The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-28
HURRY CALL FOR
MORE DRESSINGS
Local Red Cross Chapter
Must Enlarge Its Already
Large Output
MESSAGE is BROUGHT
FROM BOSTON MEETING
Gen. Pershing Has Asked Red Gross for
Tremendous Number, of Which New
England has Undertaken to Furnish
Fifth-Gauze for Special Order.

Mrs. 7. T. Brittan and Mrs. J. G..
Estey returned last evening from Bos
ton, where they went to attend meet
ing of the New England division of
the American Red Cross. The meeting
was held Yesterday III the Hotel Bruins
wick and was attended by nearly 400
women from all over New England.
The purpose of the meeting was to
speed up the making of surgical dress
ings and addresses were made by
James Jackson, New England division
manager of the Red Cross, and by DR..
Walter Kimball, in charge of surgical
dressings; demonstrations as to the
proper methods of making the dress
ings were made by DR.. Wadsworth.
The women in attendance at this
meeting were instructed to take this
message to their Red Cross chapters
and branches at home:
The Red Cross is now an auxiliary
OF the United States government, and
| the government has given 1t certain
| definite orders for q certain number of
surgical dressings The New England
| division has been honored III being re-
| quirel TO supply one-ffth of the en-
tire amount In filing this tremendous
order. the Red Cross is actually work
| ing for the government Just as much
as some of our men of big business af-
fairs who are putting in all their time
in Washington and drawing q salary OF
one dollar year.
In fact the Red Cross workers who
take part in making these dressings art
really working for the soldiers OF tho
! United States army at the front. The
orders come from Gen. Pershing 5 med
ical board composed of the ablcst med
ical men in the world. All instruction,
for dressings come direct from that
board. There can be no more thought
of failing to comply with the order
and furnish the required number o-
dressings than there could be of sol
dier 5 questioning the commands of hi
superior or failing to yield implici
obedience. The orders are direct iron
the government, must be obeyed ant
it is up to the women of New England
their part.
The responsibility rests not with tn
committees or the officers or tn
branches but with the individuals VII
must do the work
Allotments giving the quantities re
quired win be made to chapters abou
April ! and will be based not on tn
amount of work previously done nor o
the number Of workers, bat upon tn
, population. Vermont S output must b
doubled and trebled. The WORK ha
, not even been started, according t
, Mr.. Jackson. The need is urgent fc
| dressings, more dressings and yet NOR
! dressings!
Most of these dressings to be mad
: on government orders are for use i
the front line trenches and first al
dugouts, and delay is dangerous. Whe
mca are wounded they cannot be take
to hospitals for from to 10 hour.
they must receive immediate attentiC
= IN the dugouts to save their lives. Thel
, must be an enormous reserve of dres
lngS at every point, for it is of cour:
impossible to tell where the need wi
4 be the greatest.
Ihere are 50 Red Cross trucks carr,
! ing supplies from seaports to war
! houses continually
y The gauze for the government wor
I is to be furnished by the governmei
!. without charge to the Red Cross ar
). must be used for this work only. II
regular dressings will be made fro
A gauze bought by each branch as in IL
: past.
The regular work of the Red Gro
must continue in addition to the sp
cial government dressings. The regul
dressings for hospitals should be turnt
). out in quantities twice as great as
= present. The sewing and knittil
should continue, but must not prevel
i the workers from doing all the dres
e ings that are required