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ly, and that We will be able 10 collect
Tor the Commission such quantities
Of clothing and other articles as II
requires to satisfactorily carry on
It's work Of relief We Will send OUT
your appeal to all our Chapters thru
our Divisional organization. " mere
your LEGAL committees still exist. we
trust hat this work may be done D!
such committees in cooperation win
oar local Chapters in order thar the
Chapters may ieel that they too nave
part in this great work.
Cordially yours.
H. p. DAWSON.
Chairman Red Cross War Council.
The following is the text OF the
appeal made to the members OF the
Red Cross on behalf of the Commls-
sion for Relief III Belgium:
Your spare clothing for the suffer
ing PEOPLE of Belgium and Northern
France under the occupation OF the
enemy.
As the world is short of so many
things it is short of clothing, and OF
raw materials. We cannot purchase
what is needed we must put our
spare garments to the service OF the
world-a measure of pure economies
conservation and patriotism.
One-third of every shipment Will
go to the people of the North OIL
France. down close behind the Ger
man lines; two-thirds will GO to Bel
GUM.
Last year in Belgium one paid s.
to have a pair of shoes resoled. The
Commission for Relief was sohng
them with sections of discarded ma
terial stamped out to fit the various
sizes: tens of thousands of pairs OF
these cut-soleS were thus produced.
We must have shoes, and we must
have scrap leather with which to re-
pair those you give. and the other
shoes now being worn over there.
1t is useless tC send a garment
which is not made of the strongest
and most durable materials, as the
clothes are subject to the hardest
kind of use. But this does not mean
that all garments must be in perfect
repair There are upwards of hun
dred thousand women in Belgium
and Northern France who will do
ANYTHING for a little work, and who
were modified and trained into
marvelously efficient organization for
the making of new clothing whlle
there were still raw materials-or
the repairing, ripping up and re-
making of old clothing.
These women were happiest when
at work, having less time to dwell
upon their misery. They look for
ward with dread to the day, when,
their material exhausted and their
garments finished, they must lay
down their work and await their
turn to receive the next supplies.
AS to the bedding: In the North
! of France sacks stuffed with dry
leaves serve as mattresses; every
where the need for blankets is ire
mendous; hospitals and other insti-
buttons suffer for want of sheets. Do
f, not forget that in some places whole
families sleep together TO share
single blanket.
While the Red Cross is caring for
the helpless, and the destitute
French and Belgians behind the AL
lied Armies, the Commission for Re-
lief is caring for the helpless and the
destitute French and Belgians in
| there" behind the German lines.
The cry for clothing comes from
the Commission for Relief. The clio
thing, to be sorted and packed, must
! 20 TO the warehouse of the Commits
! sion. From there it goes to the
docks, and thence by ship to Rotter-
| dam.
Four or five times a month general
cargo vessels will take hundreds OF
| tons of this clothing; every week the
grain ships will carry as much more.
| To meet the situation, and the OPP
| portunity, the week of March 1925
! should coo NOT loo 81 =" b
I OF clothing Corrected ana on It's way
! 10 the Commission warehouses;
Chapters will report promptly to
Division Bureau of Supplies total
number of articles and total tonnage
shipped during the campaign.
L., l. T.