Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-25
WOMEN AND WAR WORK.
where You MAY Serve Today.

Where You May Serve Today.
Maple Ridge unit, home OF Mrs.
Presley G. Walker. jr
Christian women, Red Cross head
quarters.
Cherokee Heights unit, Second
Presbyterian church.
West Tulsa unit, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday.
Kendall unit College lIill' church.
Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday.
Morningside unit No. ., Lincoln
school.
Betsy Ross unit meets Tuesday
and Friday at Country club,
Columbia chautauqua meets at
workroom First Presbyterian church.
G. A: X. knitting unit, Mrs, Carl
Lee.
Sequoyah school unit at sequoyah
school.
Central high school work rooms
open every day.
The soaring temperature has had
the effect of cutting down the at
tendance of workers at the Red
week, but in spite OF that fact. ali
the units did good work. First
Presbyterian unit made the follow
ing report for the week ending Sat
urday SiXty-nine triangul9r band
ages. two bed shirts, seven pair pa
Jamas. twerty MANIPULATED bandages,
seventeen undordrawers. six under
shirts, 1l5 many-tailed bandages
llS sXl2 pads, 1907 Kit pads, 10Y
Kit bandages, $50 kits assembled and
tied, Buliette memorial mission re-
ported ten bedspreads, fifty eight
triangular pads, eleven undershirts,
| nine drawers, sixteen kit envelopes.
The Southwestern Division has
been asked to furnish 100000 pairs
OF socks and 10000 sweaters be-
| fore the first of September. This
will necessitate constant and contin-
uous knitting during the summer
months.
The Dorcas society of the Seventh
| Day Adventis church made its
report To-. last weeks work as fol-
lows; fourteen sweaters, ono hemeL
twenty-eight pair socks.
The Red Cross unit of the First
| Baptist church also did good
weeks work in spite of the intense
heat last week. Twenty bathrobes
and fifteen suits paJamas were re-
ported from the garment making de-
partment and eight pair socks from
the knitting department Two boys,
Robert Woolsey, aged II. and Floyd
Neff, aged 0. each turned in sweat
er, Complete.
Ton thousand miles from the cen
ter of American war activity in Wash
ington, the residents OF the Philip
pines are working for the Red Cross
and doing their part in other lines
of war relief. The philippine Re
view. in commenting on the success
OF the Red Cross carnival, says:
Most successful and significant. this
years festivities opened a new era
in Philippine national life. The Red
Cross women, imbued with the spirit
of patriAic service, to whom a large
share OF the credit for the success
of this carnival must be given. fur
nished an example of a nobler patri-
otlsm. ThsaIsands of pesos have
been realized to be devoted to allay
the suffering, of afflicted peoples
But that paltry sum is insignificant
coin pdTeu with lnG dWdhtHilS Oh tHe
spiri. of nation to its part in main
tanning inviolate the sacred splendor
OF the light OF freedom and liberty"
To make sure that every package
sent to American prisoners in Ger
many reaches them, the American
Red Cross bureau at Berne sends re-
turn postals with each shipment
Failure to receive this return card
from the prisoner leads to iumedi,
ate investigation to make certain
there has been no looting OF tho food
in transit.
II patriotism means anything to
American nurses 1t must mean at
this time desire to serve ones
country in whatever capacity an in
dividual Is best prepared.
BLIZZARD IN THE ARGENTINE