The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-12

progress for months. Of this important
work Mr.. kellogg says:
1.-The gradual removal which has
been going on, in contrast to what hap
pcned in the early days of the invasion,
is more like an orderly migration. Up
ward of 10000 colonists have thus been
taken TO certain villages selected for
the purpose in the neighborhood of
Rimini. Many of these people were en-
ployed in Venice in workshops estab-
lished for the purpose of giving need
ed employment for women, and the
equipment of these shops has been
transferred bodily to the new locality
"With Red Cross funds hospital
has been established for the benefit of
this colony at Rimini, in charge of a
Venetian physician who formerly di
rected a hospital in Venice The Italian
Red Cross provides the nurses. 1t is an
extraordinarily interesting experiment.
In several instances the authorities
were attempting to keep together neigh
borS from the same village and attempts
were made To reunite friends and rela
tiveS
Housing conditions are receiving
especial attention III these sections The
sick and inirm are being cared for in
special refugees A travelling dispensary
for children is to be maintained; health
centres and medical inspection are be
ing planned.
The Red Cross fears a breakdown of
the morale of certain refugees in case
better living conditions are not pro
vided IN the towns in which they have
taken refuge. 1t is proposed to buy
furniture and establish in life anew
those who are affected especially by
the changed conditions The cost of
this Is estimated at from $50 TO 500
lire per family
We must recognize, says Mr.. Kcl-
logg, that refugee families have in
many instances been accustomed to
much higher standards of living than
those, even, of the self-supporting
working people They have lost their
household goods and are in the posi-
ton Of people who have lost everything
by fire or flood
They are in danger of demoraliza-
ton from being left in their destitute
condition without employment, without
the privacy and wholesome atmosphere
Of family life, and without the social
| environment of the neighborhood to
which they have been accustomed. "
TIL" Red Cross intends to relieve this
condition b. providing suitable hous-
ing quarters, and to put the refugees
| on a salf-suPporting basis with the aid
| OF the Italian government allowances.
I In some localities this social redemption
! Is being achieved by moving the ref
ugecS from congregate shelters into bet
ter class hotels and buildings
| Before the 10 days which will close
| with Washington S birthday have ended
! the American Red Cross expects to have
2O,O00,O0O new members in its iuniol
| department \ call to the school chill
! dren of New York was issued bv Or
John II. Finley, state commissioner OF
education, asking them to aid in the
drive that begins on Lincoln 5 birthday
and ends on the natal day Of the IA
Their Of His Country. In the course OF
ms address to the children Dr Finley
| said;
81 In this time of national need manv
and various patriotic appeals have beer
made to the schools and through tn
pupils to the community Each appea
has been separately organized and The
schools of the country have felt the
need of a single organization which
could correlatc these appeals and thu
activities which they invite. The Jun
Tor Red Cross, under the presidency OF
the president of the United States
and with the scope given it by hi
definition, is the Organization. it is be
heved, which will best serve this pur
pose. 1t offers directly and through
cooperating agencies opportunity 70
the children Of America to give thei
service to their country and to express
helpful sympathy to the slffcrina i,
other parts of the world
The 10 days between Lincoln :
birthday and Washington 5 birthda,
have been set aside as a Junior Re-
Cross enrolment week for the schools
During that week every state in tn
country vii aim to make every one q
ITS schools Red Cross auxiliary and
centre for patriotic service =
The hoboes Will feel that the govern
ment broke faith with them if if