The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-09
Garment Workers in Topeka
Made Great Feb. Showing.
Turned Out 5000 More Articles
Thai Any Previous Month.
DIV. MULVANE, SHAWNEE HEAD
He Will Direct Big Drive That
Begins in Topeka May 6.
Other Items of Interest to Red
Cross Workers in City.

The garment workers of the To-
peka chapter of the Red Cross turned
out three thousand more articles dur
ing the shortest month of the year
than in any month since the work was
started. During February there were
1O.474 garments, 229 comfort pillows
and s6s property bags turned in to the
garment section of the local chapter
as the work of the month. The prop
erty bags were the result of a special
call, a hurry-up order. No speclhc
number was asked for and all were to
be made at home from home ma
terials. The women of the city and
in Shawnee county buckled down to
work the day the call was made and
turned out 36S bags in less than two
weeks. The bags are used to hold
the personal effects of wounded SOL
diers while they are in the hospitals.
The call for workers in the surgi-
cal dressing rooms of the Topeka
chapter brought prompt results and
the total work done in the three
rooms was practically double that of
January. There were 62,1 gauze
surgical dressings and 1881 muslin
dressings made by the women during
January. The rooms have been kept
pretty well filled every working day,
but the call for dressings is still in
sistent from France and more women
can find places to work in the Red
Cross.
The Spalding Reading circle, Miss
Huycke president, sent $500 to the
Topeka chapter of the Red Cross this
week to help buy supplies for the
work rooms.
D. w. Mulvane has been selected
by the local chapter as the chairman
for the Red Cross drive in Topeka and
Shawnee county. The drive will be
made May 6. S. E. Cobb of Topeka is
state manager for the campaign.
\ complete set of pictures of the
Topeka workrooms is to be made and
sent to st. Louis for use in a Red
Cross exhibit to be sent thruout the
country.
The American Red Cross has 4,576
Junior members in the Philippines, of
whom all but two or three hundred
are natives. This is in spite of the
fact that it is difficult to stir up any
interest among native children in war
relief or any other charitable activi-
ties as they know so little of world
conditions beyond their own small
home "barrio'' (village).-
These Red Cross Juniors work hard
for the soldiers. They make hand
kerchiefs, splint pads. quilts, ice bag
covers, bags for crushing ice, strings
for pajamas, and bed socks In addi-
ton they have sent 500 to Washing
ton for a patron membership for their
organization. They have also contrib
uted $50 to feed hungry Belgian chill
dren.
Horace Hall, chairman of the To-
peka chapter of the Red Cross, has
just received a report of the civilian
relief work of the American Red
ff-CG in E7r-uF1 =,
January alone. The report came from
Maj. James H. Perkins Red Cross
commissioner, and shows what the or
ganization is doing among the refu-
gees, orphans and civilian population
of the war-ridden country.
This department is doing direct
work in eighty-six French cities and
villages, said Major Perkins 1T has
establ bhed nine civilian hospitals,
with a capacity of 974 beds. thirtv-six
dispensaries and dispensary stations.
ftfty-one delegates and assistants are
helping to re-establish in French
homes the 500 and more repatries who
now INTO France daily from the occu-
pied areas of France and Belgium
In six districts which cover the
devastated areas. warehouses have
been established from which cIotbinp
tools, and food are distributed to the
iteeII9lhe population. This does not
include the American Friends Unit
winch has 14O members at twelve sta
tons working under Red Cross direc-
tlon; or the Smith College Unit which
mas seventeen members at Greconr+
VINO are now part of the Red Cross
Ihlrty-one new centers of direct
work were established in January
ana the stair was increased by eightv
SIN persons. Two new hospitals ava
eight new dispensarfes We're opened:
CWehty-one repatriate delegates were
sent; one new district was added in
the devastated area; and a farm of
5Oo acres near Tours was obtained
Tor agricultural re-education of nm
tiles (crIpples). Medical examination
was given to 1887 civilians. chiefly
chlioren, including the 114O2 repa-
trltte children examined at F,vian
medical care in hospitals was given
. TO saS. Hospital relief was given
NWeekly to 500 tuberculosis patients in
Paris. Instruments, food cIothing
and books valued at 202.517 francs
were distributed to fifty-four hos
pitfalls outside % Paris. One hundred
and seventy-five families were re-
housed in Paris
Articles distributed to refugees
and shipped to devastated areas in
clude 43.9TS articles of clothing
1902 pairs of shoes, 74S articles of
furniture, 200 pounds of foodstnffs
1924 articles of bedding 2S4oS
yards OF cloth, S,44S articles unclassi-
fable.
Grants to other organizations in
money totaled 433,295 francs. of
which 227.366 francs was for refu-
gees. 9S,5I5 francs for tuberculosis
10000 francs for the relief and re-
construction of devastated areas
1921 francs for children, and 22132
francs for mutiles.''