The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1918-03-01
What the Red Cross
Has Done With Money
II anyone Asks You What tho Red
Cross Has Done With the Money
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FOR OUR OWN FORCES, it has
Outfitted and maintains forty
eight Base Hospitals, of which six
have already gone to Europe
Taken over the task of caring for
the needy families of all soldiers and
sailors absent on service.
Maintains ten Canteens at the front
for men returning from the firing line
"a canteen can keep 1875 gallons of
drink at the boiling point at a time
Four thousand portions Of hot coffee,
tea, cocoa, lemonade and soup can be
served by canteen In a day.
Has established twenty Dispensa-
ries in the American War Zone.
Maintains Dental Ambulance In
France.
Maintains a Casualty Service, for
gathering information for wounded
and missing
Maintains a Factory for artificial
limbs, and plants for making nitrous
oxide gas for operating purposes.
Has twelve Rest Stations at i'm
portant centers.
IN FRANCE-(Remember that France
Is bearing the blunt Of the war trag-
edy, and her courage and morale must
be kept up until we are ready to play
our full part In the struggle.) 1t has
Established Warehouses with sup
plies In every port of entry, and one OF
100000 cubic feet capacity in Paris.
Has Purchase and Supply Stations
in France, Switzerland, Great Brit
ain, Spain and Portugal las we'll as
in the U. 81 for buying all kinds of
material necessary to rebuild civili-
all the way from saw
mill outfits, portable engines and gas
tractors to bales of flannel and alb
sorbent cotton.
Is supplying Hospital Necessities to
3,6l7 hospitals in 1856 towns.
Is using 500 cars (and has arrang-
ed for 400 more) in making this dis
tribution.
Has appropriated 100000 francs
for the relief Of sick and wounded
French soldiers and their families.
Note: There are 100000 French
wounded and crippled Refugees com
Ing in from desolated districts num-
Der 1000 day-haggard hungry.
helpless. The Red Cross meets them
with the human hand.
Is supporting 10000 children-chfld
rem who are picked up in ravaged dis
tricts, often mere drifting waits, with
no one left to whom they can turn,
sometimes so frightened that they
cannot speak for days and have for
gotten who they are, diseased, hun
cry, forlorn. The Red Cross gives
them medical aid and homes.
Maintains Motor Bus line across
Switzerland from the German 'front.'
Ter to transport refugees and ex-
changed prisoners.
Fights tuberculosis on a scale never
dreamed of before.
Helps to rebuild destroyed towns
and to prepare fields once fertile but
now desolate for crops TO come. Amer
lean portable houses are used.
IN ITALY
$4'7l,990 worth of supplies and
many workers were rushed in after
the recent Italian military disaster
Hospital supplies, food for the hun
cry, forty.eight carloads of it, motor
ambulances, shelters for homeless
women and children, condensed milk
for babies. soup kitchens for refugees,
workshops for people who had lost
everything, etc., etc.
IN ARMENIA
s3oO,O00 a month has been appro-
priated. 100000 Armenians are FAC
ing death. From one town alone
call to house 10000 'fatherless
children.
IN BELGIUM
1t has taken over the relief work
where practically the whole nation fs
in dire need.
IN SERBIA, in RUSSIA, in ROUMAN-
IA, ALL OVER THE WORLD-where
ever there Is human suffering, there
goes the Red Cross with the hands of
mercy.
The entire overhead expense incur
red to accomplish all these things has
been a fraction Of one per cent.
There is an internment camp for
enemy alien near Camp Douglas, Utah,
where 1900 Germans are interned.