New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27

ton among the hospitals have been great
relief.
From the beginning Of our work we have
maintained two principles: the real spirit Of
service and economy in administration. From
the beginning up to the present, every cent OF
money donated to the National Committee has
been used to purchase actual materials for the
surgical dressings. All rents, equipment,
packing and shipping facilities have been
donated by men who have chosen this way to
help in the work we are doing.
The national work is organized under state
chairmen, whose duty 1t is to start sub-commit-
tees in all cities and towns throughout their
respective states. Each subcommittee ships
to headquarters the packages to be forwarded
10 Europe.
On the other side the distribution Of supplies
is equally we'll organized. Bureaus managed
by voluntary committees are established IN
Paris and Bordeaux for France and Belgium;
in London for England and the English 'front.'
Flanders, France, Serbia and Salonica; and IN
Rome for Italy.
WHERE THE SURGICAL DRESSINGS GO
The committee is officially recognized in all
the countries covered by its bureaus. and the
surgeons of all countries have expressed APP
proval of the types Of dressings supplied
Over fifteen hundred hospitals are served on
the Continent, and each hospital and set OF
doctors is given just what it wants.
We waste no time or material in sending the
wrong dressings. The surgeons Of each coun-
try order from our foreign bureaus the spe-
ca supplies they require and we send them.
We are cooperating with the Red Cross.
AS committee which has specialized in our
line of hospital supplies only, we have become
experts in the making and handling Of surgical
dressings. The Red Cross will call upon US
when they need our help, as they did last
summer when our committees supplied thou
sands of dressings for the Red Cross Hospital
units and as they are doing now in sending
orders from Washington to supply their units
with samples Of oakum pads and fracture
pillows We do not comply with all the stand
ard patterns for dressings of the Red Cross
because we are making dressings to be used
by foreign doctors and nurses. When we make
dressings for our own men, we shall use the
Red Cross patterns to the exclusion Of all
others. as they are standardized for the use OF
American surgeons.
But the foreign surgeons and nurses want
the dressings to which they are accustomed,
the dressings which their trained and SEMI
trained helpers will understand and handle
quickly.
GIVE THEM WHAT THEY ASK FOR
We give them what they ask for, not what
we in America think that they ought to want.
Ninety per cent of our surgical dressings are
handled by the foreign surgeons, not the
American volunteer surgeons abroad.
This is why we make, without question, what
they order and why we invite surgeons at the
front to send to our foreign bureaus samples
of what they need, so that we may have our
volunteer workers in those bureaus make up
the speciaties required. The gauze, absorbent
cotton, muslin, old linen and other materials
needed are collected by national headquarters
in this country and shipped in bulk.
The need for this work is not passing,
Rather it is growing. We want to double and
triple our output. Therefore we want all tho
help we can get. We want the names OF people
who are interested in forming committees and
we want all the material that can be sent to US.
In the strenuous months and years to come
there will be need for every American woman
10 help. II each one of US does the duty At
hand In the simplest way-not working at ran
dom. but finding out what is wanted and then
doing it-no material will be wasted and no
effort lost.
Headquarters Of the committee are at 299
Fifth Avenue, The New YORK Workrooms'
which are under the charge of Mrs. Z. 4.
Hewitt, are at 10 East Fifty-nnth Street.