of
America do not stand behind them and
help them through the Red Cross. ~
Miss Castle has just returned from
trip of several months in the East.
She spent the greater part of her time
in Washington, and was at the Rel
Gross national headquarters mostly
while there. Now that she has returned
she will resume the Craftsmanship Of
the Hawaiian Allied War Relief, Of
which Mrs. Damon was the acting
! chairman while Miss Castle was away
until her own departure for New York
about two months ago. a ......
Dressings Needed
While in the East Miss Castle was
lcontinually impressed with the neces.
lsity OF ever increasing effort on the
part of Red Cross workers TO keep
up with the iucessant demand from thu
front for more and more dressings and
supplies. She was at the Red Cross M
tional headquarters the day Major
lGrayson 7. Murphy's cablegram ask
ling for 100000 more dressings in less
than n month was received, and states
that such requests are coming in more
and more often. ...E..
! The work in the East Is colossal
Miss Castle said yesterday. "Thete
are thousands and thousands working,
but even more are needed. A, million
knitted garments are needed from the
workers, and the surgical dressings are
needed by, the hundreds Of thousands
first, last AMI all the time. WY
| 81 saw Clyde Pratt, former head Of
the war clearing house through which
the dressings from Hawaii were sent
in Washington, and he said that the
work done by Hawaii through them
was splendid, and that they should now
do twice as much work through the
Red Gross. He wished me 20 bring
back to Hawaii his thanks for the
work done here. - 'sa VIZ
Second Line Trenches rs A.
'"'They are calling the Red Cross tho
second line trenches now in the Eas',
because, they say that the Red Cross
is always next behind the soldiers.
Wherever they go and whatever figh q
ling they are engaged In the Red Gross.
rs with them, and il is this suppo7
t'i''t heRfteps the men at the fpfni
|tNf The III.I@ - I. g.. ~
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VA 1t1t M ~ 4 NJ.
tf hHst ail aIttfqf TITO ID y. We.
must al liitsh q work make 1t
come ont all rigiit, 6aaLs Nave a
long and serious struggle ahead Of Us
until we begin to win. Everyone 10
the country will be in it before the
war can possibly be ended. ..s i
l. 1rThe efficient organization Of the,
Red Cross in Washington is a thing
to marvel at, They have no waste, no
confusion, and everything goes quickly
and correctly. Many people have made
remarkable gifts to the Red Cross.
One of the handsomest houses la
WHshinrton has been given over to it
entirely by the owners, who moved out
to let the Red Gross move in, with its
surgical dressings and packing eases
and all the paraphernalia of work.
The Peter Bent Brigham hospital
in Boston has been turned over to the
RedNCross entirely for surgical dress
ings unit. Other people have done Gs
much in other places.
awe must work, all the time, and
every one of us. That is the message
/ have come back from Washington
with, and the message which l hopo
will reach all the people Of Hawaii,
particularly the, women whose work we
need in the auxiliary in the making
of these vital necessities for our armies
in France"