The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-07-19
Home Service Bureau
OF American Red Cross

lis, Field Representative OF the
Bureau of Home Service, North
ern Division of the American
Red Cross, was in kadoka last
Thursday evening and met with
the executive committee OF the
\ Jackson County Red Cross Chap
ter, taking up matters in refer
enCe to the department OF the
work she represents.
A committee to have charge of
this work for the Jackson County
Chapter was selected and consists
of Commissioners f. W. Thode
and S. p. Hurley and Rev. A. Y.
Bryan. The work of this division
of the Red Cross is one of the
great parts of that greatest of all
American Societies, having as its
principal aim the aid and care OF
all the soldier boys who return to
Jackson county from their service
for our Country, perhaps wounded
and manned and unable to care
for themselves.
The following statement by the
Committee is a brief outline OF a
part of the great work of this
division, and will give you a good
idea of this part of the activities
of the American Red Cross:
1t may not be generally known
that the Red Cross has what is
called the Department of Civilian
Relief associated with its aCtivi-
ties in hospital and other war
| emergencies. In times of peace
the Red Cross takes active work
| in the event of food, famine, earth
quake and pestilenCeS. In the
case of the disaster in the Hall
fax harbOr, a train load of doc
| tors, nurses, medical aids, foods,
etc, was quickly dispatched to
the scene of horror. In the Day
| ton, Ohio, flood some years ago
| valuable assistance was given by
the Red Cross. Help has been
| extended to sufferers in EurOpe
and in Asia.
1t has seemed advisable to the
committee put in charge of this
Department of Civilian Relief"
under the auSpicieS of the Jack
son Co. Chapter of the Red Cross
to give some publicity to its work
ing and to aCqualnt the people
more with this portion of Red
| Cross activity since it is known
| to so few. \ recital ought to
4. stimulate activity in the support
| of the wonderful well or9aniza-
| ton of the Red Cross as its hui
manitarian principles apply local
J " as we'll as universally-in times
of peace as we'll as in those of war.
Cd One object is to keep in
= touch with the families of the
| soldiers and sailors.
II (a) in case of sickness or finan-
| cial difficulties in such homes to
| loan money to tide over the diff
/ flculties.
II (b) in case of sons or other
| relatives not being heard from to
| send out tracerS as to their where
/ bouts. For this purpose certain
! men are employed at the various
! training camps at home and on
! the front, abroad, to trace the
| lost" and keep in constant touch
| with the Department in Wash
| inpton so that communication be
| tween the lost ones and anxious
| parents and relatives may be
| made possible.
4 (c) Soldiers and Sailors AL
| lowanceS. Compensation and In
surance Act. Under certain con
| ditionS, the Government will pay
monthly allowances to a man;
| relatives if he allotS part of hi;
| pay to them'-So reads the law
| cd Monthly installments, un
der the Insurance Act, paid the
benehCiarieS under these policies
range at a rate very much under
those of ordinary Life Insurance
| Companies.
| Automatic insurance from Ap
ril 1917 to Feb. 1918. All whC
| are in service who die or become
totally disabled between April g
| 1917 and Feb. II, 1918 Withou
| I-having applied for insurance will
be considered as having taker
| out insurance sufficient to pro
vide a sum of SIS month for the
man during his disability or il
the event of his death for hi
n wife during her widowhood-o O
. for his children or his widowed
mother. These payments to con
= tinue only so long as the wife re
mains a widow or to the child o
widowed mother while they SUI
vive him, and in any case vii
not exceed two hundred and fort,