Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-30
THE RED CROSS FROM
TRENCH TO THE HOME
What The Home Service Does To
Bring Cheer To The
Soldier
SUPPLIES ALLN E E d S

The Red Cross line of communica-
lions extend clear back from the man
in the trenches. anxious about those at
home. across an ocean, across con-
tinent. TO the corner of our country
where dwell those of whom the soldier
is thinking. BY communicating with
the Red Cross at the front the soldier
can have dispatched To his home Chap
ter of the Red Cross a message OF
cheer from himself and word as TO
what aid or comfort he would like TO
have the Red Cross extend TO his fam
lily.
Through its Home Service the Chap
ter cannot only act as a messenger for
the thoughts of the soldier, but can
also do for his family that which he
himself would do were he with them
OR. the family itself, in the absence OF
the soldier, can go directly to the Red
Cross Home Service, make known It's
problems. and count upon receiving
such neighbOrly service as il needs.
What this means, and how it works
out. may best be shown by following
the Red Cross Home Service to see
what happened to the family crises
mentioned above.
The Red Cross Home Service found
suitable employment for the widow OF
the man killed in a railroad accident
IL brought her aged mother from dis
tant town to care for the four young
err children. 1t furnished an attorney
who instituted proper court action to
secure damages from the railroad re
sponsible for the husbands death. Ii
secured the services of an orthopedic
specialist for one of the little girls.
long a sufferer from spinal trouble.
When the mother showed signs of
overwork at her employment she was
induced to give it up, the Red Cross
making up in cash advances what she
gave up in wages. Finally, it assigned
Home Service Friendly Visitor to
maintain contact with the family, who
by her calls and the loan of her moth
er reviver the spirits of home found
in the depths of depression.
The mother of soldier told the Red
Cross Home Service that her greatest
anxiety was not for the operation she
had sustained nor for the one she was
about to undergo, but that in her per-
iod of stress she had been without her
boy. A telegram to the lads COM
handing officer set forth the circum-
stances. The officer replied that he
mad discovered the boy greatly wor-
ried about his mother and, on the
strength of the report, was sending
him home on leave.
The young wife who found herself
unequal to the business problems con-
fronting her was placed by the Red
Cross Home Cervice in the hands of
the best bankers and lawyers in the
city, who not only quickly forked out
4 solution of her difficulties, but, more
important, gave her confidence that
she need have no fear of the future as
they would stand ready at all times to
answer any call for assistance. She
completely regained her normal con-
iition, and was able to write her hus-
band not only that everything was
Strengthened out, but she also was
again herself-well and untroubled.
To protect the deaf-and-dumb boy
Of the hayward and neglectful wife,
The Red Cross Home Service secured
he proper authority and then furnish
ed the funds to place him in a private
establishment, where the most com
1etent specialists were devoting them
selves to the training and education
of just such unfortunates. 1t has un-
lertaken this very material financial
obligation for the period of the war
Diversion of the energies of the
three unruly sons of the man in the
Navy in the proper channels relieved
their mother of the despair at manag
ing them. The Red Cross Home Serv.
ice provided this by getting them I'M
der the spell of Y. NJ. C. A. and Boy
Scout leaders. 1t also provided a
Friendly Visitor for the harried moth
er, to whom she could pour out her
.roubles and from whom she could re-
ceive sympathy and suggestion.
Likewise, the supply of a strong and
sturdy friend proved TO be the solu-
ton of the case of the young wife i'm
posed on by her husbands relatives
The intercessiOn of the Red Cross
Friendly Visitor proved sufficient to
get the young woman into suitable, re-
munerative employment, home of her
own and possession of the money sent
by her husband