Evening journal., 1918-08-07
RED CROSS FAIRY
GODMOTHER IN WAR
So Writes DR.. Jessie W.
Fisher from Battlefront
in France
CIGARETTES BEFORE
SURGEON FOR WOUNDED

Writing from the front in France
where she Is IN active service with
the American Expedltionary Force as
a member Of the Red Cross Medical
STAFF, Or. Jessie W. Fisher, daughter Of
the late Rev. J. w. Weston, one time
pastor OF Mt. Salem NJ. e. Church,
showers great praise on the Red Cross
organizatlon and the work It is dOing
In helping TO win the war.
In a letter dated Somewhere In
France" and received yesterday she
said:
I'VE are within sound OF the guns
which are heard plainly at night. We
are in no danger from that source but
the air raids are terrible, and are do
ing much damage and killing many
people. Fritz Is evidently after the
hospital as that seems to be his long
suite.
"The Red Cross is doing the most
magnificent work ever attempted in
the history Of the world. Their policy
over here Is TO MI in the gaps, be they
civil or military; so whenever the
other ORGANIZATIONS break down the
Red Gross rushes TO the rescue. So
well have thes planned that their
warehouses were full before the troops
began to come over-full Of every con-
celvable thing so that Il has become
an axiom The Red Cross will give 1t
20 you, and give It without the mad
denlng red tape and delays which are
so deadly in this game.
$50 we'll have they managed that
France has had all assistance and It
has been gi.en freely and France has
been made to feel that she Is confer
ring q favor on us, not us on her.
Every army, every organization, every
hospital, etc, / think, In France, has
been assisted or its work supplemented
by the Red Cross. At the front the
workers are the last 10 leave the evac-
uated towns and FIRST to receive the ref
ugees. etc. Without the Red
Gross can't imagine how they have
been able TO get along. Surely the
organization is a fairy godmother 10
the war.
There is, in spite Of Il all. very
little waste. The people at home can
be sure that their money is being spent
% a tremendous advantage. There j.
nothing but praise for the Red Cross" "
Some interesting details OF the hos
pitsl work are given In another part
OF Dr. Fishers letter In which she says:
The boys, both French and Ameri-
ran. come TO us either direct from the
'r0nt line dressing stations or through
the field hospitals-when things are
active, from the former. where nothing
has been done except imperltive dress
incs and anti-tetanic serum given. In
periods Of calm they have usually been
operated upon in the field hospital.
In either case whatever is needed IS
done here and the lad moved on in
day or two to the next and the next till
he finds himself In Southern France
in a base hospital to recuperate or on
his way home.
when things are active they seldom
stay more than two days. Even big
amputations have to be evacuated. Il
seems hard but necessary and as a
rule no m effects are noticed, although.
Of course, they suffer. But never
whimper. They really are the pluck
lest lads / ever saw.
THE X-ray machine is absolutely
indispensable. Every lad after having
a cigarette, a bath, II his surgical con-
dition permits Of that delay, goes d.
rect 10 the X-ray room where bullets
and all foreign bodies are located so
when he goes next to the surgeon he
knows exactly where to cut. Believe
me they do cut, too. It IS absolutely
necessary to avoid gas gansrene to lay
everything wide open and remove all
debris OF torn tissue. etc. Then we
come in, taking cultures. II these
show a clean wound, next day the sur
geon closes the wound, II not he opens
Il I'D wider"