The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-08
TELLS WHAT THE RED
CROSS ACCOMPL LISHED
WILLIS J. MILNER SPEAKS TO IN
TERESTED AUDIENCE, TELLING
WHAT THE ORGANIZATION HAS
DONE I'M WAR.

Before large audience of members,
and executive officers of the local chap
ter, Willis J. Milner, Jr., director OF
publicity for the southeastern division
of the Red Cross mad an address in
the federal court room yesterday morn
ing, and outlined the accomplishment
of the organization since the entry or
the United states into the war.
AT the outset, he sketched the old
organization, with 27 active chapters.
before war was declared, and COM
pared it with the present enrolment OF
500 chapters and more than 20,0o0,00o
members In this enlargement the
warehouse has grown from almost
nothing to an organization doing an
annual business of s2,000.0o0. The re-
lief bureau has also been taxed in t1s
increasing size, and 362 civilian relief
committees are working throughout
the country, taking care OF the farni-
lies of those who have answered the
call of the colors.
The Junior Red Cross, Mr.. Miner
said had been organized, and tre-
mendous number of children enrolled,
through which it is hoped to bring
%. .0o0, 900 school children into the work.
Mr.. Miner them took up the dis
cussion of the Red Cross organization
and sketched briefly the executive
branch. the war council, composed o.
five men of great ability and expert
ence. These men, the speaker SAID,
have surrounded themselves with eX-
merits so that when any problem or
nec,,liar nature arises man wei ac-
ouainted with it may be called mt
councillation.
tevyitb this development" Mr. Mil
fpnY {
demand for skilled workers. We are
! IA cling a great nursing problem, for
there is a need for between 10000 and
| 40 600 trained nurses. while the total
crtput of our training schools is only
% 900 annually.
.syben war was declared by the
Tinted states the Red Cross was
forced to expand it's scope immediately
1 10 care for the emergency Formerly
/ there was no intermediate organiza-
tion between the various chapters, anG
the headquarters. II then became ne.
/ cessary TO establish thirteen divisions
I and to confer upon these divisions
some of the authority exercised by tbs
war council, and create a more gen
orally distributed power.
'But in this work. he continued
| chat done by the women is most i'm
DOrtanI- NOT lOhS ago. MI 'SfAN
head of the war council stated that
! he were offered a choice between ;
check for $4,000 900 and the work o
woman, he would not hesitate (
chose the woman's work.
We of the SOUTH he said. "and
i speak as a Southerner. do not realtz
what the war means. We have sell
war, war on our very soil, seen cite
| wrecked, and men wounded and killed
! hut there has never been such a wa
as. This before We felt il ISeenly be
cause other sections of the countr'
apparently did not realize the loss 1
the South in having it's conflict tough
on It's soil.
I'm a general sense no one, on tEi
| side of the water can grasp the mean
! ing, the intense agony Of the presen
! struggle We cannot feel suffering a
those over there feel il when they Sc
cities wiped out, homes DESTROYED an
families scattered. Perhaps you ca
obtain a faint idea Of what il mean
when I say tht frequently an entir
OK of surgical dressings made by TT
Red Cross is required to dress tn
wounds of single man. When II
enemy invents some new torture. som
: rev d, vice with which 10 MAIN an
? kill, we. the Red Cross, the people :
America, must use the same energy J
{ finding a means to to counteract il.
Mr.. Miner then took UP ciyilia
relief and exhibited card which he
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