The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-05-05
THE MAN IN GREEN
What the Red Cross Camp Service Man Is Doing
For Your Boy in Training
By MARION BONSALL DAVIS

OF knitted goods alone, the camp
service OF the Red Cross had distrib-
uted to camps and environments over
3,4l0, 800 articles, inrloding over t.
| 100000.
Also he would find him arrang-
ing for canteen servire for moving
troops, that they might have good
hot food on the various stages OF
their Journey. And before two days
you would realize that he was the
representative of every branch OF
that arm of the service-the Amer
lean Red Cross-through which the
American people express concretely
their love and respect for the young
men OF our army and navy.
Very literally, the Red Cross
touches everyone of these Young
soldiers and sailors of ours, in its
offer to be OF individual service.
Camp service links with home serv-
ice, and home service stands ready
to help every man in training or in
active service with the things
which are worrying him about his
family and his home concrete
things like the rent and insurance,
those other worries like loneliness
and discouragement. In hundred
ways, not only through newspapers
and magazines, but through the per-
sonal stories OF the workers, through
business houses, and schools and
churches, the American people are
learning what the home service of
the Red Cross does for our men,
their families, for the workers, for
the communities.
A preventative of home service is
provided in every camp, and will
go with every army division abroad,
to afford the men all the tremen-
dous resources of friendship, ma
terial help, professional service and
expert business advice, which the
American Red Cross, with its D.
OOO,OOO members, can give
Bridging Home and Camp.
AS this service is bridge from
the camps to the homes, it is. also
from the homes to the camps. For
it is means of communication al
ways fully open to the families of
the men. Any one who is anxious
about a man in the army or the
navy may have particulars OF his
health by writing to the associate
Red Cross director in charge of
home service in his camp. There
is a camp service man in the base
hospitals for this very service: and
"over there he will be, in commu-
ncation not only with every army
division and every hospital, but ey-
cry clearing station, every prison
camp, every agency and means of
information.
In every cantonment there IS go
ing to be a Red Cross house for
convalescents, and some Of them are
already being opened They are go
ing to house the jolliest GONZALES
cents imaginable, with game rooms
and sun parlors and a stage where
all the organizations of the camp
will give moving picture and camp
talent shows One of the emer-
gencies that is provided for in adj
vance in these Red Cross houses is
for the relative who
may be called to see some danger
ously sick boy; for these houses,
and the health and happiness they
are built for, are linked very closely
with home.
Plans have already been drawn. +.
also, for other Red Cross houses to
be used as recreation rooms for the
nurses.
The Red Cross is vigilant for
When our bows leave
the docns, starting overseas. every
ne of them has the assurance that
the Red Cross is charged with the
duty of safeguards their homes. and .
that it is equipped to help in every /
emergency. And somewhere. in /
cases marked with the Red Cross. /
are food and tobacco and hospital
supplies, and drugs, and warm gar
ments. and securities against the
of war, crossing the |
ocean from the American people to
their men.