The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-23

Red Cross Notes

Home Service Plattsburghs" are In
session. In Q six weeks course Red
Cross chapter delegates to the Home
Service Institutes ct Cleveland and
Cincinnati are receiving intensive In
struction in Red Cross Home service.
At the Home Service Institutes
courses arc given covering War Risk
Insurance, re-educauon Of wounded
soldiers and sailors. the care Of civil
and business affairs Of absent soldiers,
health OF soldiers families and child
welfare. Conferences and discussions
are arranged to answer questions that
may arise on points regarding delayed
allotments and communications.
September l, at Indianapolis and
Columbus, and October in Cleveland
will see new groups gathered from the
chapters committees. Tho Lake d.
vision Bureau Of Civilian Relief has
arranged to have expert workers lee
ture at these meetings and 10 doing
everything possible to provide trained
workers for all chapters
Twenty.three pairs Of socks wero do
mated by the Willing Workers on Sat
urday. The yarn was bought from the
proceeds of the White Elephant sale
held in May. Some Of the socks were
striped with yarn spun by hand by one
of the knitters in 1885.
The proceeds OF an entertainment
given by children under the age OF II,
were given to the Red Cross. 1t
amounted to O700. The children gave
Rotations, dances and songs. The
ID at IN nha op. ns,th Afss11
and Dorothy Campbell.
Great success has attended the op-
Grafton OF the sewing rooms for the
benefit OF women refugees and the
poor widows OF soldiers In Italy.
Americans, German or others in the
United States wishing to communicate
with relatives in Germany. must now
write out their messages In Rcd Cross
chapters throughout the country. These
are sent through the division officers
Of the organization to national head
quarters. Here they are rewritten and
the wording absolutely changed to pre-.
vent the sending OF diagrams or secret
codes The messages are then given
to the Censorship Board and arc pass
ed or refused by them as the case may
be. hen they reach q neutral country
they are translated on other paper and
in most cases delivered by the Red
Cross OF the place to which they 60.
The plan is considered as spy-proof as
it is possible to devise. Today the
American Red Cross is sending an av-
erage OF 1900 letters q day to persons
living behind the enemy lines. This
work is done through Washington
headquarters of the American Red
Cross by the Bureau OF Communica-
ton, Of which Edward NJ. Day Is act
ing director.
Records compiled for Red Cross
Home Service sections in the Lake
Division show that to July 1. 24S Ohio.
Indiana and Kentucky soldiers and
sailors had lost their lives. Two hun
dren and five were seriously wounded
and IL taken prisoner in the same
period. BY states these casualties
are:
Deaths-Ohio. 1876; Indiana, 66; Ken
lucky. A.; total 248.
Seriously Wounded-Ohio, Sc; Indi.
ana, 60; Kentucky, 56: total 205.
Taken Prisoner-Ohio, 1; Indiana,
4; Kentucky, 4; total IL.
These lists haze been prepared from
the official bulleton by r. J. Colbert,
assistant in the Bureau of Civilian Re-
lief at the Lake Division Red Cross
headquarters.
Six hundred pounds of yarn has ar.
rived at the local Red Cross rooms,
and knitters can receive 1t at any
time.