The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-05-09

citation had arranged hospital care
for a man discharged because of tu-
berculosis contracted Gin the line OF
duty" Some attorney had hold him
he would get compensation for him
on a fifty-fifty basis, but the lawyer
member of the Home Service Section
helped him fill out the proper form,
which the Red Cross office supplied,
and assured him that no discharged
soldier Or soldiers beneficiary should
ever pay for collecting either COM
pensation or insurance.
After this three-days' trip Smlth
and | came back to the office. AS we
came in the stenographer hanued US
a telegram which had just arrived
from a Home Service Section IN the
far West. 1t read-"Ed Jones mo-
Their dying. Think he is at thlru
Naval District. Can you locate MIN
A telegram to the Red Cross Asso
citation Field Director in charge OF
Home Service and phone message
to the Bureau of Navigation set the
wheels in motion. We found hlm'
although he was a civilian employe
at the Navy Yard.
A telegram next day told us how
made happy through message from
her son.
On the sixth day of Smiths So
iourn in our city a member OF the
womens uniformed corps drove us IN
her machine out to a camp where
there are 10000 men.
Here we met the Red Cross Home
Service man. We didn't take his
time-we just watched him. One
minute he was helping a man to fill
ont duplicate allotment blanks; the
next he was arguing the merits OF
insuring to the limit; the next he
was wiring a home service section 10;
visit a mans family; next he was go
| ing with a boy who had received a
| tragic telegram from home to see
1.-THE commanding officer about leave
of absence; a little later he was
l nutting across the Home Service idea
| to a group of Y. M. C. A. secretaries,
| and they were giving him tips as to
| what men needed Red Cross service;
| then he was speeding on his way
moor fellow discharged because OF
| permanent injury; then We saw him
| talking to soldier and girl-wife
at the hostess house; and as the
| shadows of evening fell he was clos
| eted with a worried chap who was
telling him about an impending mort
| gage foreclosure and an expected
| baby.
Later the same evening we saw
| him stand I'D in the Liberty Thea
ire" and, his eyes glowing with the
| service-picture in his own mind and
his voice ringing with the conviction
of his own enthusiasm, tell thou
| sand young fellows what Home Ser
vice is. He painted homes made
happier by Home Service-told OF
| friends for fighters families found
by the Red Cross-pictured devoted
Home Service workers fighting the
country's battles this side of the tren-
| ches. When he ended some fellow
struck up Keep the Home Fires
Burning"
We were silent for long while on
the way home-Smith and /. Finally
Smith broke out: "Can 1 do it? That
sort of thing-Camp Service, you
call it? Why, that's where l want
to beat the point of first contact
with these living problems. Perish,
ing was right when he said, The
thing most needful to the American
fighting forces overseas is anything
and everything that will contribute.
| to the morale Of the men in service.
A worried soldier is poor soldier.
The Germans made a big dent the
other day, but they can't beat an
army that keeps its morale. Home
Service see it now-means morale
When can go to work."
T. J. EDMONDS,
Director Civilian Relief.