The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-08-01
RED CROSS NOTES


ganized and will begin work August
9th. The class will meet on Tues
days; Friday from 3 80 to 5 O'Clock
N the Library basement. All those
who care TO join the class and take
First Aid Work phone PTS.
Mrs. Nelson the Registered Red
Cross Nurse, who has been giving the
Home Nursing in Hays, will be in
Ellis, during September, and will
come to Hays, during the forenoon If
there is a class of twenty-five or more
who desire to take the work. If you
care to take this training phone 3O2.
Mrs. Wood has resigned as head of
| Wonnan's Work and Mrs Bremen has
| been appointed to take her place. Mrs.
! Wood has done very efficient work
and viii be missed in Red Cross work
Red Cross Work Room will now be
in the new city building from Mon
day.
Great success has attended the
| operation of ouvOirs, o. sewing rooms
| for the benefit of women refugees
and the poor women of soldiers fam
/ lies n Italy These ouvoirs, estab-
/ Iished by the American Red Cross, af-
ford employment to thousands of
willing workers, who thereby are en-
abled to make money 20 clothe them
selves, and supply clothing to others
1 of their own class at about one-third
the price at which the garments
would have to be purchased at the
regular shops.
Return of Sailors body by navy:
1t IS the desire and intention of the
Navy IlHTa.,, fr70o 70 rot h.
! United States and their homes the
remains of all officers and men who
( lose their lives during the war The
/ only exceptions TO this policy will be
| IN the cases of those who die or are
! killed in France, where military laws
prohibit the transportation of bodies
during the war, and in other locations
in the war zone where facilities for
embalming and preparing the body
! are not available. Every endeavOr
viii be made to ave our ships and
preserving the bodies and returning
them to this country
/ Reutrn of Soldiers Body by Army:
The question of returning the DO
/ dies OF soldiers who are killed or die
/ IN foreign service has been cOnsid-
cred by the War Department and the
/ Navy Department in conjunction
! The committee considering this mat
ter went into the case in all its aspects
and it has been decided that the bo-
/ dies Of our soldiers, sailors, marines
and civilian employees who are killed
/ or die IN France cannot be returned
/ to this country for interment until
after the close of the war. Gen. Per
shing has arranged with the French
! government for sections of the coun-
/ try to be used as military cemeteries
! and the Quarternaster Corps has or
| gained and are now operating in
| France certain organizations called
/ Grave Registration Units. These
| Units are charged with the duty of
burying The dead, caring for the GENE
teries and the identification records
| of those buried. This is done in such
a manner that there will be no cOnfu-
! sion or doubt as to the identity
/ any soldier now buried when his body
is taken up to be transported home
after the war. For obvious reasons
no other conclusion could be arrived
at under existing conditions.
Training and experience in modern
nursing is one of the most valuable
gifts you can make to your nation
All possessed of this skill must
make it directly available either in
military hospitals or in home defense
nursing. When $4,000 nurses have
| been withdrawn for service in mill
/ tary hospitals, all of the remaining
nursing resources must be modified
Enroll in the Red Cross assignment
to the military forces, or form Com
munity service, which is the second
line of defense.
The word @autochair'' has been in
vented by Americans in France to de-
scribe an American motor truck train
/ carrying special type of load toward
the front. The first syllable is plain
/ enough; the second is from the word
I ''chirurgical,' the old way of spelling
surgical. Combined they describe an
American Red Cross truck train of
eighteen camions- carrying in knock
d,.Wn form a tent hospital of 200
beds. One truck transports a COM
plete operating room ready to be bolt
ed together and put into operation IN
a few minutes. Its trailer is a Steril-
izing room which is backed up against
the operating room structure From
trailer the nurses passes streiliZed in
strurents and supplies to the sur
geons around the operating table The
other trucks carry double tentIng,
sturdy framework, floors in sections.
window frames, heating stoves and
full equipment for diet kitchens. Red
CTos construction crews specially Sc
lected and trained for this work go
with the trucks and within 2 very
short time after the first truck reach
es the selected point the wards are
ready tc receive patients.
The following women worked Wed
nesday morning: Mrs G. G. Cochran,
Miss Andrews, Mrs. Middlekauff. Mrs.
Lewis, Mrs. Koeneke, Mrs Bremen
and Miss McLain.
Junior Red Cross Workers, Thurs
day: Mildred Howie, Eula Fulton,
Dorothy Hardness, Susan Chittenden,
a lice Hedges, Myrtle Costner, Luella
Rhine, Millicent Bennett, Georgine
Benton, Eva Hedges, Frances Robin
son, Mary Chittenden, Winifred Ben
nett, Mrs. Brenner, Maude McMindcs-
The Yankee boys are making their
presence felt in France, all right and
the past ten days have taken much
toll of the Huns, IN many instances
putting them to rOut and fairly on the
stampede Telegraphic reports bring
the information that Americans are
fierce and rapid fighters and terrify