The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-04-12

An order f~orbidding the sale of Red
Cross sweaters and other knitted ar
ticles has been issued by the secre-
tarv Of war. according to word re-.
ceived at the northern division head.
quarters from G.. E. Scott, assistant
General manager of the Red Cross,
Washington, d. Z.
handing generals OF all national
guard. national army and regular ar
NV divisions and all department com
manders to prevent the dissipation
and waste Of the great quantities of
knitted material which have been dis
tributed by the Red Cross in the past
few months to the enlisted personnel
of the army. The order follows:
l.. You will cause an inventory to
be taken. at once, in each organization
under your command, of all articles of
wearing apparel issued to the organ
izations or individuals of such organ
izations by the Red Cross or other
charitable societies and require the
unit supply officers to take up on their
returns and account for these articles
as though they were government prop
erty supplied by the quartermaster
corps.
2. You will require future dona.
tions of this character to be distrib-
uted through the department or divi-
sion quartermaster, who will obtain
from a division director of the Red
Cross, or the authorized agent society
making the donation, a list of the ar
ticles he has for distribution, and dis
tribute them to the organizations in
accordance with actual needs; the unit
supply officers to receipt, for the ar
ticles thus received, and issue them to
organizations in the same manner as
government property is issued, turn
ing in to the camp or other quarter
master, any in excess of the immed-
late needs Of the organizations he is
to supply.
3. You will also require organiza.
ton commanders to issue such articles
to enlisted men Of his command in
accordance with actual needs to exer-
else the same care in their use and
preservation and to turn them into the
quartermaster for renovation at the
end of the season, or when no longer
required, as though they were govern
ment property.
Some interesting details of aud.
fence granted H. P. Davidson, chair
mar Of the war council, by King
George, in addition to these cabled
to the press Immediately following an
interview on March Is, have Just been
received at Washington, according to
a telegram received at the northern d.
vision of the Red Cross. One Of the
most striking things which the inter-
view developed was the intimate &C.
quaintance with American affairs
which the British sovereign possesses.
So closely has he kept in touch with
he was able to talk about such details
as weather conditions, railroad con-
gestion, and other difficulties that had
affected problems Of war preparation
in the United States.
George apparently regards develop
most marvellous things among Ameri-
that the king declared it was one of
the amazing things Of the whole war
that American people had raised more
than one hundred million dollars for
the Red Cross in one week, while the
British Red Cross had been able to
raise only fifty million dollars in over
three years of a
The American Red Cross in the
opinion of King George is today the
greatest existing boon of humanity.
He pointed out that while war is tear
ing down and carrying tragedy to
every home, the Red Cross is building
up and carrying comfort everywhere
it goes.
The appropriation of one million
dollars last October by the American
Red Cross for work under direction of
the British Red Cross he declared had
aroused enthusiasm of the whole peo-
pie of Great Britain coming, as it did,
not from government but as a result
Of generosity of the American people.
It wa difficult, King George stated,
to grasp in England that the Ameri-
Red Cross had no extraordinary
membership, and he said that what
every man in England was hoping
for was that through close associa-
ion of England and America and this
two nations and two peoples
would get to know each other better;
and as a result of common sacrifice,
would realize more than ever their
need of one another and the benefits to
civilization which must arise through
understanding between all the
great Anglo Saxon peoples of the
world.
1t has been decided there is no OBJ
for the schools of New York
state to fly the Red Cross flag with
stars and stripes. A great many
INQUIRIES from school principles were
sent in to Mr.. Andrew Ten Eycke of
department of junior membership
and school activities as to the ethics
the question.
Mr.. Ten Eycke, in order to decide
matter got a ruling from the state
Who replied it was as perfectly ~ permiss,'
'ible, providing, Of course, the IA
;ional emblem took first rank