The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-02-28
LOCAL RED Cross.
WHAT THE RED CROSS HAS
DONE WITH THE MONEY
THAT YOU GAVE
For our own forces it has

For u own forces it has
Quilted and maintains forty-eipht
Base hospitals, Of which six have al
ready gone to Europe.
Taken over the task Of caring for
the needy families of all soldiers and
sailors absent on service.
Maintains ten canteens at the front
Tor men returning from the firing
llne. "a canteen can keep 1876 gal
Ions of drink at the boiling point ali
the time. Four thousand portions of
not coffee, tea, cocoa, lemonade. and
soup can be served by a canteen in q
day.
Has established twenty Dispenser
les in the American War Zone.
Maintains a Dental Ambulance in
France.
Maintains a Casualty Service, for
gathering information for wounded
and missing.
Maintains a factory for artificial
limbs, and plants for making nitrous
oxide gas for operating purposes.
Has twelve rest stations at import
ant railroad centers.
In France-Remember that France
is bearing the brunt of the war trap-
edy, and her courage and morale
must be kept up until we are ready
to play u full part of the strugqle.)
1t has
Established war houses with sun
plies in every port of entry and one
of 100000 cubic feet capacity in
Paris.
Has purchase and Supply Stations
in France, Switzerland, Great Brit
ain, Spain and Portugal las we'll as
in the U. S. for buying all kinds of
materials necessary to rebuild civil
zation, ranging all the way from saw
mill outfits, portable engines and gas
tractors to bales of, flannel and alb
sorbent cotton.
Is supplying hospital necessaries
to 3,617 hospitals in 1856 towns.
Is using 500 cars land has arrang-
ed for 400 more) in making this dis
tribution.
Has appropriated 100000 francs
for the relief of sick and wounded
French soldiers and their families.
Note; There r 100000 French
wounded or crippled. Refugees com
ing in from desolated districts number
1000 a day-haggard, hungry, help
less. The Red Cross meets them
with the human hand.
Is supporting 10000 children
children who are picked up in ravaged
districts, often mere drifting waits,
with no one left to whom they can
turn, sometimes so frightened that
they cannot speak for days and have
forgotten who they are, diseased, hun
CRY, forlorn. The Red Cross gives
them medical aid and homes. ,
Maintains a Motor Bus line across
Switzerland from the German from
tier to transport refugees and ex-
changed prisoners.
Fights tuberculosis on a scale new
err dreamed Of before. +
Helps to rebuild destroyed towns
and to prepare fields once fertile but
now desolate for crops to come. Am
erican portable houses are used.
In Italy-$4, I'll 800 worth of sup
plies and many workers were rushed
in after the recent Italian military
disaster. Hospital supplies, food for
the hungry, forty-eight carloads of
it, motor ambulances, shelters for the
homeless women and children, con-
densed milk for babies, soup kitchens
for refugees, workshops for people
who had lost everything, etc., etc.
/ In Armenia-$3n0,00O a month has
been appropriated. 100000, Ar
manians are facing death. From one
town alone came a call to house 1O,-
900 fatherless children.
In Belgium-It has taken over the
relief work where practically the
whole nation is in dire need.
In Serbia, Russia, Roumania, all
over the world-wherever there is
human suffering, there goes the Red
Cross with the hands Of mercy.
: The entire overhead expense incur
red to accomplish all these things has
been a fraction Of one per cent.