Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-02-13
WHAT RED CROSS DID
IN SIX MONTHS
What the Money You 'eave
Helped to Do In the

Public Safety Commission sends US the
following:
If anyone asks you what the Red
Cross has done with tho money you
gave. tell them-
For Our Own Forces, It has
Quilted and maintains 48 Base Hos
pitfalls. Of which 6 have already gone to
Europe.
Taken over the task Of caring for the
needy families of all soldiers and sail
ors absent on service.
Maintains 10 canteens at tho front for
men returning from the firing line. "a
canteen can keep 125 gallons Of drink
at the boiling point at time. 1900
portions Of hot coffee, tea, cocoa, lem
onade and soup can be served by q can
teen in q day.
Has established 20 dispensaries In the
American War Zone.
Maintains dental ambulance In
France.
Maintains a Casualty Service, fol-
gathering information for wounded and
missing.
and plants for making nitrous oxide gas
for operating purposes.
Has IL Rest Stations at important
railroad centers.
In France
Remember that France is bearing the
brunt of the war tragedy and her cour-
age and morale must be kept up until we
are ready to play our full part in the
struggle.
1t has
Established warehouses with supplies
in every port of entry, one of 5000, 00C
cubic feet capacity in Paris.
Has purchase and supply stations ir
France, Switzerland, Great Britain
Spain and Portugal (as we'll as In U. S.
| for buying all kinds of materials neces.
sary to rebuild civilization-rangine
all the way from saw-mill outfits, port.
able engines and gas tractors to bales OF
| flannel and absorbent cotton.
Is supplying hospital necessities te
3,617 hospitals in 1856 towns.
Is using 500 cars (and has arranged
for 400 more) in making this distribu.
| tion.
Has appropriated 5,000,0 900 francs TO,
the relief of sick and wounded French
soldiers and their families. Note: There
are l,5Oo.oOO French wounded or Grip.
pied. Refugees coming in from desolat.
ed districts number 1000 a day-hae.
gard, hungry, helpless. The Red Cross
| meets them with the human hand.
Is supporting 10000 children-child.
rem who are picked up in ravaged dis.
tricts, often mere drifting waits, with
no one left to whom they can turn
sometimes so frightened that they can.
not speak for days and have forgotten
who they are, diseased, hungry, forlorn
The Red Cross gives them medical aid
and homes.
Maintains motor bus line across
switzerland from the German frontier
to transport refugees and EXCHANGED
prisoners.
Fights tuberculosis on a scale never
dreamed Of before.
Helps to rebuild destroyed towns and
| to prepare fields once fertile but nov
desolate for crops to come. America
portable houses are used.
In Italy,
100000 worth Of supplies and man,
workers were rushed in after the recen1
Italian military disaster. Hospital SUD-
! plies, food for the hungry-4S carload,
OF 1t-motor ambulances, shelter 70,
homeless women and children, CONDENSED
milk for babies, soup kitchens for ref.
| ugees, workshops for people who hac
lost everything, ETC., etc.
In Armenia
| $3OO,0OO month has been appopriat
| ed. 100000 Armenians are facin.
death. From one town alone came 8
call to house 10000 fatherless children
In Belgium
1t has taken over the relief worl
where practically the whole nation Il
In dire need.
In Serbia, in Russia, In Roumania, Al
| Over tho World
Wherever there is human suffering
there goes the Red Cross with the hand
Of mercy.
| Salaries,
The operating expenses Of the Re,
Cross are trifle under per cent of IT.
budget. Almost all workers give thei
services. In the Headquarters irr Wash
1ngton, since war broke out, 470 PAL
workers have been added to the staff.
salaries Of from $4,000 to $4,000. On
officer, established before the war brok
out, gets $1,000. No one else gets owe
$6,000
The same conditions prevail in Pari
and other centers. Because the fund
draw interest, more than $1O2. 90 is spen
for actual war relief for every 500 q
given. $97 $4,000 has been paid int
the war fund Of which $4,000, 900 ha
been returned to the local chapters
$64,700,000, approximately, has been an
propr1ated for the above purposes.
These figures cover the first 81.
months work. ending January, 1918.
MRS. D. N. TALLMAN,
Chairman