The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-06-05
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Red Cross Notes

Owing to the new regulations in re-
gard to buying raw materials for the
Red Cross and the necessity for sus-
pending work temporarily In the hos
pital garment department, some mis-
understanding has arisen as to the
present activity of the Red CROSSWORD
shops In the county. The new plan
Of purchasing supplies is that the gov
eminent has added the amount of ma
terial needed by the Red Cross to its
own orders and the entire amount OF
raw material will be purchased at once
at price to be fixed by the govern
ment and will be resold 70 the Chap
tiers without profit. This arrangement
went into effect June 1, but the ma
terial purchased in this way probably
will not actually reach the Chapter
workshops until July /.
In order to make this arrangement
1t was necessary for the Red Cross to
guarantee that it's various Chapters
throughout the country would refrain
from buying raw material in the open
market, and it is therefore necessary
for the next six or eight weeks for
the Red Cross to operate it's work
shops with the stock Of material on
hand on the first of June. AS this
stock of material in the workshops
throughout the country is inadequate
to supply all OF the needs Of the Red
Cross, II Is necessary to manufacture
during this period only those things
which are of the most immediate
need and Chapters will be given quotas
from the division office covering these
various articles.
Each Chapter has been instructed to
send in to the Division headquarters
an inventory of all material it has on
hand on June l, and has been instruct
ed to cut none of this material until
1t receives instructions from headquar-
tiers as to what is the most advantage
Gus use to make of the material now
in hand.
While waiting for the arrival of
these instructions it will be necessary
for the Wayne County Chapter to sus-
pend work on hospital garments in it's
workshops although it has over 10000
yards of material of various kinds on
hand The hospital garment work will
be resumed of course, as soon as the
quota of garments is received
Surgical dressing department has
been on the above basis so far as the
purchase of material is concerned,
since the first of May, and it is being
supplied each month with sufficient
material to make its monthly quota in
army dressings for the surgeon gen.
erals office. This quota and the ma.
terial have arrived for June and as
the finished dressings must be shipped
by June 81, il is earnestly desired that
the usual number of surgical dressing
workers continue in attendance at the
workshop. The change in the surgical
dressing department means simply
that the army quota will be producted
each month as early in the month as
possible and the department will be
closed until the next quota is received
In order to prevent the injudicious
use of raw material nothing will be
manufactured by the Red Cross at
present except on regular orders from
the division office.
Owing to the heat the rooms will be
closed unit! further notice at 5 80 D. m.
except on Saturdays, when the work
shop will be closed at noon and the
office will be closed at 4:3o.
The Red Cross women of Earlham
Heights who have been making hos
ptal garments for the Red Cross so.
ciety. are requested to take all of the
garments they have made to Mrs. d.
r, Mitchell by Friday morning. The
garments are to all be turned in at
headquarters by Mrs. Mitchell at
once.