Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-27
OF WORK
OF THE FIELD
DIRECTORS
Red Cross Work. at Cam
Cody is Thoroughly Done
by Field Men.

Denver, Col. May 27.-Edwin H.
Brown. Red Cross field director at
Camp Cody. n. NJ, where the army
division there, because of the frequent
winds. has been termed the Sand
storm Division" presents a movie
OF just part Of a field directors &C
%tlvities in a single day in a letter to
mountain division headquarters Of the
Red Cross here which has Just been
received.
The following excerpt shows what
Brown. does in a day:
And in the meantime the associate
field director in charge of home serv-
ice has been visiting men in different
parts OF the, camp, making reports to
them or getting information of them
desired by h folks at home. He has
to do this between eleven and twelve
and between four and fve-thirty. The
balance of the day he is t the Office
helping in h warehouse, answering
telephone calls. sending out kilograms
in answer to frantic. appeals rs to
whether John was hurt in the ex-
plosion. or asking Harry to come
home at once. or getting the suaran,
tee OF a physician. through the Red
Cross chapter. that Harry's father is
really seriously i'll, to say nothing Of
making out his reports and notes for
the correspondence Of the field di-
rector on all such matters.
To-day. for example. two men came
into the Red Cross Office with tele-
grams from home that h erfathers
were very sick, and in a critical con-
dition and that the son is wanted at
home. Neither had any money and
M f1IY1oYlOho ara pvantoA ,,n1nonR tho
man has enough money for hts trans
p%ortation both ways. In one case the
telegram was from a sister and the
Red Cross promptly wired the chapter
Of the little North Dakota town and
tonight comes a wire from the ply
sician in charge confirming the news.
The army must have the word from
a responsible party. In the other case
the money was guaranteed and will
be furnished the moment the man
gets his furlough. So two families
will be made happy.
1.-The man always IL given the OPP
ton of taking the money 10 q gift or
loan. and not once has q man hest
tated in saying he wanted to pay it
back SO oon as he possibly could.
THE fact that the men can get
money for such things as the above
when they, need It is one Of the very
oA6oSC& SASSS ~ aASSN 50 q
render.
Now let us go to the big base hos
pital. two miles west from the field
directors Office and warehouse. which
Is at the center Of the big camp, a big
hospital built up Of separate ward
buildings. mostly nj story high. and
with. three miles Of open-roofed cor-
ridors connecting the different build
ings.
Cant you picture the associate
field director walking into one Of
these wards and sitting down beside
a poor, tired chap in bed. homesick
and really sick. too. not able to write
or read and worrying about what
mother may be thinking because he
had missed the regular letters for
some time?
"a little talk cheers him up. An
orange. q piece Of candy or gum. or
prevail Of the able doctor in charge,
does wonders in this way. And then
the boy wants a letter written on the
Red Cross paper and he tells the big,
CHEEKY. rather elderly Red Cross man,
who might have been his father. what
he wants written homo and on goes
the letter with some encouraging side
remarks to the mother. Another boy
10 dying and he sends for the big Red
and be with him till the end. and then
comes the hard letter to write home
about 1t all. And 80 many heart
aches; many happy Incidents, Always
q drag on the sympathies, but oh. so
worth the while.
do you wonder these boys think .
lot Of the Red Cross and what It IL
doing? Does Il surprise you to know
that every day some little gtft Of
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