The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-24
AMERICANS PAID
RED CROSS 1926, 900, 900
American Red Cross Workers Up to July
& /, 1918, Produced 221 ,2s2,s3s Ar
ticles Estimated to Be
Worth S44 100000.
Worth $44,ooo,ooo.

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material values, net total of at leas
| 1925, 600
The American Red Cross has tota
membership of 20,64S, l03 and in add
tion, 100000 members in the Junior Re-
Cross; total enrolment of more thai
one.fourth of the population of the Unit
ed States,
American Red Cross workers produce,
up to July last, total of 22l ,282, SO
articles of an estimated value of $44,
100000.
About 100000 women are engaged il
canteen work and the production of re
lief supplies.
The American Red Cross is distribut
ing aid in 10 countries the Unitet
States, England, France, Italy, Belgium
Switzerland, Palestine, Greece, Rpissii
and Siberia. Besides it has sent repre-
sentatives TO Sell ia, Denmark and Ma
deira.
/ More than 5000 Americans will b
working under the Red Cross in Franc,
| by Jan. /, next.
These facts were laid before the 3,s5.
chapters of the Red Cross in the annua
I
Cross, when the chapters throughout tht
country to-day held their annual meet
ings to elect officers.
Announcement was made in the mes
sage that every man, woman and child in
| the United States would be asked al
| Christmas time to enroll in the American
Red Cross.
The message, signed by Henry P. Da
vison, chairman of the war council, said
in part;
Since the beginning of thefWar, you
OF the chapters have co-operated with the
war council in conducting two war fund
drives and one membership drive, in ad.
dition TO the campaign on behalf of the
junior Red Cross. The total actual col
lections TO date from the first war fund
have amounted to more than $4,000.
600. The subscriptions to the second war
fund amounted to upwards Of $4,000,
coo From membership dues the collec-
lions have amounted to approximately
S24.500,00O.
10 the foregoing must be added that
very large contributions OF materials
and time given by the millions Of women
throughout the country. For the period
up to July l. 1918, American Red Cross
chapters, through their workrooms had
produced; 400, 100 refugees garments
7l23,62l hospital supplies; 1876, 4s9
hospital garments; l0,l34,50l knitted ar
ticles; l92,74s,l0 surgical dressings; a
total Of 22l ,2s2,s3s srticles--of an esti.
mated aggregate value of at least S44,-
100000
1Tbasa er+3cIan ,,,or. Io.,rof,. AZ ! -
net of women's hands, and, by the same
token, infinitely more precious than could
have been the output of factories or ma
chimes. These articles going to the OPP
Grating rooms of the hospitals, to home
less or needy refugees and carrying com
fort TO our own boys in the field, convey
a message of love from the women OF
this country entirely distinct from the
great money value attaching TO their
handiwork
by the terms under which the first
Red Cross war fund was raised, the chap
ters We're entitled to retain rs per cent Of
the amount collected, in order to defray
local expenses, to carry on their home
service work, TO purchase materials to be
utilized in chapter production and other
wise TO meet the numerous calls made
upon them. The chapters were thus en-
titled to retain nearly S29,000,000. AS a
matter Of fact, their actual retentions
to only about $50 100000 Out
Of collections from annual memberships,
the chapters have retained about $ll,-
600, 600.
From this total sum, therefore, of
s33,000,000 retained by the chapters they
have met all the oftentimes very heavy
local demands upon them, and in add
tion have provided for use BY national
headquarters products valued at upwards
Of $4,000, 600
The chapters have in effect returned
to the war council, not alone the S33 ,000.-
900 retained out of the war fund and
dues but, in value of actual
product, an additional contribution of at
least 81 100000
1t will thus be seen that during the
is months which have elapsed since the
United States entered the war, the Amer
lean people win have either paid in or
pledged to the American Red Cross for
It's work Of relief throughout the world
IN money or in material values, net total
" at least 1925 100000
This outpouring Of generosity in ma
.erial things has been accompanied by
in the giving, by an enthu-
,iasm and a devotion in the doing, which, /
after all, are greater and bigger than
'ould be anything measured in terms of
line or dollars.
ut has been because of this spirit !
which has peryaded all American Red
ross effort in this war that the aged |
governor of one OF the stricken. and bat |
cred provinces of France stated not long
ince that, though France had long
Known of Americas greatness, strength /
md enterprise, il remained for the Amer. /
can Red Cross in this war to reveal
Americas heart.
an this country, at this moment, the
workers of the Red Cross through its
hapters, are helping to add to the com
ort and health of the millions of our
oldiers in l02 camps and cantonments.
$ well as of those travelling on railroad
rains or embarking on ships for duty
yerseas.
"The home service of the Red Cross,
With its now more than 10000 workers,
) extending its ministrations of SYM
,athy and counsel each month TO up
Yards of 100000 families left behind by