Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-10-26
WHAT RED Gross
llND LAST YEAR
Report DfiaVar CounElI ,STeIy
Will Thrill the Hearts 0f
All4mericanx
WOMEN GIVEN HIGH 7RIBpEE
Contributions, ofgsiateriaIs and -Tiae
Have Been F.rssticaIIy Unerdiins
Figures 1eIl-of Work Dare /
by the YagisTs Chapters.

october l23 the 3;Sv4 chapters ,Gf It'll
hed Cross ssheld their annual meetisg
to elect officers and us Ike reports. r.
De read at. al these Hsetings througk
out the United States. CHE Red C!ros
War Council sent the following an
nua message covering athe work ~
the Red Cross s.or the past year:
To the Chapters of the, AHierican Rex
Cross:
The Mar Council. sends .ekeetings Il
the chapters OF the Amemean Red
Cross on the occasion of thea annual
meetings Ear 1913.
With these greetings go cOnsTatula-
tons on the great wo,k of the chapters
during the PAST wear and, above all
things. on the wonderfll spirit of sac
rifice and patriotism which has SER
vaded that work.
The strength ~ the Re- Cross. ress.s
upon its chapters. They are its bone
and sinew. They supply its funds.
they supply its men and wesnen, they
supply its enthusiasm. Let as, then,
review together the Red Cross story
of the past year.
Some idea of the size 10 which, your
Red Cross family has grown mag be
gathered from the following facts:
On May ]. 1917. just before the ap-
pontment of the War COuacil, the
American Red Cross ha5 4S6, 1914 MEN,
bers working through $50 chapters.
On July 81, 1918, the organization
numbered 20.64S.IO3 annual members,
besides S,0O0,OO0 members of the
Junior Red Cross total enrolment
OF over one-fourth the population Of
he United States.
Since the beginning Of the war you
OF the chapters have co-Opefated with
the War Council In conducting two war
FUND drives and one membership drive,
In addition to the campaign on behalf |
Of the Junior Red Cross.
The total actual collections to date |
from the first war fund have amounted |
to more than Sl15,O00,000, The sub |
scriptions to the second war fund |
tmountea to upwards of $176,OOO, 900. |
/ From membership dues the collec-
lions have amounted to approximately
s24, 100000.
Splendid Work Done by Women
To the foregoing must be added that |
very large contribution of materials
and time given by the millions of wom-
en- throughout the country in surgical
dressings, In knitted articles, in hos
pital and refugee garments, In canteen
wovk, and the other activities the chap
tiers have bee. . called upon to perform ! !
1t Is estimated that apprD-... '' |
100000 women are engaged in can
teen work and the production of relief
supplies through the chapters.
unr IN, -criod up to July l, 1913, |
American Red Cross ehap!eIs. through
their workrooms, had produeeo'
49O,120 refugee snr"'-
= 100 col no. -.~h'S'
'I-''' ..,spltal supplies.
~. iS6. 4S9 hospital garments.
1O.134.501 knitted articles.
192,74s,lO7 surgical dressings,
A total of 221 DE-, S3S urtic,es'=of an
estimated aggregate value of at least
$44,OO0O00.
These articles We're largely the
product of women's hands. and, by the
same token, infinitely more precious
than could have been the output or
factories or machines. These articles
going to the operating room OF the nos
pitals. to homeless or needy refugees,
and CARRYING comfort to our own boys
in the field. convey message OF love
from the women of this country entire
IL distinct from the great money value
attaching to their handiwork.
Money Spent in Work.
BY the terms under which the first
Red Cross war fund was raised, the
chapters were entitled to retain % pei
cent of the amount collected, In orde'
defray local expenses, to carry on theil
home service work, to purchase ma
terials to be utilized In chapter produc
lion and otherwise to meet the numer
ous calls made upon them. The chap
ters we're thus entitled to retain nearl.
500 1000, 600. AS u matter of fact. thei
actual retentions amounted to oni.
about S22.0OO.OOO.
out of collections from annual mem
berships the chapters have retaine
about $110O0,0OO.
From this total sum, therefore, OF S'53
100000 retained by the chapters, the
have met all the oftentimes very heav
local demands upon them, and In ada
lion have provided for use by nations
headquarters prod: cts valued, a
stated above. at upwards of $4,000
600.
The chapters have in effect returne
10 the War Council. not alone the S53
100000 retained out of the war fun
membership dues but, In value
actual product, an additional contrib
ton of NJ least S1l 100000.
II VIII thus been seen that durii
the eighteen mouths which hay
elnuscd since the United States e.
tered the war. the American Peep
will have either paid in or pledged