The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-02-14
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| gives total of 1892 Red Cross nurses
III active service. 1t is estimated that
ZO,OOO of the $4,000 trained nurses of |
the country will be needed by the end
OF next year. The grey clad army
nurse Is the best symbol Of the work |
OF the Red Cross. But the society has !
SHOWN people other ways of doing their
blt besides nursing.
american women are making In
hed Cross work rooms and in their
homes surgical dressings, knit goods,
hospital garments, and comfort kits to
an estimated value of $685. 400, 900 for
the year The surgical dressings go to
every ship in the navy, and 1000 war
hospitals behind the fines in France.
me Red Cross has promised to ship
70 France 3, 100000 dressings a month
Tor the next six months.
More than $5000,0O0 worth of warn
has been purchased or ordered for the
hed Cross, to be knitted into sweaters
ana mufflers. This great volume of
volunteer production In America sup
ports huge distributing establishment
in France.
-Four hundred men in the TRANSPORT
alton department there are handling
"A
house personnel Of 125 operates a stor-
age capacity Of 100000 tons. More
than 400 motor cars, most of them
heavy trucks, are in service
} Not far from one hundred Red Cross
canteens and rest stations have been
established at the front in Paris and
at important railway centers
over 10000 French children are be-
ing cared for by the society. At
Evian, near the Swiss border, is a
great American hospital for children
that are being repatriated from points
behind the German lines.
Five large military hospitals, a
great tuberculosis hospital near Paris,
and twenty civilians dispensaries In
, the Americans army zone are being OBJ
Grated.
Fifty base hospitals have been or
ganized in America by the Red Cross.
} More than dozen of them have al
ready been sent to France. Each unit
J was planned to take care Of 500 beds,
but several of those in service have
been increased to twice or four times
. the unit size. Forty-five ambulance
companies, a total of $3.50 men, have
, been raised by Red Cross chapters and
: mustered into the Army Medical Ser
vice.
The year 1918 starts off under the
darkest war cloud that has ever over
J hung the land. But never was war
cloud provided with more resplen-
dent lining of silver than the Ameri-
can Red Cross society-the entire ma
ton, modified for chairty-is setting
against the darkness of the present
hour
Y. ,. War Saving Stamps.
NOW that Christmas is past and the
: new year has begun, now with the Lib
: ertI Bond campaigns, Red Cross and
1. NJ. &. A. War drives successfully
J completed and things of the past, our
! attention will center chiefly on the wv.
| $. s." campaign.
wv. s. s." as you all know stands
| Tor War Savings stamp. These letters
r will soon be seen in all the public
: buildings throughout the land and In
every school house and schoolroom.
: Following the example of Great Britain
III apldn which proved marvelonsly
/, successful there, the United States gov
eminent is starting out a campaign to
emphasize the Importance, the dignity
e and the absolute necessity of thrift.
: Intelligent saving is to be urged upon
every citizen in the land. And fur
iSiAuoiC' ~ Ills WIT SdNlllRS stamp
| plan all savings may be put immed-
7 lately into a simple and convenient
form OF government security which
s bears per cent interest compounded
! quarterly. These are the safest Sc
J, curity in the world today.
The greatest beauty of the plan is
its absolute simplicity. Thrift Stamps
may be purchased for % cents and
with the first stamp goes a thrift card
with place for IS stamps. When the
D card is filled it has a face value of$4.
. Fhls card presented ut any postoffice.
together with II cents added. NAV be
< exchanged for a savings stamp with
!. which goes a savings certificate with
q Il place for 20 of these stamps. These
S savings stamps cost at the present
l. time $4.12. They ha re a face value of
: 5000 which the government agrees to
e pay for them five years hence. A full
S savings certificate with a face value of
: 300 in 1923 thus costs $50. 40 at the
! present time. You see compound in
I terest is figured and all paid at ma.
q turity-no little driblets of interest
+ come to you, but five years hence your
. S4.12 has become $500. Any individ-
t ual may buy not to exceed 500 face
: value OF these stamps and certificates
: ut any one time. He may own 81 900. 90
: worth in all-no more
: Where can they be purchased, Al
any postoffice. of any postman, or rural
{ mail carrier, at any bank, at any rail
Y road station or telephone or exuraSS of