The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-02-27
BY James L. Fieser,
Director, Civilian Relief, Las btY-2'
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sion, American Red Crc =
Organizing and rainiu 30,o0&s
Home Service committeeman to aie
families of enlisted men is the nsoSS
stupendous and pretentioUs lsG Do
ing undertaken by the American Req
Cross within our own border
This statement is made ~lti'oIES;
fear of contradiction.
Even were there established Social
agencies in every communitv trouE
which men have been drawn f actly9-
service, this Red Cross duty would o&s
hardly less difficult, because %t5h- thsa-
war have come new profile TrcsS1s
must be solved, and efficientLg toe e
tie good name of the Red C-Dss Is III
be held aloft and the minds q az
fighting folk set at ease about snR
welfare of their loved ones 'oascl6-
home"
To school willing Home SER {cs -
workers with no previous sOciae TIN
ing as well as keep professional c2zr-
munity workers abreast with ~ 60
velopments, the Red Cross war eoznS-
ell established in the Lake GigEcEa
Home Service institutes at ing lana 90
lis, Cincinnati, Columbus and Give
land, each identified with & ting
university and each affiliated with
healthy social agencies.
Thirty-fve counties were represent
ed by fifty-six students at the list
series of institutes, each institute la-ss~-
, ing six weeks. A second s--Isz Ar
{ Just opened. In addition, chaptEE-
courses, of information are to be 50
| tablished in cities of $4,000 popuias~
! ton and over.
/ There is no guess work about RaaR
( Cross Home Service.
/ Workers are being trained to help ciss
/ liens gain all sorts of information. II .
| family has not heard from n snD-ire
/ the service, if the ailoumenL ana AZ
! lowance check is delayed o. wrong
( in amount, if a boy is reported missing
/ if any O~e of hundreds Of possibilities ,
occur, the Home Service worker nuse
) be alert to his or her responsibilities
! To show that there are hundreds
of possibilities" for this service, IA
American Red Cross has prepared
: for its. committeeman a handbook CCgn--
tanning correct answers TO 260 IVss--
} tons which these COmmit-77mer baT&s
( already been asked.
I Forty-nine answers TO questions on
! army and navy service mining rom
} the composition OF the Ugh iJ torcaR
to explaining what must BE- doe -
assist the family Of man who AS
entered the service under an assumed
! name, are given in this handbook
Eighty-siy points on the soldiers and
sailors allowance compensation anE
war risk insurance are explained TIA
latter in itself is so large a task ,hasz
a Home Service worker, anlicipatinx-
a soft snap" might be drives -
cover if there were no handbook ow
institute course to lessen his perpIexf-
ty. 1t is down in black and whiks
how the insurance is written and IoE>
whom, how premiums are paid and
by whom. Six points of infOrmata1R
are provided TO cover insurance Tor
crews of merchant vessels and trans
ports.
American Red Cross Home Serves
for families of enlisted men lighting
for our allies causes Twenty-Five quss-
tions to be answered in the hand
book
All this is supplemented by eighty,
nine statements giving information sr.
the status of families of discharged.
men, deserters, and alien enemy taLE3-
lies and explaining relationship efs
the Red Cross to other relief societies.
and the operation of the Red Cross
bureaus of camp service and con~-
municatiOn.
Despite the fact that this handbook
has just been issued, new and pzsr
cling questions are arising with sceh
rapidity that the bureau of ciViIiEns
relief of the Lake division, is plan
ming an international service to keey..
its Home Service workers in $50 chap
tiers in step with the fast-Poving pro
cession.
War regardless Of the TGscarEfa
calamity and few scattering casual
ties)-war and Red Cross Home Se7v~
Ice are still in their infancy, but a.
ready some 1900 families Of Ohio, In y
diana and Kentucky enlisted and 80
lective service men are under Tia
care of Red Cross Home SerySska
workers.
Picture the immensely of the tzskx
when the American offensive" Ss--
gins.
Red Cross Home Service win bes
ready. 1t is democracy's brotherhoo&S
IN action.