The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1918-08-30
RED CROSS NOTES
The Red Cross, THE Greatest Mother
in the World

Mrs. Orr Of this county kindly dona
ted $500 to the Red Cross. She has
boy in France, and appreciates what
the Red Cross is doing for him ant
others.
Should anyone wish to enlist as 8
Red Cross nurse-See Mrs. Lundy Cop,
pedge.
We are sadly in need Of workers in
the surgical dressings room. We dc
not ask you to work standing knee
deep in haif-frozen mud, with shells
falling thick around you. We have
nice, comfortable rooms in which to
work. Working for and going to the
Red Cross registers our ability to
feel" 1t should not be sacrifice but
privilege. 1t is everybody's Red
Cross, the one organization through
which relief work is conferred, and the
unlimited willingness and enthusiast
tic desire of America should not be
turned into wastefulness through du-
pication of efforts.
A Kansas boy (now in a hospital in
France) was brought a new suit of
pajamas by his nurse. In putting
somea rticles in the pocket he found
note written by one of our Browns
vile girls. A few days ago she re-
ceived letter from the soldier thank
ing her for her thoughtfulness, and
assuring her that the American women
of the Red Cross were doing as much
to win the war as the men at the front.
Information as to how to send mail,
money and parcels to persons in Ger
many or Austria may be found on
posters at Red Cross headquarters.
We were so glad to have Mrs. Rich
ardson of Covington visit our rooms
last Tuesday, and were delighted to
hear of the wonderful work her chap
ter is doing-and how faithfully they
have worked all summer.
20 league of kindness in your flying
far flung bands,
You weave a chain that reaches to
Gods hands,
And where blind guns are plotting for
the grave
Yours are the lips that cheer, the arms
that save"
The artist Foringer has rendered
himself famous by the poster "The
Greatest Mother in the World" We
are all doubtless familiar with the beau
tiful and suggestive picture and in
enumerating the great and good work
of the Red Cross we see how and
why it is called the greatest mother in
the world.
Few people of today know how the
rapid march of events is affecting the
Red Cross. 1t is now well known that
more than a million Of American
troops are in Europe, and our army is
many months ahead of the original
program. As the new troops land,
the trained ones are sent from the
camps to take new sectors at the front |
and constitute new field armies. This
means more activity for the Red Cross,
but thanks to Maj. Murphy'c system of |
ware houses, and the promptness in
shipping and storing the thousands of |
tons Of materials, SO far there has
been no shortage of supplies. But to
keep pace whit he number of troops
being sent, the Red Cross must be up
and doing" ready for any emergency.
As our troops are fighting with the
British, French and Italian and are in
their hospitals, as well as our own
emergency hospitals surgical dressings
are now being shipped to all Of these.
The Red Cross now has the refugee
problem we'll under control, and we
must keep it so. Paris is merely a
way-station where food, clothes, medi-
cal care, shelter and transportation
are furnished by the Red Cross. In
supplying this relief they have 72 de-
partments, which include more or less
the work Of placing families perma-
nently in new homes, for which one
donation was $4,000 articles
of clothing, 10000 pairs of shoes,