Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-05-10
AMERICAN RED CROSS DRIVE Will,
START ON MAY 2OF0R SEVEN DAYS

TO the People of TaYewel! County:
The week of May Goth to 9th has
been set apart as RED Cross Week,
when the people of the United States
will be asked to contribute mt least
one hundred million dollars to the
American Red Cross, to be used in re-
lief work in this great war, and fer
the lriicf and comfort of American
soldiers in France.
The quota Of the sum for Tazewell
County is $4,000. That we will con
tribute our quota during that weeA
goes without saying, for every pa
triotic citizens will not only subscribe
his part, but he will be glad of the
privilege of subscribing, and thus as
sisting in the relief and comfort of
our brave boys who are stalking their
all in this great war for the defense
of our homes and our families. Let
us not regard such contribution IA
n sacrifice, but let us look on it rs :,
privilege to be thus permitted to do
this service.
: Hundreds and hundreds of noble
men and women of America are Civ.
ing their whole time to Red Cross re-
lief work without one cent of COM
pensation, and in many instances are
paying their own living expenses. The
executive head of the American Red
Cross is Henry p. Davidson, of New
York City. He was the executive
head of one of the largest banking es-
Establishments in the city OF New York
and / have heard that his salary as
such was $:00,000.00 per annum. He
resigned this position TO take charge
of Red Cross work, to which his whole
time and ability are given. and with
out any salary or pay whatever
What are you, citizens of Tnzewcll,
giving to this great work? The
American Red Cross is the relief
agency recognized by the government
and works in connection with the Ar.
my and Navy. Before this war Inc
membership was approximately 20I...
600; now it is more than $4,000, ,00U,
and is growing every day. Are you n
member of the organization in Tazc-
well county, and standing with this
great army in support Of our soldiers
at the front? If you are not, you
want to join at once. You can't af-
ford not to do it!
1t would be impossible, in the limit
of this article, to give any adequate
account of Red Cross Work. 1t OF
such enormous dimensions that il
could net be done, but we know that
it is the greatest relief work that WAS
ever done in the history of the world.
The American Red Cross recognizes
that our first duty for humanity in
this war is the protection Of our SOL
diers in France, and therefore it be-
gins at the point of landing in France
by the establishment of rest stations
for our soldiers. These rest stations
extend inland towards the camps, and
are located in series of junction
points and railroad stations. They in
clude infi,maries fully equipped; rest
and reading rooms; dormitories hold
ing from 40 to 200 beds with shower
baths and disinfectors, and restau-
rants capable, in some cases, Of Civ
ing refreshments to q thousand men
an hour. Here our men have prop
erly prepared food and the welcome
Of American men and women. For
the relief of soldiers on duty Red
Cross Relief work consists in oper-
ating rolling cantcens and maintain
ing stationary canteens back of the
fighting line. These rolling canteens
go right to the communicating trench
es where soldiers passing in and out
receive hot coffee in witer and cold
drinks in summer.
AT thestationary canteens Mt the
junction points of railroadroads there
are perhaps 10000 men passing each
day. Formerly these men had to sleep
in the open, often in the rain. They
came from the fighting zone, tired,
hungry infected. At the canteen
men can obtain substantial hot meals,
at cost, prepared by American wom-
en-; can have hot baths and can have
their clotnes cleansed and sterilized
and take the train refreshed in body
and srlrit.
The chief work of the American
Red Cross in helping care for wound
cd soldiers lies in supplying sufficient
nursing service and in furnishing ma
terials for hospitals. On the 1st OF
March, 1913, more than 1900 Amer
can Red Cross nurses were employed
in Base hospitals in France and in
the French Military Hospitals. The
total number of hospitals in France
exceeds five thousand, and more than
half of these are receiving part or all
of their medical and surgical supplies
from the American Red Cross.