The Marietta journal and courier., 1918-10-11
OFFICIAL NOTES OF THE
RED CROSS SOCIETY

Two weeks ago the members of the
Hospital Supply Department Of the
Chapter we're called upon to fill q
s'hurry call' for partition sheets for
use in the contagion wards, and they
delivered the alltment on time.
Last week the call came for a
thousand contagion ward masks and
in two days time the workers in the
Surgical Dressings and the Hospital
Supplies department filled the call.
The workers of Smyrna and Ma
rietta filed the allotment for the
sheets, as the time was too short 70
send any of the allotment to other
branches.
The second hurry call'' was filled
by Marietta, Smyrna, Roswell and
Acworth. These masks were for use
in the wards where the influenza pa
tients were being cared for. The
second allotment of the masks, an
other thousand, is well on the way to
completion.
The package of masks was deliver
ed by motor to the Depot in Atlanta
by our own Lieutenant Constance
Cole, of the Motor Corps.
To the Supervisor of Surgical Sup
plies, Mrs. Welborn Reynolds, the Di
rector of the Marietta Work-room,
Mrs. George Sessions and the packer
of the Surgical Supplies, Miss Ella
White, is due the dispatch with which
this allotment was completed.
The second allotment of the masks,
now being made, will need the help
of any who can give even little time,
and the directors of the work rooms
request that all who can do so will
come to the rooms and help with this
allotment, as well as help finish the
allotment of pads which was put aside
for this more urgent call.
The Red Cross Ready For Every
Emergency
If you wish to know just what all
the immense amount of work that has
been done by the Red Cross means,
read the article in the Saturday Eve
ming Post of October, 5th by Eliza
beth Frazer, ''Behind Chateau-Thi-
cry" The following paragraph is
an answer to all who have said or
written that too much was being done
by the Red Cross, that the ware
houses were STUFFED to bursting"
We have all heard this adverse pro-
paganda, so when you work in the
Red Cross rooms bear these facts in.
mind and know that it was the never
failing workers who made this mir
acle possible:
"The American Army would de-
pend, according to agreement, upon
French Evacuation Hospitals immedi-
ately behind the lines, but as soon as
possible it would convey it's wound
ed back to Paris and thus relieve the
congestion in the front zone. But
how to get hold of any hospital? For
tunately, the Red Cross, the emergen-
cy department fthe Army, had
nucleus of hospitals already on hand.
This nucleus was composed of some
half dozen plants, some large, some
small, some military, some civilian,
but all in excellent running con-
dition. In addition it hadin it's ware
houses, in complete readiness for just
such a crisis, whole hospital units,
complete in every detail, from tents
down to the final safety pin, ready
IT, put into the field at any point the
Army should designate. Moreover it
had the camions 70 rthe transporta-
ton and the surgical teams and nur-
ses at hand for instant summons by
telephone.
GAN this preparation had been done
months before. Now this fine inten-
sive long-sightedness began to yield
its excellent fruit. For the Army
gave orders to these hospitals to
double, treble, quadruple their bed
capacity and to hold themselves for
instant action. What made the sit
uation more acute was that the
French were handling all of the
wounded for that sector What was
to become Of our men? Not an AM
erican Army Hospital in that sector;
not an ambulance; not even a field
dressing station. Twice, two nights
IL succession, the Red Cross repres-
entative tore at full speed down to
Paris, returning with a canton load
of surgical supplies, ether and BAN
dages. The representatives rented
a hospital. Once more he scorched
the road to Paris This time he load
ed up fifteen tons OF stuff. one of