The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-05-31
RED CROSS HOME
SERVICE HEADS
WILL MEET HERE
State Conference viii Be
Held Next Week,

A state conference on home service
Of the American Red Cross will be
held at Oklahoma City June o. 7 and
q In the high school building II is
necessitated by the rapid development
In home service. II will be a strictly
business conference and the delegates
will be limited to the chapter chairman
and secretary and members OF the chap
ter home service committee, plus one
home service representative from each
branch of each chapter. At the begin
ningS OF the year only fifty Of the one
hundred and three Oklahoma chapters
were organized for home service while
on May ! ninety-nine were organized.
This means that forty-nine new home
service sections have recently come into
existence.
Division Director to Come.
The conference will open Thursday
morning. June 3, at Q o'clock with an
address OF welcome by s. K. Cunning
ham. vice chairman OF the home service
OF the Oklahoma City chapter. The
home service, its scope and extent, will
be explained by Alfred Farbank, d.
vision director of civilian relief. Miss
Pauline WitherSpoon, state secretary of
the development bureau, will discuss
the development in financing home
service and lnter-chapter responsibility
The morning session will end with a
question box round table discussion.
In the afternoon session the war risk
insurance will be explained by Fred
Strudell assistant director of civilian
relief, and the information service will
be discussed by H. w. Harris, chair
man OF the home service section OF
Chandler Miss Elizabeth Wood, as
sistant director OF civilian relief, will
talk on disasters.
Friday morning the family problem
will be completely covered in talg by
Miss Wood, and the second session OF
the war risk insurance will be under
the direction OF Mr. Strudell. A ques-
tion box round table ends the meeting
In the afternoon home service in camps
will be discussed by Fred r. Johnson
associate director OF civilian relief +;
home service agents, by Miss Florence
Frederickson, home service agent OF
Iawton and state supervisors, by Miss
Susan B. Ramsey Oklahonl home
service supervisor.
Talk on Cripples
The only evening meeting will con-
sist OF an address, Friday, by DR..
G. Candy Robinson Of St Louis, whose
talk on the after care of crippled SOL
diers will be illustrated by pictures and
slides.
Saturday morning the meeting will
open with the second session on family
problems by Miss Wood. Letters Of in
quiry will be the subject Of Mrs. Claude
B McCarthy's talk Mrs. Mccarthy
who is executive secretary of the home
service section of Oklahoma City, will
talk on letters of inquiry and report,
records. and office suggestions, Mr.
Johnson and Jules Schevitz, secretary
Of the Oklahoma association for the
prevention of tuberculosis, will discuss
tuberculosis Miss Flarence Heald, exc
cutive secretary OF the home service
section of Tulsa, viii tax on the Red
Cross training institutes, and Miss
Ramsey on the study of classes.
The conference will end with the Sat
urday afternoon session, when the mem
bers will join in questions and answers
on all points not cleaned up in preyiou.
sessions.