Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-02-08
RED CROSS NEWS
A nice consignment of supplies
came from the Graham auxiliary last

A nice consignment OF supplies
came from the Graham auxiliary last
week.
Also number of knitted garments
was sent in from Burke's Garden.
On January 30th box of knitted
garments was shipped to Washington
containing the following: 80 sweat
crs, l L pieces socks, 3 helmets, l pair
wristlets.
Another box was shipped Febru-
airy 1st, which contained sc sweat
crs, so pairs socks, helmets, l scarf.
Latest returns from the Christmas
drive indicate membership Of 49,
475,000, or % per cent of our popu-
lation. The latest roster Of the chap
ters numbers 1880.
Should there be one who doubts
the ability of the American Red Cross
to meet the needs of the war zone,
listen to this:
Just four days after America de-
clared war against Austria, every
American consul in Italy had been
furnished money to alleviate suffer-
ing that he knew of; forty-siX car
loads of supplies were on their way
from our French warehouses to the
northern part of Italy; ambulances
had started to the Piavi front, trans
portation secured for Italian refu-
gees, and soup kitchens opened on
their route; hospitals for the segre-
CATION Of contagious diseases were
planned, and refugees and families
of soldiers were employed in making
surgical supplies.
Can history show another such rec
ord of efficiency?
One of many things Major Murphy
chief of the Red Cross in France, had
to say in his report given ina family
talk ut national headquarters last
week, was this:
az doubt whether was ever more
touched in my life than was when
went, after my first trip to Italy,
into our great Paris warehouse. 1t
was rather late in the afternoon and
getting dark as l came up on one of
our floor in that tremendous build
boxes. | asked what was in them
boxes. And | went up and examined
them, and saw the names on the
boxes-the chapters that lad sent
them. There were little towns from
all over the country, New York, the
middle West, the West and South.
They told me that they had $4,000
to 10000 boxes there, and that there
were over 100000 more en- the way
from the chapters.
When / looked mt those boxes and
thought of what filled them, the mo-
ment was very serious one for me.
To know that all over our country
the women who are sending their
boys and their husbands into that
hc!l--and great many of them will
never come back-were working by
the fire at home, at night; in railroad
cars, in theatres, at their different
meetings afternoons and mornings,
working to do what they could in this
war to help care for those they low
ed and for those over there fighting
for their country; that they had con-
signed to our care all of the product
of their labor and that they are de-
pending on us to see that those for
whom they worked were cared for
was one Of the most wonderful of
thoughts that l have ever had in nv
life.
If it had not been for the feeling
of pride that came to me in the
thought Of the splendid support that
that meant at home, l doubt very
much whether l should have been able
to carry on under the load of re-
sponsibility that had been placed on
men. We are the active agency for
the people of the country over there.
The responsibility and opportunity
that go with that position are very
wonderful and very beautiful.