Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-19
THREE SPEAKERS
IMPRESS HEARERS.
Hon. Henry White, Col. William
Sanger, And Mr.. David H.
Brown.
JOINT MEETING.
Satisfaction Expressed At Work
Accomplished In This Com
munity For War Work.

Those who attended the joint meet
ing of the Red Cross, the Surgical
Dressings, the Navy League, and the
Health and Social Welfare Associa-
ton, held at the State House in the
old Senate Chamber at ? o'clock on
Saturday afternoon, were much in
terested and impressed by the three
speakers of the occasion-Hon. Henry
White. Manager of the Potomac
Division; Col William Carey Sanger,
his aide. and Mr.. David II. Brown,
Director of the Bureau of Develop
ment of the Potomac Division. The
speakers were introduced in the or
der named, by the chairman OF the
Annapolis and Anne Arundel County
Chapter of the Red Cross.
Mr. White spoke of the work of the
American Red Cross in France. He
gave definite instances of the many
kinds Of relief work and hospital serv-
ice in France and other countries
abroad, the organization and the
funds necessary to carry on the great
project, and the supreme value of Red
Cross relief work as filling the gap
between the entrance of the United
States iu,3 me war and the period,
now approaching, when the fighting
forces of the United States shall ar
rive at the stage of active campaign
ing on a large scale.
Col. Sanger took as his subject the
work of the Red Cross at home, and
in particular the ways in which the
activities of relief and service at army
and navy training stations and camps
are being extended to cover every
want and desire of the soldiers and
sailors so far as it is possible to ap
proach perfection in such work. He
spoke particularly of the means adopt
ed to attend to the business affairs of
soldiers and sailors who had left
question of rent, payment of interest,
or life insurance premiums in unsat-
isfactory shape, and how the officials
of the Red Cross had built up a
special organization to help the men
in these matters through official chan
nels and personal solution of each
problem by the camp representative
of the Red Cross, acting in co-opera-
ton with the government.
Mr.. Brown drew a vivid picture of
the way in which organizations such
as the National Surgical Dressings,
and the Naval Auxiliaries of the Red
Cross had come TO agreements for CO.
operation under one immense central
authority He gave many examples
of the necessity for having all relief
work done through one great system,
which co-ordinates all activities on a
business basis. prevents overlapping,
distributes relief impartially, and in
general controls the greatest gather
ing together Of the forces of human
service and the most tremendous pro-
ject for the good of humanity ever at
tempted in Ihe history of the world.
He explained the principles of organ
ization of the Red Cross, by divisions,
chapters. branches and auxiliaries,
and the principle of voluntary work
in administration and chapter activi-
ties-the chapter being the working
unit in the great plan. He praised
the results accomplished by the local
city and county organizations, which
included all four organizations repre-
sented at the meeting.
Mr.. White and Col Sanger had pre-
viousIy expressed their satisfaction
at the way in which war relief work
had been carried out in this commun-
ity. and they gave high praise to the
quality and quantity Of work done by
~ hnGnitol er1F r
ments and supplies made by the Red
Cross Chapter; the surgical dressings
made by the National Surgical Dress
ings Auxiliary of the chapter, as it
will now be called officially, and the
knitting of sweaters and other gar
ments by both the Red Cross, and the
Naval Auxiliary of the Chapter, or
ganized by the Annapolis Section of
the Navy League. Considering the
circumstances indicated in the re-
ports. the work done by various local
committees in their several fields has
all come up TO a high standard. In
conclusion, it may be said that the
enthusiasm of so many women work
ers is now bidding fair to outreach the
amount of funds in sight that are ne
cessary to purchase sufficient ma
terials TO keep pace with the women's
work. The people of the city and
county ought from now on TO devel-
op more ways and means of raising
money in order that the excellent wal
relief work may go on, developing as
| it is to meet the increasing needs OF
the war.