Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-05-14

shirts, bed-socks, helpless case shirts /
and pajamas within the next three
or four months-your county if an
Independent Chapter would on the
basis of its membership and present
rate of work naturally be expected
to make about 1-1000th of this al
lotment or about so garments, but
as matter of fact it would be i'm
possible TO give you such an allot-
ment if you were an Independent
Chapter for the reason that so gar
ments is not enough to fill a
box and this allotment will have
to be given to Chapters that can
produce in sufficient quantity to
ship in standard boxes containing
only one kind of garment and make
shipment monthly, if possible. Under
the present arrangement your Chap
ter comprising the two counties will
doubtless be able to accept an allot-
ment for one or more boxes for one
or more kinds of garments and your
ladies' working under the present
arrangement will be able to par
cipate in this work. Exactly the
same set of circumstances applies
to a great many allotments that
come into the Division to be made to
the Chapters and certainly applies to
all surgical dressings production.
The Red Cross in this Division is
working directly under orders from
National Headquarters and is pro-
ducing exactly what is required of
it and nothing more. In most lines
of work this means a considerable
reduction of the amount required
without however changing the neces-
sity of having all goods shipped
from Chapters in unmixed boxes,
you can readily understand how this
makes it necessary to limit many of
the allotments to Chapters that are
large enough to make shipments of
unmixed boxes at least monthly.
With every appreciation of the
very natural desire of the people of
your county to be as Independent as
possible in Red Cross work and yet
understanding perfectly that you
wish to have whatever form of or
ganization. will best contribute to
the success of the Red Cross work in
your community and in Europe, l
am for the reasons that | have in
dicated above decidedly of the opin-
ion that it would be better for
Boundary county to carry on its Red
Cross work as a jurisdictional branch
of a chapter comprising both Bonner
and Boundary counties rather than
as separate Chapter.
! | will not weary you with addi-
tlonal statements similar to those
that | have made above but simply
call to your attention that the
same circumstances will apply with
similar force to the ability for Sc
curing materials and to many other
phases of your Chapter activities.
1t is to be borne in mind that all
Chapters are territorial and not To-
cal, although it is sometimes hard
to give them names that correctly
describe their territory. We never
think of your Chapter as the Sand
point Chapter in the sense of think
ing. that the major part of the work
is done in Standpoint. We think of it
as a Chapter that comprises Bonner
and Boundary counties and so far
as this office is concerned, Sand
point, Hope, Boomers Ferry and
other towns in the Chapter are UNI
derstood to be working together to
produce the goods that go to the
Red Cross from your Chapter.
| shall be very glad indeed to take
this matter up further either with
your self or other representatives of
your Red Cross organization and be-
lieve that upon mature reflection you
will agree that the circumstances as
stated above make it desirable that
the people of Boundary and Bonner
counties continue to enjoy the adj
vantageS which come from the union
of 5000 people in Red Cross work
rather than to divide into two small
Chapters both of which together
could not be as effective as the
united Chapter has been"