South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-10-20
HOME WORKERS
GET MORE ADVICE
!. ]. EdmOndS of National As
ISOLATED Charities
Gives Lecture.

With the acme guard hitting
up az a great rate down in the gym
nasium. actually shaking the doors
and windows OF the building ana
the Liberty loan committee doing its
best IN another corner. and the Ecd
Cross Home Service workers out lu
the lobby ON the second floor. the
Chamber Of Commerce was a Eerlt-
able bee hive of military industry
Friday night.
While somebody downstairs
shouted column left and column
right" or whatever 10 Is that home
guard leaders shout. and am Occd-
-ionaI sentence worded IN terms Of
"a million or so" drifted out from
the closed door room. r. j. Ed
monds. secretary OF the National As
ISOLATED Charities, with headquarters
at Cincinnati o., but now acting
chairman OF the directors of the
central division Of the National Red
Cross. delivered a brief but thor
oughly interesting lecture on Home
Service Relief Work before the
class of home service workers gath
cred there
Mr.. EdmoDds explained in detail
the working Of the various depart
ments Of the Red Cross activity but
dwelt particularly on the home
service relief work.
Godfather 20 Family.
The Red Cross Home Service is
going 10 have TO become a sort of
provider has gone 10 the front
There are going 10 be many many
things which il will have 10 take
hold OF and institute a sort Of sys-
tern and routine in their dispatch
but particularly will they have 10
watch that it does not in the slight
est way leave the impression that it
is managing or directing the affairs
of the family being assisted. These
cases must be handled according Ito
merit and the methods applied
should be governed according 10 the
occasion.
The Red Cross Home Service
workers are going 10 have TO be-
come sort of keepers or discipline
Tor the families They are going 10
have r. look into housing conditions
The health. the recreatOnal the ed
vocational side OF the family must
be attended 70 i'm the place OF the
father or the one who has been at
the head OF the family and has
gone.
There are going 10 he back debts
which are going TO have 20 be taken
care of, and great care will have 10
be exercised in the settling of these
obligations. An arraugement must
be made whereby the assistance will
be given bur still the responsibility
viii be on the family i'm such a way
shat there cannot be any feeling that
the service is a charitable one
CamOufiage in Kitchen.
THE home service worker must
be more than the average social
worker i'm that, being a man or
woman who has managed "a home.
reared families, possibly he or she
will have an advantage over the
average social worker. The worker
must be able 20 go into the home
and direct economic measures in the
home: must be able TO instruct the
hOmekeeper in the last secrets of
domestic camoufage which explain
I'd means the fixing and refxing of
something so that IL looks and
tastes like something else.
I'm the main the home service
worker must be a person who can
enter the scene of difficulty and
gain the entire sympathy and conf
Hence of the one needing either ma
lerial assistance or advice. Tact and
real understanding OF sorrow must
lie exercised in all cases"
The fourth OF TIE series of lessons
will be gwen next Friday night. oct.
IS. In the Chamber OF Commerce
rooms at which time DR.. r. l.. SEN
Eenich will give a lesson lecture on
Health and Hygiene for the Com
munity and It's Relation TO the Home
Service Work"