The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-11-29
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS.

To Chairman of Home Service Sec
tions,
All Chapters, Northwestern Divi
sion.
Demobilitzation has begun. Men
will be discharged at the rate OF 500 9
day from Camp Lewis, with a similar
development in the camps throughout
the country.
The care of discharged soldiers and
sailors is Home Service obligation.
Chapters should prepare Immediately
to meet each returning soldier and
sailor. Offering all necessary assist
ance. including personal service ID
helping him to make his adjustments
to civil life.
Associate Field Directors in charge
of Home Service within the camps are
instructing each man as he Ia dis
charged:
/. To consult his Home Service
Section.
2. How to keep up Government In
surance payments.
8. When and how to take action
to preserve his rights under the Civil
Relief Act. regarding mortgages. pri-
vate insurance and judgment by de-
| fault.
| a. Concerning vocational training
for disabled men.
! 5. To keep in touch with his Home
Service Section for current informa-
! ton of Government plans, when for
mulated, for replacement in industry.
and other plans for discharged sold
| iers.
Every branch within your chapter
jurisdiction should be kept fully ad-
vised on what help the Home Servica
Section is prepared to render. II you
have not to-date established conven-
lent downtown Home Service Office.
now.
If your chapter has a canteen COM
mittee you will find it desirable to
thoroughly acquaint the canteeu work.
ers with your responsibilities for the
discharged soldier.
Let us so organize and prepare for
the homecoming of our soldiers and
sailors that none will feel neglect or
suffer needless loss in SO far as 1t is
possible for the Red Cross to serve
them
Your for Service.
F.P. FOIsIE,
Division Director of Civilian Relief.
Home Service and Dem0bilixatiOu.
To Chapter Chairmen and
i heartily endorse the following
letter from the Director-General OF
Civilian Relief, Mr.. w. Frank Persons.
Most Home Service workers, we
are sure, recognize that for many
months after the cessation of hostili-
ties, soldiers and sailors families will
continue to need the same kinds Of
|neighborly counsel and services which
1t has been the privilege Of Home
Service workers to render during the
period in which this country has par
ticipated in the great war. Every
Home Service worker should recog.
nize this"
I'm the interval between the cessa-
ton of military operations and tbs
period may last for many months.
their families will not be more i'm
mune than they have been thus far, to
sickness. to the Vaccinations OF un-
scrupulOus agents, to financial dif1-
culties, to employment troubles, to the
inroads of depression, lonliness. and
of the forces which make for delin-
quency in children and for inadequate
schooling and preparation for life. To
keep high the morale of the family
through a period when there may be
slackening of popular interest is an
opportunity which will appeal strong
ly to the Home Service Section.
"As Americans, nothing can give us
greater pleasure than to return to
| the soldier or the sailor his loved ones,
| strong in body and enriched in mind
and spirit. We have anticipated this
time almost from the beginning. We
have forseen the divergence Of inter-
ests and development which in many
instances will undoubtedly have
grown up between the man and his
home folks. And we have recognized
the opportunity which the soldiers or
| sailors return presents to the Home
Service Sections to effect the delicate
| adjustments which are necessary to
| insure domestic harmony and family
stability. The return of the man will
be one of the great events in the fami-
ly life. 1t furnishes home service
workers with a powerful lever by
which to lift the standards Of living
of many family.
| I'm addition to this major duty,
| Home Service Sections will find that
just as there was much to do in sup
plementing the work of government
agencies like the Bureau of War Risk
Insurance and the Federal Board for
Vocational Education there no doubt
will be much to do in helping to ex-
plain and apply whatever new pro-
visions the government makes for the
return to peace conditions.
Home Service Sections have had
no more important duty in connection
with carrying out the commitment OF
the Red Cross for the care of soldiers
and sailoars' families than that out
lined above The President looks to
lthem to do this work, the country has
Learned to depend upon them for this
kind of service. National Headquar-
ters of the Red Cross is confident that
they will keep intact their organiza-
ton and discharge this duty in the
same creditable manner that they have
carried through their previous part in
the great war"
Sincerely yours,
G. D. STIMSON,
Division Manager.
Business generally was suspended
Thanksgiving day.