The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-17
u.I, the Money Received for Member
ships Stays Here, and It is
Much More Than Merely
Wartime Work.
CARING FOR MANY SICK
Has Fine Hospital Here and Furnishes
Sick Diet at Homes Of Scores
Of Afflicted Families
In Town.

at is not generally known that
half OF every dollar paid for a mem
hership in the Red Cross stays right
here in Keokuk," said one of the
workers this morning.
..There is too much of an idea that
the Red Cross is only a war aid, and
that it expands and shrinks with war
and peace" said another, when the
fact is, that the Red Cross did some
Of it's GREATEST work before the war
made ug acre in Keokuk know much
about 1t, and will continue to do it's
work in peace as well as in war.
"Take the work in charge of Miss
Dorc nv Younker right now here in
Ker lux. 1t is not as spectacular nor
as ,ramatic as a base hospital full
az wounded heroes, but it is saving
Keokuk lives and really worth a thou
sand times what it costs.
The Need Nearest at Hand.
"Her emergency kitchen, started
in a hurry one day, serves more than
sixty sick people soup at home every
day-people sick in homes where the
housekeeper is down in bed, and the
sick folks need nutritious soup more
than anything else, the doctor says.
The people who get it appreciate 1t"
Another woman standing by came
into the conversation at this point,
saying:
They do that. This morning a
man in one of the homes being
served with soup handed Miss Youn-
ker a dollar for the Red Cross, he
said. 1t was suggested that he prob
ably would prefer to wait and give
it to the house to house canvasser
who would call later to get member
ships, but he replied: No, I'll have
another dollar for her; this dollar is
to show my appreciation of he work
being lone in Keokuk by the Red
Cross--I before realized just
what is meant by the work of the
Red Cross That sentiment is grow
ing here in town, too"
Doing the Most With a Dollar.
One solicitor for memberships was
told by a oma that there are sick
people in the neighborhood needing
help, and the I'M felt that she
ought to help them, and had given
about enough anyhow. The canvas
ser for memberships answered this
woman:
III you know of any sick needing
attention, our Keokuk Red Cross will
look after them, probably better than
any individual can do personally.
You know we now have a fully
equipped and really superior hospital
in the Elks building, and we are help
ing many others in their homes.
Don't you really think our organized
Red Cross can do more with a dollar
thor ,,o,, 49, v@reshlxy loOD
rs that what the Red Cross is
doing?" exclaimed the woman. We'll
then, here is FIVE dollars for it. L
organization that helps people right
here at home"
Why No Christmas Seal Sale.
ALI similar organizations testify to
The paramount Importance of the Red
Cross membership campaign now on
In Keokuk and Lee county. One is
the national tuberculosis fighters who
have abandoned their usual sale of
Christmas stamps to get out of the
way Of this weeks campaign for Red
Cross memberships.
No part of the. associations new
work will be more appealing to its
friends than that for the soldiers re-
turning to their homes with tubercu-
losis,' said Miss .Nettie Younker of
the Visiting Nurse association. "In
combating this subtle enemy at home
these boys have the same generous
and sympathetic backing which we
have given u men at the front, and
this association is to cooperate with
the Red Cross home service section
and the physicians of the state in
giving them every chance to regain
sturdy health.
There Will be no Red Cross seal
selling campaign this year. Follow
ing the policy of the national council
OF defense and the various national
war actipities in consolidating their
campaign for funds, the Red Cross
christmas seal campaign and the
annual campaign for members of the
american Red Cross have been o n
solldated under the Red Cross roll
call, being conducted this week start