The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-04-08
RED CROSS SEEKING I
MEN FOR Service
Positions Arc Open In Foreign Service
Which Call For efficiency and
Bravery. II .@S
ONLY SUCH NEED, APrLY
Organization. However. Continues ~
Enroll Women For Clerical WoEi.
Others In social Lines Are Expected
To Serve without Pay. fsss =

Providing favorable action IN taken
on the applications already received, Y
IL was announced yesterday az the
headquarters OF the Richmond ehapNs
ter that Ri@imond will be well re-
presented in the overseas service of
the American Red Cross. Although
women are being enrolled In smSli
numbers for foreign service as stsrO-
graphers, clerks and social seryine
workers, male applicants are being
sought particularly.
Twenty-Five years IT, was stated. q
the desirable age for applicants fer
stenographic and clerical POSITIONS
and thirty or over for those deHirtHg
to Identify themselves with social ssr-s
service are not open to women who
have brothers, husbands or sons III
the overseas service or the Red Cross
or in the army or navy, Women
workers will have expense allowances
provided in certain cases. but Hnkofat
as possible tho Red Cross wisness
them to defray their own expenses
and serve without salaries.
On receiving notice that 500 ad-
ditional Red Cross workers were
needed in France a divisional corr
mittee on personnel which eo-eper-sf
ates with the chapters in securing
desirable applicants. was appointed by
MANAGER ttenTN W GfNe. OF tIfE G0IQ~g
mae division which includes tho
Richmond chapter, Persons living
within the Jurisdiction OF the Rich-
mond chapter. who make an appiics-
| ton for Red Cross work direct TO disi
sion headquarters. have their apps-
cation referred to the local chapter
by the committee on personnel This
| Is done to enable officials here to
gather information concerning the
physical, moral and professional Ait.
ness of the applicant for the position
sought and report to the COMMITTEES,
| The inquiry includes an interview
with the applicant.
The chapters report on the quail
ications of an applicant are forward
ed to the committee together with h
special form Of Red Cross service en-
roliment blank, which those DESTROYS
Of joining the service are required to
9ll out. Letters OF recommendation,
IL was said should accom- pany the ap~
plications.
Final responsibility for all appoint-
ments to the Red Cross service abroad
rests with the headquarters bureau OK
personnel. the function OF the divf.
sionaI committee being purely inter-
mediary. The headquarters bureau
eventually receives and passes ON the
| application and All the information
| that has been gathered respecting the
applicant. particular posts are not
promised applicants. the right !. ~
actual assignment resting with the
several Red Cross com MISSIONS I'm Eu-
| rope. II II sees fit. national head
quarters will recommend its foreign
| places.
/ To hll the positions shat are open
| in many of the branches of the for
! eign service men of thu hi hest caft-
bre and great bravery are requfred.
With respect 10 the front line service,
which the r I'D Cross has just ar
ranged TO install at the request Of the
United States army. this is especially
y true. The Red Cross during the last
4 few months has served more than
4 1.00C 900 French poilus with hot
+ drinsH and given them friendly
I greeting near or actually In tbs
| trenches. and it is now proposed 70
! extend this service so that the Ameri-:
can forces are included.
Included in the list OF prominent
| Americans who have gone to FRANCE
! recently is Henry j Allen, owner 0f
n wichita Kan. paper whose plat.
/ form services have been Of great
value to the Red Cross The organ.
! ization of a service that will bffnk
| the Red Cross work still ciossr Ia TIN
| men in the United States army viii n
| part of Mr.. Aliens new dutsM.