The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-10
NO HOME WORRIES ]
IS IDEA OF LATEST
RED CROSS BUREAU
New Service Will Try to
Adjust Personal and
Family Matters

arisen back home, one you could setr
tie easily IL you were on the spot,
but which you cannot deal with sat
Iisfactorily by the slow and uncertain
processes of correspondence between
Chateau-Thierry and town 5000
miles away, take it up with the Red
Cross.
Has the sheriff been getting nasty
about the mortgage on the old farm?
Has there been strange and troubl-
ing silence ever since you heard that
your oldest boy was to be operated
on for appendicitis? Would you like
a divorce? In any case, buttonhole
the first person you see in Red
Cross uniform, state your problem to
him or her, and leave the rest to the
home service. ~ saF Az
The home service, which has long
been in full swing in America be-
tween the training camps and the
homes that had sent their menfolks
to them, has just opened its bureau
in France for the convenience of the
A. Il. +. A majOr-general, with big
bank account in New York, can cable
his lawyers to settle any question
that might arise to bother him; the
rest OF us cah get much the same
results thru the workers of the home
service.
Not a Family Must Suffer
Men may be the best soldiers in
the world" the Red Cross says "but
If things are not weh with their
families at home, they lose efficiency
W nd h. -
army-that all-important factor
begins to fail. The home service Of
the Red Cross must be the natiDn's
assurance that no enlisted mans
family shall suffer for any essential
thing that Is within its power to
give"
The new bureau has been under
way little more than fortnight, but
glance thru it's alredy voluminous
secret records would give you an idea
OF the scope of the work. nat ques-
tion about a divorce, for instance.
was no idle jest. Here is a letter
from soldier who wants one i'm
mediately, panied as he is by the
thought of having to make an allot-
ment to faithless consort.
Sought News of Father
Il found my wife was roaming
about and was with other men, who
were absolute strangers to her," he
writes, reasonably enough. while
you are doing your best for me.
Will be dong my best also for hu-
mainly"
-nen here is the correspondence in
the case Of boy who is in hospital
here, had been worrying about his
people because,-when he sailed
away, his father was dying and since
then no word had reached him. The
Red Cross report came by cable:
"-died May 6. Left widow,
eighty acres good land all planted.
thirty head cattle, horses, mo debts.
family good health"
Allotment Cause Worries
But the bulk of the cases arise
from soldiers who are worried be-
cause months have gone by without
their hearing from home at all and
from those who have made allot-
ments and have reason to believe
that the families are not yet receiv-
ing the checks from Washington.
In the latter cases, the Red Cross
Ss"A W q CelAA AuAI AOl Lu6 6LTdy allOC-
ment form and In the MEANWHILE tips
on the local committee in the home
town of the soldier that a little dis
Greet help with the landlord and the
grocer or q straight cash loan might
be acceptable till the regular funds
begin to arrive.
Occasionally, the query arises not
here, but back home, and it becomes
The business of the home service to
remind such and such soldier that,
there is no law to make him
10 it, an allotment in favor of his
would be very well
come. Then, too, there is an occa-
'ional officer to prod, for the compuI-
'ory allotment law does not apply to
officers, and now and then a captain
must be advised that his wife and
children are in need.