The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-03-01
+ RED CROSS NEWS +

When solicited for a donation t.
the Red Cross, a farmer living neal
Lilly, S. D., announced that he would
donate a wagon of corr if women
from the Lilly branch would come ou'
and do the husking. They accepted
the offer Immediately and Drawing
sub zero weather all of them worked
all day at the husking, not stopping
at one load, but filling three triple
wagon boxes before night.
Despite repeated letters written
from northern division headquarters
disclaiming all responsibility on the
part of the Red Cross for chain letter
schemes of raising money such let
tiers continually pour into the office
with requests for verification. The
Red Cross will not sponsor any such
idea for raising money since there is
no assurance that it will be devoted
to the purpose for which it is raised.
Professional and business men
CARRIED in white coats and caps, are
busy every Tuesday and Friday even
ing at Morris, Mimi, devoting their
energies to the making of surgical
dressings. The work of enlisting the
men into active service in the manu-
facture of dressings was begun only
a fortnight ago but already a good
percentage of the male population of
the city are at work. In many fam
lilies husbands and wives have Joined
the classes and are working together.
Red Cross officials at Benedict, N.
D., have decided to report to head
quarters the failure of Knut Christen-
son, national nonpartisan league or
ganizer, and John Dunaway to SUBJ
scribe to the Red Cross during the re-
cent drive. So far as can be learned
they are the only men in Benedict
who failed to subscribe. Christensen
is said to have declared that he could
not afford a dollar for the Red Cross,
that he feared the money would be
misapupropriated.
Full information regarding the con-
dition of soldiers who are taken i'll or
are injured in camps in the United
States is to be transmitted to their
families by the Red Cross, through
the suggestion of Secretary of War
Baker.
The secretary submitted a plan for
carrying out this work in the follow
ing letter to the American Red Cross
headquarters:
Gentlemen: Since the American
Red Cross has already established in
France, in accordance with an army
order, a service to keep families in
America in personal touch with their
boys, ill OF wounded in the field, it is
suggested hat this service be extend
ed to the camps in the United States.
"American Red Cross representa-
tives at the camps here, as in France,
would have access to daily lists of adj
missions and excavations from the
hospitals, and, so far as it is in accord
with necessary medical rules, woulc
be allowed to talk with sick men
They would be expected to keep fam
lilies constantly informed as to con
ditions and progress of men in hospi
tails, to write letters for men unabl,
to write themselves, and in genera
to fulfill that clause of the Red Gross
charter which designates the societ,
as a medium of communication be
tween troops in the field and thei
families at home"
. Appropriations for relief work il
France have now been made by tn
American Red Cross war council, GOV
r ering the period since the Unite
States entered the war and up t
. April 30, 1918 amounting to $30,519.
| 260. OF this sum $14,O19,89O wa
) appropriated for military relief.
. The principal appropriations flo
military relief are for hospitals, dis
pensaries and nursing service, $1,253
700; $1,671, 789 for canteen service fo
, the French and American soldiers
5 $3,119,000 for hospital supply service
| for $3.50 hospitals on the original lis
; and those that are being added at tn
rate of 100 a month. For the surg
: cal dressings service, $1,963,925 wa
appropriated for communication, res
stations, recreation and welfare sci
: vice for American and allied armies
81 ,062 1865; for revitaillement servic
| for American army including portabl
) kitchens, ice plants and supplies othe
than medical, surgical and recrea
tional, $4,263,3S5.
|. For artificial limbs and re-educs
ton of mutilated soldiers the appro
| priation amounted to SCOT $50; fo
casual reporting service, oxygen ser>
ice, investigation and relief, laundr!
~disinfecting articles for Christina
comfort bags and general supervision
the appropriation was $500 1899.
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