Arizona republican., 1918-07-07

Wltn department heads ana lnelr | assistants lending valuable aid, the new Red Cross headquarters in the Central school building has been put in order and active work will begin on Monday morning. It was a stu pendous task, especially so at this time of the year, but the women re- sponded splendidly and the furnish ings were soon in order During the course of the next few days, Mrs. w. K. James. chairman of supplies, will announce the department heads for the summer months, when the sew ing rooms will be open only during the morning hours.
 
 Enrolled nurses as soon as assigned by the American Red Cross to the Army or Navy Nurse Corps pass en- tirely beyond the Red Cross jurisiuc- tiOn. As members of military units, they are paid by the government wear army or navy nursing uniforms and are under the orders of the medi- cal staffs of the surgeons general Be- cause all hospitals in war zones are marked with red crosses, some lay men have gained the very erroneous impression that all such hospitals are Red Cross institutions and that all $.
 The fire large hospitals operated by the American Red Cross and the many convalescent homes it is estab- fishing for wounded or sick soldiers. arc. like the many institutions for the civilian sick it maintains or aids in Europe, supplementary to and entire- ly distinct from the American army and navy field and base hospitals here l and abroad
 i Mrs. W. K. James, chairman of sup plies has received the outline of i handling chapter production from the i division headquarters. The plans adopted for future use have been set 1 forth as follows:
 | Inasmuch as our different commits sons in Europe are now able to state, with a reasonable degree Of correctness, their exact needs, here after chapters are not to manufac- ture any articles excepting such as are especially requisitioned for from the divisional office. The forward supplies in our many warehouses in Europe are now fairly well balanced If all the chapters in the country should continue to manufacture such standard articles as appeal to the To- cal heads of production or to the | workers, this balance would be de- stroyed and we would very soon have an overstock of certain articles that were not immediately desired, and would lack essential articles. so that we could not supply the hospitals at the front with just what they needed at the moment needed. While we are asking all chapters to immediately di Ir,11n Lii 0f h in excepting articles on requisition or al lotment, we do not mean such work as has been started should not be completed. This arrangement auto matically cancels all orders now or our books.
 As regarding supplies. the purchas- ing bureaus in Washington have made their contracts with factories for the materials in proportion to the re- quisitions made from Europe. In turn, they will ship to the divisional warehouse sufficient materials to cover the allotments made to the di- vision. The divisional warehouse will be able to furnish to the chapters the necessary materials for their quota To enable the warehouse to control this, however, it will be necessary for all chapters to discontinue purchases l of the divisional warehouse, as other wise there could be no control of ma terial, and the purchasing department in Washington could not make in- telligent contracts with the manu- lecturers.
 It is not the intention of the divi- sionaI warehouse to fill orders for supplies for the entire allotment sent 1 to the cha pter at one time. The al lotment will usually cover a period of three months.
 The assumption will be that the chapters will arrange the manufacture of such allotments so that they will need their supplies in even quantities and the orders on the divisional bu- reau of supplies should be based or shipments being made at stated periods. so as to have constant flow
 of material going into the chapter
 Under this plan the chapter will no
 have an excessive quantity of ma
 terial on hand at one time, and tht
 warehouse will be able to work ou ' | it's shipping more economically b.
 having a steady outflow of mer-
 chandise.
 To enable the bureau of supplies tt keep a proper stock on hand neces
 
 against allotments, each chapte
 should immediately make report O , all material they have on hand ant all materials they have contracted for , stating just when they expected sucl
 contracted material to arrive. Wher chapters have reported on gauge, a , requested in Bulletin No. 90. it is no l necessary to again report the amour $ of gauge on hand.
 The allotment that will reach eacl l chapter in the next day or two ar l heavy for hospital supplies and ligh for surgical dressings. As far a possible it will be necessary for tn f chapters to arrange their working ? force so that they can transfer iron , one line of work to another. w {, realize. of course, that all the work CTS who make surgical dressing ) might not be capable in the sewin ' room, but undoubtedly the majorit r of the patriotic workers can be use
 in some way in both departments.
 we can develop a mobile force in tn
 production department of the chap
 ters who can be turned from one lin