The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-28
More Thoro System WIN Be
Used by Red Cross.
Workers WIN Make Articles
Needed Most Urgently.
ROOMS HERE TO Be KEPT BUSY
Repairing of Clothes Expected
To Be One Duty.
Yarn for Knitting To. Be Appor-
toned to Chapters.

Some of tho Topeka women who
have been active in Red Cross work
rooms have been wondering why the
work rooms have not been opened and
why there was not work to do. The
response to the call among the women
OF Topeka has been really wonderful.
During the summer season, while
most of the work rooms were closed
can Red Cross put into effect an en-
tirely new system OF handling sup
plies.
Hereafter the Topeka women will
he asked for definite quotas and the
supplies will be forwarded to this city
just as the Red Cross needs them.
Heretofore the Topeka chapter went
out on the open market and pur-
chased such supplies as it needed. ALI
chapters did this. The government
needs many OF the articles the Red
Cross uses and by an agreement with
Cross is given a definite apportion-
ment of every essential article needed.
FIJI Up Warehouses.
The Red Cross has checked UP the
millions OF articles made last winter
and for the present it Is now filling
it's warehouses with articles which
houses. Under the old system some
articles were made in tar greater
number than were needed, while other
necessary articles are not up to the
required numbers.
The Red Cross now obtains all of
Its supplies in the same manner as
the army and navy. The supplies are
then apportioned to the divisions and
then to the chapters. At the present
time Topeka women are asked to
finish 480 pajamas by October Is. A
week earlier Topeka was asked to
make certain number of surgical
dressings.
The system is just now getting into
working order. It takes time to work
out any system for as large an institu-
ton as the Red Cross. Topeka women
will have all the work that they can
do during the coming winte.. In some
cases it likely will be work heretofore
never done in this city and in other
instances 1t will be familiar work.
Keep Rooms Open.
The work rooms will be kept open
and it is not likely that there ever will
be time from now until summer that
there isn't work to be done. Freight
congestion may cause slight delays in
the shipment OF supplies. 1t is planned
now to keep the garment and surgical
dressing rooms of the Topeka chapter
open and In full operation This will
peka and there will be gwen to the
county auxiliarfes q small amount Of
war work materials. The Sunflower
auxiliary and the night clubs Of em-
ployed girls will also have materials
furnished them. There will not be
quite as much work available this sea-
son as last year but every auxiliary
that can be supplied will have ma
terial.
VIII Repair Clothing.
Topeka will shortly receive a quota
of clothing OF soldiers to be repaired.
The reclamation division of the quar-
termaster's department has asked the
Red Cross to undertake this work and
Topeka will have a quota shortly
The eame rules REGARDING materials
and supplies generally for Red Gross
work also apply to tie yarns for knit
ting. Knitted articles are needed and
any articles made according to the
Red Gross directions will he accepted.
Rut the Red Cross yarn will be appor-
TONED to the cha pters the eame az
other supplies and made available as