Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-08
The Public
Safety ValDe
The Red Cross.

Sumter County:
While the present membership of the
Americas and Sumter County Red
Cross chapter is very gratifying, yet
we do not feel that It indicates the
true feeling of our citizens; and this
failure to give more ready response
to the call for members, we believe,
to be due to lack of information and q
misunderstanding as to the purposes
and possibilities CT local Red Cross
chapter.
First, answering the two questions
that have been most frequently asked,
this is not an exclusive women's or
ganization nor will the members Of
the Americas and Sumter County Red
Cross chapter be required or expected
to do any actual field service in time
of war.
The Act of Congress, approved jan
uary 5th, 1905, which authorized and
chartered the american Red Cross,
specified as follows:
"Sec. 3. That the purposes Of this
corporation are, and shall be-:
First. To furnish volunteer aid to
the sick and wounded of armies In
time of war, in accordance with the
spirit and conditions of the conference
of Geneva, of October 1868, and also
of August %, 1864, to which the Unit
e1 States of America gave its adhes-
ion on March list, 1882.
Second. And for said purposes to
perform all the duties devolved upon
| a national society by each nation
which has acceded to said treaty.
Third. To act in matters of volun-
tary relief and in accord with the mil
itary and naval authorities as med
ium of communication between the
people Of the United States of Amer
lea and their army and navy, and to
act In such matters between similar
national societies of other govern
ments through the 'comite Interna-
tional de Secours,' and the govern
ment and the people, and the army
and navy of the United States of
/ America.
Fourth. And to continue to carry
on system of national and interna-
tional relief in time of peace and to
apply the same in mitigating the suf-
ferings caused by pestilence, famine
fire, floods and other great national
calamities, and to devise and vary on
measures for preventing the same"
/ Your duties as member of the To-
cal Red Cross chapter will be mostly
to prepare and provide supplies and
equipment for the field and base hospi-
tails, bandages, cotton. gauze. bed lin
I en-, socks, towels, ETC., that your boy
OF your neighbours boy might be prop
! erly cared for in case he is wounded
or the battlefield. We are asking for
trained and experienced instructors to
come here and teach you the courses
in first aid, elementary hygiene and
home care of the sick, home dietetfcs
ard preparation of surgical dressings
a knowledge of which will be of great
/ benefit even in time of peace.
And, in case our land forces are
called upon to fight, we hope to be
able to send a fully equipped ambu-
lance corps to the battle field, to care
for our boys; to be known as Ameri-
Gus own, and to be supplied and sus-
tanned exclusively by the Americas
chapter of Red Cross.
We have set the mark for member
chip of the Americas chapter at one
thousand; We believe it will greatly
exceed this number, with Americas.
the neighboring towns and the county
Of sumter at large to draw from. How
wonderful it would be if every man.
woman and child in Sumter county
would volunteer.
STEPHEN PACE, Chairman.
MRS. S. u. MKEE. v-Chm'n.
L. G. COUNCIL Treasurer.
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