The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-02-22

organized recently at Beaverton,
having a membership of ten. The
ladies are anxious to get started in
active work, and already materials
have been sent out to be made up in
to garments.
The Red Cross at Opheim is GER
tainly doing excellent work. They
have sold $1,000 worth of Red Cross
stamps, and recently made a donation
of $S4.05 to the Valley County Mon
tana chapter.
At Havre, Mont, in the last fort
night men have done as much work
in the surgical dressings department
of Red Cross work as the women.
At Albert Lea, MIMI, Red Cross
workers declare Miss Johanna Jensen
is the swiftest knitter in the land.
She completed a sweater in just 10
hours of knitting. The Albert Lea
newspapers challenge any chapter or
branch to produce a better record for
speed.
Eye wipes and shoulder wraps are
no longer needed for shipment abroad.
according to a letter received from
Washington by the women's bureau of
the northern division. Workers are
urged by Mrs. F. L. Fridley, division
director, to bend their energies to-
ward making other articles that will
be available for shipment abroad. Sur
gical dressings, sweaters, socks and
helmets are needed in immense guam
titles.
In the future all knitted articles
turned in to the northern division will
be shipped to the soldiers in France
according to the announcement made
by Coler Campbell, director of mill
tary relief. Red Cross authorities al
Washington and field director at the
various camps and environments ir
this country have been supplied with
knitted articles, but that there is {
scarcity of such garments in France
The fact that our troops here have
been supplied does not mean thai
there should be any let-up in produc
ton, Mr.. Campbell warns, but on thu
contrary the demand from abroad i:
so imperative that production SHOULD
be increased.
Directors for the northern division
of the Red Cross have undertaken 6
campaign to cure what Genera
Pershing has called the worst disease
that is preying upon the America,
soldiers Neutrality-suspicious..
Coler Campbell, director of militar,
relief for the division has been as
signed to this particular task. He ha'
already prescribed the cure and i
asking every member of the Rel
Cross in the four states of the div:
sion to help him in it's application.
Scores of letters from the men a
the front and in camps and canton
ments in this country, whose writer
are all suffering from the same dis
ease of the men away from home
have come pouring into the northern
division office. From these letter
Mr.. Campbell has diagnosed tn
malady and determined upon it's cure
Letter writing, he says, will do nor
to Danish inconsistencies from GU
army camps than all the supplies an
medicines and garments that the Re
Cross can rush across the ocean,
Time and again letters have com
to the attention of division headqua1
tiers workers, all telling the sam
story. Army officers have describe
the long lines of waiting men tina
form on the day the mail comes. Fin
men, big men, rough and indifferer
men, standing in line, sometimes fc
more than an hour, break down an
weep without ~self-control when the
see the last letter passed and not
word for them.
They speak about it afterwa1
around the camp fire. Not a soul
home they say, with enough though
of them to so much as send all o.
newspapers. Naturally they thin
whats the use of risking life ar
liberty for a bunch at home as though
less as that"
No, Mr.. Campbell's plan is for q
organized letter writing syste
through the Red Cross. Chapter ar
branch officials are asked to make
list of the men who have gone fro
their own neighborhoods. Then pc
sons will be selected to write at lea
once a week to each man. The pls
is to get neighbors and acquaintanc'
of the men enlisted, not relatives
write.
Relatives, Mr.. Campbell says, a,
writing. It is the other letters, lie
tiers from the folks in the old hon
town, letters telling the neighborhot
gossip-about Bill Jones breaking h
leg, John Smith painting his bar
how that chap from Five Corners