The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-24

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civilian hospitals. To prepare TO
this emergency the Red Cross ha
been conducting great training
classes for women.
! "In many cities-New York
Brooklyn, Boston, Chicago, Denver
and misunderstanding centres O.
the Red Cross for the last two year
! have been turning out trained wo
men trained in the care Of the sicl
and in elementary hospitals duties
''In New York alone, at 3 Eas
Fifty-sixth treet, one Of these teach
ing centres is now training women il
this work at the rate of 1000 every
eight weeks.
From them will largely be drawn
also the nurses aids attached to the
base hospitals organized throughout
the country. Twenty-eight Of these
hispitals with 500 beds each and
a complement of fifteen nurses aids
are nwo ready for active service.
Even the doctors and nurses at
tached to these units have been in.
inoculsted against typhoid and other
dangers Of field service.
Work to Be Done at Home
The functions of the Red Cross,
however, 60 far beyond service in
military hospitals. In addition to the
Department of Military Relief is the
Department of Civilian Relief,
equally large and equally impor-
tant.
dependents of fighting men can
not be neglected. Red Cross COM
mittees, assisted by expert investiga-
tors, take care Of children who need
aid. The needs Of convalescing SOL
diers from the front will be looked
after.
''If the time comes when women
must go into industry, the burden of
caring for children must be shifted
from many mothers. Homes or nur-
series must be found for infants. It
is the Red Cross that is called upon
to meet these emergencies also.
Unified War Relief
I'm all the great emergencies
charity is prompt to act. Money
comes pouring in. Relief organize
tons spring up overnight. Men and
women work with self-sacrificing
zeal.
Charity to be most effective
must have system. Separate and un-
co-ordinated organizations cannot
achieve the best results. Linked
with the Red Cross and working
through the Red Cross these same
organizations would achieve results
! hundredfold greater. They must
practive some Of the lessons learned
from business in recent years and
earned again in the experience of
'elief agencies abroad in the early
lays of the great war.
Between the Red Cross and other
'elief organizations there should be
cooperation. The independent or
yanisations should constitute a sort
# relief militia or service force,
which in time Of war would merge
With the Red Gross just ~ the Ma
;ional Guard merges with the reeu-
ar army.
Big Brother Of the Service
The Red Cross is the big brother
It the medical service. The army
md navy cannot get along without !
t. Without it warning nation is A.
most helpless for the reason that a
'ation in time Of war. is unable to
,rovide an adequate aid: /
I'm no war have there ever been
nough nurses and surgeons. As no |.
hahn is stronger than its weakest |.
ink 80 no army is stronger than its
led Cross. So, clearly is this UNDER
TODD that in time of war the Gov
rrment requires the Red Cross to
i've all its energy and facilities to
'e nation, caring for. the fighting
zen and their dependents. at bohe... J.
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1.-THE Red Czoss II the ;only-ozgsn..
alton authorized BY. the. Goysrn.1
lent to enter war relief service. It
IS under the. charter from the GOV /
Congress- passed the ..:-act
cooperating it. This act made the
resident IT, official head and placed
representatives. Of. The army apd
IVY. on. its directik& s4aff. *
I'm other words, the Red Crosssis
hcially. siApeh pa.3 .,f tie Gov
machinery a. the army Ill: /
If Despite this official standing,
'wever, the Red Cross rhust depehdt
pom voluntary service Of women
I'd men. It Is the great volunteer
my that is serving humanity rs
ell - the nation. And it is an army
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