Arizona republican., 1918-05-03

with the exception of Saturday W
 o'clock are observed.
 of the course in first aid which will be formed shortly stated last even ing that more than 30 applications had been received and that classes would be started within a week. The reorganization of this department of the Red Cross has become necessary because of the call for nurses which will take countless thousands by the first of the year. The local classes will study, first aid, hygiene and home care of the sick, and home die l tetics. Application blanks may be secured at the Chamber of Commerce and should be mailed to Mrs. Leroy Ladd, secretary of the department. Red Cross Home Defense Nurses are being advocated by the bureau of nursing in view of the fact that thou sands of trained nurses will be needed | for military service.
 The Service Section of the Central Arizona chapter of the America Red Cross furnished between 60 and 70 sweaters to the boys who left for camp on Friday. As soon as the list was compiled by the local board it was forwarded to the Service Section which in return mailed the following cards to new members of the na- tional army.
 | If you have no sleeveless sweater, 1 please call on the Service Section at 1 the Chamber of Commerce.
 | As soon as you reach the canton 1 fr fIA | following matters:
 If you have q wife or children, see that the camp records are correct in this respect, so that the portion of | your pay withheld by the government may reach your family promptly. If you have left parents or broth CTS and sisters, to whose support you have been contributing, apply for the proper blanks and assign portion of your pay to your family. This will l be paid to them regularly, whether | you are in the country or abroad. If government allowance is needed, you will be furnished blanks on which to make application for the same. You are advised to take out insur- ancce.
 | It is interesting to note Red Cross l activities in other sections of the country and in this connection is printed a New England woman's talk 1 before the Lowell Chapter of the Red | Cross. Miss Newell who is director | of women's work for the New Eng l land division in greeting the Mas sachusetts workers said she hoped when the chapters were three or four | times larger than they are today that | the workers would all have just the same smiling faces and all be just 1 as anxious to do their share, and | bury personalities so deep that they | will never dig them up. There is no chapter, she said, where some little | jogs do not occur; but to say that | one cannot work with certain per- sons is disloyal. Everyone is a sol dier today. We are just as much a part of this war as the men in the | trenches, and it is just as much our duty to be loyal to the work. She warned the workers against repeat l ing the stories that they hear. We are such a large organization-there are 22000000 members in the Red | Cross-and that means 9. great many tongues to Wag. Unless they wag the right way, the wrong way is go- l structive criticism, suggestions that are constructive, are wanted. If any of you have anything that will help the Red Cross, tell us; but do not tell about the man that sold the sweater. He is not,
 Speaking of garments and knitted goods, she said that we have a large quota to fill, and the women will have to work harder than before. And they will have to put three pockets on the pajamas, because we are asked to do it, and there is a reason for ask ing. The French soldier in the hos pital does not wear his pajamas ir bed, but when he gets up to walk around; and he wants to take his precious trinkets with him. So the French government asks us to put on the three pockets. It is a little thing, is it not? And yet we have made a great deal of talk about it There is q reason for almost every thing that we are asked to do. We are asked to make the socks with a long cuff-four inches. It is be- cause the long cuff keeps the sock up. Miss Newell said she asked 2 general about the long and the shor cuff, and told him it was supposed that the short cuff gave less chance for vermin to abide with the soldier Do let the poor things have home the general replied, "and at the sam. time let the poor man be comfortable and keep his socks up." The genera also told her that men who hay, seen service abroad do not want tn, spiral socks. They want the socl with a heel.
 Advising further, she said: What ever comes in to you, advise you t take it, even if under cover of dark
 ness you have to rip it out; but d. not talk about it. You want a
 many friends as you can have, an,
 hohey is better than vinegar fo
 catching flies" A 10-inch sock is to-
 small, but things are being sent t
 children, and 10-inch sock can b
 worn.
 The manual training departments o
 the schools are receiving allotment
 for furniture to be made for tn
 Red Cross Convalescent Houses nov
 being erected at the cantonment
 throughout the United States. Tn
 work is under the direction of tn
 Bureau of Junior Red Cross, in tn
 schools, in the three states of tn
 Pacific Division, through the follow
 ing:
 California: Mr. John Beswick, Di
 rector War Vocational Work, Foca
 tional Department, State Board C
 Education, Sacramento.
 Nevada: MT. Leslie F. Brigham
 State Director Vocational Educatio
 at Carson City.
 Arizona: Prof. John D. Loper, sup
 erintendent Public Schools, Phoenix.
 The work includes furniture mak
 ing, screens, andirons, lamp shade
 for fha bovS. rl1oc and olliItS for tt